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Wanting to set policing priorities for the communities they serve, Kindersley RCMP Detachment Commander Kevin Peterson is inviting the public to contribute to the conversation on March 22nd, 2023. Starting at 7:00 pm at the Kindersley Legion, Kindersley Detachment will host a presentation to discuss the current work done in the communities we serve, as well as invite input from the public on what their current public safety concerns are.

‘Our mission within the province is to help keep Saskatchewan communities safe,’ stated Staff Sergeant Peterson. ‘This meeting will give people the opportunity to have a voice in the concerns that are specific to our communities and assist with this goal.’

Between February 27th to March 5th, Kindersley RCMP responded to 11 calls for service*. These calls included, but were not limited to, 1 break and enter, 1 traffic collision and 1 suspicious vehicle report.

Want to assist your local RCMP with ongoing investigations and help keep your community safe? Voluntarily register your business or home security camera at: saskcapturecw.ca. *For more information on the calls to service please contact the Kindersley RCMP detachment.

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ESTON FRIDAY, MARCH 10 - SUNDAY, MARCH 12 • Eston Annual Open Bonspiel. $120 per team. Call or text Sandy at 306-962-7572.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 • Chili Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM at the Wheatland Centre. Cost is $10 and includes Chili, Bun, Drink & Dessert! * Wheatland Centre Potluck Supper fourth Friday of each month 6:00 PM. $5.00.

Bring your own utensils. Coffee & tea provided. * Wheatland Centre Bingo - 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month 7:00 PM. Regular Bingo plus Bonanza, 50/50 Draw. Must be 14 years of age. Call 306-962-7117 (ask for Linda) for more info.

KERROBERT THURSDAY, MARCH 9 • Prairie Branches - Connor Family Sled Dog Tours at the Reservoir 1:00-3:00 PM FRIDAY, MARCH 10 • U18 Tigers vs Wilkie/Biggar 8:00 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 12 • Kerrobert Minor Ball AGM at KCS 7:30 PM UNTIL MARCH 31 • The Chapel Gallery Members Exhibition.

This group of artists is based out of North Battleford. Located in the Historic Courthouse. Open weekdays from 8:30 AM 4:3 PM. SATURDAY, APRIL 1 • Kerrobert Spring Market at the PCC • Kinsmen Comedy Night at the PCC SATURDAY, APRIL 22 • Gord Bamford Canadian Dirt Tour at the PCC

SATURDAY, MAY 6 • Sieben’s School of Dance Recital at the PCC * Weekly Walk this Way at the P.C.C. 9:30 - 11:00 AM. Every Tuesday & Thursday. * Weekly Shuffle Club at the P.C.C. 1:30 PM. Every Monday. * Weekly Open Curling at the Curling Rink 7:30 PM. Every Tuesday.

KINDERSLEY TUESDAY, MARCH 7 • Kindersley Bellydance is offering a Bellydance for Beginners class every Tuesday until March 28 from 5:30-6:45 PM. Held at St. Paul’s United Church (Glidden Room).

Try before you buy - try the first class with no obligation. Bring a yoga mat or a blanket. Call Evelyn Faubert 306-463-7191 for more information or email: kindersleybellydance@gmail.com • Lego Club at the Kindersley Library.

Ages 8-14 3:45-4:45 PM. Every Tuesday until May 30. Lego is provided. Contact Michelle Yates at 306-463-4141 or email: kindersley.library@wheatland.sk.ca for more info.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 • AWANA Boys and Girls Club 7:00 pm 8:30 pm at the Kindersley Alliance Church, 74 West Rd. Stories, Songs, Games and Learning about God’s Word! For everyone in grade K-6. Call 306-463-6568 or email: kacoffice7@gmail.com • PickleBall 7:00-9:00 PM at Elizabeth School (200 5th Ave. East). South west entrance. Adults of all ages are invited.

There is a $50 fee for entire season. Season runs all year. Call Barry Ditson for more info 306-460-8356.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 • Adult Volleyball 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Kindersley Composite School, 606 3 St E. Adults of all ages are welcome, and there is a fee of $20 to pay for the season which will run all fall and winter long. Contact Doug Longtin (306) 463-8448.

• 22/23 Iron Horse Kindersley Klippers Awards Banquet. Cocktails 5:30, Dinner 6:00, Awards to follow. Tickets $40.

