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Brock Blaze
On Wednesday, January 26 at 5:13 pm, the Kindersley Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire for mutual aid - aiding the Brock Fire Department at a structure fire on the corner of 3rd Avenue North and 1st Street West in the village of Brock.
SaskPower was able to safely de-energize the power, leaving the community without power for approximately two hours.
Additional water haulers arrived as well as a track hoe to safely remove parts of the remaining structure, which
was completely destroyed.
SaskEnergy brought out a hydro vac on site to dig up and pinch off gas service.
All fire department members were safe and accounted for.
The residents of the dwelling were not home at the time of the fire, but have lost all of their belongings.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the couple (Dean Benjamin & Janelle Lofts House Fire). Donations can also be dropped off at the Brock Post Office.
Medical memories from days gone by
Anyone who works in the medical field may find this interesting. It’s an excerpt taken from ‘Pages of the Past’ published by the Leader Lioness Club. The article entitled “Memories of a Country Hospital” was submitted by Kay Blott, a long-time resident of Leader who passed away in February 2012 at the age of 95.
I joined the staff of the Leader Town Hospital in September of 1938 after answering an ad in the Regina Leader-Post. Nursing positions were at a premium, and I counted myself lucky to be accepted. The depression was still on, people couldn’t afford doctors, and hospital care and aids were few and far between. In a year and a half hence, World War II would be raging, and hospitals were clamouring for nurses as they, the nurses, were joining the armed forces.
I arrived in Leader after a day long trip by train, very hungry. (I had actually expected to find a diner on the train from Swift Current to Leader). I had another pipe dream that there would be a “taxi” to take me to the hospital - surely! I was met by Mabel Kasper (Wenzel) and Norma McKenzie as a welcoming committee and Jake Krentz to carry my luggage. I had never lived in a small town, and much to my dismay, the hospital was a large old house.
I was interviewed on the spot by Dr. Levson and the matron. Then I had the “grand tour.” The maternity ward and nursery was a former pantry, the operating room at the head of a flight of stairs, no running water, no flush toilets, a handful of surgical instruments, and a monster of a coal furnace. I was to be on continuous night duty, and feeding the monster of a furnace was one of my chores at night. I was to give anesthetics and assist at surgery. My total monthly salary being $35.00.
We ate in the kitchen, and one could watch the patient in the case room be-
bites of food. The doctor
for surgery in enamel washbasins. We hung the laundry at night, so we would have enough dry clothes for the next day. I wanted to leave immediately, but my pride and pocketbook decided against that, and I stayed. My room was next door to the operating room - sleep was impossible while surgery was going on. Usually, I gave anesthetics until nearly noon.
After surgery and maternity, patients were required to stay in bed for at least seven days. Oh, those bed baths! Which had to be given before the day staff came on duty (that staff consisted of the matron) who had to cope all day while I was on continuous nights. That fall, there was an army of mice that invaded the hospital. I spent any spare time I had during the nights setting and emptying the traps.
Later in the year, a classmate of mine, Viola Ormiston, joined the staff. Now there were two nurses on days and one at night. Sometimes we cared for over 30 patients.
It was a marvellous experience, and I learned the hard way that a hospital could give good service with minimal equipment. There were never to be forgotten experiences, and the same kind of friendships formed. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sargeant (Thirza) were like parents to me, and one could go to their home, day or night, and always be welcome.
Antibiotics were being administered now, and some of them had very bad side effects.
I nursed in all three hospitals in Leader, my last case when my daughter Marilyn and I treated the same patient, Mrs. Mike Baron, and I obtained a certain satisfaction out of that. In all those years I have never changed my opinion - small-town hospitals are the best.
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L-R: Mabel Kasper, Norma McKenzie, Violet Ormiston R.N., A.M. Rosman (Matron), and Hilsden R.N.
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The Crafted Hand opens its doors
“When one door closes, another door opens” is a well-known quote that has played out in real-time on the corner of Main and Railway in Kindersley. On Monday, January 24th, The Crafted Hand opened its doors at 100 Main Street in the building which previously housed Veronica’s Sewing Supplies. For new business owner Jen Ginther, it has been a dream come true.
“Early on in my 16-year hairdressing career, I had always dreamt of starting a salon/clothing store,” Jen said. “I would always scout out buildings, but nothing ever seemed fitting until Veronica’s came up for sale. I knew right then that this was it!”
After a few walk-throughs and chats with Don Longmire, the owner, the deal was made and “my dream hit full force!” Jen explained.
A walk through the newly renovated building is concrete evidence of Jen’s dream materializing. The
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spacious building has been completely transformed into a beautiful, bright work environment.
“We have an amazing and talented group that has joined The Crafted Hand team: 3 massage therapists (Justine McLean, Celine Hoffman and Cat Arnason), a stylist (Jen) and a barber (Tyler Holland) so far, and we have room for a few more stylists to join our team,” Jen said. Spenser Jackson is the receptionist.
“It took many months and a lot of great hands to transform one business into two, but we’re so excited to finally open the doors to the Salon & Massage side and see the vision unfold.”
The Canadian Handmade side of the building will open sometime in March. Jen has visions of filling it with locally made Canadian goods, consisting of everything from clothing to candles, jewelry, soaps, signs, slippers, bath and body, cards and candies, and much more. It will be a small business
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supporting other home-based businesses.
After purchasing the building, Jen began pondering her options. “I attended a little modern market in Calgary last summer. I grabbed a bunch of their business cards and briefly chatted with the local vendors,” she explained. “After hearing their stories of how they came about, I left with a full heart and literally tears of joy. I knew right then that this was what I wanted to dosupport home-based businesses in the other side of my store!” Since Jen loves crafting, the concept is a really good fit.
The name of the new business venture is equally fitting. “it was hard to come up with a name that was fitting for both sides. But I knew right away that The Crafted Hand was perfect when I thought of it!” Jen said.
Kindersley and area residents are excited to see the doors to The Crafted Hand open and wish the team a bright and successful future.
As the cold weather continues in Saskatchewan Kindersley RCMP remind drivers to not leave vehicles unattended if they are left idling. ‘Vehicles left running and unattended present a crime of opportunity for would be criminals’ stated Staff Sergeant Kevin Peterson. ‘It takes a matter of seconds for a thief to drive away in a vehicle that has been left unlocked and running’ Peterson went on to say.
The Kindersley RCMP offer these safety tips for drivers in the winter:
• Never leave keys in an unlocked, unoccupied vehicle.
• Avoid idling an unoccupied vehicle.
• Never leave spare keys or garage door openers in or around your vehicle.
• Install an anti-theft system in your vehicle if it doesn’t have one.
• Use a steering wheel lock to deter thieves.
• Park your vehicle in a garage at home, if possible.
• Park your vehicle in well-lit, secure areas.
Between January 17th to January 23rd 2022, Kindersley RCMP responded to a further 17 calls for service*.
Calls for service included, but are not limited to, two suspicious vehicle calls, one fraud, and one assault complaint.
If you need to report any suspicious activity in your community, please contact the Kindersley RCMP detachment by calling 306-463-4642 or their local police service. Information can also be provided anonymously through Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers by calling 1800-222-TIPS (8477) or submitting a tip online at www.saskcrimestoppers.com.
Online Crime Reporting can be accessed at: https://ocre-sielc.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/saskatchewan.
*For more information on the calls to service please contact the Kindersley RCMP detachment.
JOAN JANZEN
Your Southwest Media Group
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The road to resilient supply chains
This week’s humour: “I told the procurement department a joke and they didn’t get it for 4-6 weeks”. Or how about the cartoon where the roll of bathroom tissue said to the Maple Leaf, “I think you’re about to become very popular.”
Two topics that are dominant these days are supply chains and inflation. Our inflation rate is the highest since 1991, at 4.8%. Record breaking real estate prices are
excluded from the calculation of the consumer price index.
MP Pierre Poilievre
noted that “What’s incredible is prices are rising fastest for the things we source right here at home.” He listed chicken prices rising 6%, beef 12%, bacon 19%, natural gas to heat our homes 20% and gasoline 30%.
