Pauline Johnson and Gary Kruger perform Let There be Peace on Earth, a piece written about 50 years ago, Kruger said, during the Choir for Kindness Christmas Concert on Friday night at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church. The concert, bake sale, draws and silent auction raised money to help provide food for homeless people in Saskatoon.
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John Kadler returns to Rosetown council after winning the by-election Wednesday.
Kadler received 143 of the 236 votes cast, compared with 92 for Jason Hunter, the other candidate. One ballot was rejected. The businessman fills a seat left vacant when Joe Spratt resigned in September.
Residents have another council vacancy to fill in March, replacing Jadwiga Dolega-Cieszkowski, who resigned in mid-October.
Kadler noted he had served on council for 12 years in the past, which may have played a role in his victory.
“You want to make Rosetown the best place in the world to live, right?” he said of his objectives. His campaign platform focused on attracting new families and businesses and, “You, of course, want to attract doctors,” Kadler added.
“Plus, you want to, in some way, make Rosetown more accessible for businesses, and you want your Main
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Street area to look very vibrant,” he said. “You want to think of ways to do that.”
Many people understand that, which “may have helped” his cause, Kadler said.
He regretted that voter turnout was low and congratulated Hunter for participating.
Kadler plans to learn what other councillors “are thinking about” and what their current goals are before focusing on any changes or improvements in particular, he said.
Stuart Lawrence will continue working on behalf of pulse farmers after his recent re-election.
Lawrence, who farms south of Rosetown and sits on the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews council, received 506 votes to finish second in its November election, a Saskatchewan Pulse Growers statement said.
Stuart Lawrence
He’s currently the vice-chair of the growers’ board, chairs its governance committee, serves on its research and development committee and chairs Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan.
Robyn Henry of Hodgeville, who also returns to the board, collected 571 votes and newcomer Daniel Flynn from Lucky Lake got 338.
All three begin three-year terms on the board at the organization’s annual general meeting on Jan. 13 in Saskatoon
“Each elected member brings valuable experience, expertise and diverse
perspectives that represent a wide range of growing regions across the province,” said Winston Van Staveren of Creelman, who chairs the board.
The board loses Dinsmore’s Brad Blackwell, whose maximum three consecutive terms end in January. Blackwell chaired the board and served with the national body, Pulse Canada.
“His contributions to the pulse industry and to Saskatchewan’s pulse growers have been invaluable,” Van Staveren said.
The election drew a total of 1,662 votes from 671 pulse farmers, mostly through the online voting system, the statement said.
The growers annual general meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. on Jan 13. The Saskatchewan Crops Forum, at the Western Development Museum on Jan. 1314, includes five speaker sessions and the annual general meetings of three other provincial commodity groups.
Chase Urban of the U-11 Redwings-Billett team gets his stick on the rolling puck. Jake Jahnke (41), goalie of the Herbert Hawks, reaches for it. Fellow Redwings Matthew Crofts and Parker Billett and Hawk Sloane Hanson watch. Jahnke got his stick on the puck and kept it out in this game during the U-11 tournament here. The Redwings won 7-5. The Redwings - Gilchrist team defeated the Billett team 4-1 in the final.
BY DAVID MCIVER
BY IAN MACKAY
People with a relatively new Rosetown business have been nominated for an award.
Colette Thompson and Amanda Anderson started SafeScene Forensic Cleaning Ltd. last January to fill a void they saw in rural Saskatchewan—cleaning up after calamities.
“We’re the only company that solely assists families in traumatic cleanup,” Thompson said in a recent interview.
“It’s really not anybody’s job description if something terrible happens, whatever that is,” Anderson said. “Not the funeral home, not the police, not the fire department, not the coroner.”
“Families are left to take care of this
on their own, which is another traumatic event, after something traumatic has happened,” Thompson said as they finished each other’s sentences in an office at Shanidar Funeral Services, where they work together.
They’ll clear up crime scenes or after somebody is found deceased and their body is decomposing. They’ll also step into an illegal drug lab—which they haven’t done yet—and dispose of its contents safely, or deal with a hoarder’s belongings, returning the home to “a safe and livable environment,” according to the SafeScene brochure.
They’ve worked at “multiple traumatic events,” Anderson said later, mainly “traumatic scenes, which can include unattended death and decom-
position cleanup, and trauma scene cleanup—anything where there’d be biological matter to clean up,” usually involving humans, she said.
Other remediation firms exist in the major cities but don’t specialize in what they focus on, they said. “Often, their wait times are weeks, which is very difficult when you’re living in your home,” Thompson said.
After they recognized “the unmet need,” they decided they were comfortable helping families in such cases because of their work in the funeral profession, Thompson said.
“We knew that we are capable of doing it and we know a lot of people aren’t, so, with our ability to do this and to handle it, and having the training that we do, being funeral directors and embalmers, it seemed like a natural progression,” she said. “It was a perfect fit for us.”
“Our combined experience is over 25 years in the funeral profession, so we’ve really seen and done most things” mentioned in their brochure, Anderson said.
“But it’s always shocking to me that there are things that we haven’t seen,” she said.
“We can still be surprised,” Thompson agreed.
The company has been nominated in the remediation category for a 2026 Canadian Choice Award—“a huge honour,” Thompson said, adding that they don’t know who nominated them.
“We kind of think of ourselves as being invisible”—in this endeavour and while working in the background at funerals, Thompson said. “So for someone to recognize us already, within our first year of being in business, we’re pretty excited about it. It feels pretty good.”
“It’s a natural progression for us,” Anderson said. “We’re really excited about where the future will lead us. It’s really endless in terms of growth all over Saskatchewan, specifically rural Saskatchewan. Nothing like this company exists provincially, where our sole focus is traumatic events cleanup and remediation.”
