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Where Are You?Shaggy and Scooby-Doo sing the Scooby-Doo theme song with the audience while Daphne, Velma and Fred sing along from inside the

Mystery Machine during the Scooby-Doo show at Spectra Place on Saturday.

Six members of the Estevan and Weyburn Time to Twin commit-tee will be making their way to Regina on May 14 to meet once again with Highways and In-frastructure Minister Don McMorris.

The group said they intend to keep the pres-sure on the politicians as they pursue a project that will ultimately lead to the twinning of Highways 39 and 6 (south of Regina).

Among those six peo-ple will be Souris-Moose Mountain MP Ed Kom-arnicki who has shuffled

some appointments on his calendar to enable him to join the group for the Regina visit.

Marge Young, co-chairwoman of the Time to Twin committee, said it also might be a good time to plan for a public meeting, which would al-low the local population to share information and insight into a proposal that could be taken to the provincial government for consideration.

Young said Estevan Mayor Roy Ludwig played a role in arranging the up-coming meeting with Mc-

Morris and added that the committee will be taking fresh statistics and ideas to share with the highways minister.

While it is expect-ed that Komarnicki will be along merely as anobserver and listener, his monitoring of the meeting might help the local group kick-start a plea for some federal assistance since the highway is an inte-gral international trading route that accommodates thousands of cross-border heavy hauler trucks every month.

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After a tough winter that left a number of roads in rough shape, as well as a number of other projects on the go, the City of Estevan has a busy spring and summer construction season ahead of them.

In an interview Monday, city manager Jim Puffalt said repairing Highway 47 through Estevan, as well as other trouble spots, remains their top priority. As The Mercury reported previously, the City and province had reached a verbal agreement to split the costs of repaving the north leg of Highway 47 as well as Sixth Street from 13th Avenue to Souris Avenue.

Puffalt said the City was expecting to hear from the provincial Ministry of Highways on

Monday about what exactly will be covered in the agreement. He added that once the agree-ment is complete, they will enter the tendering process and he expects construction should begin in roughly six weeks.

“We are going quickly on this trying to fi gure out what is eligible and what is not and what is the best use of money,” Puffalt said. “Nobody wants to do a patch job that is only going to get us through a year. We are looking at all the aspects such as drainage, we want to make sure there is enough elevation to get the water moving. There are a number of issues to look at.”

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⇠ A1 “We have also been invited to attend the June 25 meeting of the

Southeast Area Transporta-tion Committee in Carlyle,” said Young. “I don’t know

if they will expect us to make a presentation, or whether we’re just being asked to listen and learn a little more. I do know that when the provincial gov-ernment looks at potential projects, they seek advice from the area transportation committees, so this could be a positive step.”

In the meantime, the committee will continue with their letter writing campaigns and urge the public to let their local MLAs and McMorris know of the conditions they face on a daily basis on this par-ticular stretch of highway.

Young said the gov-ernment is establishing a new Saskatchewan Traffi c Safety Committee that will be chaired by MLA Darryl Hickie, and the Time to Twin committee has fi led a request to meet with them at their May 28 meeting.

“We were promised that we’d hear back from them no later than May 10 as to whether we’d be in-vited to attend or not.”

Young said that a public meeting in Estevan might be a feasible idea to pursue after their meeting with McMorris, if they can arrange a venue without incurring a major expense in the process.

⇠ A1 Puffalt said the City and province are looking at repairing areas of the road base to ensure the pavement stands up for up to 10 years.

In the meantime, he added that crews will be out doing everything they can within reason to keep Highway 47 somewhat drive-able until the full project can begin.

“We want to get the holes fi lled in so people have a driving surface. It won’t be smooth, but it won’t be as bad as it was ear-lier in the spring. Knowing that it’s going to get (repaved) we don’t want to spend a ton

of money on it, but we at least have to give people something to drive on.”

Aside from the Highway 47 work, Puf-falt said they would also be looking to repair trouble spots on King Street. He added that City crews were also out last week with hot asphalt and will be busy on pothole patrol for the next few weeks.

Another focus for the City will be catch-ing up on projects that are either incomplete or were delayed over the past couple of years.

Most notably is the Estevan Leisure Centre parking lot. A portion of the work was

completed last year and Puffalt said crews will be looking to fi nish the job as soon as possible.

“Once the frost is out of the ground, we’ll get the fi rst lift (of asphalt) down and I suspect it will go fairly quickly. It all depends when weather conditions allow us to go,” he said.

Other jobs on the schedule are an asphalt overlay on Duncan Road, Souris Avenue and Alexandria Avenue. There are also plans to do water and sewer mains on two more blocks of Sixth Street with an eye towards repaving the gravel portion of the road in 2014.

They will also be rebuilding Kensington Avenue from King Street to the Bienfait grid road, repaving some of the runways at the

City airport and also repaving Woodlawn Avenue south.

Puffalt said those last three jobs will also be funded by the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program as each area suffered damage during the flooding of 2011. He added that the Kensington Avenue project will be a particularly big job as the road needs to be rebuilt and part of the hill adjacent to the Estevan Comprehensive School will have to be removed to improve sightlines in the area.

“Council has decided to fi nish off all the outstanding projects we have so that is what we are going to do. Highway 47 being thrown in; it just had to be done. That road wasn’t going to last anymore.”

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Four Estevan women who have each endeavoured to make our community a better place to live were honoured for their work last week.

The annual SaskPower/Quota In-ternational of Estevan Women of Today awards were presented during a luncheon held at the Wylie-Mitchell Hall. The event also featured an inspirational speech from Regina-based motivational speaker Darci Lang.

Winning the four coveted awards this year were Shannon Leibel, Judy Istace, Taylor Roy and Valerie Paulson.

Leibel captured the SaskPower Out-standing Contribution to the Workplace Award. Employed at Sun Country Well Ser-vicing, Leibel was described as a woman with commitment and perseverance, and was hailed for professionalism she brings to the job and willingness to take on tasks outside of her job description.

Leibel said she was up against some tough competition for the award in Susan Mack and Sue Resler and was honoured to know she has made a positive impact in the workplace.

The Ida Petterson Memorial Award for Outstanding Entrepreneur was presented to Istace. Like the award’s namesake, Istace has enjoyed a great deal of success in the busi-ness community as the co-owner of a handful of businesses including XS-iV.

In her nomination, Istace was called a passionate woman who never shies away from a challenge. She was also recognized for being a teacher and mentor to her employees, inspiring them to chase their dreams.

Asked about the key to her success, Istace was quick to point out that none of that would have been possible without the support of her family, staff and friends.

“We call it a family, we don’t just have staff, we have a family and it just makes my life easier,” said Istace.

A native of Lampman, Taylor’s impressive list of volunteer efforts helped her win the Shirley Orsted Memorial Award for Young Women of Today.

Named in honour of the former local educator, businesswoman and community leader, the award is presented annually to a young woman who has made signifi cant contributions to the community.

That certainly appears to apply to Taylor who has not only made contribu-tions locally but also on a global level. She is involved in a number of school activities including the Students Against Drunk Driv-ing chapter.

She has also taken a great interest in humanitarian efforts, getting involved with Free the Children and travelling to the Do-minican Republic.

“I went with some of my friends and we built a few houses and worked in a gar-bage dump and it was a real eye-opener,” Taylor said. “I’m going to interning for a year in Hamilton. I’m going to be Mexico for fi ve months and then touring all across Canada and teaching people about poverty and injustice and helping them if they have issues at home.”

The fi nal award presented at the luncheon was the SaskTel Outstanding Contribution to the Community Award. It went to Paulson, a woman who has given up much of her free time volunteering for a number of groups, most notably minor football, where she has been one of the lead organizers.

Paulson said Estevan and area is a volunteer-driven community and she is honoured to be recognized for her work.

“Being raised in a family that was a volunteer family whether it be in hockey or baseball just carried over into the way I am, and honestly, the community we live in, it’s the way we survive,” she said.

The luncheon also featured a special presentation as awards were presented to two charter members of the local Quota club — Evelyn Johnson and Susie Ross.

The event included a positive message from Lang, who encouraged those in atten-dance to focus on the positive aspects of their lives in her presentation Focus on the 90 Per Cent.

The City of Estevan has turned to a man with deep roots in the community to guide its leisure services division.

Nathan Jesse had been serving as the interim direc-tor since January but was named to the position on a permanent basis recently. The offi cial announcement was made at the April 22 reg-ular meeting of city council.

“I’m excited to make it offi cial and have my in-fl uence on things and look forward to working with the staff and other managers and council as well,” said Jesse, who added that being from Estevan gives the position special meaning.

“I grew up here and used these facilities as a youth. I know the history behind them and I have a great idea of what I want to see in the future.”

Elaborating on those plans, Jesse said he would like to see the events at Spec-tra Place continue. He noted the facility has been on a positive roll, booking such artists as Mötley Crüe and

The Tragically Hip. Satur-day’s Scooby-Doo perfor-mance was also a big hit with local youth.

“I think it’s a pretty good service to the community and the surrounding area. I think they are enjoying our events and especially when we get some bigger, higher profi le names like Mötley Crüe and The Tragically Hip,” he said. “We also want to continue providing quality services, programs and recreational opportunities for the com-munity as well.”

On the facilities side, Jesse said the future of the Civic Auditorium is on his radar. Built in 1957, the auditorium is nearing the end of its lifespan so developing plans for a third ice surface will be critical. He would also like to see the pathway program continue with an eye towards making Estevan more accommodat-ing to pedestrians.

Overall, Jesse is happy with the state of the leisure services division and local facilities. He noted Spectra

Placed has presented them with a huge learning curve but feels they have done a good job of adjusting and adapting.

“I don’t think any of us realized w h a t w a s coming when we opened the doors. We’ve re-ally evolved in the last two years

and our management team and our staff have done really well to get over those hurdles and I think we are running a little bit more smoothly now,” he said.

“Some of our aging in-frastructure is always a

challenge. With the fl at roof on the leisure centre, right now we are experienc-ing roof dam-age and leak-ing which is

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need some upkeep to them as well.”

Another challenge Jesse will deal with as he moves forward in the position is maintaining a good cost

recovery level on all lo-cal facilities. Council has also made it public that they would like to see the cost recovery level improved, which creates a delicate bal-ancing act for Jesse, who must walk a fi ne line between being fi nancially responsible and keeping rates affordable for residents and user groups such as minor hockey.

“We want to have com-parable rates to cities such as Yorkton, Swift Current and North Battleford. We want to have similar cost

recovery structures as what they would have,” he said. “Over the next year or two I will be looking at that and reconstructing it to get it at a manageable level. It’s great to pro-vide these facilities to customers, but we have to make sure that we are not running them at

a loss because they obvi-ously are expensive.”

Finding the right cost recovery balance has forced the City to make some tough decisions such as no longer allowing groups free use of

facilities for their events. Jesse said the decision isn’t always popular, but he feels it was necessary.

“It is a delicate situation. We want to keep user groups and the community using our facilities as much as possible and we don’t want to gouge them for it, but we can’t run at a loss either.”

Jesse added another challenge in the future will be the recruitment and reten-tion of employees.

“We can provide ser-vices, but we need the staff to carry through with those services. We have these fa-cilities but we need staff to clean them and maintain them. There are times where we take a lot of heat (for doing things a certain way) but some of the stuff we do is because we are either short-staffed or staff is not fully trained or an expert in the situation and we are just doing the best with what we got.”

Prior to taking over as the interim manager, Jesse had been serving as the pro-gram director for leisure

Quota International of Estevan hosted its annual Women of Today awards on

April 24 honouring a number of women from the Estevan community. From left

are Taylor Roy, Shannon Leibel, Valerie Paulson and Judy Istace.

Local women honoured for contributions

Jesse moves from interim to full-time director

Nathan Jesse

“We call it a family, we don’t just have

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my life easier.” – Judy Istace

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The total came to 14 medals from one school, including four gold medallists who have earned the right to advance to a national fi nal in Vancouver in early June.

That’s what the technical and vocational students from the Estevan Comprehensive School accomplished on the weekend in Saskatoon during the provincial Skills Canada competition.

A total of 28 ECS students who have excelled in 15 different technical and vocational classes at the Comp were engaged in the intensive competitions with half of them emerging with some hardware to prove the ECS career-building programs are moving forward in success-ful fashion.

The students who will now undergo more intensive training in preparation for Vancouver will be Riley Walle-wein, who captured the gold medal in architectural tech-nology and design, fi nishing just ahead of his teammate, Shilynne Ward who grabbed the silver; Emily Vollmin, who took fi rst in mechanical CADD; Michaela Pho in esthet-ics, just ahead of Chrissy Wanner; and Rebecca Blackburn in hairstyling; a few marks in front of Kiana Stepp who claimed the silver.

The other medallists included Tanner Littlejohn, bronze in autobody repair; Hunter Hildebrand, silver in high school hairstyling, junior division; Regan MacMurchy, bronze in

mechanical CADD; Dana Wilbraham, silver in photogra-phy; Mike Fisher, bronze in outdoor power and recreation equipment; and Curtis McGillivray and Tate Wrubleski who teamed up for a bronze in television video production.