“These are all things we provide here in Canada.”
He also asked why our Prime Minister blames
global supply chains for rising prices, when the products we make here at home and have an abundance of are the ones increasing fastest in price?
“Taxes on domestic supply chains have made it more expensive for farmers to produce food, for energy companies to supply gas and home heating. All these governmental costs are driving up Canadians’ costs. The more the PM spends, the more things cost,” he
said. “I expect he’ll try to blame the rest of the world for his inflation.”
Meanwhile our Prime Minister has also posed a question. “At a time where supply chains are disrupted around the world, where people are rethinking where are we getting things and what happens if there are breakdowns either political or geographic or climate related. How do we ensure resilience in our supply chains?”
Unfortunately his mandates are not a solution. “This policy is going to drive truckers out of the country and out of business,” Poilievre said. “It’s going to drive up the cost for our people, drive people out of work and leave us with empty shelves.”
across the country.”
He also stated that more than half the goods that cross the Canada/ US border come by truck, including produce, clothing, appliances. Parts cross the border up to seven times before a car is completely built.
One of the biggest suppliers of fresh produce at the Ontario food terminal said he has not seen it this bad in 25 years. Shortage of port workers is compounding the problem within the supply chain.
The Retail Council of Canada observed, 20% of staff are off at one time.
Presidents and CEOs of transport and trucking companies are planning to shuffle their drivers, putting them into inter-Canada roles. The result will be a big increase in drivers wanting inter-Canada jobs, and a demand for cross border drivers.
After hearing all these observations, one has to wonder if our Prime Minister wants to hear the answer to his question: “How do we ensure resilience in our supply chains?” But what does the road to resilient supply chains look like?
Although the outcome of that pursuit is yet unknown, the response is evident to all.
Brian Lilly, of the Toronto Sun observed, “Before this trucker mandate, Canada was already short about 23,000 truckers according to Statistics Canada; 2,209 driving positions were already going unfilled in the trucking industry. All that was driving up prices because driving companies have to compete for drivers, because there isn’t enough freight capacity to take goods back and forth across the border or
By the time this is in print the trucker’s convoy will be at Ottawa.
A convoy participant from Alberta said they drove across the entire province of Manitoba and practically every single approach had vehicles parked on it with people cheering and waving. People would come right up to the truck and greet every vehicle, for nearly six hours, at minus 30 degree temperatures. The truckers were given bag lunches with hand written notes of appreciation in them.
He ended his comments by saying, “I have never been so proud to be a Canadian as I am today!” Not only do we need resilient supply chains, but we also need Canadians to be proud of their nation once again.
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Last week, I promised to offer a list of some of the Prairie Gold I’ve mined over my life as a reader. I realize the impossibility of listing all the inspiring books I’ve read just since moving to Val Marie, where the best thing to do on these long dark nights is to burrow into an armchair, enwrapped in the warm shawl crocheted by my sister and tuck into a new book. So I’ll spread this recollection over a few weeks and begin with some formative books.
First off, I’ve mentioned before that I live in a Dark Sky Preserve and the quietest place in North America, according to acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who travelled the world taking sound readings. (He did have to rise before the birds, however, because their racket will wake the dead at 4 am, even if you are in the middle of Grasslands National Park, where he took his soundings.)
I believe living in places like Val Marie, a village with a population of 89, allows an author to plumb great depths and creates a kind of sensibility that cannot be easily accessed by writers living amidst the hustle and crunch of the cities. I often think of the desert mothers and fathers, the first monks of early Christianity, who would wander into the dark and the silence to bypass the dictatorial voices of
bureaucratic clerics who institutionalized the voice of God, claiming only they knew how divinity should sound. Desert monks knew better; in the empty, dark and quiet desert, they waited patiently to engage in direct communication with The Beloved.
And indeed, I’ve discovered that sitting free from blaring noises and glaring lights, in pervasive silence and boundless darkness, aids in hearing with fresh ears and seeing with clear eyes. (And why most of the city-dwelling writers I know rise to write at five or even 4 in the morning before the world gets busy. ) For these and other reasons, I sometimes call this place a Deep Scribe Preserve.
I am surprised by descriptions of the prairies as bleak and empty. I feel far bleaker in cities crammed with billboards prioritizing things over nature. One of the reasons I find the Prairies so endearing is because it’s so full of living things: sky, land, weather, critters, and birds. And these become my primary relationships and encounters.
I rarely can recall the plots of the books I love; I just know I loved them for their language and their sensibilities. But I do recall phrases, pictures or descriptions that alter my perspective on things. I still carry an image of an experience unique to this place from
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W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind. The boy in the story stumbles on an animal’s skeleton, “its rib bones clutching emptiness. Crawling in and out of the jawbone’s teeth, an ant casts about; it disappears into an eye socket, reappears to begin a long pilgrimage down the backbone spools.”
That experience of living close to the land appears in all of the works of Sharon Butala who, at 81, has released yet another book. This Strange Visible Air is a collection of essays on ageing and the writing life. Butala began writing when she moved to Southwest Saskatchewan to what is now Old Man On His Back. Her book The Perfection of the Morning chronicled her profound awakening to nature. It was a book whose time had come,
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especially for urban women, so many of whom never experienced the wild or chronicled the effects of nature on a woman’s soul. In her latest book, she continues to praise the wild while critiquing the “glib, speedy, ill-mannered chatterers on TV and radio” who clamour to tell us who we should be according to the standards and desires of youth. In the end, she reminds us, as an elder, “wild nature reminds us who we are.”
As I write this, I am about to attend an online book club discussing Halfbreed by Maria Campbell, another ground-breaking book. Campbell was born in the backwoods of Northern Saskatchewan, where, at a young age, she learned how to “set traps, shoot a rifle and fight like a boy.” She would find excuses to sleep on the floor on a braided rug, next to her Cheechum, her grandmother, who bestowed a love that ran deep and often manifested itself in Campbell as a deep belief in oneself. She told Marie stories when she was “afraid or hurt,” and that gift was obviously instilled in her.
Life with Campbell’s Metis family was full of singing and dancing, but there was hardship too, including “oppressive poverty, frustrations” and broken dreams. But life got even harder when she left for the city. Halfbreed is
a timeless book not just about survival but about witnessing with enlightened eyes so that what is seen is fully articulated and transformed into lessons we all need to learn.
Some writers you grow alongside. In 1986 I gave my parents Mark Abley’s book Beyond Forget for Christmas. The book is a prairie travelogue by a man who once lived in Lethbridge and Saskatoon and decided he wanted to travel rural Saskatchewan. He now lives in Montreal. In the 2000s, I continued to read Abley as he began writing about the uses and abuses and wonders of language in his books Watch Your Tongue, Spoken Here and The Prodigal Tongue. I recently reviewed his book The Organist, about his fraught relationship with his father.
At one point in The Organist, Abley quotes from the Gnostic Gospels: “If you bring forth what is within you,” he writes, “it will save you. But if you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.” He added, “I don’t suppose it will save me now to tell the story of my father, but I fear it may destroy me if I don’t.” I’m thankful for the few mentioned authors for their gift of bearing witness to their lives and the lives of their families and the ways they help us in witnessing our own.
Government employees made out well during the pandemic
These days it seems there are three certainties in life: death, taxes and bigger government paycheques.
Even a pandemic that sent thousands of workers to the ranks of the unemployed couldn’t stop the iron law of government wage increases. The pandemic revealed the divide between those behind the golden government gates that shield them from financial reality and the taxpayers who will be left paying the growing tab.
There were 528,347 federal and provincial government employees that received at least one pay raise during the pandemic, according to government documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Those growing salaries will come from the pockets of workers who took pay cuts or lost their job during lockdowns and the many small business owners that were forced to close their doors.
Not a single federal or provincial government reduced pay during lockdowns, accord-
ing to research from Secondstreet.org.