BY KATE WINQUIST
I usually use this column to talk sports—football, baseball, maybe the odd hockey mention—but there’s something bigger than sports that’s been a constant in my life: music.
Last week, I wrote about my sisters playing Christmas carols on the piano, daring anyone brave enough to sing along. Me? My piano skills are limited to Chopsticks, the first few bars of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer, and the opening of The Rainbow Connection. I tried band in school—trumpet first, then clarinet once braces came along—but by high school, art won out and band was left behind (sorry, Mr. Aulinger). Listening, however? That was serious business.
I spent hours with Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 on CKCK Radio, tape recorder at the ready, hoping to catch the latest hits—and even jotting down the entire countdown on a pad of paper. Zellers in the Kindersley Mall stocked the best albums, and my allowance went entirely to records and TDK 90-minute cassettes. Those mixed tapes became the soundtrack for cruising Main Street in Dad’s 1986 Chev Wrangler. Today, all those tapes, records, CDs, and 45s still live in my basement—and my kids
are already squabbling over who gets Mom’s collection when my time comes. My tastes lean to classic rock: AC/ DC, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Red Rid-
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“Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, ‘Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?’ Boaz replied to her, ‘All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know. May the Lord reward your work, and may your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.’ ” — Ruth 2:10-12
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er—you name it. Mom, on the other hand, lived for harmonies, show tunes, and church choir songs. Most Sundays, she’d be in the kitchen singing Rodgers & Hammerstein or The Womenfolk while baking or cooking, making even a grocery list sound like a performance.
One Christmas, I got yellow styrofoam headphones to enjoy my music without disturbing the household. Perfect plan—except I forgot to turn off the speaker function. Cue AC/DC’s Big Balls blasting through the stereo. Mom’s “look” will live in my memory forever. Embarrassing? Absolutely. Hilarious? Even better.
December 11 will mark a year since Mom passed, and music still brings her back. At her funeral last May, we included some of her favourites, like The Dukes of Dixieland, and Clayton Braybrook’s special rendition of Hallelujah was nothing short of perfect: Funeral Hallelujah for Bev Drummond
Revised lyrics by Clayton Braybrook We’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord, And we will do our best to sing it for ya. It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, The choir is re-composing Hallelujah.
Hallelujah …
Bev’s faith was strong, her heart was true
The power of knowledge well she knew, She also sang in four-part harmony. She raised a loving family, Took part in many activities, A vital member of community. Hallelujah …
Her meals were great, she loved to read, She solved a lot of mysteries, She joked about her two Masters degrees. For normal folks that’s quite enough, But this journey was twice as tough, MS be danged, she sang her Hallelujah. Hallelujah …
The Scriptures say the Lord above Prepares a place for us with love, So let that be a heartfelt message to ya. And even though the bell has rung, She’ll stand before the Lord of song, With nothing but her lips but Hallelujah. Hallelujah …
Somewhere up there, I like to imagine Mom shaking her head while tapping her foot to Big Balls, laughing because somehow our worlds of classic rock and Rodgers & Hammerstein collided perfectly—just like they did here on Earth. Music, in all its forms, keeps us laughing, remembering, and connected.
Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-100th of the current cost per kilogram and even enable human beings to establish a colony on Mars. Many people were seduced by the idea, including me.
His project is running well behind schedule, however, and now British freelance journalist Will Lockett, writing on the website Medium, has called Musk out — in slightly less brutal language — as a failure and a fraud.
Basically, Lockett says “Starship,” the heavy-lift, two-stage rocket that Musk claimed would be a revolutionary advance in space flight, is a badly engineered, overhyped machine that can never work well.
His latest article on that theme, titled “SpaceX Keeps Proving My Little Starship Theory Right,” is about the remarkable accident at Musk’s Starbase last weekend
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that destroyed Super Heavy Booster 18. It was meant to lift the first “Version 3” Starship off the pad next month, but crews are now removing the wreckage and replacing the booster with another one.
And here’s the thing: reports said Booster 18 had “exploded,” but it was a very soft explosion because the vehicle had no fuel in it. It was undergoing a pressure test of the composite overwrapped pressure vessels that store various gases or liquids in the rocket, not fuel for the main engines. But the pressure they put on the tanks ruptured them.
You would obviously test the tanks with a somewhat higher pressure than they normally run at — but not with pressure that bursts them like a popped balloon. You would do it at maybe 1.5 times the designed maximum pressure, just to be sure the tanks are strong enough to withstand any modest overpressure they might encounter. But this time — bang!
Actually, there have been a lot of bangs. Musk’s original pitch said Starship could lift 100 tonnes to low Earth orbit, but five of the 11 launches so far have ended in explosions and none have yet gone into orbit. In fact, SpaceX has already blown through an unplanned Version 2 of the rocket, and January will see the first flight of Version 3.
The standard excuse for all those explosions is Musk’s preference for the “iterative testing method,” in which you test your best guess of a design, learn why it failed, test a modified design, learn again and so on, until you finally arrive at a version that doesn’t fail. But he’s not there yet, and all his “fixes” involve making the rocket both lighter and more powerful.
The suspicion, therefore, is that Musk assumed that throwing enough money and engineering talent at the project could overcome the constraints of Russian sci-
entist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s classic “rocket equation” of 1903. That equation says around 90 per cent of a rocket’s launch weight has to be fuel if you want to put it into Earth orbit.
The rocket equation means the vehicle’s body, its engines, its cargo and its people all have to amount to no more than 10 per cent of the rocket’s launch weight. That, in turn, explains why nobody else has managed to radically lower the cost per kilogram of getting things into orbit — and the equation applies to Musk’s rockets, too.
It’s not impossible that Starship could be made to work more or less as intended, although the promise of 100 tonnes of cargo seems far out of reach. But the only way Musk can try to fix things is to make the ship even lighter and the engines even more powerful. Those, alas, are two remedies that work against each other.