Tiana Whitman, who excelled in the hairstyling com-petition last year, capturing the gold, was declared ineligible to compete in the same category this year, so she simply fuelled her competitive spirits and entered the competition in the category of electrical installations and scooped up a silver medal in the process.

“How’s that for versatility and multi-tasking?” said hairstyling and esthetics teacher Joyce Mack who groomed Tiana for last year’s competition that took her to medal status at the national level.

“We’re thrilled with the results this year and the school is proud of the success these students have brought to them-selves and our community,” said TV production educator Brian Wright. “Whether they’re medallists or not, they all represented us with class. They were great representatives for the school and our city in Saskatoon.”

The competition at the provincial level is a one-day event. There were 370 competitors in the secondary and post-secondary competitions. In Vancouver, it’s a two-day event with a high complexity level and shortened time al-locations, which increases the intensity level all around.

“We’ll just work a little more with them, get them ready for the next level,” said Mack. “At the nationals, it’ll be a very heavy two-day test. There is no time off, so they’ll

have to be ready.” The two veteran instructors said they are very pleased

to see the ECS technical and vocational curriculums ex-panding and the positive infl uence they have within the school continues to grow. They said new staff members are defi nitely buying into the programs and that has enabled the students to enter into an ever-expanding selection of Skills Canada categories.

There will be a few thousand competitors in Vancou-ver, but the four ECS students don’t intend to be fi sh out of water at all.

“They are motivated kids, their teachers are motivated too. They’re seeing how it works here and they are teaching to that level,” said Wright.

The ECS educators who were involved in this year’s Skills Canada program along with Mack and Wright were Tara Johns, Robert Toews, Troy Ruzicka, Ardelle Pearson, Charles Lang, Curtis Hack and Mark Kroeker.

“We were able to take most of our own equipment to the provincial competition, but in Vancouver we’ll have to work with what is provided. We really appreciate the fact the South East Cornerstone Public School Board gives us this support by allowing us to upgrade equipment when necessary and with transportation support when we need it,” Wright said.

The two-day competition in Vancouver will begin with introductions and competition rules June 5 and will wrap up by June 8 with fi nal assessments and medal presentations.

Fourteen medals for ECS at Skills Canada

Students from ECS who returned from the provincial Skills Canada competitions with medals were, back row, from the left: Tanner Littlejohn, Riley Wallewein, Regan

MacMurchy and Curtis McGillivray. Second row: Chrissy Wanner, Shilynne Ward, Kiana Stepp, Emily Schrader and Tate Wrubleski. Front row: Becky Blackburn, Dana

Wilbraham, Hunter Hildebrand, Michaela Pho and Tiana Whitman. Missing from the photo is Mike Fisher.

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At face value it looks alarming, but a recent decision by council to increase the City’s line of credit to $15 million will make sense in the long run, says Mayor Roy Ludwig.

At the April 22 regular meeting of council, a motion was passed to hike the line of credit to $15 million from $12 million. Ludwig said the decision was part of a change in the way the City operates fi nancially and will allow them to reduce the line of credit by a signifi cant margin.

He added the audit was not because of any particular incident. However, with a newly elected council and the announcement that treasurer Tim Leson was retiring, council decided to have an audit conducted by the local MNP offi ce.

As a result of the audit, Ludwig said MNP suggested that “instead of running everything through one gen-eral account and increasing our (line of credit), we should package some of this long term debt. We are looking at roughly $10.2 million that we will be putting into a 10-year term to pay back and at that time we can lower the (line of credit) that we have taken from $12 million to $15 million probably to $6 million or so.”

Ludwig noted the audit and further ongoing work by MNP has led to a num-ber of suggestions that they will also be implementing with an end goal of cre-ating a more effi cient and transparent operation. One such area he mentioned was their human resources division.

“We are just in the discussion stages with human resources about how we can fi nd more effi ciencies in that area — have we got enough people in certain departments? We are looking at effi ciencies across the board as well.”

Ludwig said they have implemented MNP’s sug-gestion of instituting a whistle-blower policy that would cover any staff members or contractors doing business with the City.

“It gives the opportunity for anyone who sees some-thing that is questionable or that they are not happy with, they can phone a number and MNP will investigate, and

if it’s founded, then they will follow it through,” said Ludwig. “Again, it’s just an effi ciency thing that makes everyone accountable. It’s something that MNP brought forward and we embraced it.”

Ludwig said Spectra Place was also a focus of the audit as council has been seeking more detailed informa-tion on the facility’s operations and how revenue gener-ated from events was being accounted for.

“It’s a new building for us and there’s alot of new things that we didn’t have before so we want to make sure

that we have all the necessary checks and balances effi ciencies in place, so this has been focusing on Spectra Place more than the other areas,” he said.

“At the point of sale, our cash registers will tell us exactly what we are selling at the counters. We are looking at reviewing our liquor sales at events; how do we more positively track all of those sales so at the end of the night we can say we’ve had this many draft beer sales, this many hard liquor sales, we’ve sold this much on the concession side.

“We just want to do a better job of tracking and I know some of our resi-dents have come forward with concerns on things that they thought were maybe an issue and maybe seeing some things that they were a little uncomfortable with. We are just looking at how can we do the very best that we can do and put systems in place so we can say with more certainty ‘this is what we made at this event.’”

Ludwig said other suggestions from MNP revolved around the count-ing of money at events and ensuring that whomever deposits the money after events is accompanied by the police. He said there were also fur-ther suggestions about how money is handled at City Hall.

“They are just extra precautions that we probably should have been doing but maybe we got lackadaisical over the years. We are always going to get fi nger pointing as a public institu-tion and that is part of what happens being a public institution. People have

every right to question what we do and we embrace that.”

Ludwig said all suggestions will be implemented in the coming months and the public will be made aware of any changes as they take place.

An Edmonton-based man was arrested by members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) on Monday night and subsequently charged with traffi cking in cocaine and possession of property obtained by crime.

EPS issued a release Tuesday morning stating they had originally arrested the 27-year-old subject for violat-ing conditions of his parole. The man had attracted their attention earlier in the day and through further investiga-tion, police were able to identify him as a person who was in contradiction of the terms of his parole so they paid him a visit at about 8 p.m.

Police then searched the man’s hotel room close to midnight under the conditions of a search warrant and they seized some cocaine and Canadian currency.

The investigation into the man’s activities is con-tinuing, but EPS members indicated he will be facing the additional charges related to his Estevan activities as well as the charges related to the breaches of his parole conditions.

Edmonton man faces traffi cking charges

Audit results in changes for City operations

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Volume 110 Issue 1

Norm Park

All Things Considered

You don’t get to be the most popular premier in the country by being shy of the spotlight. And Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is hardly shy ... although that certainly doesn’t make him unique among politicians.

Consider last week where Wall could be seen just about everywhere from the Juno Awards in Regina to the press conference to announce Sir Paul McCartney’s August rock concert at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium to the legislature’s question period and many press conferences in between.

Of course, this isn’t always a bad thing ... or even something a reporter should necessarily be complain-ing about. There are, after all, plenty of reporters in this country who don’t have quite the same accessibility to their premier.

However, there are also times when a premier needs

to step aside and let others tell a Saskatchewan story.One such story is the success of Saskatchewan

exports that grew to $32.6-billion in 2012, putting this province ahead of British Columbia for the fi rst time.

To his own credit, Wall acknowledged others for Saskatchewan’s export success ... and rightfully so. It really, has had precious little to do the politics.

Wall aptly described Saskatchewan as being “blessed with what the world wants” and pointed to the 2012 export numbers: $11 billion from oil, natural gas and coal, $11.2 billion from grains, oilseeds, livestock and other meats, $6 billion; potash, $1 billion; manufacturing, lumber and wood products, and $600 million from uranium.

But there’s more to this story than just numbers. It’s many, many stories about people, perseverance, adjust-ment and change.

It’s stories of ranchers who survived the BSE boycott, pork producers who endured the ups and downs of the industry and farmers who changed from growing wheat to growing lentils or canola because of increasing market demand in Southeast Asia.

It’s stories that start in rural Saskatchewan with pro-ducers and business entrepreneurs. They are not always happy stories, given that not every farmer or entrepreneur made the adjustment.

However, those who did manage to hang in there during the tougher times are reaping the rewards now.

Wisely, Wall invited one rural entrepreneur to his export news event to tell his story - Brian Olson, president of PowerPin Inc. of Fort Qu’Appelle.

With 95 per cent of Powerpin hitches fi nding their

way to markets outside of Canada, the one-time Tomp-kins area farmer’s systems that makes various implement brands compatible is truly an international export story.

But Olson’s story is also one of perseverance that allowed him to survive the tough economic times so that he can prosper now.

A great storyteller, himself, the local businessman has a ton of tales about a Saskatchewan farm boy taking his imperfect prototype to farm trade shows and imple-ment manufacturing conferences across North America.

“Was I ever stupid!” Olson joked in a recent inter-view. “I didn’t have a clue about manufacturing costs or mark-ups or anything ... my fi rst trip to John Deere (in Waterloo, Iowa), I thought I’d go down there and get a cheque.”

Eventually, Olson did develop a cost-effective proto-type that he would sell to John Deere - one in which about $500 of hoses and hydraulic rigging could be replaced by a non-hydraulic hitching system with a $2 trigger.

“We never always had the right product, but we al-ways tried to do the right thing,” Olson said, adding that the key was learning and never thinking that you were the smartest person in the world.

For the rural Saskatchewan entrepreneur, it was a decade-long lesson in humility and listening - and it wasn’t always enjoyable.

But he patiently persevered, producing a commer-cially viable product by 1997.

His is but one of Saskatchewan’s many export success stories - stories that should be told by the rural people who wrote them.

How weird was my week-end?

Well, let me tell ya. Once again I managed to

excel at procrastination. I do it well. Just don’t tell the bride. The chances are though that after 36 years of married bliss, she’s probably fi gured that out as one of my weaknesses, but you never know, she might still be oblivi-ous to the fact I have a knack for ducking.

So allow me to relate my foray into the fairy-tale land of “doing something positive.”

Saturday dawned bright, clear and mild, so I had to for-get about the “it’s too cold to do anything” excuse I’ve been using for the past 183 days to avoid exertion. I certainly did my share of snow shovelling by hand this winter, so it’s not as if I’ve been shirking all duties. But by the time November rolled in, I ruled out even a feeble attempt at keeping a trail blazed through the backyard.

I checked the backyard on Saturday, the fi rst time in three months. I spotted my barbecue and picnic table, so I knew I was on the right track. I also found the old scoop snow shovel I had so purposely placed near the back door, and used it for the sec-ond time since October to shovel eight loads of heavy, dirty snow from the shaded areas out into the

sunny side. One job done. I viewed the broken slats

on my front fence. Can’t replace them now. Too wet and besides I have no fence mending skills.

There was a section of the front yard that was free of snow and begged to be raked with a whole pile of winter debris left over by the trees, squirrels and birds of winter. The only problem was the fact that I had left the rake out in the backyard against the wall of the house last Octo-ber, next to a garbage bag half fi lled with autumn debris. I was meaning to return to the raking job, but my neighbour’s call to join him and the Bacardi family for a fall festival on his porch meant I abandoned the rake in an akimbo position. Then it snowed for the next 84 days and the rake got buried and forgotten, until last Saturday. I looked out the dining room window and spotted the top of the rake and decided to fetch it so I could rake the front yard. Trouble is, the bottom end of the rake was still frozen in ice and half buried in snow. To move it would be to break it.

So forget that idea.

Good time to clean the win-ter leftovers from the shed. Oops, shed doors still frozen shut. Back boulevard still too muddy. Old rusty Jeep won’t start after sit-ting too long in neglected state, so couldn’t take it out for a good wash. Newer Jeep got washed last week and was back to nasty mess in less than two hours, so why bother!

But the sun was out, I had to do something outside! Garden hose was in the shed that couldn’t be opened.

Oh well, I had a book inside that needed to be fi nished. I could open the blinds real wide, sit in the sun and read. At least I’d be developing my creative side, wouldn’t I? Even if it were at the expense of my physical side. Pas-sive or physical, work at offi ce. I had to choose.

Then of course along came Sunday and it was just too windy to do anything productive even though the ice cube rake may have thawed a bit ... I wasn’t about to check it out. You can’t rake when wind exceeds 40 km/h, we all know that!

There will always be a next weekend. Maybe the snowdrifts will be all gone. If so, I’ll dream up some other excuse.

Hey, I’m not proud of this confession, ya know, but I do believe in complete transparency with this column.

While educators, educational administrators and politicians continue their discussions and debates surrounding the somewhat controversial standardized testing regime that is being introduced in this province, you just have to love what is going on at ECS. This is where they probably don’t really care to even enter the debate because they know that what they have going trumps any standardized political template.