Many municipal employees are also riding the gravy train. More than 34,000 employees at the city of Toronto received a raise during lockdowns in 2020, and so did nearly 14,000 city of Calgary employees and 11,400 employees at the city of Ottawa. How many other municipalities handed out raises?
It’s fair for politicians to stop these raises even if they were built into a contract. What’s unfair is making Canadians who took a pay cut, lost their job or business to pay for these raises.
Stopping these pay raises shouldn’t be rocket science. After all, politicians control the purse strings. If union bosses don’t want to accept haircuts, they can be the ones to hand out pink slips to their members. That’s the strategy employed by former Alberta premier Ralph Klein to implement a five per cent wage reduction when he had to extinguish Alberta’s deficit fire.
With 338 members of Par-
BY FRANCO TERRAZZANO Canadian Taxpayers Federation
liament, you’d think one of them could figure out a way to stop these raises. But you’d be wrong. The feds agreed to new contracts for thousands of its employees that included pay raises during the middle of the pandemic and as the debt ballooned towards the now-shattered $1-trillion mark.
It’s a good bet that many politicians haven’t the foggiest clue of how many bureaucrats received a raise during lockdowns. But given the sheer cost of government labour and the
mess that is our government finances, politicians should be considering taxpayers’ ability to pay before rubber stamping raises.
Then again, it would be tough for politicians to force a hard bargain when they’re helping themselves to raises.
While you and yours struggled through COVID-19, your representative in Ottawa pocketed two pay increases. Backbench MPs are now receiving $6,900 more than they did pre-pandemic, while the prime minister will pocket an extra $13,800.
CTF supporters received correspondence from more than 100 MPs – Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats – who either didn’t support the politician pay raise or committed to donating their raise to charity. With all these MPs seemingly against the raises, why haven’t we heard a peep from party leaders about reversing the pandemic pay hikes?
Taxpayers are also paying for more bureaucrats.
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claims “we have recovered 106 per cent of the jobs lost at the peak of the pandemic.” But these new jobs come with a bigger tax bill for the private sector.
There’s 312,700 more government jobs across Canada than there were pre-pandemic, including an extra 114,500 “public administration” bureaucrats. There’s 80,100 fewer jobs outside of government. This follows years of federal bureaucrat increases. Between 2017 and 2021, the federal bureaucracy ballooned by 56,905 new employees. That’s more than 14,000 extra federal bureaucrats every year.
Politicians are tripping over themselves looking for more money to pay for their huge debts. They should start by looking in the mirror and forcing government to find ways to save money like millions of Canadians have done with their own budgets.
Franco Terrazzano is the Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Junior curlers learn basic skills
By Joan Janzen
The Kindersley Curling Club is pleased to have junior curlers in the rink every Wednesday from 5:006:00 p.m. David Korchinski is instructing the group of eight curlers, ranging in age from Grade 4 to Grade 9.
“I have a good mixture of students - some who have curled before and students who are new to the sport,” David said.
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The junior curlers are working on basic skills, such as proper technique for sliding and sweeping. They learn the skills through various drills and also develop strategy skills by playing mini games. In addition, they also work on rules and sportsmanship etiquette.
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“This year we have eight curlers, with hopes of growing in years to come,” David said. The curlers started during the first week of December and will curl until the end of February.
Youth Curling Bonspiel Swept the Leader G3 Iceplex
By Mallory Cawthra
Two weekends ago on January 22nd, 2022, the Town of Leader hosted a U15 and U18 Curling Bonspiel at the G3 Iceplex. The U15 matches were slated to start at 9:00 a.m., with the U18 matches getting underway at 11:00 a.m. Jennifer Wickenheiser organized and planned the Bonspiel and is the coach for the Leader U15 girls’ team. There was a total of four teams for U18 that participated: Swift Current, Fox Valley, Maple Creek and Richmound, and a total of six teams that participated for U15, which included two teams from Maple Creek, and one each from Richmound, Gull Lake, Leader and Cabri.
Jennifer Wickenheiser explained that G-Mac and G3 sponsored the skills competitions which were a component of the Bonspiel – and prize money was awarded to the top players for the skills competitions. Jennifer Wickenheiser added that the youth really enjoyed the day and the skills competitions; resoundingly, the tournament was a success.
The tournament could not have been a success without the help of volunteers, which included John Butt, Dwight Hoffman, and Chris Huber, who all pebbled and prepared the ice at the G3 Iceplex before each match.
Lacy Strutt, one of the parents from Leader, organized the kitchen shifts for the day; volunteers included Lacy Strutt, Stella Cocks, Gayle Smith, Erin Romanuik, Troy Strutt, Chris Huber, Denise Coetzee and Becky Ellis.
Lacy Strutt commented that, “The day was perfect. We had a bit of a delayed start but all the teams had a great time. There was a lot of laughter and socializing throughout the day. We are looking forward to hosting more Youth Bonspiels in the future.”
Natalie Cocks, one of the Youth players from Leader, was asked to play with the U18 Fox Valley Boys Team; they won all three of their games. The coaches for the Fox Valley teams are Donda and Serg Deis.
Stella Cocks, one of the parents from Lead-
er, described a highlight from one of the U18 Fox Valley team matches: “They gave up five points in the 2nd end against the Swift Current team, only to come back and tie the game in the 6th, and then win the tie-breaker draw to the button!”
Stella Cocks added that, “It was fantastic to
see all the kids and teams back out on the ice playing some great curling, cheering one another on, and enjoying the skills competitions.”
There will be Sectionals held on February 11th and 12th in Cabri (tentatively) and then Regionals held March 4th and 5th in Fox Valley.
Senior Klippers fighting for second place
JORDAN PARKER
Your Southwest Media Group
The Senior Kindersley Klippers are making a late push for second in the Saskatchewan Western Hockey League regular season standings.
As of January 24, 2022, they sat in third, tied with the Edam 3 Stars and Hartford Hawks, with the Macklin Mohawks just two points ahead. However, the Klippers have a game-in-hand.
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“Right now, we’re just really happy at how this season has come together,” said Manager Brady Newmeyer. “It’s really a tight race for second.”
They sit at 8-3-0-0 on the season, with just three games left against the Biggar Nationals, Wilkie Outlaws, and the Unity Miners.
“We have three big games coming, and we’d love to nab a couple wins,” said Newmeyer. “It’s nice this team is mostly returning guys, but we did add four from Midget.”
“It’s just really nice to see how all these guys are coming together as a team, and it’s helping us win.”
Among their depth acquisitions at the January 10 deadline was goalie Daniel Dunn, who let in only one goal in his only game since joining the team. He backs
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up for Luke Sproule, who has a 6-3-0 record this year.
“It was really important to get Daniel from Calgary going into the playoffs. Luke has been playing good, but we really needed someone to back him up,” he said.
“With COVID-19, we have to make sure we have ourselves covered. Luke also needs to be able to have a few nights off here.”
Leading the team in points right now is David Dziurzynski, who’s played NHL games for the Ottawa Senators.
“He’s an import from Llloydminster, Ab., and he’s leading this group. He’s really great for this team,” he said of the player, leading the roster with 27 points in 11 games.
His brother, Darian, is counted as another leader, along with Shayne Neigum.
“Shayne and Darian are also so important, and they’re our top forwards. It’s pretty cool to see two brothers on this team,”
“Our defenceman and our goaltending have all been great. We’ve been playing hard as a group, and if we continue to play as a team, we can lock up that second spot.”
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Fox Valley U18 Team (L-R): Kesler Hellman, Karston Hellman, Mitchell Ehnisz, Natalie Cocks.
Young Klippers aiming for playoff-style hockey
JORDAN PARKER
Your Southwest Media Group
With six games in seven nights, the SJHL Kindersley Klippers felt the effects of a packed schedule.
They started Friday with a commanding 4-0 win versus Weyburn, but were felled by Estevan 5-3 the following day.
A strong rebound game 3-2 on Sunday against Notre Dame gave the Klippers a boost, but a 4-0 loss to Flin Flon was disheartening. Finally, their Wednesday night game ended in a 5-1 win.