More and bigger engines use more fuel and add more weight, so there’s not much room for improvement there. They also cause more stress and vibration, while the ship’s hull, tanks and pipes are getting more fragile and accident-prone with every kilogram he cuts.
Starship has never reached orbit, and doubts about SpaceX’s basic engineering competence are accumulating. NASA gave the job of building the Artemis III lunar lander to SpaceX in 2021 but, in October, reopened the contract to rival companies as well. We’ll probably still see human beings back on the moon by the end of this decade one way or another — Americans or Chinese — but if the promise of $10 a kilogram to orbit turns out to be false, there won’t be a great deal happening beyond lunar orbit in the next decade.
The Rosetown Central High senior girls basketball team, who host their own tournament this weekend, won a tournament in Biggar on Nov. 28-29. The Kindersley Kobras, Kerrobert Rebels, and host Blazers also competed. Details weren’t available.
The Royals were to play in a tournament in Kerrobert this past weekend. They have a tournament in Wilkie on Jan. 9-10, host the Blazers on Jan. 14, go to a tournament at LCBI in Outlook on Jan. 16-17, play a game in Kindersley on Jan. 21, and go to a tournament at Lloydminster Comprehensive on Jan. 30-31.
The Royals host the Kobras on Jan. 4, go to Assiniboia for a Feb. 27-28 tournament, play in Biggar on March 4, and a tournament in Unity on March 6-7. Conference playoffs are on March 14 at a location to be determined. Regional playoffs are on March 20-21, and Hoopla is on March 27-28.
This season’s Royals consist of five Grade 12 players — Ella Kadler, Brenna Zummack, Rayna James, Isabelle Sparks, and Angel Matro; three in Grade 11 — Jocelyn Ngo-Siemens, Willemina Heinrichs, and Evolet Welter; three in Grade 10 — Madison Cordes, Collins Legge, and Tess Kelly; and Grade 9 player Sydney Dessert.
said co-coach Ben Cressman.
The Royals also played in Delisle last Tuesday but lost 42-41, said co-coach Mitchell Wintonyk. Wyatt Perry and Mark Mofolasayo each scored 10 points.
The team has six Grade 12 players — Perry, Gerald Bonyai, Luke Harrington, Malcolm Ledding, Alex Nickel, and Corbin Wiens; only two in Grade 11 — Vince Marty and Ishaq Reid; and nine in Grade 10 — Mofolasayo, E. J. Claveria, Klaas Woudwijk, Aries Espino, Sam Cadieux, Harper Willis, Jaevin Nedjelski, Glen Matro, and Yosef Nasibog.
The Royals are entirely from Rosetown Central High. The co-op agreement ran out last season and wasn’t renewed. All Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association joint sponsorships are three-year agreements. When an agreement ends, it can be renewed or left to expire, said Wintonyk.
Josh Heimbecker and Lucy Still have made the Zone 7 bowling team for the Saskatchewan Winter Games. Jennifer Heimbecker will coach the five-member team, said Penny Andersen from the local alley.
Their senior boy counterparts won the consolation final of a tournament in Kindersley on Nov. 28-29. The Royals lost their first game 10640 to the Lloydminster Comp. B team. They then beat the host Kobra B team 61-37 and defeated the Delisle Rebels 49-42 in the consolation final,
They qualified at trials in Lloydminster on Nov. 30. Josh just made the team by one pin, said Andersen.
The bowling portion of the games will be held over three days in February in Meadow Lake, she said.
Five men and four women were expected to compete in the zone round of the Fun Bowl tournament in Biggar last Saturday. The zone round for its companion tournament, the Rising Star, is to be played in Rosetown this Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.
The provincial rounds for those tournaments will be held on Feb. 14-15 in Regina. There isn’t a tournament in Rosetown over the holidays, but a singles fun tournament is scheduled for Jan. 3.
In hockey-mad Canada, fans spend their time watching hockey, thinking about hockey, talking about hockey and mentally planning Canada’s roster for the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy.
Only a couple of weeks remain before the Dec. 31 deadline for Hockey Canada to submit its roster and while a number of players’ names are automatic, a couple of others are subject to quite the controversy.
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Such as: Should Connor Bedard and Macklin Celebrini be part of Canada’s team that tries to win another gold medal for the No. 1 hockey country in the world? A 3-0 victory over Sweden in the 2014 gold-medal game was the last time Canada’s team was comprised of National Hockey League players.
A disagreement between the NHL Players’ Association, the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation kept NHL players out of the 2018 Winter Olympics and the COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for their absence in 2022.
Now the NHL is back, offering Olympic Games’ fans the absolute cream of the world’s hockey crop … or is it? If Bedard, 20, and Celebrini, 19, are not on Canada’s team, are fans truly being treated to best-on-best?
Arguments against including Bedard and Celebrini include the value of experience in international hockey. Okay, if experience is that vital, why not get over that hump in ’26 so when the 2030 games come around, they’ll have already conquered that intangible.
At last look, Celebrini was second in the NHL scoring race, trailing only Nathan MacKinnon, while Bédard was fourth. Both have led their respective teams to NHL relevance after years of hanging around the bottom of the standings. Both are clearly among the top 14 forwards in the NHL; the only drawbacks are their age. It’s hard to argue that a lack of international experience should be a factor in keeping them off the team when in their immediate pre-NHL years, they’ve dominated Canadian U-17 and World Junior teams in international play.