This is a school that has shown its versatility and high degree of excellence over the years with a huge mandate to provide not only a stringent academic curriculum but also strong and demanding technical and vocational full credit programs. None of these classes are for the faint-of-heart students or their instructors.

Quality in, quality out. There have been stumbles along the way for sure. What family hasn’t

had their share of problem children, malcontent adults, grumpy bosses and wayward ideas? You have to expect that on a campus that caters to a student population that exceeds most good sized Saskatchewan towns. Unlike most towns, this community doesn’t have a mayor and council ... it’s not a democracy after all, but it is effi ciently functional on most days and that alone is something our overall community should be thankful for and be celebrating every single day. An educational institution that offers up as much versatility as ECS does, could just as easily become a chaotic mess. But it never has.

Just last weekend, technical and vocational students returned from provincial competition in such diverse scholastic pursuits as architecture design, baking, cabinetmaking, esthetics, hairstyling, photography and video production, bearing no fewer than 14 medals including four gold. They were up against some of the best secondary and post-secondary students in the province and they more than held their own. ECS students have been doing this ever since the Skills Canada test sites burst on the scene.

This proves that our local students are not only being prepped to dispense knowledge in calculus and Shakespeare, but also in dovetailing cabinet corners and diagnosing problems with a transmission.

Many of the students easily transfer from one sector to the other in seamless fashion, knowing that the more they can absorb at this level, the better prepared they’ll be for future employment no matter what career path they ultimately choose. In other words, they are smart enough to open up as many options as they can handle in an academic world, know-ing they have dedicated educators available to feed them that knowledge and those skills.

So we say congratulations to these young adults at ECS who take on music, drama, art, as well as commercial cooking, precision machining along with their classic academic subjects in English, social studies and mathematics. We say thank you and congratulations to their teachers who often go the extra kilometre just because they care a lot about these young charges. We add a well done to the administrative boards and committees that have the vision to support this big process. They realize they are supporting the future.

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After a series of thefts and break and enters, a local man is staying at a treatment centre in British Columbia.

In Estevan provincial court on Monday, it was noted Chris McGillicky was undergoing treatment following guilty pleas to fraud, theft, break and en-ter, and forgery. His Legal Aid lawyer said he and the Crown had considered dealing with the matter in Regina drug court, but that is pending the results of McGillicky’s current treatment.

The matter was ad-journed to May 27 in Es-tevan, when sentencing may occur.

In other court pro-ceedings, a preliminary inquiry was scheduled for Gerald Kanigan, who has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault, sexual

interference, drug traf-fi cking and possessing the proceeds of crime.

T h e h e a r i n g w a s scheduled for May 13. Kanigan is currently in custody in Brandon for unrelated charges.

A trial was also sched-uled for Bryan Ross, who

pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily harm.

The court was once again busy with individu-als charged with impaired driving as 19 people an-swered to the charge dur-ing Monday’s proceed-ings.

It’s probably not a wise idea to attract attention to yourself after you’ve been drinking alcohol and driving a vehicle. But that’s exactly what one 19-year-old Estevan man did on April 23 and that landed him in the police station providing breathalyzer samples that proved posi-tive enough to warrant charges of impaired driving and driving while blood-alcohol content is over .08 per cent.

Estevan Police Service members said the man at-tracted attention to himself by playing loud music and yelling while behind the wheel of the vehicle. These ac-tions led to some action by police, who then proceeded to ascertain that he might be impaired, which led to the tests and subsequent charges.

The man now has a May 27 court date. Another man brought attention to himself earlier

that same evening when he was reported to have verbally abused staff at a local fast food restaurant. The man then spit on the restaurant staff members but disappeared before police could arrive. EPS members have set up an investigation into the incident.

On the night of April 24, EPS members charged a 22-year-old man for impaired driving and driving while over .08. He has a June 24 court date.

That same night, police charged a 34-year-old man for impaired driving after his vehicle was stopped on the northeast side of the city. He was also charged with driving an unregistered vehicle. He too, has a June 24 court date.

The next evening, EPS members initiated another traffi c stop in the central part of the city and it resulted in a 27-year-old man being arrested for impaired driving and driving while over .08. He was taken to the Estevan Police Service cells where he was lodged for the evening. He was also given a June 24 court date.

The impaired driving hits just kept on coming though. Later on in the night of April 25, EPS members arrested a 21-year-old man for driving while impaired in the north-ern section of the city. He, too, was lodged in cells, after being charged and has a May 27 court appearance set.

A number of other charges were levied that night for such things as having unlawful window tints, failing to stop at a stop sign and illegally operating a heavy truck off the city’s truck route.

A domestic dispute that led to a charge of assault was registered by EPS members on the night of April 26. One of the parties involved in the dispute suffered minor injuries and the incident remains under investigation.

On the night of April 27, police issued several tickets to people who were observed walking around in public areas with open containers of alcohol.

A 44-year-old Regina man was stopped by police who observed his erratic driving actions on the night of April 27. The man had been driving through the parking lot at a local lounge when police took action. During their check, they noted several open alcohol containers. He was arrested and charged with impaired driving and

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The same fate befell a 38-year-old Lampman man who was checked for impaired driving that same night. He has a June court date.

During the night of April 27, EPS members were called upon to respond to a number of complaints regard-ing noisy parties and other disturbances.

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They’re proud and maybe this weekend they’ll even be a little loud.

The Estevan Rotary Club crowd might have every right to put themselves out there a little more boldly this weekend since they are acknowledging a huge landmark in their long history of public service.

There aren’t too many service organizations that can claim 90 continuous years of dedicated contributions to their home community as well as on the world stage, but Estevan’s club has done just that.

Brian Pilloud, who has the pleasure of serving as the club’s president during this special year, came aboard the Rotary train in 2001, moving up to the presidency in July of last year.

Like all the other members, he was attracted to the idea of giving back to the community. He admitted at fi rst he had to have his arm twisted just a bit by his recruiter, Wayne Claypool, a dedicated Rotarian himself, but once he took a serious glance into the club’s history, member-ship and mandate, it was easy to get hooked. Now he fi nds himself preparing for a memorable weekend, especially Friday night when the club will celebrate with the Rotary District Governor Rick Hubbs, who will make his way to Estevan from his home in The Pas, Man. He will be joined by former district governor Peter Peters of Saskatoon, who, as guest speaker, will focus on international project topics.

Pilloud said the protocol level will be raised sig-nificantly since they found out that Saskatchewan’s Lieutenant-Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield has accepted their invitation to join them and provide a brief message as well.

Pilloud said the evening will include the awarding of no fewer than seven Paul Harris Fellowship Awards, one of the highest awards a Rotarian can receive.

All this will happen in the Days Inn Plaza.

“We are the longest continually operating service club in Estevan, starting in 1923,” Pilloud said. Rotary Interna-tional, headquartered in Chicago, was only 20 years old then, having gained the international status in 1912 with their fi rst club outside the United States ... in Winnipeg.

The fi rst president of the Estevan club was local tree nursery owner T.A. “Torge” Torgeson.

“Our longest serving Rotarian now is probably Eric Pullam, with about 35 years. He started here, moved to other locations but retained an active membereship and has now retired here,” said Pilloud.

The club has seen a modest membership revival in recent years, boasting about 50 active members with one-third of them being females. Pilloud noted that Rotary, along with most other service clubs, “got rid of the old boys club mandate several years ago.”

The current president said he was struck by the fact that in its fl edgling years, the Estevan Rotary Club mem-bers took an avid interest in the local agricultural scene as evidenced by the number of projects they undertook that

adhered to that theme. (See accompanying article). That has included their sponsorship of a 4-H calf auction every summer for over 50 years now.

Another long-standing Rotary tradition is their annual Christmas Carol Festival evening. That’s been going on for over 40 years.

“Sometimes we feel the pressure to keep it going. It’s good pressure though,” Pilloud said with a laugh.

Through the course of their 90 years, Rotarians in Estevan have embarked on huge projects in aid of not only agriculture but also medical, educational, cultural and recreational endeavours. The long-standing Rotary Park, located in Woodlawn Regional Park, is just one example of lengthy commitment to the community’s well being.

There is also a huge international high school student exchange program that strikes the chord on both the na-tional and international union of members and also with the local clubs that play host to students from abroad on both long-term (full academic year) or short-term arrange-ments. They’ve been engaged in that program since 1979, welcoming at least one exchange student a year on a pretty continuous basis, but not consecutively since there have been breaks in the string every few years.

“We bring them here as teenagers and have them return home as adults,” said Pilloud.

Playing host to foreign teenagers can be a real chal-lenge, but the Rotarians know how to do it and they sup-port the Estevan and area student who gets to visit another country as a result.

“Teenagers are teenagers, no matter what country they come from, but we’ve never had any major issues with the visiting students, at least nothing we wouldn’t expect with a teenager,” Pilloud said.

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⇠ A8 “You can tell, youth programs are high on our list,” Pilloud added.

On the local front, the club has just recently pitched in with funds and sweat equity to rebuild Rotary Park and Rotary Hall in Woodlawn Regional Park, which was right in the path of 2011’s devastating fl ood waters. They also recommitted to the rebuilding of the washrooms and con-cession area at Frehlick Hall, home of the Souris Valley Theatre, also in Woodlawn. There was no question that they would embark on the rebuilding effort in the wake of the disaster.

Rotarians really get to shine when it comes to inter-national work too, efforts that are genuinely supported by the local club.

“There are a huge number of international projects. We’ll bring in medical equipment to a maternity ward in Uruguay or wheelchairs in India. There is the Shelterbox program for disaster relief efforts around the world. We don’t advertise locally about what we do on the global scene because we want to keep our home community

focused on awareness of the local projects, but we do participate on the international scale at a healthy level,” Pilloud said.

“Locally, in any given year, we’ll be pumping $20,000 worth of gifts of one form or another into the community. Those would be the typical projects. Then we have our big commitments like the $100,000 we’ve pledged for the new nursing home and the $50,000 we contributed to Spectra Place. We raise that money through local fundraising events like the Lobsterfest and the Rotary Auction. Those are yearly things the city can count on that helps us raise cash. We even do bingos for three months to keep the cash coming in.”

So where is the future going to take them?Well, another 90 years, for sure. But the immediate

future? “We’ve made some big donations and commitments in

the past couple of years, but we’re getting close to complet-ing them so the call is going out to the community, asking them what they think we could do next. I’m sure that will

evolve because in this city the ideas are always fl owing,” Pilloud said with a smile.

And on the international scene, they’ll keep the medi-cal equipment fl owing into foreign countries and they’ll defi nitely be sticking to their major international project of eradicating polio throughout the world.

“We’re narrowing it down. Polio was only found in three countries last year, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria and only because certain areas there were hard to get into due to remoteness or the fact they were considered heavy confl ict regions where our people couldn’t get to their people to provide vaccinations,” Pilloud said. “But so far, it’s been a great program. They have immunized over two billion children and we’ve teamed up with the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to make it happen.”

They help sell calves and rebuild barbecue pits in Estevan and wipe out polio and deploy wheelchairs in India. It’s all good.

That’s what Rotarians do.

If you want to talk about diversity and fl exibility in meeting community needs, look no further than the Estevan Rotary Club.

This unique service group, which is celebrating its 90th year of continuous operation in the Energy City, has a huge legacy of providing assistance where and when it is needed in Estevan. The good work began in 1923 when the fl edgling club didn’t have a lot of money, but certainly had some manpower, so one of the fi rst jobs they tackled after their foundation details were completed was to repair and paint a number of buildings on the local fairgrounds. Later they brought in the Regina Symphony Orchestra with the Rhondda Welsh Choir to entertain a local audience.

It was then back to the labour pool as the Rotary mem-

bers provided a lot of muscle to help groom the newly cre-ated Woodlawn Park just south of the city. Rotarians cleared brush, built a bridge and a bath house as well as benches, tables and swings. Woodlawn was nicely underway by the time they were fi nished. The early records indicate the club did not place a price tag on this volunteer effort, but park visitors today continue to reap the benefi ts as Woodlawn Regional Park continues to be one of the busiest and most successful park operations in southern Saskatchewan. Rotary Park, within Woodlawn Park, is now part of this testament to hard work.

The Rotarians in those early years were adept at or-ganizing athletic events and they set up a junior baseball league. They didn’t stop at just providing some funding,

they also provided the league with managers and umpires. The following years saw the Rotarians climb ⇢ A10

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⇠ A9 the donation train at a serious level, raising $20,000 for the construc-tion of skating and curling rinks in Estevan. They raised money and bought books ... 750 of them to stock the Coalfi eld’s Library.

The long history with the 4-H program also be-gan in the mid 1920s when the Rotary Club of Estevan sponsored the fi rst 4-H Calf Club in the region.

Donations to the Es-tevan Agricultural Society soon followed, as did spe-cial International Nights featuring exchanges between American and Canadian ser-vice clubs.

When the time came to begin construction of the original St. Joseph’s Hospital

on First Street in the late 1930s, the Rotary Club was there with a healthy $6,000 donation.