“I’m happy with the weekend we had,” said Assistant Coach Mitch Topinka. “We went on a bit of a streak, and anytime you can get four points in a weekend, it’s welcome.”
He does, however, admit the 5-3 loss to the Estevan Bruins was disappointing. Goalie Brett Sweet did everything he could in a game where Estevan doubled the Klippers shots, with 41.
“Did we deserve to win that one? No. But when you play six games in seven nights, it might just bite you,” he said.
“I think some tiredness started to come out against Flin Flon, but it’s a long season and teams need to battle through these things. We just need that consistency.”
Wednesday saw a big rescheduled game against the Nipawin Hawks, who were two points behind Kindersley at the outset of that tilt. It gave Kindersley either a chance to get further ahead, our
could serve as a springboard for Nipawin to tie them in the standings.
Andrew Blocker left the Friday game after a shoulder injury, but is skating and expected to be fine. Josh Danis was skating in his stead.
The production from Blocker, Cameron Rimstad and Noah Lindsay has been electric, and Assistant Captain Lindsay has seen five points in his last six games. It’s been a welcome change for the young forward.
“This year, I’ve been struggling to find the back of the net, and it’s been frustrating,” he said.
“I’ve been focused on simplifying my game, shooting the puck and going to the net. It’s been working out, so I’m happy.”
He was mostly pleased with the weekend play off the team, battling for the final playoff spot.
“This weekend was big for us. We got some much-needed points, but it also built up team confidence. That will carry over into this week,” he said.
Lindsay has been having a great time with his new linemates, and is finding a stride he’s enjoyed.
“Rimstad has fit like a glove into our lineup. Playing with him is a lot of fun, and we’re able to be a versatile pair on the ice,” he said.
“Blocker should be back from his shoulder injury, so I’m expecting really big things from the lineup.”
However, Lindsay is aware the compete level of the team has to stay high right now.
“Every game is of paramount importance for us right now, as we try to claw our way into the playoffs,” he said.
“It’s important we set the pace and don’t back down. We’re a good team when we want to be, but we need to stay focused to be that team all the time.”
Assistant Coach Topinka says the Klippers need to practice what he calls “playoff hockey.”
“Flin Flon was in that playoff mode this week, and they played fast and heavy. In my opinion, they’re the best team in the league right now,” he said.
“We need the guys to up their level, and they know they need to have speed, grit and discipline. They need to play with more intensity.”
Kindersley and Battleford will play in Kindersley on Saturday, January 29, 2022.
Changes at Eston & District Landfill
• The scale at the landfill will be live in February.
• Member price (Residents) is 0.10/1 kg; $100/1000 kg (1 Tonne)
• Non-member price 0.20/1 kg; $200/1000 kg (1 Tonne)
• Now accepting credit and debit. There is NO gate admission, as there is in some communities with a scale.
• Free compost; tree branches, etc. Everything has the same price regardless of what it is; household, construction, etc. Previously at the landfill the charge was only for construction materials.
Winter Hours:
Monday: 9 AM - 4 PM (Closed for Lunch 1 - 2 PM)
Tuesday: 12 NOON - 4 PM
Thursday: 9 AM - 4 PM (Closed for Lunch 1-2 PM)
Saturday: 9 AM - 4 PM (Closed for Lunch 1-2 PM) NO after hours and NO exceptions.
PURCHASE & USE OF 2% LIQUID STRYCHNINE
To comply with the re-evaluation decision made by Health Canada, the registration of 2% Liquid Strychnine Concentrate is cancelled and is subject to the following phase out timelines:
- Last date of Sale by Retailer is March 4, 2022
- Last date permitted for use by the User is March 4, 2023
Therefore, any ratepayer wishing to purchase 2% Liquid Strychnine, please contact R.M. of Kindersley No. 290 before March 4, 2022 at 306-463-2524, 409 Main Street, Kindersley.
Team Saskatchewan attends first-ever provincial sledge hockey tourney
JORDAN PARKER
Your Southwest Media Group
Last weekend showcased a Team Saskatchewan sledge hockey club that had never been put together in provincial history.
They played the Southern Alberta Allstars – made up of players from Calgary and Medicine Hat – on January 22 and 23 in Kindersley, SK., in tilts that helped them hone their talents.
“This was just an incredible experience for them,” said Team Saskatchewan Manager Tracy Lyons following the games. “We didn’t know what to expect, because for years these players only went up against each other.”
Chief among the reasons the games came to Kindersley was Lyons’ tireless efforts.
“We had a group that got together before COVID-19 to put a team together, and then we got shut down,” she said.
During the summer, they began again when restrictions relaxed. Coaches all got together and asked the players if they wanted to return.
“Since we had time we decided to hold tryouts so we really could get the best of the best in the province and here we are now,” she said.
After the games in Kindersley, the team realized there was a hugely competitive world to sledge hockey as a sport, and were invigorated by their experience.
“Everyone was so committed, and practices were always well-attended. This group did everything they can to make this work,” she said.
The first game was a 6-2 loss, and the second an 8-2, but for the team, it was all about the incredible experience.
“We definitely learned what we need to work on as a team. But we scored goals, which was wonderful. We didn’t expect to win,” she said.
“We know areas we need to work on next, but we’re working together and gelling well. It was fantastic and a really nice weekend.”
A difficult aspect was that COVID-19 dampened what Lyons thought would be a bigger crowd.
“We want to raise visibility for sledge hockey, and we thought lots of people would be at the rink because it was Minor Hockey Weekend,” she said. “But with so much cancelled, there wasn’t traffic like we expected.”
“In a non-COVID year the rink would have been packed. COVID canceled a lot of games, and the week-
end didn’t go according to plan from that perspective. I was really wanting to showcase this level of sledge hockey as it may have been the only time we could play here. That said, We did have spectators, and that’s good. We’re really just excited to continue to grow, get out there, and we can only get bigger.”
With COVID-19 worries looming for events planning, Lyons says the road to getting organized was one marked by patience and some luck.
“This was a hard thing to set up, especially with trying to get ice time in the city. We’re currently practicing in Aberdeen on February 19 to get ready to play against the Women’s Canadian Team on February 25 and 26 in Saskatoon,” she said.
The team is getting ready to work on positioning, among other things.
“There was just a really great atmosphere on-andoff the ice, and it was a wonderful teaching weekend,” she said.
“Most had never played full contact, and this is great preparation to go against provinces we’d never met, who won’t go as easy on us.”
One of the team’s goaltenders and Kindersley resident Jordan Graham had an amazing experience away despite a setback.
“It was a decent time away, despite breaking my hand. I caught the puck wrong stopping a shot, and shattered my pinky,” he said.
“I just have to stay off it for a month. I wanted to go into the second game, and no one let me.”
He ‘s one of seven Kindersley players on the team, as Braden Close, Ty Eagles, Nick Elliott, Matthew Kehrer, Bret Klassen and Kris Lyons are also from town. Graham says it was a great experience for the whole
team to go through.
“It was our first actual experience playing as a unit. It was a great learning curve for us,” he said. “We may not have won the games, but we know what we need to work on for Nationals.”
“This is a rare experience, and I can’t wait to see what happens with this later in the year.”
For Graham, he wants folks to begin to get more involved and learn about the sport he loves so much.
“I think it’s important because people need to know sledge hockey is out there. I didn’t know it was a thing until my friend Hunter told me,” he said.
“It’s a great experience, and we need more numbers. So many places would want teams if they had the people. This was the first game I played against people of that level, and it was so unexpected. It was a big jump, but it was so eventful.”
Lyons is now focused on the future, and finding more incredible opportunities for the team as things roll on.
“The team is now all looking for sponsors and they are doing a great job as one day of ice time in Saskatoon for practice is just over $1,000. The coaches are looking after all of the on-ice stuff and making sure our players are learning what they need to learn so we succeed,” she said.