If Canada gets solid goaltending, as Jordan Binnington provided in last winter’s 4 Nations Cup, it has enough firepower up front and on defence to allow for the inclusion of Bedard and Celebrini and win gold. Perhaps Anthony Cirelli and Mark Stone can offer better defensive play but they can’t come close to generating offence like Bedard and Celebrini. If Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point is a projected member of
the Olympic team due to his offensive prowess, how can Canada’s hockey hierarchy justify the fact that at the end of November, Point had played in 21 of Tampa’s 25 games but stood 222nd in the NHL scoring race with 11 points? Perhaps Tampa coach Jon Cooper, one of the Team Canada bosses, is exerting too much influence on Canada’s roster. Dump Point. Dump Cirelli. Add the two young superstars and fill the net in Italy. Remember, the best defence is a good offence and if Bedard and Celebrini are currently filling NHL nets surrounded by a plethora of ordinary players, how good could they be surrounded by fellow superstars?
• Comedy guy Torben Rolfsen of Vancouver: “Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., won MLB’s first entertainer of the year award, beating out Taylor Swift and the San Diego Chicken.”
• In a Steve Rushin si.com story on ballpark food, Joey Votto, responding to a fan who heckled that ‘I remember when you used to be good’: “I remember when you used to be thin.”
• Scott Matia, on Bluesky: “Connor McDavid took less money and all he got in return was Trent Frederic and a kick square in the (unmentionables).”
• Torben Rolfsen again: “Saskatchewan Roughriders players say they’ve got the greatest fans in pro sports. One of them said he got recognized in Walmart. Uh, dude,
that’s their job. They’re called people greeters.”
• Rolfsen once more: “The NFL had another spitting incident last week. C’mon guys, stop it. Maybe we can have a punt, pass and spit competition.”
• Norman Chad, on ‘Gambling Mad’: “Drake Maye could be the latter day Tom Brady, without the supermodel wife, special diet and deflated footballs.”
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Three things I’m thankful for on American Thanksgiving: 3. I am not a Tennessee Titans fan; 2. I am not a Toronto Maple Leafs fan; 1. I am not a turkey.”
• Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun: “A former Olympic coach on deciding who your third goalie is: ‘If you need your third goalie at the Olympics, you’re already in trouble.’”
• Headline at fark.com: “Once again the NY Giants defence snaps a loss from the jaws of victory. Meanwhile, fans wonder if they can get an interim head coach to replace the current interim head coach.”
• A golden oldie from Mets’ manager Casey Stengel, during an early-1960s mound visit with pitcher Roger Craig, with Giants slugger Willie McCovey about to bat: “Where do you want to pitch him, upper deck or lower deck?”
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Last Christmas, I sent out a story for publication in this newspaper titled “The Sears Christmas Wishbook,” describing the joy that the Wishbook catalogue brought to the nation on Christmas morning every year.
run with frequent delivery stops) usually carried anywhere from one-half to three full skids of Wishbook catalogues for nightly delivery, in whole or in part, to the various regional mail-order outlets, depending on the size of the town. Smaller towns might receive only one-half to one-quarter of a skid, while larger towns could receive a full skid. And that was on top of the regular items that had to be delivered to the outlets every night.
By Keith Schell
Not long after I sent out my Wishbook story, I received a response from a retired friend of mine who had been a delivery driver for Sears for twenty years. After reading my column, he sent me an email offering a completely different point of view on the Sears experience during the yuletide season.
To make a child’s wish come true at Christmas, preparations for the creation of the Sears Christmas Wishbook had to begin long before December.
Serving Ontario by truck and the rest of the country by rail, the Sears Canada corporate printing plant in Rexdale, Ontario (a suburb of Toronto), always required long lead times to accommodate the sheer volume of printing and distribution of its countless seasonal catalogues. Because of this, the Sears Christmas Wishbook catalogues were collated, printed and delivered to all Sears mail-order outlets across the regions by early September each year, in preparation for the annual December Christmas rush.
To a man, the Sears delivery drivers dreaded the arrival of September and the addition of the Wishbook catalogues to the already heavy volume of items they had to deliver. At the height of the Wishbook’s popularity, the catalogues were thick, glossy and printed on heavy-gauge paper. The sheer tonnage of skids loaded with Christmas catalogues added considerable effort to the completion of a delivery driver’s nightly job.
The peddle trailer (a trucking term for a trailer on a
At its peak, remember how heavy the Wishbook was when we made our Christmas wish lists? Averaging roughly 250 bundles per skid, with 6–10 catalogues per bundle, a full skid of Wishbooks could easily weigh a thousand pounds! When they weren’t delivering bundles by hand to smaller outlets, drivers had to use handcarts to move the skids around in the trailer or unload them into the rear storage area of the mail-order outlet. (To all the former Sears drivers out there, I hope your back didn’t start aching again just thinking about it!)
Apparently, the Sears Christmas Wishbook brought yuletide joy to everyone in the country—except those who had to deliver it!
This suggestion will probably earn me a middle finger from all the former Sears delivery drivers who got backaches from hauling the extra tonnage of Wishbooks across the nation, but try to think of yourselves as Santa’s little helpers. Your September efforts in delivering the Wishbook catalogues to Sears outlets across the country brought joy to millions of children on Christmas morning every year.
That may be small consolation if you were at home having a loved one rub liniment on your sore back after your deliveries, but take heart in knowing that your efforts made children happy all over the nation on Christmas morning. You did good work.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all, and a very special salutation to all of Santa’s little helpers who delivered the Sears Christmas Wishbook catalogues back in the day!
Local singer Lynden Paquette is one of the people scheduled to perform during the Telemiracle broadcast at the end of February.
Paquette is among 70 acts whom organizers recently identified who are slated to take part alongside professionals entertainers during the telethon that benefits the Kinsmen Foundation. The 50th annual event goes Feb. 28-March 1, again televised by CTV stations around the province.
Other west-central Saskatchewan entertainers chosen for the program through auditions include Cole Patton and the Blackjacks from Kindersley, Caledonia Donahue of Biggar, Demaine’s Evan Baxter and the
Bum Band from Vanscoy, a document showed.