Kindersley Elks Hall. RSVP to Sarah by February 28 sarahloerzel@gmail.com or 306-460-5308.

MARCH 10 & 11 • Kindersley Curling Club Chicken and Wine Bonspiel. Entry fee: $200/team.

Lunch and supper included on Saturday, Additional lunch and supper tickets available for purchase. To register, contact the Kindersley Curling Club 306-463-2522, kindersleycurlingclub@gmail.com or sign up at the curling rink. Entry deadline is March 8.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 • Kindersley Wildlife Federation Annual Awards Banquet at the Elks Hall, Kindersley. Tickets $50/adult and $25/child (12 & under). Contact Brooke Kachmarski 306460-5935.

MARCH 17 - MARCH 18 • Kindersley Curling Club Men’s Bonspiel.

Entry fee: $280/team. Saturday night Steak Supper included with registration.

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MARCH 22-26 • SK Provincial Curling Club Championships. Call 306-463-2522, email: kindersleycurlingclub@gmail.com for more information.

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Now she’s bouncing back with another sitcom, which is yet to be named, with veteran comedy writers Carol Leifer (“Seinfeld”) and Andy Gordon (“Modern Family”). According to Deadline. com, Heaton will play “the host of an upscale lifestyle show sent to prison for embezzlement and tax evasion. She gets out after two years, forgotten and broke, and moves to Tennessee to live with her estranged sister.”

The show will be filmed in Nashville, where Heaton has a residence, and will air on Fox. The only thing stopping it is the potential of a writers strike if negotiations with the Writers Guild of America come to a halt when their contract is up for renewal in May. While there aren’t as many network sitcoms as there used to be, the few that have premiered in recent years have generated quite a loyal audience. “Abbott Elementary,” “Ghosts” and “Night Court” all have already been renewed for another season before their current one has been completed. *** I remember when Chrishell Stause was a soap opera actress, but now she’s on a reality show. Is she ever going to act again?

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— S.M. No remake is on the horizon, but the original “Titanic” has been remastered and made its way to theaters this February. James Cameron, director of the Oscar-nominated blockbuster “Avatar: The Way of Water,” has redelivered “Titanic” to the big screen for its 25th anniversary with stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The running time is 3 hours and 15 minutes, which was an anomaly back in 1997.

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My son is reading the play “12 Angry Men” in his English class. I recall seeing the movie, starring Henry Fonda, years ago. Did it win any Oscars? — J.K. “12 Angry Men” was originally written as a one-hour live play to be broadcasted for television by Reginald Rose, the son of a lawyer who grew up in New York City. Henry Fonda saw the legal drama and offered to coproduce it as a motion picture in 1957. It wasn’t a box-office hit, but it was critically acclaimed and nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture.

In 1997, it was once again created as a television event, this time starring Jack Lemmon in Fonda’s role of Juror No. 8 and George C. Scott, the latter of whom won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

In some recent exciting news, the original film is being released on a special 4K Blu-ray with a brand-new HDR/ Dolby Vision Master and an audio commentary by film historians Gary Gerani and Drew Casper. The package will also include a making-of documentary, the film’s theatrical trailer and a featurette titled “Inside the Jury Room.”

Don’t worry, just because it’s in 4K doesn’t mean they’re colorizing the original. According to Collider.com, “This legal drama, which already has some really rich shadow work and black levels, has a lot of potential to look stunning in 4K. ‘12 Angry Men’ now joins the ever-growing list of classic black-andwhite films in the format that includes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Psycho.’” *** Is Sally Field going to be starring in anymore movies soon?

I saw that she was in “80 for Brady,” so I hope that means she’s back.

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She’s swung back and forth between comedy and drama during her sixdecade-long career, including “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Forrest Gump.” She’s even tried her hand at superhero movies, having played Peter Parker’s Aunt May in the two “Amazing Spider-Man” films. The 76-year-old actress signed with a new agency in 2021, so it doesn’t look like she plans to retire anytime soon. *** I was thrilled to see that “The Blacklist” is back on TV. Is it true that this is the final season, though? — P.J. Yes, the 10th and final season of NBC’s “The Blacklist” premiered on Feb. 26, but it’ll have plenty of content to be enjoyed for months to come. Even though it didn’t start up last fall, the network granted it a full-season order of 22 episodes. James Spader and the rest of the cast will bid us farewell after this season.