She’s also gone the extra mile and asked Women’s Canadian Sledge Hockey coaches Derek Whitson and Tara Chisholm to help with try-outs.
“We have all put in a real team effort to keep this going and to make it to the 2022 Canadian Championships in Leduc, AB. Everyone is just really committed.”
Team Saskatchewan and the Southern Alberta All-Stars pose after Sunday’s battle on the ice. | SUBMITTED PHOTO
Kindersley’s own, Braden Close.
Sports with Bruce Penton
Owners, players drag out baseball talks
Baseball fans yawned on Dec. 1 when Major League Baseball team owners said they were locking out the players until a new collective bargaining agreement was hammered out.
A big yawn, because Dec. 1 was a full three months before the start of spring training for the 2022 season and that would certainly give the two sides plenty of time to work things out, right?
Well, maybe not. Here we are at the end of January, with spring training scheduled to start about three weeks from now, and still no peace being reported from the negotiating rooms. Fans ask: Why can’t a bunch of billionaires and millionaires come to an agreement? It’s not like anyone’s going to starve, no matter what the final agreement looks like.
Except for baseball fans, of course, who will be starved for entertainment if this labour dispute drags on. Sticking points like free agency eligibility, minimum pay, expansion of the designated hitter, and luxury tax rules are just a few of the discussion points.
Memories of baseball strikes/lockouts are especially painful to Canadians, who had
visions of a World Series title for Montreal Expos in 1994 before the last work stoppage occurred and wiped out the rest of that season. The Expos never came close again and the franchise was eventually moved to Washington, D.C.
Luckily, one of this column’s spies has been privy to negotiations and some of the points already agreed upon would surprise even the most skeptical fan:
1. Each game to feature a lucky number contest, with the winning fan getting to pinch hit in the ninth inning.
2. If a fan yells ‘Kill the ump,’ the umpire is given the address of the fan’s workplace and is allowed to heckle him for workplace misjudgments at his office the following day.
3. A souped up Corvette brings in a pitcher from the bullpen; a clown car takes him out if he gets rocked.
4. On Babe Ruth’s birthday, the fattest pitcher on the team gets to start.
5. The popcorn and beer vendor has to visit each dugout at least once during the game.
6. Players get Sundays off.
7. The rosin bags are to be filled with peanuts for between-inning snacks.
8. Players get a $20/week bonus if they bring their own bats.
9. A player’s post-career pension to be calculated by dividing OPS plus RBIs minus stolen bases and multiplied by bat-ting average.
10. Mariachi band plays Take Me Out to the Ballgame in every ballpark on May 5, Cinco de Mayo.
11. An MLB franchise for Green Bay, Wis.
• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Love how the contestants on ‘Jeopardy’ can answer what was the name of Mo-zart’s 45th concerto without blinking, but when asked what team Mickey Mantle played for they look like a cow star-ing at a passing train.”
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• Blogger Patti Dawn Swansson: “Marc-André Fleury, Brian Elliott and Dustin Tokarski are the last three NHL goaltenders still using wooden sticks. I hesitate to call them dinosaurs, but today even Pinocchio would be made of carbon fibre and dipped in urethane.”
• Jack Finarelli, writing at sports curmudgeon.com, in his annual review of TV ads: “Subway has an ad where Tom Brady makes a cameo appearance. Given all I have read about Brady’s fanatic focus on his diet and nutrition, I somehow doubt that I might spot him and/or Giselle in line waiting for a 12-inch tuna sub there.”
• RJ. Currie of sportsdeke. com: “If Team Jennifer Jones wins a second Olympic gold medal this year, perhaps they’ll again be invited to present at the Juno Awards for Canadian music. Hey, who better than a curler to recognize rock stars?”
• Bob Molinaro of pilotonline.com (Hampton, Va.): “Sitting in front of my TV the other night, I witnessed the bas-ketball equivalent of a solar eclipse — an NBA player called for travelling.”
• Patti Dawn Swansson again, on the Oilers’ troubles
despite having two of the best players in the NHL: “It’s li-ke Steven Spielberg making a movie with Paul Newman and Marlon Brando as the leading men and his producer giving him Larry, Curly, Shemp, Moe and the Marx Brothers as the supporting cast.”
• Another one from theonion.com:“NFL expands Super Bowl to include two additional teams.”
• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: The Washington Football Team is revealing its new name on Groundhog Day. Maybe they’re trying to limit themselves to only six more weeks of bad football.”
• Another one from Alex Kaseberg, via Twitter, after Browns QB Baker Mayfield announced his shoulder surgery was a success: “He should be back to pitching products in a couple months.”
• Former Auburn basketball coach Sonny Smith: “I told Charles (Barkley) that he made me what I am today. He said, ‘What is that?’ I said out of coaching.”
Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca
Kayden Johnson drafted by Stampeders
Everyone in Kerrobert and Kindersley area is excited about the newest addition to the Calgary Stampeders. Former Kerrobert resident and national running back, Kayden Johnson has recently been signed on with the Stampeders football club of the Canadian Football League.
Kayden is a very ambitious guy! Not only is he tall in stature, standing at 6’3” and tipping the scales at 223 pounds, but he also has huge aspirations and dreams. Born in 1996, Kayden recently celebrated his 26th birthday.
Even as a youngster, Kayden began dreaming of becoming a star athlete. Since then he has repeatedly proven his versatile athletic ability.
While completing grades 11 and 12 in LCBI in Outlook, Kayden played 6 man football, which influenced his future football pursuits. That’s where the star athlete claims he fell in love with the sport, and had the advantage of being coached by former Ottawa Rough Riders offensive lineman Al Neufeld. Kayden became a member of the University of Saskatchewan foot-
ball team after completing high school, joined the U of S track and field team, as well as being a hurdling champion.
In April, 2020, Kayden was drafted by the BC Lions. When the team was at a stand still because of health regulations, Kayden didn’t sit around waiting. Instead he tried out for the Team Canada bobsled team and in November of 2020 secured one of the 33 spots on the team. Bobsledding met all of Kayden’s adrenalin rush criteria as he hit speeds over 150 km/hour.
Kayden not only plans to speed forward in his football career, but he is an aspiring actor, having chosen to major in York University’s theatre program. Once his football days are behind him, fans may be surprised to see Kayden pursuing a career in film, or starring in an action movie. Meanwhile Kayden has been chosen for the RBC Training Ground Program, and is speeding ahead with the ball in his hands. Even though Saskatchewan is Roughrider country, we may see a few more Saskatchewan folks in the stands cheering on Kayden and the Stampeders.
JOAN JANZEN Your Southwest Media Group The Kindersley & District Chamber of Commerce
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
FCL CEO Scott Banda
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
SASKATOON – In recent months, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) CEO Scott Banda has made a lot of major announcements over the last six months. They included a carbon capture and utilization partnership with Whitecap Resources, the sale of its upstream oil producing assets, the purchase of much of Husky’s gas stations, a renewable diesel facility and canola crush plant. And several years before, the Regina Refinery Complex completed a major expansion, adding Section V and bringing its nameplate capacity up to 130,000 bpd.
But on Jan. 25, it was announced to staff that Banda would be retiring this upcoming May after 20 years with FCL.
The announcement was made public by FCL on Jan. 26. That FCL announcement stated, “During his 12 years as CEO and through his career at FCL, Scott has made a lasting impact on the entire organization and on Co-op’s across Western Canada. His focus on advancing our Vision of Building Sustainable Communities Together continues to benefit local Co-ops and the over 600 communities they serve.
“FCL has experienced significant growth and evolution under Scott’s leadership, always with a sharp focus on creating value and ensuring the sustainability of the entire Co-operative Retailing System (CRS). As much as Scott has accomplished
throughout his career, he has remained true to his prairie and co-operative roots and the value of working together to benefit our member co-ops and local communities. That’s what makes Co-op a different kind of business.
“Scott’s belief in the cooperative model and the virtuous circle of shared success has positioned FCL to thrive and ensure these Co-ops can continue to benefit their communities for future generations.