“I am blown away by the talent in Saskatchewan,” said Tammy Blackwell, a longtime member of the Dinsmore Kinette Club who chairs this year’s event. “You are going to need to tune in all 22 hours to see for yourself,” Blackwell said in the statement.
Forty-five of the “Saskatchewan talent” will perform live but others “have requested and will be given access to capturing their performance in an environment that supports them and their needs,” the statement said.
The entertainment ranges from dancing, singing and acting to “some surprising new additions that have never been on TeleMiracle before,” the statement said.
BY IAN MACKAY
Residents sent town staff and engineers back to the drawing board after petitioning out both local improvement projects that engineers had planned.
Seventy per cent of owners on Little Flower Avenue, representing 65 per cent of the properties’ assessed value, and 53 per cent of owners on Fortune Crescent, covering 56 per cent of the assessed value, signed valid petitions opposing the projects by the Nov. 27 deadline.
The petitions mean the projects won’t “proceed as originally planned,” Mayor Trevor Hay said during the Dec. 1 council meeting. Their decision “reflects the voices of many who felt strongly about the direction of these projects,” Hay said.
He called the petitions “a sign of a healthy democracy. It shows that people care deeply about their neighbourhoods, their streets and their shared spaces. I respect that passion and want to assure you that your input matters,” he said.
“Although these specific projects are paused, our commitment to progress remains unwavering. We will take the opportunity to revisit our plans, listen more closely and explore alternatives that better align with the priorities of our residents.”
The high cost of the concrete to provide better drainage was considered a major factor in the residents’ decisions.
“On Little Flower alone, it was $250,000 just on concrete,” said Amanda Bors, the town’s acting chief administrator. Removing that would have
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cut the cost considerably, but council aims to “focus on drainage to save our streets,” Bors said.
Engineers had planned rolled curbs and gutters made of concrete to eliminate a gap between curb and asphalt that allows water to get underneath the pavement and cause it to break up through freeze-and-thaw cycles.
Meetings with residents showed that costs were a major concern, councillor Kimiko Otterspoor said, suggesting finding a different, cheaper way to finance pavement work.
Councillors had prioritized rebuilding streets in the worst condition, but
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“they’re very costly,” Hay said. He suggested switching to streets in the downtown core, saying, “Maybe they don’t need as much work.” He later suggested surveying residents to see which projects draw a more favourable response.
Residents will want to know the costs from the start, said Bob Bors, the public works superintendent.
Officials have gotten to know the expenses for the respective forms of street rehabilitation, Hay said.
The engineering process considers many things, including whether curbs can be fixed and improving drainage,
Bob Bors said.
“Unfortunately, every year, stuff gets more expensive,” he said. In the past, people complained about poor drainage, which the rolled curb and gutter is designed to alleviate, “but then the costs go up,” he said.
“We can go back to the old way of doing it,” and water will stay on streets instead of flowing off. That reduces the “life of the street and no one likes living with a lake in front of their house,” Bors said.
Without the curb-and-gutter system, where the two elements join at a spot higher than the water flows, water passes through a space between the flat curb and the asphalt, getting under the pavement and damaging it faster, he explained.
“We don’t want to have a puddly neighbourhood where your streets are constantly deteriorating because we don’t have proper drainage,” Otterspoor said later. “You can’t pave something, not fix the drainage and have that road last. It’s just not possible.”
There appeared to be “a lot of confusion” due to all the options that Little Flower residents saw, Amanda Bors said.
Councillor Greg Carlson suggested altering the cost share to 40 per cent for owners and 60 per cent for the town.
Bob Bors said the town could cover the drainage expense, with property owners paying for the pavement. Engineers could build to a lower standard, but that would affect its certification, which provincial authorities consider, he also said.
BY DAVID MCIVER
The annual carol festival, held Monday, Dec. 1 at Rosetown United Church, offered an opportunity to honour long-serving music festival volunteer Claire Seibold.
Seibold — a longtime music teacher and current president of the Rosetown Music Festival Association — was recently presented with the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association (SMFA) volunteer award at the association’s conference in Saskatoon. She also received the SMFA’s adjudicator excellence award at the same event.
The carol festival featured three of the four most promising performers from the March music festival. Kensie Cowan, most promising instrumentalist, played Gesu Bambino by Pietro A. Yon on the violin. Madison Rawson, most promising speech arts performer, recited Happy Birthday by Jim Lake. Rawson, who loves dancing and performing, “is anxiously waiting until she turns 18, so she can start auditioning for Disney in any role she is able to land,” said M.C. Debbie McCulloch. “Some want to turn 18 so they can go to Alberta and get into the bar. That’s a really admirable goal, Madison,” she added.
Most promising vocalist Isabelle Sparks performed O Holy Night. Pianist Levin Wiebe, most promising pianist, was unable to attend due to university exams.
Performances by the Walter Aseltine School Choir, the ad hoc Rosetown Alliance Men’s Choir, the Rosetown Senior Choral Group, St. Theresa’s Roman Catholic Church Choir, the Rosetown United Church Choir, and community carol singing rounded out the program.
Seibold has been a member of the Rosetown festival association since 1982. “The Rosetown festival has the wonderful reputation of maintaining high standards and professionalism, and Claire has certainly played a huge role in making that a reality,” McCulloch said.
The Walter Aseltine School Choir opened the carol festival at Rosetown United Church last Monday, Dec. 1, including Briella Martinson-Bell (front, R), Laurel Kahovec, Ava Jedlicka, Blayke Wagar, Ella Mann, Lux Deibert, Liv Dobson and Isabella Gavin; (middle, R) Deniah Falcon, Kira Pfleging, Isabella Dram, Ingrid Nichols, Iola Cormack, Lilah Carlson; (back, R) Leane Pretorius, Erika Fehr, Ethan Gabriel, Marissa Johnson and Brooke Peters.
