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The community of Kindersley welcomes D’Shae Bussiere as their new Economic Development Officer (EDO). D’Shae has been contracted by the Town of Kindersley and officially started on March 15th. She came to Kindersley from Biggar, where she got her start in community and economic development.

Her initial few weeks as EDO has been spent meeting with Town of Kindersley staff and community stakeholders to identify Kindersley’s opportunities, gaps and challenges.

“I act as a researcher, solicitor and engager for the success of everyone in the community, helping it grow and be better for existing and future residents,” she explained. “Community building is my passion, so I’m excited to be here!” D’Shae appreciates what she has discovered so far.

She’s realized Kindersley possesses exceptional recreational amenities to support active lifestyles for people of all ages. Combined with established regional relationships, this gives Kindersley the potential to host large regional and provincial conferences and sporting events.

“I see ample opportunity for us to engage with the community and encourage everyone to work together in order to reach community growth goals, such as attracting and retaining businesses, health care professionals and young families,” she said.

Her duties include creating and implementing strategies for marketing and soliciting new business to fill service gaps. This is only possible if the community is supportive and works together, overcoming challenges and celebrating milestones.

“This is not a job I can take on alone,” she admitted, acknowledging the importance of community engagement.

D’Shae would love to hear from Kindersley residents. Feel free to tell her what you would like to see in Kindersley. You can drop off a written letter at the town office or email her at dshae@shaeco.ca and include your contact information for further discussion.

“I’m looking forward to continuing to get to know Kindersley, spending time here and seeing the growth come to fruition,” she said.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 24 • Eatonia Show & Shine 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM on Main Street. Call 306-460-7767 for more info.

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SATURDAY, MAY 27 • Opening Day at the Eston Museum! 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Hot Dog Sales. Complimentary pie and ice cream treats until 2:30.

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TUESDAY, MAY 30 • Prairie West Historical Society is holding their AGM at 2:00 PM in the Heritage Gallery at the Museum. Everyone welcome. Refreshments served.

SATURDAY, JUNE 3 • Join us in support of Eston Caring Hands Annual Community Garage Sale 9:00 AM 2:00 PM. Pick up your maps at Eston Jubilee Lodge Gazebo $1 each. Meet us under the Gazebo for BBQ Burgers and Drinks $5 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM. SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • Eston Bull Riding Committee presents 2nd Annual World Professional Bull Riding.

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SATURDAY, MAY 27 • Kerrobert Minor Ball Day at the Fairgrounds. Contact Tina 306-834-7617.

• Town Wide Garage Sale hosted by the Kerrobert Seniors Club SUNDAY, MAY 28 • 4H Beef Project Achievement Day at the Kerrobert Fairgrounds.

• Kerrobert Rec Ball begins (every Sunday).

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MONDAY, MAY 22 • Monday Night Jam Sessions at the Norman Ritchie Community Centre. Doors open at 6:30 to set-up, then the fun begins at 7-11 PM. Call Keith 306-460-8633.

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TUESDAY, MAY 23 • 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, MAY 24 • 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 is at the outdoor court next to the West Central Events Centre 6:30 PM. $50 per season or $5 drop in. More info call 306460-8356.

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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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Not Again, When Will The Story Change?

BY GREG BUCHANAN

If you thought being a Toronto Maple Leaf’s fan is tough, being an Edmonton Oilers supporter may be even harder right now. The Toronto Maple Leaf’s fans were elated when Auston Matthews won his first career Hart Trophy last year, but once the awards are handed out for this season, an Edmonton Oilers player will have won that same award four times in the past seven years.

If you have the best player in the world on your team four out of seven years, you should probably advance to a Stanley Cup Final once, however hockey is a weird sport.

As shown by the Oilers over the past few years, you can have the best player(s) in the world, performing their best and it still may not lead to victory. At the end of the day, you still need a hot goalie, or you need a few bounces to go your way. It’s not like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl underperformed in the playoffs. In fact, Draisaitl played some of the best hockey we’ve ever seen him play this postseason and it still wasn’t enough.

So, if you’re the Oilers, you’re not going to trade Draisaitl or McDavid, even though the team never advanced because that would be crazy. When you have players of that talent, you don’t just ship them away because how in the world are you ever going to replace them? The Toronto Maple Leaf’s are in a very similar situation as the Edmonton Oilers. They have a Hart Trophy winner on their team, and they still can’t win.