Before the Second World War was over, Rotar-ians in Estevan had raised $5,000 to assist with the construction of the Legion Hall and they chipped in with $500 to send to Winnipeg to help victims of the great fl ood there in the early 1950s.

The helping hands con-tinued to be extended as Ro-tary became a big contributor to the air cadets, minor base-ball, the swimming program at Woodlawn Park and water safety classes including a $2,000 donation for the Red Cross.

By the time the 1970s rolled around, the commu-

nity saw the Rotary Club taking on new mandates including a steel building in Rotary Park that came with a $50,000 cost. The build-ing was set up to serve the community at Woodlawn Regional Park.

The Work-Kin Shop in Estevan received $1,500 in support in the middle of the 1970s as did Creighton Lodge for the purchase of wheelchairs and another $2,000 was directed toward the regional ambulance ser-vice. Another donation of $11,800 was made to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Founda-tion, and a passenger van for use by the Salvation Army was purchased by the Este-van Rotary Club. The Special Olympic program received a

boost of nearly $1,200 thanks to the local club as did the local library.

During this era, the in-ternational scope of the operation was getting atten-tion from local Rotarians who chipped in with about $10,000 for the eradication of polio around the world and World Community Ser-vice projects.

Estevan Diversified Services picked up some help along the way, as did the tourism committee, the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon and the leisure centre ... all with donations of $1,000 or more.

The club continued to serve as special sponsor for a number of community efforts such as the RCMP

Musical Ride, international study exchanges for mem-bers as well as the Interna-tional Student Exchanges, celebrity hockey games to help others in their fundrais-ing efforts and all kinds of musical and other entertain-ment events.

By 2002, the club had elected its fi rst female presi-dent, Kim Marcotte, and in 2003 Wayne Claypool became the second Estevan Rotary Club member to assume the role of district governor, the first having been charter president, T.A. “Torge” Torgeson in 1927.

The club hosted the district conference in 2003-04 and in 2005 they held a special Centennial Celebra-tion to mark 100 years of

Rotary’s volunteer services. More recently, the club

embarked on one of their most ambitious projects — the building of wash-rooms, storage and conces-sion facilities for the Souris Valley Theatre at Frehlick Hall at an estimated cost of $75,000. The whole area was then demolished by the summer fl oods of 2011, but the Rotarians, in their true undaunted fashion, simply shrugged their collective shoulders and set about the task of rebuilding these facilities.

The mark of a true self-less service club.

So as it goes on ... Ro-tarians keep providing as-sistance wherever Estevan says it needs help.

Rotary provides assistance where needed

The up-and-coming Re-gina band Indigo Joseph pro-vided Estevan concertgoers with their brand of upbeat, folky rock as they played the art gallery stage.

Coming off Juno week in Regina, the quartet ap-peared in the Energy City fresh from a busy perfor-mance schedule with artists from across the country. The band showcased a few differ-ent times during JUNOfest and drummer Eric Tessier spoke with The Mercury last week before their Estevan show.

“We had a really good club show at The Owl on the Friday night where we got to open for a couple of Juno nominees,” said Tessier, noting they played ahead of Hannah Georgas and Yukon Blonde, who were both nominated for awards. “It was the fi rst time I had ever seen The Owl sold out, let alone before 10 o’clock, before we, as the fi rst band started, so that was really, really awesome.”

The band is the latest to perform the After Dark/After Hours Concert Series

at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum and the Ed-die’s Neighbourhood Bar and Grill.

Capping off their Juno week the night before the award show, Tessier noted they played at the Gibson All-Star Guitar Workshop, which was the offi cial after party of the industry.

“We got to do the handshake thing with all the industry people and get a chance to repeat the fact that we are part of the national community as well as the provincial and regional mu-sic communities,” noted Tes-sier. “A lot of those people we had seen out or met at Canadian Music Week in March, so it’s nice to get that repetition with them.”

The band consists of Tessier on drums; Etienne Fletcher performs the lion’s share of the lead vocals while playing guitar and piano; By-run Boutin-Maloney playing guitar, bass and vocals; and Sean McCannell playing bass and guitar. Tessier noted they mix and match their instruments, in a sense, trad-ing at least one instrument

between each song. Tessier even picked up the guitar for one song during Friday’s performance.

“It’s really great for working on arrangements,” noted Tessier. “Whenever we fi nd ourselves at a roadblock with a song, all we do is switch instruments. Then it’s a completely different song. That’s the fi rst thing we do if we have any issues. It does

make our concerts a little bit less fl owing, though.”

He said when they start-ed playing together, they just thought if someone would give them a gig, that would be great, so they decided to play at every opportunity.

They had a really good following in Regina, so they decided to see if they could get out of the city and still find an audience, so they

went to Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Calgary, performing at regional festivals for the last couple of summers.

“It has been really fun. The Regina Folk Fest, Ben-gough Gateway Festival, SummerFest in Moose Jaw, those are some of the high-lights. We’ve been slowly but surely transitioning to the larger industry events. BreakOut West was in Re-

gina last year, so we had a chance to take part there.”

The band also took part in its fi rst national tour in the fall of 2012, playing shows from Vancouver to Toronto.

“We played some packed shows. We played some absolutely empty shows, and came home as friends, so that was in my mind a success. Thirty days in an SUV with three friends becomes taxing very quick-ly,” Tessier said with a laugh.

The band has a spring tour planned with what Tes-sier called a horseshoe tour out to Vancouver and back again, followed by lots of shows this summer.

“We’re going into the studio again. We’re going to work on some singles that we’re going to release this summer,” said Tessier, not-ing they will be recording at SoulSound Studios and working with the engineer who worked on their fi rst EP.

The next After Dark concert is set for May 10, when the Dustin Ritter Band, whose performance has twice been postponed, will play again in Estevan.

From JUNOfest to Estevan’s After Dark

Indigo Joseph, a four-piece band from Regina, was the latest band to perform

After Dark/After Hours at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum and Eddie’s Neigh-

bourhood Bar and Grill. Above are Eric Tessier and Etienne Fletcher.

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A group of 13 students at the Estevan Comprehen-sive School learned a lot about hunger last weekend.

The school held its an-nual 30 Hour Famine event, a World Vision program where participants go without food for 30 hours in order to raise money and awareness for starving people in other parts of the world.

Fifteen ECS students helped raise $1,592.50 for World Vision programs, with 13 of them staying overnight. That comes out to $106 per student.

There were a total of 61 donations.

“That’s really exciting for us that we’ve been able to collect this much money for a worthy cause,” said Alexandra Robertson, one of three staff members who ran this year’s event.

Although they didn’t eat for 30 hours, the students were allowed to drink juice “so that we didn’t get low blood sugar and pass out,” said Robertson.

With the large confi nes of the school at their dis-posal for 30 hours, the group passed the time by playing various games, including an altered version of hide-and-seek.

“I didn’t think it would be that much fun, (but) we did a lot of activities. We were hiding in the whole school, which was a lot of fun,” said Jennifer Krets, one of the students taking part.

“We’ve been all hang-ing out together getting to

know each other, and you don’t really have time to think about food or being hungry. Some people talk about food and you get hun-gry for a little bit, but you just get over it,” she added.

Maquire Spilchuk, who was participating in 30 Hour Famine for the first time, said she expected “to starve and for my stomach to make whale noises, but it hasn’t, so it’s all good. It’s not that bad if you just drink a lot of fl uids.”

Social justice president AnnaRae Gustafson was tak-ing part in the Famine for the third straight year, and she

found that not eating for 30 hours wasn’t as tough as you might think.

“It doesn’t really bother me all that much. I’m not taking the rice at all this year and I didn’t take it last year either. I kind of like the idea of not eating, because there are lots of people who can’t eat for like 30 days, and ours is only 30 hours.

“I really enjoy it. It’s great to help people who can’t help themselves,” she added.

Jennifer, who was par-ticipating for the fi rst time, said it felt good to be able to help out those who don’t

know where their next meal is coming from.

“I just decided to do this because some people don’t have food and they starve, so I thought, ‘Why not join something where you, yourself don’t eat for 30 hours and see how you would feel after that.’

“It makes you feel like a good person because you’re trying to help someone that doesn’t have any support. It always feels good to do something good for some-one else.”

On Saturday morning, they wrote letters regarding two causes pushed forward

by Amnesty International.One of them involved

harassment of mining activ-ists in Guatemala and the infringement of human rights by mining companies there, and the other involved indig-enous peoples in Colombia being put at risk due to armed confl ict and resources being extracted from their lands.

The group also played a simulation game about food production, which saw the students divided into three tribes.

“Each tribe had a handi-cap that made it harder or easier for them to produce food. The point of the game was to realize that due to things that are uncontrollable by the people in certain areas of the world, it may be easier

or harder to feed themselves. I think that was a valuable lesson for the kids to learn because in a fi rst world coun-try like Canada, starvation is kind of an abstract idea,” Robertson said.

She added that the Fam-ine was a valuable learn-ing experience in showing the students fi rst-hand what many people go through every day.

“I think that experienc-ing for 30 hours something that people around the world have to deal with on a day-to-day basis just makes the struggles of people in Third World countries a little bit closer to home for kids who may not otherwise be able to understand that kind of life,” she said.

ECS students go hungry for 30 hours

These students and staff members participated in the 30 Hour Famine overnight

at the Estevan Comprehensive School on Friday and Saturday. Back row, from left:

Brenden Easton, Tanner Leptich, Amber Magnien, AnnaRae Gustafson, Alexandra

Robertson, Heather Findlay, Trena Mehler-Rooks. Middle row: Randii-Lee Honan,

Maquire Spilchuk, Jennifer Krets, Kayla Maley, Kristine Krets, Lexie Brokenshire.

Front row: Stephanie Sealy, Zack Ballachay. Missing: Cole Hintz, Margaret Duncan,

Nicole Chartrand, Kaira Schwengler-Kyle.

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The Petroleum Ser-vices Association of Can-ada is predicting a minor increase in Saskatchewan drilling activity this year.

In its second update to the 2013 Canadian drilling activity forecast, released last week, PSAC forecasts a slight increase in Cana-dian drilling for the year. The revised forecast for 2013 is 12,000 wells (rig released), which repre-sents an increase of 600 wells from PSAC’s origi-nal 2013 forecast released in early November 2012.

The revised forecast represents an approximate nine per cent increase over 2012 drilling levels.

PSAC is basing its updated 2013 forecast on average natural gas prices of C$3.40/mef (AECO) and crude oil prices of US$90/barrel (WTI) and the Canadian dollar aver-aging $1.

“Drilling activity is keeping on a steady pace

this year, and we antici-pate another pick up in activity in Q3 and Q4,” said Mark Salkeld, presi-dent and CEO of PSAC. “Even with steady levels of activity this year, con-tinued low gas prices and the impact of infrastruc-ture bottlenecks that are squeezing access to new markets are certainly hav-ing an impact.”

On a provincial ba-sis for 2013, PSAC now estimates 7,563 wells to be drilled in Alberta, rep-resenting a seven per cent increase from the original forecast. British Colum-bia is also expected to experience an increase in drilling levels to 457 from 385 wells, a 19 per cent increase. Saskatchewan’s projected 2013 well count has been increased by three per cent for a total of 3,286 wells. Manitoba is now forecast to drill 80 fewer wells at 670 for the year representing an 11 per

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ment in northeastern Brit-ish Columbia realized a bit of an uptick in part due to the Progress Energy/

Petronas deal as well as increased activity for oil resource development in the northeast and we’ve adjusted our numbers to refl ect that activity,” said

Salkeld. “While at the same time we are seeing increased activity in both northern Alberta with ex-ploratory and development wells around the oilsands

in situ plays, and increased activity along the Pembina Cardium fairway as well as for the Bakken and Banff-Exshaw formations in southern Alberta.”

Small drilling increase expected in Sask.

The Saskatchewan Advantage Grant for Edu-cation Savings program received proclamation last week by the provincial government.

“I am pleased that the SAGES program has been proclaimed,” Advanced Education Minister Don Morgan said. “SAGES stems from a commitment our government made as part of our 2011 election platform and will provide an incentive for Saskatch-ewan families to save for their children’s post-sec-ondary education.”

SAGES will enable the government of Saskatch-

ewan to provide a grant to a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) at a rate of 10 per cent of the subscriber’s annual contri-butions up to a maximum provincial contribution of $250 per year per benefi -ciary.

“ A s p a r t o f t h e Saskatchewan Plan for Growth, our government wants to ensure that more students are able to partici-pate in and complete their post-secondary education,” Morgan said. “SAGES is one of the many initiatives we have invested in to make this possible.”

It is expected that

SAGES could benefi t more than 83,000 Saskatchewan children under the age of 18.

People with new and existing RESPs can apply for SAGES through partici-pating fi nancial institutions starting fall 2013. Contri-butions made to eligible RESPs will receive the SAGES grant retroactively

to Jan. 1.SAGES is modelled

after the Canada Educa-tion Savings Grant, which is delivered on a national level by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. The federal gov-ernment, through HRSDC, will be administering SAG-ES on behalf of the Govern-ment of Saskatchewan.