PHOTO BY DAVID MCIVER
“She has an intangible enthusiasm for music and an unwavering passion for the Rosetown festival. There is no job too big or too small that Claire is not willing to do.”
McCulloch noted that Seibold has also contributed at the provincial level as an SMFA board member and is a sought-after adjudicator with more than 40 years of piano teaching experience.
“So I’m so proud of my dear friend,” McCulloch said in closing, before fellow volunteer Felice Mourre presented Seibold with flowers.
McCulloch wrapped up with light-hearted comments about choir member Lucille Nisbet’s distinctive laugh and some humorous reflections on The Little Drummer Boy and The Twelve Days of Christmas.
The Rosetown RCMP detachment is reporting its weekly activity from November 28 to December 4, 2025. Over the weekend of November 28–30, officers conducted patrols on surrounding highways for traffic enforcement, issuing several tickets, with no other calls for service. On December 1, RCMP received a fraud complaint in Beechy, which remains under investigation, and were notified of erratic driving on Highway 7 near Fiske, although the vehicle could not be intercepted. Later that evening, members assisted in keeping the peace at a residence in the RM of Milden, where a subject packed personal belongings and left without further incident.
On December 2, a deer-vehicle collision near Sask Landing Provincial Park was reported; no injuries
were sustained, and the vehicle was drivable. Officers also conducted a well-being check in Rosetown that afternoon. The following day, RCMP responded to a vehicle fire in Elrose caused by an electrical issue under the hood, with no injuries reported. On December 4, a semi-truck fire north of Kyle on Highway 4 prompted RCMP assistance with traffic control; no injuries occurred.
During this period, officers issued 23 traffic-related charges and responded to one 911 misdial and one false alarm call. Police are asking anyone with information about these or any other crimes to contact the Rosetown RCMP at 306-882-5700, or anonymously through Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222TIPS (8477) or online at www.saskcrimestoppers.com.
The Rosetown Seniors Centre recently held its regu lar card and bingo games with the following winners:
Whist:
1. Darlene Aitken
2. Laurie Carpenter
3. Gail Bevill
4. Lois Pich
Bingo:
• Marlene Dawson (2 wins)
• Gail Bevill (2 wins)
• Carol Gates
• George Patenaude
Cribbage:
1. Pat Lange
2. Maxine Taylor
3. Laurie Carpenter
New players are always welcome.
Rosetown Lions Senior Christmas Light Tour. Wednesday, December 17th 7 PM. Please turn on
Christmas lights for our seniors to enjoy.
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100 years ago - Dec. 10, 1925
Drs. Moyer and Moyer won 11 firsts, a championship and other prizes at the Western Collie Club Specialty Show in Winnipeg. Two of their dogs sold to a New Jersey fancier in September won six firsts at the Atlantic City dog show. 80 years ago - Dec. 6, 1945
The Hillside Welcome Home Club held a party for returned men Stewart Adnam, Ed Stanley and Art Broadbridge. Adnam had been in the air force and stationed in Canada. Gnr. Stanley saw service in the German theatre. Flt.-Lt. Broadbridge worked in radar in Africa, Sicily, Corsica and the Italian mainland. After his discharge, he became principal at Sovereign. His wife, the former Mavis Davies of Dinsmore, accompanied him at the party.
Ewart “Curly” Puffer, back in the Regina Leader-Post composing room, said finding a vacant house or apartment in the queen city was tougher than detecting enemy submarines.
Former Sub.-Lieut. Puffer had been in the submarine detection unit of the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve on the east and west coasts. He spent hours monitoring the needle of a complicated machine. Once when monitoring the Prince Rupert, B.C., harbour, Puffer saw the needle move and alerted the defences. The gate to the harbour mouth was closed. Big army guns were moved into position. Minesweepers swept the harbour but found nothing. After six hours, the gate was opened again.
Puffer believed there was a submarine but that it escaped before the gate was closed. He’d been on the Eagle staff for about eight years before going to the Leader-Post.
Correction: The Dec. 2 column said that in 1945 William Wardrop was a 13-term Marriott RM councillor. Wardrop served for 13 consecutive terms, two at least as reeve. The Eagle apologizes for the mistake.
70 years ago - Dec. 8, 1955
A photo showed a wishing well and a replica Red River cart on the Plenty-area farm of Norman Carscadden, who had made both. Visitors were requested to throw pennies in the well, which would go to the Red Cross.
One hundred and twenty-seven people signed the guest book when Idaleen residents entertained Mr. and Mrs. George Sinclair at Idaleen School on their 50th wedding anniversary.
It’s that time of year again. Time to drag the old boxes of lights and decorations out of the basement or the attic, set up the tree, and create a jolly display to foster the Christmas spirit in the community! This photo depicts the Christmas Lighting Contest winning house from 1986. PHOTO
BY BRITTANY BOOTH Rosetown Librarian
The Rosetown Welfare Association met to “provide Christmas cheer to needy families.” Packing and distributing parcels was to be done on Dec. 21 in the United Church basement. Anone knowing of a family in need was to contact Mike Ogle or Fred Irwin. 50 years ago - Dec. 10, 1975
Roberta Donald of D’Arcy graduated from University Hospital in Saskatoon as a registered radiography technician and since was working at the Swift Current Union Hospital.
Six photos inside depicted an emergency measures organization exercise. A school bus and oil truck were to have been in a collision, causing a fire. Children with mock burns and wounds were taken to the local hospital.