However, if you look at the history of the NHL, that should change one of these years.

In the 100 year-plus history of the Hart Trophy Award, only five players who have won this award have never made it to a Stanley Cup Final in their career and all five of those examples are recent. They include Jose Theodore, Taylor Hall, Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews.

Essentially if you a have Hart Trophy winner on your team, you should eventually make it to the Stanley Cup Final. Makes total sense, right?

If you were to tell an NHL fan that McDavid or Matthews will never make a Stanley Cup Final in their career, that person would probably tell you that you were off your rocker. The best players in the world can’t win every single year so one of these years, odds are pretty good that they will eventually break through to win The Stanley Cup. However, the biggest question with this scenario is this. Will McDavid win it as a member of the Oilers or will Matthews achieve it with the Toronto? It may take a change of scenery for either player to reach a Stanley Cup Final, but if history has shown us anything, when you keep a Hart Trophy winner on your team, you will eventually get there. You may have to change the pieces around them, but having one of these award winners eventually translates into playoff success. I know we’re all frustrated, and we should be, but one of these years, Auston and Connor will reach the Stanley Cup Final.

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2. Dion, in 1961 after his break with the Belmonts. Dion was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for the song in 2002.

3. Peter Townshend of The Who. At last count, the number of guitars smashed topped 80. Legend says that he always collected the pieces of the guitars and glued them back together.

4. Shrinky Dinx, after a lawsuit by the toy manufacturer of Shrinky Dinks.

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• Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong once asked President Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because Armstrong was “an old man.”

We feel pretty sure Nixon wasn’t aware the bags contained marijuana.

• In 2015, the 1,000-year-old corpse of a Buddhist monk was discovered inside an ancient statue of Buddha.

• Never mind Freddy Krueger’s mutilated face and clawed glove — Wes Craven designed his red-and-greenstriped sweater after he read in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty recognizing those particular shades. Therefore, just looking at his pullover is subliminally unsettling!

• The first item sold on eBay, for $14.83, was a broken laser pointer, to someone who kept a collection of broken laser pointers.

• Costa Rica has the world’s only sloth orphanage.

• During the Apollo 12 mission, a 2 1/2-ton piece of the lunar module was experimentally crashed onto the surface of the moon, with a quite unexpected result: The moon “rang like a bell” for nearly an hour.

• Dockers recently increased the size of their coin pockets to accommodate the growing size of smartphones.

• In 1999, 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed was making up to $74,000 a day in the stock market by using internet message boards to manipulate prices. The government eventually caught up with And we’re so ready! him, but he was still able to keep half a million dollars of his gains.

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BY BRIAN ZINCHUK natural gas usage records, and we can thank There are major events and projects over 200 megawatts.

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Not only was Saskatchewan setting electrical connational unity. sumption records during the cold snap of last week We are to a point where of December, werapidly also set coming two consecutive natural gas an irresistible consumption records,force too. – federal greenhouse According to SaskEnergy a Dec. 31 release, gas emissions efforts,inare meeting an “Eximtreme cold weather across Saskatchewan this week removable object – Saskatchewan’s need to sulted in record-breaking natural gas demand in the keep the on, 28 andand its 29, economy rolling. province.

On lights December natural gas consumption surpassed the previous daily record efforts of 1.57 Justin Trudeau’s planet-saving petajoules (PJ) which was set in February 2021. are coming to a head against Scott Moe’s “A new daily record of 1.62 PJ was set on December efforts to save fromtotal Trudeau.

28 and broken again Saskatchewan on December 29 with system deliveryI of 1.64 PJ. Delivery for December 30 watched a rathernumbers extraordinary legislaand 31 are not yet finalized, but are also expected to tive committee meeting on May 3. NDP Enexceed 1.6 PJ.” ergynatural and gas SaskPower Critic with Aleana Young The records coincided record power consumption.

Dec.of 29,hard-hitting, SaskPower setbut another asked three On hours rearecord in power consumption for Saskatchewan. At sonable questions – basically 95 per cent of 5:27 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2021, Saskatchewan homes and what I’ve been3,868 working on over the in lastpower year businesses reached megawatts (MW) use,and according to the Crown corporation.she Thegot previous change.