“Scott’s visionary leadership and commitment to upholding our values of Integrity, Excellence and Responsibility are the basis for his outstanding contributions and lasting legacy,” the announcement concluded.
Not everyone has been so supportive, however. In 2019, a lengthy battle with unionized workers at the Regina Refinery left a bitter taste for many workers who spent bitter cold days on the picket lines. Unifor Local 594 ratified an agreement in June, 2020, after a six month lockout which followed a strike vote. The dispute focused on employee pensions. A Facebook groups called Co-op/FCL Boycott 2019-2021 is still active, for instance. When Banda’s retirement was announced, posts on that group noted “refinery explosions that injured dozens,” and “union-busting battles against hundreds of loyal Co-op workers.”
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Fire wipes out three of five bays in Arcola oilfield shop; but an excavator tearing the building in half saved the rest
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
ARCOLA – Cody Christman was on his way westward on Highway 13 at Kisbey when he got an urgent call to come back his shop he had just left in Arcola.
It was on fire.
The owner of Outlaw Ventures, a boiler outfit that specializes in heating frac water, found his shop in flames when he got there.
By the time all was said and done, threefifths of a building that used to house Noble Well Services, Outlaw Ventures and Titanium Oilfield Services on the north side of Highway 13 was a smoking pile of rubble, being hosed down by volunteer firefighters.
“We’re not sure, yet, where it started. Titanium Energy Services had a bay rented next to me,” Christman said at 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 24. He was sitting in his truck, watching from the yard next door that he used to rent. It was only this past summer he moved over to the building that had just burnt.
Chris Nidesh, area manager for Noble Well Services, said it happened around 11 a.m. He explained, “The main guy from Titanium came into my office and said, ‘Bay 3’s on fire.’
“And we literally walked around this, the north side of the building, and the smoke was starting to come out of Bay 3. And so, by the time I phoned 911, which I was standing right about here (north of the building), the flames started shoot-
ing out Bay 3. And at that point, we had a lot of fire trucks and everything started showing up. And JJ Trucking was a big savior here, because he brought a trackhoe. And we were able to rip the one door down and saw that the fire was in the wall between Bay 2 and Bay 4. And from there, it just it just went up.”
Nidesh continued, “Cody from Outlaw Ventures, he had just left. Like, he was in the bay, by that started on fire, by the wall. Right? And he had just left he didn’t even make it to Kisbey when I phoned him.”
Jeremy Johnson, owner of JJ Trucking, is also a firefighter. He brought in an excavator and proceeded to tear the building roughly in half, saving what they could.
Nidesh said, “Bays 1, 2 and 3 were a total loss. At that point, we decided to cut the building and saved the last two bays. The result did indeed save the western two bays of the five-bay building, including most of Noble’s facilities. (Their wash bay, on the east end, was destroyed).
Arcola assistant fire chief Blake Brownridge was running the excavator, piling rubble, at 4 p.m. he said, “We realized that water wasn’t going to get it out. We needed to get in and get the building separated off to try to save as much of it as we could. Jeremy ran and got a got a hoe and then Flying G brought a a payloader and pulled some service rigs out of Noble’s bays.”
Brownridge noted Classic Vac of Carlyle and Monster Enterprise of Arcola brought water.
“We had Kisbey and Carlyle on the scene with us today, with Arcola,” Brownridge said.
“There were about 25 members between the three,” he said, when asked how many firefighters responded.
There were no injuries, Brownridge said.
“It definitely started in Bay 3, is what we can tell. That’s the one we were having trouble with when we first got here,” he said, adding he couldn’t say what caused the blaze.
There was a rush to get equipment out of the building. A loader was used to drag two of Noble’s service rigs out of the building, as there weren’t drivable at the time. A pile of pressurized tanks could be found west of the building. Three of Titanium’s trucks, with large, pressurized nitrogen tanks on the back, were removed.
“That (Outlaw) truck is a loss but, believe it or not, when they were trying to push it from inside and their mechanic actually smashed the window got in, fired it up and drove it over there. What are the odds of that?” Nidesh said, pointing to the boiler truck that was black from smoke.
But not everything made it out. South of the building, a car was on its side, dragged out and placed beside a smoked-covered pickup. Other destroyed vehicles were visible on the east side of the rubble pile.
By late afternoon a large generator was plumbed in to provide power and heat to the remainder of the building, meant to prevent any remaining pipes from freezing.
Nidesh said they thought it could have been a boiler, but when they ripped the door down, all the boilers were fine. “Everything inside was fine. It was in the
wall, between the two bays that was like glowing, hot flaming,” he said, adding he wasn’t a fire investigator.
“That wall there that you can see, that was my shop,” Christmas said, having just got off the phone with his insurer.
Christman has been working in the area since 2008. “We’ve got 14 boilers, one of the bigger boiler companies down here,” he said, noting they do frac operations, service rigs and production steaming.”
“I’ve got a burnt up boiler there, burnt up trucks up here.”
“I had a boiler truck a couple crew trucks. An operator had his car in there. And then I had my office stuff, all my parts and tools, tires and all that good stuff,” he said.
Most of Christman’s fleet was out in the field.
“If it has happened before four o’clock this morning or after eight o’clock, I wouldn’t have anything left because we park them all inside,” he said. As a result, theyell be able to continue operations. One consultant got a call saying that unit wouldn’t be able to make it. Now he’s looking for a shop to rent, Christman said.
“They split the whole building in half to keep that side from burning. So they went right through my bay and office,” Christman said.
He was good-humored about it, noting there was not much you could do about it.
That was also where he often lays his head at night. Christman farms and ranches at Beechy during the warm months, and spends the winters at Arcola, running boilers.
The company has 15 to 20 people working for it.
Several Noble employees had their vehicles parked in the wash bay on the east end of the building. Nidesh said, “One guy lost a truck another lost a car. Obviously, the building’s a loss.” They’ll be able to continue operations, he said, noting their middle management can work from home.
Whitecap Resources Inc. (WCSK area) is currently seeking Full-time Contract Field Operators. The Operator will monitor and test oil wells as well as operate all associated facilities and assist with operational and engineering strategies to optimize production. The successful candidate will have proven success in the ability to be flexible and adapt to change.
Whitecap’s positive work environment contributes to its success as an energy producer and a steward of the environment with a focus on safe and responsible operations.
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and training but are also willing to train the chosen applicant.
5-15 years of relevant industry experience with strong preference given towards oil operations, specifically oil wells, compressors and batteries
Driver’s license and clean driver’s abstract
H2S ticket
First Aid ticket
A disciplined work ethic
Capable of working in both a team and individual environment
Proven and demonstrated commitment to HSE expectations and requirements, software experience in field data capture (ProdMan), and electronic flow measurement and monitoring systems as well as the ability to coach and mentor others.
This position is available immediately; please email a cover letter and resume to:
Kayla Flanagan – Kayla.Flanagan@wcap.ca
We thank all interested candidates who apply, however only those being considered will be contacted directly for an interview.
An excavator tearing the building in half saved what was left.
| Photos by Brian Zinchuk
Chris Nidesh. | Photo by Brian Zinchuk
Five Seeds Seed Cleaning gears up for the 2022 crop year
For farmers gearing up for the 2022 crop year, Five Seeds Seed Cleaning in Eatonia is available to help. The seed cleaning plant is located south of Eatonia, a half-mile east of Highways 21 and 44.
The owner/operator Matt Stimson said his plant’s first cleaning season was in 2017. “A few of us farmers sat around one day. We noticed a lot of local business around the Eatonia area were headed off in another direction,” Matt explained. “So we thought we’d build a seed plant and get the local business back.” Previously, farmers headed to Eston and Acadia Valley to clean their seed.
“Typically, we usually start as early as we can in the fall. We can do a bit in August or September, which is really nice to do. It picks up in October and November, and December, January and February are quite busy,” Matt said. “Typically, we like to stay up and running as long as we can.”