30 years ago - Dec. 4, 1995
A Polish-born Australian exchange student at Milden Central School was leaving for home in three weeks. Pauline Opala would have supper cooked by the time her hostess, Donna Keith of Sovereign, got home from school, said Keith. Opala had also contributed to a compilation of award-winning student writers’ works. 20 years ago - Dec. 5, 2005
Despite a major setback, the Rosetown History Book Committee was in the home stretch. Editor Jack Hicks found out he had cancer. With his sickness and death, widow Lucille Hicks and Signa Gilchrist took over and were just waiting for a few more histories to be brought in in order to finish up, said Gilchrist.
We have another upcoming Storytime program happening at the library next Wednesday, December 17, at 10:30 a.m. Parents and guardians can bring along children aged 5 and under for some stories, crafts, and fun. Don’t forget about the Snowy Storytime happening this Thursday, December 11, at 10:30 a.m., too!
The library’s holiday hours are as follows:
• December 24: open 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
• Closed December 26 and 27
• December 31: open 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
• Closed January 1
Regular hours resume January 2.
New and Featured Books:
The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty (fantasy): 22-year-old Vera is waiting tables and heading toward an uncertain future. Then an odd man shows up at her workplace, insisting that she was once Queen Guinevere of Camelot and that her lost memories hold the key to changing both the past and present. After jumping through a magic portal, Vera is not prepared for what she finds. If Vera is truly destined to save Camelot, she’ll have to trust her instincts—and the king will have to trust her.
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara (mystery): Ever since Nora Bird’s parents died when she was six, she’s been obsessed with avoiding risk. What better way to learn how to cheat death than joining S.C.Y.T.H.E., the company that employs the nation’s grim reapers? One day, a file crosses Nora’s desk with her twin brother’s name on it. Nora steals the file and flees to her brother’s house to save him. But someone is determined to take Charlie out, and Nora will have to use everything she’s learned about death to discover the culprit.
The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison (romance): The Library of Fates was designed to show you who you are—and who you could become. For Eleanor, the library offers a world where everything makes sense. She’s spent most of her life there as an apprentice to the librarian. But when her mentor dies in a freak accident and a rare book—which can predict someone’s future—goes missing, along with the secrets written inside, Eleanor is pulled into a quest to locate it with the librarian’s estranged son, Daniel, who she once loved.
Weekend on Allyson Island by Susannah B. Lewis (adult fiction): Moira Allyson is going all out for her 50th birthday. She’ll serve the best food and book the best entertainment for a small group of the most important women in her life, all to distract from her lonely reality. Everything is perfect—until it’s not. Each woman comes with her own well-wishes and her own secret sorrow. But weekends spent with friends have a way of bringing hidden things to the surface.
The Day I Lost You by Ruth Mancini (thriller): Lauren suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in a pretty seaside town in Spain. Hope has everything: an interesting career, an attractive husband, and the baby she always longed for—Sam. But Sam has gone missing. When the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks her nightmare might be ending. But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has the passport and birth certificate to prove it. What really happened to baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
Crust ingredients
3/4 cup whole barley flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp granulated sugar, optional
1/4 cup cold butter
4-5 tbsp cold water
Crust preparation: In food processor, combine flours, sugar and butter. Process just until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add water and process until mixture holds together. Shape into ball.
Filling ingredients
6-8 large apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced to make about 8 cups (2 l)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp whole barley flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp milk
1 tbsp coarse sugar
Pie preparation: On lightly floured surface, roll pastry into thin circle, 14 to 16 inches (38-cm) wide. Fold in half and gently lift into nine-inch (23-cm) pie plate. Unfold pastry and, using fingers, press against bottom edges of pie plate.
In medium bowl, combine apples, granulated sugar, barley flour and cinnamon; tossing to mix well. Add apples to pie shell; gently press down and smooth top. Fold pastry over apples, overlapping where necessary. Pastry may not cover centre and edges will be ragged. Brush top of pastry with milk, then sprinkle with coarse sugar.
Place pie in a 475 F (240 C) oven for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 375 F (190 C) and bake until apples are tender and pastry is golden, about 35 minutes. Let cool on rack.
Preparation time: 20 min.; total time: one hour, 10 min.. Makes 12 servings, 233 calories each.
- Canadian Food Focus
The Choir for Kindness performs Sweet Silent Night during the Choir for Kindness Christmas concert at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church on Friday night. Members include Charlotte Mescall (back, L), who also served as MC, Rowan Lutkin, Jamie Harms, Liam Mescall, (front) Matthew Mescall, Alex Nunes, Nick Nunes and Katie Mescall. The evening raised money to help the St. Mary’s Church and its Outreach program, which provides food for homeless people on Saskatoon’s west side.
BY IAN MACKAY
Councillors discussed potential solutions to the traffic situation near Kid Kare after receiving a letter before their Dec. 1 meeting.
They decided to try to talk to management with the daycare centre before making any decisions. The letter writer suggested using the vacant lot across Sixth Avenue East for parking but nearby residents had opposed such a use during a survey, councillors heard.
There had been no complaints until Kid Kare opened there, Mayor Trevor Hay said. Hay noted that the town had reduced the speed limit to 30 km/h along the block and suggested that Kid Kare buy an empty lot beside it to use for parking.
“It would be a lot more friendly to cross the alley than to cross the street,” Hay said.
“Just because Kid Kare is there and adding to the problem doesn’t mean it’s their fault,” said councillor Kimiko Otterspoor, a former Kid Kare executive.
If its staff would park elsewhere, “You could ask parents to park on one side of the street when they drop off their children so that people know
where to expect the cars to be and when they’re going to be there,” Otterspoor said.
While backing out of the driveway in front of the new Kid Kare building on dark mornings, “It’s so hard to see, as there are so many vehicles parked everywhere and it has potentially blind spots due to vehicles,” the letter said.
The nearby funeral home, Orange Memories care home and the Kinsmen Park, with its new play structures, sometimes cause people to park on Sixth Avenue, the letter and councillors noted.