And in response, very record of 3,792 MW was reached four years ago to the solid, reasonable answers from Crown Inday, on Dec. 29, 2017. vestments Minister Morgan, Saskatchewan’s power Don production has SaskPowincreasingly shifted from coal toPandya, natural gas a fuelpresidents source. In er CEO Rupen andasvice December, Boundary Dam King.

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That’s (289 megawatts), Yellowhead Power Station peaking really to an existing135 potash mine, the but plant (alsoclose at North Battleford, megawatts), baseload Power Station at Swift 30 Current (353 more Chinook importantly, it’s roughly minutes megawatts) and peaking plant Spy Hill Power Stathe BHP Another Jansen 353 potash minebaseload which tionfrom (89 megawatts). megawatt

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Governments Premier The Crown notedlike thatmantras. increasedAnd demand from SaskEnergy’s industrial including Scott Moe’s currentcustomers, mantra he insertsnatural into gas use for power production, was the main driver of every speech is how Saskatchewan has the this week’s record-setting consumption. food, fertilizer fuel thedaily world needs.

SaskEnergy saidand it measures natural gas consumption the 24-hour from 9:00 9:00 Thisforpower plantperiod combines alla.m. of to that. a.m.

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If you include the two gas power stayears ago, Saskatchewan’s domestic gas production tions North Battleford built around 2013, fell off a at cliff.

Targeted gas drilling went essentially extinct, next toAspen no gas-specific wells being drilled by with the time is complete, we’ll havein this province for most of the past decade. Our domeslargely done that. And in so doing, every tic gas production is now largely based on associated megawatt produced bywith a natural gas power gas production that comes oil production.

As a result, Saskatchewan went from a net gas exstation produces about halfbeing the greenhouse porter foras theaperiod of 1988 to 2009 to a net coal. importer gasses megawatt from unabated that year.

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Economical Meal Prep Made Easy With Grain Bowls People often ask me about suggestions for inexpensive meal prep ideas.

I have two words: grain bowls.

But what are grain bowls, exactly?

Grain bowls are a complete meal composed of a grain base, greens, protein, veggies and interesting toppings all arranged in a way that’s visually appealing.

Whether for breakfast, lunch or dinner, grain bowls are an economical way to prepare quick, easy and nutritious meals. Preparing the components in advance assures a virtually endless number of combinations to ensure you’ll never get tired of eating the same ol’ grain bowl.

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Grains: Add 1/2 to 1 cup cooked whole grains to your salad foundation. Any whole grain you like, such as brown rice, quinoa, wheat berries, barley or farro. You can cook up a batch of different grains each week for effortless variety.

Dressing: Dress the grains and greens before you add the other goodies, so the dressing is evenly distributed throughout the whole bowl.

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‘Well, ‘said the digger, ‘Usually there are three of us. I dig, Fergal plants the tree and Sean fills in the hole.

Today Fergal is away unwell, but that doesn’t mean Sean and I have to take the day off, does it?’

Father O’ Malley answers the phone.

‘Hello, is this Father O’Malley?’

‘It is’ ‘This is the Internal Revenue Service, income tax department. Can you help us?’

‘I can.’

‘Do you know a Ted Houlihan?’

‘I do’ ‘Is he a member of your congregation?’

‘He is’ ‘Did he donate $10,000 to the church?’

‘He will.’

While shopping for my first CD player, I was able to decipher most of the technicalese on the promotional signs.

One designation had me puzzled, though, so I called over a salesperson and asked, “What does ‘hybrid pulse D/A converter’ mean?”

“That means”, he said, “that this machine will read the digital information that is encoded on CDs and convert it into an audio signal - that is, into music.”

“In other words this CD player plays CDs.” “Exactly.”

The business I work for had a dinner together with all family members.

Before the first speech, the emcee gave the following announcement, “we kindly ask if you can please put all cell phones and children on vibrate.”

The Forest Service has issued a BEAR WARNING in the national forests for this summer. They’re urging everyone to protect themselves by wearing bells and carrying pepper spray.

Campers should be alert for signs of fresh bear activity, and they should be able to tell the difference between Black Bear dung and Grizzly Bear dung.

Black Bear dung is rather small and round. Sometimes you can see fruit seeds and/or squirrel fur in it.

Grizzly Bear dung has bells in it, and smells like pepper spray!

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• Why is it that people who aren’t on speaking terms with their families know how to achieve peace in the Middle East?

• Why is it that men who haven’t had a date in six months know what women really want?

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