SAGES program in eff ect

“Dril l ing activity is keeping on

a steady pace this year, and we

anticipate another pick up in activity

in Q3 and Q4.”— Mark Salkeld, president and

CEO of PSAC

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Two Estevan Police Service members were recently honoured for their work.

Chief Del Block was selected to re-ceive the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, which goes to Canadians who have made out-standing contributions in their fi eld of work or through volunteer endeavors. Cst. Steven Enns received the Saskatchewan Associa-tion of Police Chief’s Award of Valour. Both men were presented with their awards at the association’s annual mess, which was held in Weyburn in late April.

Block was nominated for the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and said it was an honour to be recognized by his peers.

“It means a lot when you get that from your peers,” he said. “It means more than you think, actually. It’s just kind of a sense of accomplishment of everything you’ve

been able to do over your career to be rec-ognized that way.”

Enns’ award was in recognition of his actions on May 18, 2012 when he spotted smoke coming from a residence on the 1200 block of Sixth Street. Enns awoke the occupants to alert them of the fi re and then ran inside to rescue a two-year-old child who was sleeping upstairs.

When all was said and done, the four occupants escaped unharmed thanks to his quick actions.

Block, who nominated Enns for the valour award, said the honour was well deserved.

“It probably would have been a very tragic scene had he not come along when he did. In fact, we are quite certain that it would have been.”

A member of the Es-tevan Toastmasters Club enjoyed success at a recent competition.

Lutos Villanueva com-peted at the Division B In-ternational Speech Competi-tion in Regina on April 13th.

His speech The Acci-dental Immigrant detailed his struggles in the Philip-pines that eventually led to him immigrating to Canada where he is now a permanent resident.

Mark Poage, president

of Estevan Toastmasters, said “we are very proud of how well Lutos placed and are pleased to have such a good ambassador for our club.” This is the second year in a row that Villan-ueva won at the club and area levels and went on to compete at the Division B competition.

In 2012 he won first place overall and then went on to compete in the District 42 contest that was held in Edmonton.

Estevan’s Colin Keess was re-elected for a second term as president of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation during the STF annual meeting of Council this past weekend.

The former Estevan Comprehensive School principal had two challeng-ers for the position and said in an STF medial release that he is honoured to receive a second term.

“It’s enormously grati-fying and humbling when council demonstrates that sort of continued confi-dence, especially as we are going into critical times for public education in the province,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sonja Su-sut was re-elected as vice-president of the organization

after an earlier unsuccessful attempt in voting for presi-dent.

Keess said the upcom-ing provincial collective bargaining process will be utmost in terms of the priori-ties for the STF. He also sug-gested that the ongoing de-bate regarding standardized testing as well as impending changes to the school year and calendar are other issues of focus for the provincial executive in their ongoing advocacy work for teachers.

Keess, who has spent nearly a decade on the pro-vincial STF executive, said it can be a balancing act to deal with the complexity of the federation while also making it relevant to the daily reality of teachers in the classroom.

Keess re-elected

as STF president

EPS members receive honours

Local Toastmaster

places second

Chief Del Block (left) and Cst. Steve Enns (right) were both presented with awards

at the recent Saskatchewan Association of Police Chiefs dinner in Weyburn. Join-

ing them at the event was Kevin Smith, chairman of the Estevan Board of Police

Commissioners.

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A new industrial park just east of the city is taking shape and in large part has the upcoming truck bypass to thank for its viability.

The Bypass Industrial Park is one mile north of Highway 39 near the inter-section of the highway and the Shand Power Station Road.

Gary Stevens of May-erthorpe, Alta. is the devel-oper and bought the land fi ve years ago anticipating the approval of a truck by-pass around Estevan that would put the land in a convenient location for a lot of companies.

Over the last few years, Stevens has slowly been working on the land, with much of the work done last year. The lots are now nearly ready to build on, and by the end of June, he said they should be ready for construction.

“The whole quarter is stripped. We’ve got most of the utilities in to all the lots. We’re going to fi nish here in another month,” said Stevens. “We put in a sewer system, so that will be the only industrial land out of the RM of Estevan that has got its own sewer system.”

Of 18 lots in the park, four have been sold thus far, including two 10-acre lots and two fi ve-acre ones. Stevens said the businesses committed to the lots thus far are all oil-related and that one or two of them will be ready to build this summer.

The remaining lots are priced between $135,000 and $155,000 per acre, rang-ing from five to 10-acre lots, as well as one block at the southwest corner that is just over 26 acres. Stevens envisions that plot of land as

a perfect location for a truck stop if someone wishes to open one.

“We got the one big lot on the corner. That’s what we’re trying to get in there. It would be ideal. That’s what we’re working on to see if we can get a big truck stop in there.”

Now that the lots are about ready to build on, Stevens expects companies

will snatch up the remaining spaces quickly.

“We feel that once they get through break-up and things get going, we feel the lots will be gone this year. There are lots of companies in Estevan that are outgrow-ing their spot.”

Stevens bought the land after he spent two to three months touring around the province and ended up

looking to start a business in Estevan, before seeing the opportunities in land development. After spend-ing some time in Estevan and speaking with a former realtor, the late Dennis Moe, he decided the land east of the city was his best option. Moe had advised Stevens of the proposed truck bypass around the city and assured him the bypass would be

going ahead before long. It took about fi ve years

from that time for the bypass to be approved, but work is expected to start at some point this year on the truck route, with an estimated completion date in late 2015 or 2016.

“We went ahead, hop-ing it would happen,” said Stevens about the uncer-tainty of when the truck bypass would be built. “Dennis Moe told us that if we bought the quarter and sat on it, he assured us he could get it rezoned for us, because it was farmland, and he said if you hang on to it there will be a truck bypass going by our quarter. We bought it on spec.”

He is happy to see the truck bypass receive its fi -nal approval, because even though he was going to develop the land without it, the route makes his park much more attractive to businesses.

“That truck bypass held us up for three or four years. We could keep work-ing on it, but that held us up because (the province) wouldn’t commit they were going to do it.”

Now the bypass has the green light, Stevens expects that will encourage more companies, particularly lo-cal trucking companies to look at the park.

“If you have a big trucking outfit or piping outfit it’s ideal to be out there,” he added.

The developer’s web-site is bypassindustrialpark.com, and it contains a map of the available lots as well as contact information for interested parties.

Industrial lots available along bypass

“There are lots of companies in Estevan

that are outgrowing their spot.” — Gary Stevens

The lot map shows available spaces in the new industrial park.

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It was a long time before Big Wreck played a show in Estevan, but it’s only months later that they will return for a second round.

The band is opening for Mötley Crüe during its cross-Canada tour that began April 20 in Penticton and will run until May 25 with a few fi nal shows in the United States. Big Wreck will warm up the crowd at Spectra Place this Saturday night.

“I had a really good time there last time,” said Ian Thornley about the band’s recent roll through the Energy City with Theory of a Deadman. “I spe-cifi cally remember the people that were working the show. Everyone was really welcoming and really friendly, as opposed to just another day at the offi ce, with another rock band rolling through, ‘showers are that way, food’s that way. See you at the end of the show.’ Everyone was really accommodating and that’s always refreshing for a band that’s been on the road for a while.”

Thornley is the band’s lead vocalist and guitarist, and noted that attitude rubs off on the band.

“It’s not another day at the offi ce for us either. It’s something a little more special. As cliché as that sounds, it really does work out that way. You get what you put into it and it really is a two-way street that way.”

Since the release of their latest album last year, Albatross, the band has been touring a lot, but Thorn-ley noted it has been off and on, rather than a long solid block of shows. That carries its own challenges because when he fi nally gets used to the hours on the road, the tour is done and he’s home, requiring an adjustment back to normal life.

“You’re a bag of hammers when you’re trying to make breakfast for the kids,” he said of those fi rst few days back. “I love being on the road, and I love that lifestyle. It’s defi nitely something I’m cut out for, but I like to have a little more consistency whenever I can.”

Prior to touring, he said the band is often “waist deep” in rehearsals, but because they recently ended a quick-batch

of U.S. shows before the start of the cross-Canada trip with Mötley Crüe, they feel very prepared for the upcoming shows.

“I spend however many hours I can with the guitar, and sitting at the piano running my throat through whatever I can muster to make sure everything’s lubed up and in shape and ready to go,” Thornley said.

As the opener on this tour, he said, “I’d like to pack as

much energy into our short set as we can and just give them the hits, if you will.”

He said it’s great to get the fi rst show out of the way so they hit their stride, but nowadays, he said, by the second or third song of that fi rst show they will fi nd their rhythm.

“These aren’t necessarily your fans who are coming out to see you. You’re going to try to win them over,” said Thornley, comparing the job of the opening act to putting your toes in the water before jumping in. “You have to test out these crowds to see what they’re made of. What do they want? Or is just like this is where we get our beer and get ready for the Mötley Crüe show.”

That’s why he wants to play as much music as they can that people will recognize, rather than stretch-ing songs out and getting experimental.

Thornley said Big Wreck’s album wasn’t origi-nally a Big Wreck album.

When work on Albatross began, executive pro-ducer Nick Raskulinecz suggested Thornley release it as a Big Wreck album, rather than under his solo name. It was producer Eric Ratz, who really liked that idea and pushed for the Big Wreck name to be attached to it.

“He wanted to work on the last Big Wreck album, but we never got to hook it up. He ended up putting a Big Wreck sticker up on the track sheet so you could see it everyday. And the music started to make sense,” said Thornley.

The hands-off approach from the studio this time around has left Thornley much happier with the end re-sult after being a little less satisfi ed with his solo work.

“It’s very exciting. When you start hearing it come through the speakers and it’s what you envisioned and

more, that’s an exciting and joyful thing. You can’t put a price on that. I would pay to do that, if I had money.”

Big Wreck prepped and on road with the Crüe

Ian Thornley

A theft of gasoline valued at about $3,500 was reported to the Estevan detachment of the RCMP last week.

Police said that sometime between April 10 and 11, a bulk diesel fuel storage tank located on land north of Lampman was broken into and about 3,200 litres of fuel was removed by the thief or thieves.

The fuel was being stored on an oil construction site and was to be used to run a power generator during the road ban season.

RCMP said they believe this wasn’t an isolated inci-dent and that other fuel storage tanks in the region may have been tapped as well. They are urging the victims of these incidents to come to them with the information since it will help with their investigations.

In the meantime the police are reminding oil com-panies, contractors and the general public in the rural areas to secure their fuel tanks, pumps and other property to prevent further thefts like this one.

Anyone with information regarding this crime

or any other illegal activities in the region is asked to contact the local detachment at 306-637-4400 or report anonymously through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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The board of the Es-tevan Minor Hockey As-sociation is in crisis mode.

Of the 11 executive positions that were open for nominations at EMHA’s annual spring meeting on Thursday, seven of them went unfi lled.

The minor hockey association is currently without a secretary, referee in chief, ways and means director, equipment man-ager, atom director, pee-wee director and bantam/midget director.

Nearly half of the

17-member board is cur-rently vacant.

Among the positions that were fi lled on Thurs-day, Lesley Mittelholtz returned to her post as registration and publicity director, Tim Seipp became the coach development director, Dalton Giblett stayed on as the ice sched-uler and Kraig Wanner took over the job of A director.

All four people were acclaimed.

The other positions on the board, including that of president Kelly Kjersem,

will be up for election next year.

A proposal was passed at the meeting that would see the secretary, ice sched-uler and registration duties all rolled into a paid posi-tion.

The person would serve as an offi ce admin-istrator for EMHA, which would rent out upstairs office space at the Icon Centre.

The salary being of-fered for the part-time, 42-week position is $20,160.

After much debate, the

proposal was passed and the association will soon begin advertising for the position.

Duties include com-municating with the ex-ecutive, fi nancial manage-ment, ice scheduling and general offi ce duties.

If the minor hockey association hires an of-fi ce administrator, average registration fees would go up by an estimated $36.55.

It would also require EMHA to incur other costs for a computer, printer, fax machine, offi ce supplies, a

phone/fax line and fi ling cabinet.

The association also revealed its fi nancial state-ments for the 2012-13 sea-son.

EMHA made a profi t of $39,847.55 for the fi scal year ending March 31.

The board had only budgeted a surplus of $6,690.80 for the year, but donations, among other things, helped to make the difference. The organiza-tion received $27,085 in donations last season.

EMHA’s total net in-

come was $274,848.70 last year, while their expenses totalled $235,001.15.

Registration fees made up the bulk of the income, coming in at $183,605.39, while money from tour-naments added up to $30,528.35.

The largest expense for EMHA was $27,507 for offi cials. That was at-tributed to more games be-ing played than expected, and the wide-scale change to the two referee, one linesman system in minor hockey leagues.