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How do you sum up the Calgary Flames’ playoff hopes? One would have to say they have gone from fringe to cringe, from bubble to big trouble. This sputtering, slumping squad has dropped five in a row. During the final minutes of a shutout loss at home by Filip Gustavsson and the Minnesota Wild, they were booed off the ice. Which led to head coach Daryl Sutter saying he would “boo” too. Ouch.

If you go back a week or so, it at least seemed that their playoff push would go down to the wire. That they’d be fighting until the final bell. Now, with under 20 games to go, many are ready to count them out. TKO! It’s hard to imagine a furious push from a team that hasn’t won back-to-back games in almost a month and a half and they haven’t strung together three in a row since early December. The Flames are not even in ninth place anymore. They were just leapfrogged by the Nashville Predators, who shipped out several key pieces as trade deadline sellers.

What’s most troubling, is the home ice lost, which was a snoozer against the Wild, the Flames lacked energy, lacked emotion, lacked the sort of urgency the standings should demand. How do you explain that to the fans in a must-win matchup? Suddenly, mediocre almost seems like a compliment. In a freefall, it always feels that way. The Flames season-long goal differential is now -2, putting them in the red for the first time this season.

Since storming out of the gates at 5-1, the best start in franchise history, they are exactly .500. Only nine teams, all contenders in the Connor Bedard sweeps, have posted a lower point percentage over that same span. The Calgary-based crew has been involved in 37 one-goal games, the most of any team. Trouble is, they are barely winning a third of them, with a 13-11-13 record in those nail-biters.

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By Lucie Winborne 1. Name the group that released “Sugar Baby Love.”

2. What is the song “Abraham, Martin and John” about?

3. Which singer-songwriter released “If You Could Read My Mind”?

4. Which Simon & Garfunkel song figured heavily in the film “The Graduate”?

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: “Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men, Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken.”

Answers 1. The Rubettes, in 1974. Over the years, the members have been involved in various legal disputes over the ownership of the group’s name. It wasn’t resolved until 2022.

2. The song, recorded by Dion in 1968, is about the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

3. Gordon Lightfoot, in 1970. Lightfoot sued the songwriter of “The Greatest Love of All” for lifting 24 bars of the melody. He canceled the suit (because he’s a nice guy), but ended up with a public apology.

4. “Mrs. Robinson,” in 1967. It was originally titled “Mrs. Roosevelt.”

5. “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” from “The Sound of Music.” The musical (1959) and film (1965) of the same name tell the story of the von Trapp family fleeing the Nazis in Austria. © 2023 King Features Syndicate

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• Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold.

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Twice last week, SaskEnergy set new daily Forty billion in oilpatch CAPEX sounds great, until natural gasit’s usage records, and we can thank you realize half of what was spent in 2014 Alberta for most of our supply On Feb. 28, Alberta announced an Back in the lofty, pre-Justin BY BRIAN ZINCHUK Trudeau government brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca

days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines Not only was Saskatchewan setting electrical consumption records during the cold of last week were planned to east andsnap west coasts, of December, we also set two consecutive natural gas and Alberta and Saskatchewan were consumption records, too. swimming in money, $81 bilAccording to SaskEnergy in aaround Dec. 31 release, “Extreme Saskatchewan this week relion cold wasweather spentacross in capital expenditures sulted in record-breaking natural gas demand in the (CAPEX) the Canadian petroleum province.

On in December 28 and 29, natural gas consumption surpassed the previous daily record of 1.57 industry.

In Alberta, alone, the numpetajoules (PJ) which was set in February 2021. ber topped $60 billion.

And British “A new daily record of 1.62 PJ was set on December Columbia and Saskatchewan got 28 and broken again on December 29 with total system delivery of 1.64 PJ.too.

Delivery numbers for December 30 their share, Even Manitoba was and 31 are not yet finalized, but are also expected to seeing exceed 1.6 investment.