One of the claims made by this seed plant is “We will try anything,” and they have proven this to be true. “I can clean almost anything,” Matt said. “We typically try to stay on one commodity for as long as we can. Within the commodities, we keep the varieties as separate as possible.
Within a month and a half, we could have up to eight different varieties of durum. We do a big clean between varieties and clean between growers to make sure there’s no contamination between growers.”
The plant is capable of cleaning 350 bushels in an hour; however, pulse crops can be cleaned at a rate of 250 bushels per hour. “For mustard, canary seed and flax, it’s about 100 bushels an hour,” Matt explained. “If there’s a specific weed seed in a grain, it can slow us down a bit, depending on what we’re trying to take out.”
According to Matt, getting the seed cleaned really helps when it is time to put that seed into the ground in the spring. “If you have too much chaff in your
grain, it won’t flow through your seeder very well. We try to make it as pure as we can so it goes through the drill nicely,” Matt concluded.
NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLL TOWN OF EATONIA
Notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the Town of Eatonia for the year 2022 has been prepared and is open to inspection in the office of the assessor from 9:00 a.m. to Noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the following days: Monday to Friday January 28th to March 4th, 2022
A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of The Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.
Any person wishing to discuss the notice of assessment or potential appeal may contact the assessor at the Town of Eatonia, Box 237, Eatonia, SK S0L 0Y0. A notice of appeal, accompanied by an appeal fee of $50.00 per $100,000 assessed value or portion thereof to a maximum of $500.00 per appeal, which will be returned if the appeal is successful, with:
Secretary of the Board of Revision, Saumya Vaidyanathan Western Municipal Consulting Ltd. P.O. Box 149, Meota, SK S0M 1X0 by the 4th day of March, 2022
Dated this 28th day of January, 2022.
Cheryl Bailey, Assessor
FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER R.M. OF NEWCOMBE NO. 260
SW 2-27-24 W3
SE 2-27-24 W3
Closing date for Tenders is 4:00 p.m., February 25, 2022
• Highest tender or any tender not necessarily accepted.
• Offers must exclude GST or any other levies which may be payable by the purchaser.
• Purchasers must rely on their own research and inspection of the property.
• 10% of Purchase price must accompany tender which will be returned if not accepted.
• Offers should clearly state land description and total offer.
• existing bins are included.
Forward Tender to: Sheppard & Miller Barristers & Solicitors
113 - 1st Avenue East, Box 1510, Kindersley, Saskatchewan S0L 1S0 Attention: Monte Sheppard
Please include file 22-6363 when submitting tender.
JOAN JANZEN
Your Southwest Media Group
Left: Matt Stimson. Right: Inside Five Seeds Seed Cleaning Plant at Eatonia.
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JANUARY TRIP OF THE MONTH
Trip: Wilda Hungerford
Cash: Murray Johnston
WINNERS
OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE
Kaje Business Center 1001 Main Street Kindersley, SK
• Furnished • Boardroom
• Kitchen • Parking
• Security with FOB access • Wheelchair accessible Phone 306-463-8607
VILLAGE OF MARENGO PUBLIC NOTICE
Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the Village of Marengo intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 2017-06, known as the Zoning Bylaw.
INTENT
The proposed bylaw amendment will: Provide for the installation of “Mobile Storage Containers” as a permitted use in the Community Services District (CS) including the addition of regulations regarding mobile storage containers under the general regulations.
REASON
The reasons for the amendment are to:
Facilitate the installation and use of mobile storage containers in the Community Services District (CS).
PUBLIC INSPECTION
Any person may inspect the bylaw at the Municipal Office, located at 20-1st Avenue North, in the Village of Marengo, between the following hours and excluding statutory holidays: Monday, Wednesday to Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Tuesday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Copies of the proposed bylaw are available at the Municipal office.
PUBLIC HEARING
Council will hold a public hearing on February 22nd, 2022 at 6:45 p.m. at the Marengo Municipal Office located at 20-1st Avenue North to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing, or delivered to the undersigned at the Municipal office before the hearing.
Issued at the Village of Marengo this 31st day of January, 2022. Robin Busby, Administrator
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RATES (25 words or less). $10.00 plus GST. Additional words are 20¢ each. Deadline is Thursday noon. 306-463-2211
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STANLEY - The family of Mable Elizabeth Stanley (Pembleton) are saddened to announce her peaceful passing on January 23, 2022, at the young age of 104 years, 1 month and 16 days. She passed away at the Kindersley Hospital with beloved family by her side.
The family of (Hedvig) Marie Knorr would like to express their appreciation for your patience, kindness, understanding and caring while she was in Long Term Care at Kerrobert. To Dr Wentzel and Yvonne Veronelly and all staff members, thank you. Thanks for all phone calls, texts and cards. Your help in coping with our loss will never be forgotten.
Mable was a lifelong resident of Kindersley, in her own home until she moved to Caleb Village for the last 9 years. Mable was born in Kindersley on December 7, 1917, to John and Elizabeth Pembleton, the oldest of 13 children. She spent several years of her childhood on a farm in the Cereal area of Alberta before her family moved back to the Kindersley area to farm Southeast of town. Mable’s schooling was taken at Turvin, which was a few miles further Southeast of the farm. The farm became a century farm designation in 2010.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Monday: Kindersley AA Meeting
8:00 PM, Legion Hall
Tuesday: Brock AA Meeting
8:00 PM, Vesper Club
Tuesday: Leader AA Meeting
8:00 PM, Leader United Church
Wednesday: Eston AA Meeting
8:00 PM, St. Andrew’s United Church
Thursday: Kindersley AA Meeting
8:00 PM, 401 - 1st Avenue West
Friday: Kindersley AA Meeting
8:00 PM, St. Olaf’s Lutheran Church
Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesday: Kindersley NA Meeting
7:30 PM, 113 Main Street
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
FOREFRONT INSUR-
ANCE is hiring external brokers and processors/ data entry positions. Broker partnership opportunities for the right candidates. Call / email Michael 403-501-8013 / mhollinda@excelrisk.ca PLEASE RECYCLE
Kindersley Royal Purple
We are looking for energetic, fun-loving volunteers to join us in making a difference in our communities and the Saskatchewan Brain Injury Association. Help raise funds for our cause. This year we donated to the food bank, the women’s shelter and Sask. Brain Injury Assocation.
Come ride the purple wave with us!
Contact Darlene May 306-460-8947
Grader Operator & Utility Person
The RM of Chesterfield No. 261 is accepting applications for a seasonal position for a Grader Operator and a Utility Person. Experience is an asset but not required. The RM offers competitive wages and benefits (health & dental plan, disability insurance, pension plan. The successful candidates will be required to submit a driver’s abstract and a criminal records check.
Please submit a resume, with experience and references to: RM of Chesterfield No. 261
Box 70, Eatonia, SK S0L 0Y0
Fax: (306) 967-2222
Email: rm261@sasktel.net
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applications will be accepted until suitable candidates are received.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Mable’s work life started early, where she was a housekeeper for McLardy’s, moving to the GWG in Edmonton, and coming home to work at Reid’s Grocery Store, as well as the OK Economy which later became Extra Foods. At the time it was a new store at the mall from which she retired a couple years after its opening.
Mable married Murray Richard “Doc” Stanley January 11, 1950. They had 2 children, Aaron Murray (1951), and Cary Lou (1953). When Mable wasn’t working, both her and Doc were involved with the Senior Klippers during winter months and attending ball and catching the odd football game during the summer months.
While Doc was with the Kindersley Fire Department for 43 years, she sometimes had to wait for meals and even soloing her daughters wedding reception when a call came in.
The family had organized a group attendance at the New Mosaic Stadium to attend a Rider game for her 100th birthday. She was still listening to local games on
radio and never missed the CFL games, or hockey games on TV, as well as enjoyed watching curling.
She was a member of the Royal Purple, and United Church, she enjoyed crochet work with Caleb Village and bowled for several years. She spent a lot of her time in her garden and always made sure she would have some vegetables to share with others. Her Saskatoon pie was to die for as well as her family meals.