SOUNDING OFF

“Our strength will be our ability to put the ball in the net. We have

two of the top three scorers in the league from last year. We should

be able to put the ball in the net, but like always, our (issue) will be

keeping the ball out of the net.”— Estevan Big Dogs head coach Evan Handley on what his lacrosse team will look

like this year.

“They scored once (in the second period) and then we took a 10

minute downward spiral, and it wasn’t really the greatest 10

minutes. If we would’ve been able to put the puck in the net, we

would’ve had a chance.”— Estevan’s Dylan Johner on his Saskatoon Royals’ loss in the Keystone Cup final.

The 2013 racing season in Estevan will get underway on Saturday with the season opener at Estevan Motor Speedway.

The dirt race track has a busy schedule coming up, with 10 points nights and several special events slated to take place this year.

It all begins on Saturday at 3 p.m. with a regular card, featuring hobby, stock and modifi ed classes.

The track decided to bump up the start time due to the Mötley Crüe concert at Spectra Place on Saturday night.

“We put on an afternoon race to accommodate the folks that want to go to Mötley Crüe later in the evening. We’re even giving away a Mötley Crüe package at the races. I’m excited, we haven’t done an afternoon race for awhile. This is going to be a new experience. I expect a huge crowd,” said EMS marketing and promotions director Tracy Lewis-Miller.

Memories of last year, when the fi rst four race nights of the season were postponed due to rain, are still fresh. But with sun and temperatures close to 20°C forecast for Saturday, Lewis-Miller is hoping things are different this time around.

“We’re expecting good temperatures, warm tempera-tures and we’re racing in the afternoon, so that’ll be even better; it won’t be chilly, as long as the wind co-operates with us.”

Defending champions Tyson Turnbull (modified), Rocky Alexander (street) and Gary Goudy, Sr. (hobby)

will be looking to do it all again, beginning with Saturday’s races.

Turnbull won his second Speedway points champion-ship last year at the expense of his brother Aaron, who was disqualifi ed after an incident with Joey Galloway and Mason Big Eagle late in the fi nal mod feature of the year.

Alexander, meanwhile, continued his dominance in the street stock fi eld by winning his third consecutive season title, edging out Kelly Henderson.

Goudy overtook Blaine Durward for the hobby stocks championship during the last feature of the season.

Aside from the regular race cards, there will be several special events at the Speedway this year.

“We’re focusing more this year … on taking every regular show and adding something to it, so we have more of a show for people to see,” said Lewis-Miller.

The second event of the year on May 17 will feature a sport modifi eds group, along with several members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Riders offensive lineman Brendon LaBatte, who drives a hobby stock at EMS, is planning to bring several of his teammates to the track that night, though it’s not known yet who they will be.

The next special event comes on the June 14-15 week-end, with a doubleheader highlighted by the Northern Super Truck Racing Series from Winnipeg.

The annual McComb Automotive Fast 40 also runs on the second night of the doubleheader.

Lewis-Miller said the trucks are the event she’s most looking forward to.

“They race in Winnipeg at Red River Co-op Speedway, so I’m glad they’ve decided to come out this way and give us a show,” she said.

The Dakota Classic Modifi ed Tour will make its an-nual stop in Estevan on July 8 as the third leg on the tour.

An unfortunate scheduling confl ict has the Tragically Hip playing at Spectra Place the same night, although Lewis-Miller said she’s confi dent that the popularity of the mod tour will keep the crowds up.

“We are not concerned at all, no. Our mod tour has always been a huge draw for us. The fans love it. I don’t expect that the Tragically Hip concert will be a deterrent for us at all,” she said.

Late models will return to the track on July 30, and Lewis-Miller said they’re usually “a crowd favourite.”

EMS is making several changes to their facility for this season.

A wheelchair-accessible area is being created in the viewing area, and the sound system is being upgraded so that people in the pit area can hear better, among other changes.

The track itself is also in good shape after volunteers spent time on the weekend getting it ready for Saturday.

“We had a great track cleanup weekend. The track looks good. WIth this wind the last few days, it’s really dried things up out at the race track and there’s virtually no snow left,” Lewis-Miller said.

Speedway set to kick off season on Saturday

Seven positions unfi lled on minor hockey boardEMHA looking to hire offi ce administrator

Ryan Harris rips around the top of a turn during the McComb Automotive Fast 40 last year at Estevan Motor Speedway. (File Photo)

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Scoring will continue to be the hall-mark of the Estevan Big Dogs as they embark on another lacrosse season this year.

The junior team will kick off the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League schedule on Friday with a road game against the Regina Rifl es. Their fi rst home game is May 11 against the Yorkton Bulldogs. They will host the Saskatoon Steelers the next day.

“Our strength will be our ability to put the ball in the net. We have two of the top three scorers in the league from last year (in Rhett Handley and Dylan Smith),” said Big Dogs head coach Evan Handley.

“We should be able to put the ball in the net, but like always, our (issue) will be keeping the ball out of the net.”

Handley said he’d like to be able to do what some teams do in dedicating some players to offence and others just to defence, but he said with the team’s lack of bigger players, it just isn’t possible.

The Big Dogs have lost overagers Ryan Curzon and Kelsy Omland, along with Josh Pryznyk and Bryceton Cote from last year’s club.

The newcomers to the team include Brody Slykhuis and Cole MacCuish.

Handley said he expects the likes of Ty Currie, Tanner Froese, Mark Moriarty and Ryan Frehlick to add some secondary scoring.

“Moriarty’s a fast little guy and if he’s playing shorthanded, he’ll pot some goals for us.”

Handley is also seeing improvement from several other players.

“(Dustin) DeBruyne looks really good,

(Ryan) Kenzie has improved a ton. He looked really good in practices. Isaac Elder has gotten bigger and stronger and he scored a nice goal (at practice on Thursday).”

More than anyone, though, Handley feels Wayde Curzon could have a breakout season for the Big Dogs.

“Wayde Curzon has always been able to put the ball in the net, and he’s out of his brother’s shadow now. I’ve always thought Wayde had a lot of skill and ability, he just

needs to get it in his head that he can do it. He could be a top scorer for us,” said Handley.

Rhett Handley and Smith, the team’s top two scorers, spent some of the off-season out of province — Handley playing lacrosse for Bishop’s University in Quebec, Smith playing hockey with the Connecticut Oilers of the Eastern Junior Hockey League — and Handley hopes those experiences will help both of them.

“Dylan came back after being away and he seems to be more mature,” said Handley. “I’m hoping (Rhett’s university experience) will help him free himself up a little bit.”

After winning only one game two years ago, then posting a 3-5-2 record last year, Handley’s hoping the Big Dogs can take another step forward this year.

“I’d really like to. We’ll have to see how things go. With our offence, we should be able to compete (scoring-wise) with other teams. We’ll have to see after a game or two how we are defensively. If we can’t hold our own defensively, it’ll be a run-and-gun shootout game, which is not what we want.”

He added that with the speed of players like Currie, Frehlick, Moriarty and Froese, as well as the new players, “I think we’ll be able to move the ball up the fl oor fairly quickly.”

Playing on a bigger surface at Spectra Place for most of their games this year will help with that.

“It’s a bigger fl oor, so we’ll be able to use our speed a bit. I just think it’ll help the game grow in Estevan. I think if we can get some people out, and (people walking on the track) can pop over and see what our kids do.”

Estevan is hosting the PGLL All-Star Game on June 15 at Spectra Place.

“We are super excited to have that. We’re going to make an entire day of it,” said Handley.

Younger Estevan teams will play during the day, and the Big Dogs are also planning to play a game that night, on top of the All-Star Game.

The sport of lacrosse is growing by leaps and bounds in Estevan.

Not only can Estevan Minor Box Lacrosse boast a team at every level this season, but there will also be a senior lacrosse team for the fi rst time.

The new squad will be known as the Estevan Har-ris Oilfi eld Impact and will play out of the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League’s senior division.

Impact coach Jody Har-ris said the team has roughly 15 players. Most are from Estevan, although the club also includes players from Swift Current, Esterhazy and Weyburn.

The Impact also has

several former top scorers in the PGLL’s junior division.

Former Estevan Big Dogs players Kelsy Om-land, Lucas Smyth and Co-lin Fogarty were the driving force behind putting a senior team together. With all three having graduated from the junior program and hav-ing nowhere to play, they enlisted Harris’s help in putting a team together.

Former Big Dogs cap-tain Ryan Curzon is also among the players on the team.

Harris said she wanted to “help out these young guys and get this roll-ing.” She will be behind the bench because the team is required to have a

certifi ed coach.The growth of lacrosse

at the lower levels is also paying dividends now for the senior club.

“I call it an evolution. We’ve got kids in tyke, and now some of their dads, who have graciously come out to coach, and are actually play-ing on this senior team now. Hopefully we can continue this. To me, that’s a huge step for our association,” said Harris.

The Impact is one of only three teams in the PGLL’s senior division, along with the Regina Heat and the Saskatoon Brewers. They begin their season on Saturday and Sunday with games in Saskatoon.

With only an eight-game schedule, their first home games will not be until June 8-9, when they host the Heat for two games.

Harris said roughly 60 per cent of the roster has previous lacrosse experi-ence. She said the primary focus is on fun, but she also doesn’t expect the Impact to be a doormat.

“My fi rst expectation is for the guys to have fun, to go on the road or in town and have that camaraderie, build that friendship. It’s be-ing united over a game they really like. They’re going to be on the fl oor to win, I know it. My plan to coach is not going to be teaching a whole bunch of skills and systems, but just ensuring

that the testosterone and en-ergy levels are in check, and basically more encouraging than anything.”

On Thursday, the Im-pact and Big Dogs played an exhibition game, and Harris said it was “a proud moment” for the sport’s growth in Estevan.

“We had close to 35 guys on the floor. That’s a big deal. That’s success, that’s doing things right.”

Local lacrosse is also experiencing a boom at the grassroots levels. There are 30 kids in the tyke pro-gram and 34 in novice. That comes only two years after a combined tyke/novice team had only 12 players.

There are 22 players signed up for peewee, 15 for

bantam and 11 for midget.The tyke and novice

teams will play intrasquad games and will also go to a tournament each. The peewee, bantam and midget teams will all play exhibi-tion games.

Harris said the peewee and midget teams will likely enter provincials, with the midgets also taking players from the bantam team.

The midget team will be known as the Thunder and is sponsored by Baxter Trucking, while the bantams are named the Warriors and are sponsored by Cathedral Energy.

Estevan Minor Box Lacrosse will be holding a steak fundraiser on May 7. Tickets are $25.

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Estevan to fi eld senior lacrosse team

Rhett Handley and the Estevan Big Dogs are set to begin another season on Friday

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Although he would have liked to be playing Junior A hockey this past season, Dylan Johner had a unique experience as a member of the Junior B Saskatoon Royals.

Johner joined the Royals, members of the Prairie Junior Hockey League, after Christmas. The team would go on to win the PJHL championship and represent Saskatchewan at the Keystone Cup, which is the Western Canadian championship for Junior B.

The tournament was held in St. Malo, Man., April 17-21.

“It was something I’ve never really been a part of before. it was just kind of cool to see what other provinces are like in Junior B hockey and getting an under-standing of how they play the game com-

pared to us. It was a really good time and I got to play to some really good hockey,” said Johner, 19.

The Royals went 3-1-1 at the Key-stone Cup, good enough to put them in the final against the Richmond (B.C.) Sockeyes. Richmond won the fi nal 5-2.

“They were a really strong team. They had a few younger guys that are probably going to go somewhere in hockey later,” said Johner.

“I think we outplayed them in the fi rst period, but it was tough to keep up with them. They moved the puck so well and if you made a mistake, it was in your net.

“They scored once (in the second period) and then we took a 10 minute downward spiral, and it wasn’t really

the greatest 10 minutes. If we would’ve been able to put the puck in the net, we would’ve had a chance.”

Indeed, the second period was the turning point, as the Sockeyes scored three goals and outshot the Royals 24-4 to break open a scoreless game.

Johner scored two goals in fi ve games in the tournament.

To get to the Keystone Cup, the Roy-als took care of the Prairie Storm in fi ve games in the league fi nal.

The Royals won 7-6 at home in Game 5, with Johner scoring twice, including the tying goal on a power play in the third period.

“It was pretty cool,” he said of scoring twice in the deciding game.

“There were a lot of times in that game when we were down by two goals and weren’t sure we’d be able to take it.”

Johner scored nine goals and had 22 points in 13 regular season games with the Royals this year. He added six goals and 13 points in 13 playoff games.

He is planning to return to the team next year while continuing to attend uni-versity in Saskatoon.

“They were the closest team I’ve ever been a part of, probably one of the most fun teams I’ve played on in my life,” Johner said.

There was no shortage of goals in a two-game nov-ice AAA set between the Man-Sask Wolfpack and the Regina Outlaws on Sunday.

The two teams re-sumed a four-game chal-lenge series with the fi nal two games at the Civic Auditorium.

The Outlaws won the fi rst game 8-6, but the Wolf-pack bounced back and won the second one 9-6.