PJ.” The natural gas records with record powOn March 1, thecoincided Canadian Associer consumption. On Dec. 29, SaskPower set another ation of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) record in power consumption for Saskatchewan. At 5:27 p.m. onCAPEX Dec. 29, 2021, and forecast of Saskatchewan $40 billion,homes which businesses reacheddouble 3,868 megawatts (MW) in power is just about the disaster year use, according to the Crown corporation. The previous of 2020, but of 2014.

Andagothat’s record of 3,792 MWhalf was reached four years to the day, on Dec. 29, 2017. before #justinflation.

What would it Saskatchewan’s power production has increasingbeshifted if we federal ly fromhad coal toanatural gas asgovernment a fuel source. In December, Boundary Damindustry, Unit 4, a coal-fired genersupportive of the instead of ating unit, was retired, reducing the Boundary Dam trying to make it disappear?

Power Station to 672 megawatts capacity. On the natCuriously, Enbridge announced ural gas side, Saskatchewan has seen the construction of natural gas-fired power plants.a They onseveral the new same day its spending lot include the baseload North Battleford Power Station of money in Texas, including a port (289 megawatts), Yellowhead Power Station peaking plant (also for at North Battleford,Funny 135 megawatts), the facility Houston. how it’s baseload Chinook Power Station at Swift Current (353 not talking about Northern Gateway megawatts) and peaking plant Spy Hill Power StaPipeline to Kitimat, a different tion (89 megawatts).

Another 353or megawatt baseload pipeline to Churchill, or even Valdez, Alaska? I wonder why?

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That’s much entirely due The Crown noted that increased demand from to windfall funds from high oilnatural and SaskEnergy’s industrial customers, including gas useprices for power production, wasof thethe main2022-23 driver of gas from much this week’s record-setting consumption. fiscal year, due mostly to the war in SaskEnergy said it measures daily natural gas conUkraine, but also from end of sumption for the 24-hour period from the 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

A PJ is arestrictions unit of measurement to one COVID and equivalent the opening million gigajoules (GJ) of natural gas. An average Sasup of global economies. katchewan home consumes about 100 GJ of natural gas each year.

Curiously, oil prices have come “SaskEnergy’s natural gas system design can acdown now to a point lower than they commodate additional capacity to manage increased were the even dayonthe war started, almost consumption peak days,” SaskEnergy president and CEOaKen From said So in a don’t release.expect “Throughprecisely year ago. a out the year, SaskEnergy employees inspect, maintain huge surplus this year.

Just a decent and enhance the system to support safe and reliable natural gas Alberta. delivery in all weather conditions. In adone for dition, employees monitor the system 24 hours a day Now, let’s imagine how easito ensure sufficient system capacity to much meet customer demand the province.” er lifeacross would have been if a few things This province is now largely dependent on neighhad been done differently since Octobouring Alberta to fulfill roughly two-thirds of our ber, 2015, not just for Alberta, but Sasnatural gas needs.

When natural and gas prices tumble roughly 14 katchewan the took resta of Canada. years ago, Saskatchewan’s domestic gas production Imagine if Northern Gateway had fell off a cliff. Targeted gas drilling went essentially extinct, withbuilt next to no gas-specific wells being in been and completed bydrilled 2015, this province for most of the past decade. Our domesinstead of being obstructed by the tic gas production is now largely based on associated courts, British Columbia’s provingas production that comes with oil production.

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“Babylon” (R) — Available to stream now is Academy-Awardwinning director Damien Chazelle’s latest cinematic stunner. Starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, “Babylon” takes viewers back to Hollywood during the time of the late 1920s, as the transition from making silent films to sound films begins. Through the lives of vibrant and flawed characters, we see the fantastical circumstances it can take to get the perfect shot for a film, as well as all the debauchery that happens behind the scenes in a town like Hollywood. Chazelle does an excellent job of capturing the pure passion and utter chaos behind filmmaking, and the film itself feels like one long, outrageous night out that you’ll never forget. (Paramount+) “Daisy Jones & the Six” (TV-16+) — Based on the novel written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, this new miniseries taking place in the 1970s and follows young musician Daisy Jones (played by Riley Keough) right as she gets paired up with a blues-rock band called The Six. The chemistry Daisy experiences with the band and its lead singer Billy (Sam Claflin) is so palpable that it propels them into stardom quickly. But as their musical chemistry begins to bleed into their personal lives, the band experiences obstacles that inevitably lead to its downfall.

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