Mable is survived by her remaining sister Glenna Marchant (Nunweiler), son Aaron (Ann) Stanley, Grandsons; Doug (Patty) Allin, Darcy (Michelle) Allin, and Devin (Sarah) Allin. Her great-grandchildren; Emily, Brody, Bricen, Kaylee, Austin, Cole, and Wade. As well as many nieces and nephews.
Mable was predeceased by her parents, her husband Doc in (1980), son-in-law Glen Allin (2010), and daughter Cary Lou (2012), as well as her many siblings (from infancy to adulthood), and many in-laws, and several nieces and nephews.
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A smart, infinitely-sexy little crime caper, this one has been in my lexicon of repeat viewing films for years.
An adaptation of the novel by the late Elmore Leonard – known for writing Get Shorty, Rum Punch (which became the film Jackie Brown) and TV show Justified – the film is equal parts classy and a dramatic carousel.
It follows a bank robber who breaks out of jail and begins a romantic tryst with the U.S. Marshal he’s holding captive.
The Screenplay and Film Editing were nominated for Oscars here, and the cast is just perfect.
George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez have amazing chemistry, and they’re joined by Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn and Don Cheadle.
Steven Soderbergh makes one of his best movies ever, and it’s a crime movie with some indie stylings. It’s a full-on thrill-ride.
Leave No Trace
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An absolutely incredible acting showcase, this wilderness-set drama will leave you breathless.
It follows a stubborn father, convinced he knows best for his family, who lives in the woods with his 13-year-old daughter.
But when an issue alerts authorities to their unique living situation, the police in Portland, Oregon take action.
Based on Peter Rock’s novel, Anne Rosellini and Debra Granik – also the director – adapt this one into a touching feature.
The two main performances from Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are simply incredible, and it’s special to see Foster in a more muted role.
Leave No Trace focuses on questions of peaceful living and being off-the-grid, and the morality of exposing a young child to that existence. It’s a thought experiment for sure.
A Hero
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From celebrated filmmaker Asghar Farhadi comes this stinging portrait about honour.
The foreign language film follows young man Rahim, who tries to make good with his creditor while on a two-day leave from prison.
Incarcerated for his massive debt, Rahim comes into possession of a purse left at a bus-stop, and it’s filled with gold coins. Though circum-
stances are vague, the media, town and prison officials become aware that despite his fortunes, he returned the purse and gold.
His story becomes a media sensation – but things aren’t all that they appear to be.
This morality tale is absolutely stunning, and the entire thing is anchored by a fantastic performance from Amir Jadidi.
It’s a difficult, hugely interesting film that’s truly engrossing in how it all unravels before the audience. It’s also one of the best films of 2021.
Snowpiercer
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Based on the show-stopping film of the same name, season three of Snowpiercer returns this week.
It follows the earth – now a barren wasteland – and the remaining population who inhabit a train that circles the globe.
Inside are class wars, with the rich inhabiting the front of the train and poor stowaways squatting in the rear. But they plan an insurrection against the brutal leader.
The cast of this show is truly fantastic, and includes Daveed Diggs – of Hamilton fame – as well as Jennifer Connolly, Mike O’Malley, Sean Bean, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright and more.
It’s an addictive thriller that will have you craving more, and I’ve definitely fallen for its many various charms.
Eye In The Sky
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An intense political thriller, Eye In The Sky is an incredibly riveting piece of cinema.
It follows a military officer – Col. Katherine Powell – who suffers a crisis of conscience during her latest mission.
As she tries to capture terrorists in Kenya, she spots a young girl inside the kill zone and struggles with what to do.
Caught between carrying out an executive order and her heart’s need to keep this girl safe, Powell undergoes a hard process.
Director Gavin Hood creates a tense, taut thriller made better by turns from Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, the late Alan Rickman and Captain Phillips standout Barkhad Abdi.
It’s an underrated gem that you just have to see, and a great swan-song for the wonderful Rickman.
* On Feb. 1, 1884, the first portion of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is published. Originally begun in 1857, it was estimated the project would take 10 years to finish. In fact, it took over 40 years. The OED covers all vocabulary from the Anglo-Saxon period (1150 A.D.) to the present.
• On Jan. 26, 1788, Capt. Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. The date eventually became commemorated as Australia Day.
* On Feb. 2, 1913, New York City’s Grand Central Terminal opens for the first time. The terminal, with a towering white marble facade, took 10 years to construct and more than $4 billion in today’s money. It needed a $100 million restoration starting in 1980.
• On Jan. 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered. Weighing 1.33 pounds and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found.
* On Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices. The Senate struck down the bill by a vote of 70 to 22.
• On Jan. 24, 1935, canned beer makes its debut. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of beer to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Some 91% of the drinkers approved of the canned beer.
* On Feb. 3, 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when their plane crashes in Iowa. Singer Don McLean memorialized the musicians in the 1972 hit “American Pie,” which refers to “the day the music died.”
• On Jan. 30, 1943, the British Royal Air Force begins a bombing campaign in Berlin that coincides with the 10th anniversary of Hitler’s accession to power. Two days later, a massive surrender of German troops occurred at Stalingrad.
* On Feb. 6, 1985, in his State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan defines some of the key concepts of his foreign policy of supporting freedom fighters around the globe. These included covertly supporting the Contras in their attacks on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
* On Jan. 31, 1990, the Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s fast-food restaurant opens in Moscow. Throngs of people lined up to pay the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes and french fries.
• On Jan. 27, 1967, a fire on the launch pad during Apollo 1 program tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, kills astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee. An investigation implicated a faulty electrical wire inside the command module as the probable cause.
* On Feb. 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. The previous year, he had created FaceMash, a website where students could vote on which of two randomly selected Harvard women was more attractive, quickly running afoul of both the administration and several women’s groups.
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• On Jan. 29, 1979, Brenda Spencer, 16, kills two men and wounds nine children as they enter an elementary school in San Diego, blasting away with a rifle from her home across the street. Despite drug abuse and anger issues, her father had given her a .22 rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition as a Christmas gift.
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• On Jan. 28, 1985, dozens of pop stars gather to lay down tracks for “We Are the World,” under the direction of Quincy Jones. The song would go on to sell more than 7 million copies and raise more than $60 million for African famine relief. Participants were told: “Check your egos at the door.”
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You’re eager to take on that new opportunity opening up as January gives way to February. Now all you need to do is resist quitting too early. Do your best to stay with it.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Doff a bit of that careful, conservative outlook and let your brave Bovine self take a chance on meeting that new challenge. You could be surprised at how well you do.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might not want to return to the more serious tasks facing you. But you know it’s what you must do. Cheer up. Something more pleasant will soon occupy your time.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) As you dutifully tidy your end-of-the-month tasks, your fun self emerges to urge you to do something special: A trip (or a cruise, maybe?) could be just what you need.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your achievements are admirable as you close out the month with a roar. Now you can treat yourself to some well-earned time off for fun with family or friends. (Or both!)
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Be sure you know the facts before you assume someone is holding back on your project. Try to open your mind before you give someone a piece of it.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You might feel comfortable in your familiar surroundings, but it might be time to venture into something new. There’s a challenge out there that’s just right for you.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your love of things that are new gets a big boost as you encounter a
situation that opens up new and exciting vistas. How far you go with it depends on you.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) That recent workplace shift might not seem to be paying off as you expected. But be patient. There are changes coming that could make a big difference.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) While few can match the Goat’s fiscal wizardry, you still need to be wary in your dealings. There might be a problem you should know about sooner rather than later.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Easy does it when it comes to love and all the other good things in life. Don’t try to force them to develop on your schedule. Best to let it happen naturally.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A surprise decision by someone you trust causes some stormy moments. But a frank discussion explains everything, and helps save a cherished relationship.
Trivia Test Answerst
1. Rice; 2. Complete loss of voice; 3. A snail; 4. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5.
Restricted; 6. 5 years old; 7. James Earl Jones; 8. Ganymede; 9. Reagan; 10. Vermont