The teams split the four games evenly, although the Wolfpack outscored the Outlaws 22-20.

In the first game on Sunday, the Wolfpack took a 2-0 lead before surrender-ing four straight goals to end the fi rst period.

Denver Sehn opened the scoring at 2:06, and Tate Kasick made it 2-0 less than two minutes later.

Phoen ix Ramage , Takao Cookson, Sam Oremba and Cole Eckert would then score four goals in less than 13 minutes for Regina to give them a 4-2 lead.

In the second period, Cookson made it 5-2 only 37 seconds in, but Carson Birnie got the Wolfpack’s third goal at the nine-min-ute mark.

Regina scored two more goals, courtesy of Oremba and Ramage, to put them ahead 7-3.

Sehn would score his

second of the game at the 17:27 mark to get the Wolf-pack within three after 40 minutes.

The Outlaws extended

their lead 69 seconds into the third on a goal by Kyle Weisgarber.

The Wolfpack would get later goals from Nathan

Wagstaff and Ty Hoste, including Hoste’s marker with fi ve seconds left, but it wasn’t enough to get the win.

In the second game on Sunday, a strong fi rst period for the Man-Sask team was the difference.

Birnie opened the scor-ing midway through the frame, and Hoste made it 2-0 less than two minutes later.

Ramage got the Out-laws on the board with four minutes left, but Aid-en Ziprick replied for the Wolfpack 53 seconds later to put them ahead 3-1 after 20 minutes.

A high-scoring second period followed, with each team potting four goals.

Hoste scored a hat trick in the period, giving him four on the game, and Elias Taylorson also scored for the Wolfpack.

Ramage (2), Cole Eck-ert and Cookson supplied the Outlaws’ offence in the middle frame.

Regina got within a goal just 34 seconds into the third on a goal by Kayden Clive.

It remained 7-6 until halfway through the pe-riod, when Colton Pushie restored the Wolfpack’s two-goal cushion.

Wagstaff would add some insurance with five seconds left in regulation.

TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club general manag-er Brian Dueck confi rmed on Monday that the front nine at the course will open for play on Friday at

11 a.m.The driving range,

meanwhile, was expected to open today.

Dueck said the club will keep an eye on the

back nine and that its opening shouldn’t be too far away.

Golfers can now call to arrange tee times or book them online.

Woodlawn to open Friday

Johner plays in Keystone Cup with Royals

Novice team splits games with Regina squad

The puck skitters through the crease as Denver Sehn and Jordan Weber of the Man-Sask Wolfpack look on

during a 9-6 win over the Regina Outlaws on Sunday.

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The recent lowering of the water level at the Boundary Dam reservoir may just have jeopardized the annual Walleye Clas-sic, the fishing tourna-ment traditionally held on opening day of each new fishing season.

Mike Halirewich, co-ordinator of this year’s tournament for the Este-van Wildlife Federation, said he hopes the spring runoff is healthy enough to build the Boundary reservoir levels up again, at least to a point where boats can be launched and the tournament can go ahead as planned this Sunday, May 5 which is the first day of the new season.

“They’ve changed the fishing regulations. The new season used to start on the first Saturday in May. Now the official day has been set as May 5, no matter what day that falls on,” said Halirewich.

That means future Wa l l e y e C l a s s i c s a t Boundary Dam will have to be scheduled on the first Saturday following the official opening date since the club wants to keep the event a weekend competition.

Because the change is new this year, the wildlife group decided to go with a Sunday event, keeping it in the weekend schedule, but allowing them time to let fishers know that next year’s event will be back to a Saturday schedule.

With 49 out of the maximum 50 entry spots already spoken for, there is no doubt that the Wall-eye Classic in Estevan is a popular event, attracting fishers from the United States as well as from Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon in the past.

“If the water level doesn’t rise enough, we’ll have to make the call to cancel it about three days before it’s scheduled be-

cause we’ll have to let everyone who registered know that it’s off,” Hali-rewich said. That means tomorrow is decision day for the tournament orga-nizers. But they’re hop-ing, unlike those who fear flood conditions, that the runoff rate has been good enough to raise the water level just enough to let them hold the tournament as planned.

Because winter stayed

around so long this year, Halirewich said the south end of the reservoir was still iced in as of last weekend.

The EWF and Halire-wich are taking care of the docks and boat launching area for the Woodlawn Regional Park authority this year and a new dock

is ready for its initiation, if only they can get enough water to send it out into.

Wi t h t h e f o r m e r Boundary Dam recreation site now being a fully declared regional park, there will be park passes to purchase and boat launch-ing fees. Those will be circumvented this year

however, since Wood-lawn will not be officially opened until the mid-May weekend, he said.

“But in the future, the competitors will have to purchase a day, weekend or season pass and pay a boat launch fee,” Halire-wich said. Visitors will probably have the launch fee included in their entry fee package in the future.

The daily fee for both the entrance and launch is $5 each. A weekend pass is $10 for each and a season pass to the park, which will cover both Woodlawn Boundary Dam and Wood-lawn Regional Park near Estevan, will be $40.

“The boat launch fee income will be kept in a separate trust account and will be used strictly for dock and boat launch maintenance and expan-sion,” he said. “We’re hoping to launch that new $22,000 dock on May 3, just before the tournament ... if the water level is high enough.”

If the Walleye Clas-sic is able to go ahead on Sunday, Halirewich said the entry fee and prize money will be similar to the previous opening day competitions.

Because of its well established popularity, Halirewich said he felt the Classic will be around for a long time.

Although one will be leaving, another local player will be suiting up for the Yorkton Harvest next season.

Tanner Jeannot , a 1997-born forward from Oxbow, earned a spot on the Harvest at their spring camp on the weekend.

The Harvest play in the

Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League.

Bienfait’s Lynnden Pastachak and Estevan’s Chase McKersie played with the Harvest last year. Pastachak is expected to jump either to the WHL’s Red Deer Rebels or the Estevan Bruins next season.

Jeannot played his fi rst

year of midget hockey this past year with the midget AA Apex Bruins. He re-corded 15 goals and 24 points in 32 games as a rookie.

The previous season, as captain of the TS&M bantam AA Bruins, Jeannot piled up 20 goals and 29 points in 22 games.

Jeannot makes Harvest

Water level may jeopardize Walleye ClassicStay tuned, say fi shing tournament organizers

The fi eld of 50 teams will be furiously unloading their fi sh at the docks at the end of the day if Sunday’s

Walleye Classic goes ahead. (File Photo)

Josh Lewis

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The Estevan Minor Hockey Association is in trouble.Seven open positions on their executive went unfi lled at

Thursday’s spring general meeting.Seven!Usually there are a couple of spots left open at these

things, and the board will fi nd people to take on those roles at a later date. That’s normal. After all, we’re living in an age where it’s very hard to get people to give up their time to volunteer.

But seven open positions? That certainly is not normal. That’s bordering on absurd.

The decision to add a paid offi ce administrator will see the new job combine the duties of the secretary, registration director and ice scheduler.

(That’s if they can fi nd someone to fi ll the part-time job for the $20,000 a year they are offering. That doesn’t go far in Estevan these days.)

Despite the duties being part of the job description for this new role, it was agreed on Thursday that the secretary and ice scheduler positions on the executive will remain for at least one year, to see whether they are still needed and whether the board could function without those spots.

So the job of secretary this time around may not be quite as critical as it normally is.

The other open spots on the board are referee in chief, ways and means director, equipment manager, atom director,

peewee director and bantam/midget director.That’s not something you can fi x with a couple of phone

calls.Here’s hoping EMHA can get these positions fi lled

sooner rather than later so that it can operate at full capacity leading into next season.

***Racing will return to Estevan Motor Speedway on Sat-

urday with the fi rst race card of the season.Let’s hope Mother Nature leaves the track alone this year

after washing out so many race nights last season.The 2013 slate is packed with several special events, and

it should be another thrilling year of racing.

Having an afternoon program on Saturday will be nice, allowing spectators to enjoy the warm weather, rather than braving a cool evening in early May.

Kudos to the Speedway for moving their races up to 3 p.m. to avoid a confl ict with the Mötley Crüe concert, which is virtually sold out.

Of course, it’s unfortunate that there will be another major confl ict later in the year, and it doesn’t look like there will be any way around it.

The Dakota Classic Modifi ed Tour is a massive event every year. The crowds it attracts are unlike any other at the track all summer long. It’s always a spectacle, and it brings all kinds of talented drivers from all over the United States.

On the other hand, it’s not too often you can see a band like the Tragically Hip right here in Estevan, so I’m sure that will also draw well.

Hopefully it will still be a banner evening for the Speed-way. It’s their biggest night of the year and with the work volunteers put in, they deserve a big crowd.

Contact Josh Lewis at 306-634-2654 or sports@estevan-mercury.ca. Thanks to the Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators for screwing up what would have been an epic showdown between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, and sticking the Leafs with Boston instead.

Estevan Girls’ Softball is preparing to kick off an-other season in the Energy City.

A diamond cleanup is scheduled for Saturday at the Pleasantdale diamonds, followed by the opening day of the season on Monday.

The peewee and squirts teams will be playing on Monday and Wednesday nights this year, while the learn to play and bantam/midget programs will suit up on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. Those nights will be particularly busy, with more than 100 players on the six diamonds.

Year-end tournaments will take place June 21-22 and June 28-29.

The organization will be sending teams to provin-cials in the squirt, peewee and bantam divisions. The peewee team is the two-time defending provincial champion.

At least 137 players are

registered in softball this season. The learn to play program has record num-bers, with six teams, which is two more than last year.

Estevan will fi eld two squirt teams, one peewee team and three bantam/midget teams.

Players were busy with preseason skill sessions leading up to the season, with sessions for youth aged eight and up taking place on April 17, April 22, April 24 and April 29.

On top of that, there was a session on April 23 about team building and the mental aspects of the game, a catchers’ clinic on April 26 and a full day pitching session on April 27. Those sessions were instructed by Andrea Wolf, a Level 3 in-structor and assistant coach on the 2013 Saskatchewan junior women’s Canada Games team. She will be the head coach of the 2015 team.

Softball season

begins Monday

Minor hockey executive sitting half empty

Pleasantdale badminton champsPleasantdale School held a badminton tournament for students in Grades 7 and 8 on the weekend, with

athletes from Pleasantdale, Spruce Ridge, Hillcrest, St. Mary’s, Sacred Heart, Weldon School and Macoun

participating. The winners, from left, were Araya Wheeler and Courtney Kanigan of St. Mary’s (girls’ doubles),

Tiff any Dacuycuy of St. Mary’s (girls’ singles), Sage Dayman of Sacred Heart (boys’ singles), Preston Audet

and Michaella Matthies of St. Mary’s (mixed doubles) and Cameron Rioux and Vineet Kaushik of Spruce Ridge

(boys’ doubles).

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He’s much more com-fortable riding an elephant than a horse and the last time he worked on a do-mestic animal was 1975.

Wildlife veterinarian Dr. Jerry Haigh entertained an audience of 84 guests at the annual Author’s Fund-raising Banquet organized by the Estevan chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women last Friday evening in the Tay-lorton Room at Days Inn.

The affable Kenyan-born, Glasgow, Scotland-raised, Saskatoon, resident related stories from the fi elds and jungles of Af-rica, the barren lands of Mongolia and the northern climes of Canada to name a few regions of the globe he has travelled while tending to the health needs of wild animals.

His fi rst offi cial job as an accredited veterinarian just a few days after re-ceiving his degree was to treat a giraffe with foot rot.

Haigh, the author of three books that recount his experiences, said, “treating the foot rot was pretty standard stuff, even for a new graduate, but administering a shot in the animal’s rump, that was a challenge.”

Haigh was the guest speaker at the fundraising event that featured a silent auction of books donated by Canadian publishers and authors with the mon-ey being directed toward the Mary Rose Boyer Me-morial Scholarship fund that provides a $1,000 scholarship to a deserving female graduate of the Estevan Comprehensive School. As a pure coinci-dence, this year’s scholar-ship winner was Madison

Skjonsnokby who aspires to be a veterinarian, her-self. Madison was unable to attend the dinner due to the fact she was compet-ing in the Skills Canada provincial competition on the weekend, so her scholarship was accepted by her parents.

Joyce Evans, chair-woman of the scholarship committee, noted there were 18 very deserving applicants for the award this year.

Long-time member and volunteer Evelyn Johnson was singled out for special recognition. Johnson has been host-ess for most of the local club’s monthly meetings and she has been a loyal member for over 30 years. She accepted a plaque and bouquet of roses from the local and national bodies of the CFUW, presented to her by club president Cheryl Andrist.

During his address, Haigh noted his affi liation with local veterinarians Carol and Jeremy Ross of the Prairie Animal Health Centre, who not only at-tended some of his veteri-narian school classes but also resided on his acreage outside Saskatoon while attending university there.