Public Works superintendent Bob Bors said he recalled that the town had called for people to drop off children in the area in front of the centre, not on the street.
Parents should “wait until a spot opens up, pull in, let your kids out, leave and let the next person pull in, not line the street . . . letting kids run around,”
Bors said. “We knew parking and traffic were going to be an issue right from the start.”
Councillor Art Garrett suggested a meeting with Kid Kare officials to “come up with an amiable solution and find something that everyone’s happy with.”
cle’s registration had expired on May 6, a prosecutor said.
A man who gave a woman a bloody nose after an argument “escalated” received a conditional sentence with 18 months’ probation during the Nov. 27 provincial court session.
Joshua Cardinal, 36, of Rosetown, had called police himself after hitting the woman on Oct. 12, Judge Lisa Watson heard during the session at the Elks Hall.
Cardinal must abide by conditions including abstaining from alcohol, staying out of places that sell it, and participating in any counselling or programming his probation officer requires. He must also pay a $100 victim surcharge, stay away from the woman if he has consumed alcohol within 12 hours, and not possess any weapons or ammunition, except when hunting legally.
• Fazal E. Anwar, 46, of Saskatoon, must pay $843 after Judge Watson found him guilty in a trial of going at least 50 kilometres per hour over the speed limit.
The accused did not testify but denied telling the officer, who stopped him on June 29 on Highway 7 west of Rosetown, that he was going 140 km/h.
He also questioned why a screenshot from a video of the incident showed the RCMP officer’s vehicle going 103 km/h and his going 152 km/h, rather than the 102 and 154 km/h, respectively, that the officer had testified the video showed at one point. The video was not shown during the trial.
The officer testified that he had given Anwar a seven-day licence suspension, had the vehicle impounded, and then drove the accused and his passenger to the Saskatoon airport.
Anwar said he had seen nothing about either vehicle’s speeds on the video he received before the trial. The officer said he must not have clicked a certain button.
• Michelle Gilles, 48, of Kerrobert, was ordered to pay a fine of $580 for driving an unregistered vehicle near Zealandia on Sept. 16. The vehi-
A man must stay at home for 12 hours overnight for five months as part of a conditional sentence for his assault on a local man in a Rosetown alley last Christmas Eve.
Judge Bruce Bauer sentenced former resident Derek Skene, 49, to the conditional sentence, followed by 18 months on probation, last Tuesday in Kindersley Provincial Court after earlier finding him guilty of assault. Judge Bauer had presided over the man’s trial here on Sept. 25 and announced his verdict on Oct. 7 in Kindersley.
Skene took something from a front pocket and stabbed a man with it, the victim testified at the trial, although it was only later that he noticed a slight wound beneath a T-shirt with specks of blood on it. He had received the shirt as a Christmas present that night, he testified, and the object penetrated a sweatshirt the man wore over the shirt.
The incident started when Skene almost stepped into the path of a vehicle containing the victim, his spouse, and her daughter while taking a dog for a walk, a video showed. The accused then yelled at the vehicle, which stopped somewhere to the right in the
video, taken from the security system of the building where Skene then lived.
The male victim came into the scene, and they yelled at each other as the dog jumped around on its leash before Skene “stepped forward and drove his hand into the ribs” of the victim, the judge said in giving his verdict. The victim apparently received the stab wound then. The accused did not testify during the trial.
Among his conditions, Skene must abstain from alcohol and marijuana—the latter except for medical purposes—take any counselling his probation officer demands, and must not contact the victim. The curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. ends after the five months.
During his probation, Skene must follow the other conditions and complete 40 hours of community service. He must also pay a victim surcharge of $100.
Crown prosecutor Tom O’Hara asked for 120 days in jail followed by 12 months of probation, citing Skene’s criminal record of nine previous assault convictions.
Defender Monte Sheppard said his client was working part-time and had begun to take counselling. Sheppard asked for a 90-day conditional sentence and 18 months on probation.
• Adriana Van Reeuwyk, 70, of Lethbridge, must pay $514 for not slowing to 60 km/h when passing a police vehicle with its emergency lights flashing near Zealandia on Sept. 18.
The woman, participating by phone, said she had been on the other side of the highway and that “a bunch of cars” in her lane also had not slowed to 60 km/h. Van Reeuwyk had been going 93 km/h.
Judge Watson said the law in Alberta is now the same as in Saskatchewan: drivers must slow to 60 km/h in such situations unless the police vehicle is on the other side of a divided highway.
• Reece P. Parisotto, 27, of Airdrie, Alta., was fined $200 instead of the $300 voluntary payment after requesting a lesser fine. Police stopped her vehicle after it registered 135 km/h on radar near McGee on Sept. 27.
• Yanina Eberhard, 49, of Saskatoon, must pay $198 for going 124 km/h near Zealandia on Sept. 18. A prosecutor withdrew a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle after the woman said she had paid the fee and it had been unregistered for “a very short time.”
• Ananna Arna, 26, of Saskatoon, must pay $192 for going 121 km/h near Tessier on Sept. 27.
• Mohammad Helat, 47, of Chestermere, Alta., must pay $178 after pleading guilty through a lawyer who arranged for the prosecutor to agree to an official speed of 109 km/h. Helat’s vehicle had registered 122 km/h on police radar near Tessier on Sept. 2.
• Bethanne E. Wilson, 33, of Delisle, was fined $150 after requesting a reduction from $202 for going 126 km/h near Tessier on Sept. 1. Judge Watson also fined 44 people the voluntary amounts on their tickets and approved an arrest warrant for one individual while issuing default convictions for those who did not attend to contest their traffic tickets.
The judge also scheduled a traffic trial and adjourned seven criminal cases and six traffic matters.