The Rosses said they were proud to be the lead sponsor for the evening’s event, making it possible for Haigh to attend. PAHC has grown from a two-vet, one part-time employee operation working out of 200 square feet of leased space to the point where they have a thriving health care operation that fea-tures nine veterinarians, 48 employees, an expan-sive animal health clinic

and retail operation and a recent expansion into neighbouring communi-ties.

Haigh related how he sort of fell into the job of being a wildlife veterinar-ian through tennis. He said he was signed up for a tennis tournament by a friend and the contacts gained there led to an in-stant departure to Africa and an encounter with the malfunctioning giraffe.

Over the years Haigh has led expeditions of vet students to places like Uganda and Rwanda and has played host to vet stu-dents from there in return.

The veteran veteri-narian decries poaching practices as they relate to rhinoceroses and el-ephants since the poach-ers are simply after the elephant ivory and rhino horns to feed an Asian market where “snake oil salesmen are selling phony health products and where there is a multi-million dollar trade in ivory.”

He noted wild animals do destroy crops in some regions, so that element has to be acknowledged since rogue elephants can do a lot of damage and “there is no crop insurance for those farmers.”

Wild buffalo can also spread diseases into do-mestic herds. But when thousands of elephants are taken illegally and their trunks sliced off by snares, or when on average, three rhinos per day are killed for their horns only, the carnage is sad and despi-cable, he said.

Haigh recounted some light moments too, try-ing to ride a horse on the steppes and plains of

Mongolia to treat reindeer, or administering to a shy rhino, doing pregnancy tests on lions, and run-ning away from safari ants. In northern Canada he’s done six fi eld trips to administer to polar bears near Churchill and Baffi n Island and has spent many hours treating moose pop-ulations. The versatile vet has treated birds in Ugan-da and chased all kinds of beasts in Rwanda, trying to make them better.

Later in a visit with The Mercury, the vet said he learned a lot simply by practising medicine “by the seat of my pants. You learn what might work for a domestic animal, you know a bit about the wild animal, you calculate the difference in weight and size and do your best and hope for the best.

“Why would I work with domestic animals when I could work with wild ones?” he said in reply to a question about

his chosen fi eld. “Some animals com-

monly share certain char-acteristics, so I would take what I knew from the college and calculate and it either worked, or didn’t. You do what you can do under the circumstances you fi nd yourself in when you do it,” he said with a laugh, noting that trans-porting a frustrated rhino

for instance, isn’t that easy ... especially after it recov-ers from the tranquilizers. And also, “you know a stethoscope is useless on a rhino ... that’s pretty thick hide they have, you’re not gonna hear a thing.”

Haigh was introduced by Johnson and thanked by Andrist for his message and support of the scholar-ship foundation.

Wildlife veterinarian recounts tales at author’s banquet

Estevan played host to the 90th annual Regina Archdiocesan Catholic Women’s League (CWL) convention on April 21 and 22.

The regional group consisted of league delegates from not only Estevan but also Carlyle, Benson, Bienfait, Lampman, Ox-bow, Redvers, Storthoaks and Wauchope. All contributed to the hosting effort.

Archdiocesan president Chantal Devine chaired the convention and Brenda Keating, chairwoman of the Estevan Region, was convention hostess.

Thirty-nine councils were represented at the event with a total delegate count of 171.

The convention opened with mass celebrated by Archbishop Daniel Bohan in St. John the Baptist Church, Estevan. A banquet followed the mass after which the Bellelle Guerin Award was presented to Theresa Istace from Kennedy. This award recognizes a CWL member who has dedi-cated herself to the work of the league in their parish, diocese and province.

The guest speaker for the banquet was Rev. Denis Phaneuf, an insightful and faith-fi lled presenter from Cut Knife who incorporated the CWL theme We Have Seen the Lord into his address.

The evening concluded with entertain-ment by the Estevan A Cappella singers led by Evanne Wilhelm.

On Monday morning, Phaneuf was again called upon to provide insight as he shared techniques on how one can be attentive to the voice of God in their lives.

The business part of the convention began with a greeting from past national president Velma Harasen of Regina, fol-lowed by reports from the provincial and diocesan president and standing commit-tee chairwomen. Devine completed her term as president at the conclusion of this meeting.

The convention closed with a mass and the installation of new president Marge Appell of Regina and the rest of her execu-tive team.

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The last of the winter and spring art classes sponsored by the Estevan Arts Coun-cil are now slated for completion according to information released by the council this past week.

The last two classes of the visual arts groups are coming up very quickly, said co-ordinator Evelyn Johnson.

On May 4 and 5, water colour paint-ing with instructor Sheila Farstad is being offered by the arts council. Classes are held from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the leisure centre.

On June 8, the fi nal class in this series will be conducted by Farstad who will lead the group in an outdoor painting expedition

called plain painting. “Anyone interested in this experience,

using any visual art medium, is invited to join in,” said Johnson.

The artists are asked to bring their art supplies to the Estevan Art Gallery and Mu-seum at 9 a.m. and join in the fun. They are also advised to bring a stool, an easel or hard board to support their work and a bag lunch.

“This is a unique opportunity which promises to be a whole lot of fun,” said Johnson.

More information regarding these classes may be gained by contacting the Estevan Arts Council offi ce in the leisure centre.

Springtime art classes winding

up with two unique sessions

Dr. Jerry Haigh did some catch-up visiting with Carol and Jeremy Ross of the Prai-

rie Animal Health Centre. The trio of veterinarians recalled stories of their days

at the College of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan and the

time the Rosses resided on the Haigh acreage outside Saskatoon.

Evelyn Johnson (left) received special recognition

from the Canadian Federation of University Women’s

Club on Friday night during the Estevan chapter’s

annual author’s evening banquet. A plaque of appre-

ciation plus a bouquet of roses from the local club as

well as the national offi ce were presented to the long-

serving member by club president Cheryl Andrist.

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By Judy Pratt& Shelly VerobaCreighton LodgeCorrespondents

As this column was being written, there were still snow-banks on the grass and it was dropping to below zero at night! The forecast for the next few days was well above zero so by the end of April, it was expected we would have water pour-ing down the streets ... and hopefully not into our basements!

Spirits were up in spite of the depressing weather as we started April with a lovely Easter supper of turkey and all the fi xings. The meals are very delicious here at Creighton Lodge - a lot of care goes into the preparation and serving of our food and one way to lift our spirits is with Lori’s cin-namon buns or cookies.

Our entertainers in April were Freddie and the Freebies, the Happy Wanderers, the Church of Christ Singers, Bob Olson and family, Elly Foster and the Torkelsons. We had a toe-tapping good time with all of them and thank them all for taking the time to come here to play or sing for us.

We had special entertainment one evening by the grand-children and great-grandchildren of one of our residents. We had lovely piano playing by all of them and want to thank them once again for spending the evening with us.

We enjoyed our exercise programs led by Audrey Du-puis, Norma Blackburn and Kelly Harrison. We do stretches, deep breathing, weight lifting and some cardio to keep our bodies mobile.

We are increasing exercises to four times a week upon the return of Monica MacKenzie this month. We know how good this is for all of our ailments and we have a small but very committed group of women who attend.

We had a visit from the pharmacist from Sobeys to talk to us about Alzheimers and dementia. She was very informative and we look forward to her talk every month.

Our appreciation also goes out to Joan Wock for calling bingo for us and to Christina Wock for bringing her dogs here to visit every week. We also want to thank resident Frank deBoth for fi lling in as the bingo caller when Joan was unable to come. Bingo is to the residents at Creighton Lodge as air is to your lungs - we can’t live without it!!

Shop ‘til you drop was the phrase of the day on the April 22 as we were able to buy clothes made by Tan Jay and Alia that were brought to the lodge by Lyn’s Clothesline. We sure had fun trying on all the new spring fashions and colours and it gave us all a boost.

April 1 is known to most as April Fool’s Day. Not so around Creighton Lodge. It was the day that three of our residents celebrated their birthdays! Verna Styre, Ruby Mac-Corquodale and Lenora Wanner all share that day. Also in April, Olive Aspinall, Lorraine Bonokoski and Willy Hanelt celebrated birthdays. Willy graciously brought cake to share with us at dinner on the April 30.

On April 23, there was a birthday tea for Olive Murphy put on by her daughter Joan Byrne from B.C. Olive marks her 98th year and celebrated in her usual style, surrounded by friends and acquaintances from all over.

April 23 was also the birthday of resident Helen Turner who neglected to tell us her age so we celebrate her 66th an-niversary of her 29th birthday!

The Estevan Ministerial Association also deserves another word of appreciation for supplying us with church services every Sunday. We really look forward to being able to worship with the different churches and also enjoy Com-munion and Mass provided by Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Paul’s United Church and St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church.

Two more thank yous need to be said; fi rstly to Margaret Baniulis for helping our cook to prepare and serve the noon meal on Wednesdays. The residents and staff look forward to having her assist in the kitchen every Wednesday for four

hours. As well, our birthday party/KFC volunteers deserve a big thank you for assisting with our parties and chicken night. They are all so helpful and we enjoy the banter we have with them.

The Resident Council was thrilled this month to receive a cheque for $1,500 from Sherritt Coal to cover the cost of their monthly birthday cupcakes and ice cream treats. They have been a supporter of the residents of Creighton Lodge for many years now and we all want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We received a generous donation from Aero Advertising plus a gift of 50 T-shirts with the Creighton Lodge logo on them. We are selling them as a fundraiser for the building, so if anyone would like to purchase one, please come to the offi ce between Monday and Friday. Thanks Vern for the support.

We also received an anonymous $5,000 donation to-wards our building, and the money will be put towards fi x-ing the roof. Many thanks to the folks who continue to give towards this very important seniors’ home.

Well, that’s all for now folks. I certainly hope the next time I write this column, the sun is shining and the grass is green!

Creighton Lodge community news

Submitted byShirley GrahamClub Secretary

Did’ja know ... there are two kinds of “pedes-trians” ... the quick and the dead.

Apology: The jam session is one Mother’s Day, so bring her along.

There was another great turnout for the club’s bridge tournament . Many thanks to the players who donated the cheesecakes ... a welcome treat! We had many compliments. The winners were: Millie Nimegeers and Isabelle Butters of Weyburn fin-ished in first place; Pat Parent and Helen Parish took second; and third went to Lucie Nickel and Jim Brown of Weyburn.

Congratulations, every-one. Hope to see you next year.

Cribbage was played on Thursday, April 25 with Art Friesen taking first place, Eric Parker coming second, while fi nishing in third place was Al Leptick.

One more remind-er - the regular monthly meeting will be held on Thursday, May 2 at 12:30 p.m., with cribbage play to begin at 1 p.m., following

the session.The club will also be

holding a cribbage tourna-ment on Saturday, May 4 beginning at 1 p.m.

Two Norwegian hunt-ers from Minnesota hired a pilot to fl y them to Can-ada to hunt moose. They bagged six. When it came time to load the plane, the pilot said, “I can only take four moose.”

The hunters objected very strongly, saying “Last

year the pilot let us take all six.”

So the pilot reluc-tantly agreed. However, the little plane couldn’t handle the load, and went down. Climbing out of the plane, one hunter asked the other, “Where are we, anyway?”

“I think we’re pretty close to where we went down last year.”

Spring is here; we hope!

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- Love Mom & Ivan and Family.

IN MEMORIAM

In Loving Memory of Len MacDon-ald

Who passed awayApril 30, 1989

Forever rememberedand Loved

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- Love, your son David.

In Loving MemoryOf My Granddaughter

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Who would have been

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You are so wonderful toremember

And so hard to live without.May the winds of love

blow gently,And whisper so you may hear,

How much I sadly miss youAnd wish that you were here.

- Forever in my heart, Gramma Doreen.

In Loving Memory

Of My Precious Daughter

Brooke Duckarmie

Who would have been

17-years-old on May 1

There is always a facebefore me

A voice I would love to hearA smile I will always rememberOf a daughter, I loved so dear.Deep in my heart lies a picture

More precious than silveror gold

It’s a picture of you,my daughter

Whose memory will nevergrow old.

- Lovingly remembered and sadly missed by Mom, Toog, Beau and

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MEAT MANAGER, Jasper Super A. Jasper Super A is looking for an experienced Retail Meat Manag-er. As Meat Manager you will be responsible for all aspects of the managing the department, includ-ing cutting meat. You must have working knowledge of gross mar-gins, expense controls and human resources management. The suc-cessfu l candidate must have Grade 12 (or equivalent) and be able to provide a “clear” security clearance. If you have the skills and abilities please forward your resume to our Head Office, The Grocery People Ltd. (TGP) in confidence to: Human Resources, The Grocery People Ltd., 14505 Yellowhead Trail, Edmonton, AB, T5L 3C4. Fax 780-447-5781. Email: humanresources@tgp.ca.

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OBITUARIESOBITUARIES OBITUARIES

REAL LIFE

REAL PEOPLE

REAL GOD

LIVE RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONduring the 11:00 am service

Faith Lutheran Church

738 - 2nd Street, EstevanChurch Offi ce: 306-634-5684

SUNDAY WORSHIP AND SUNDAY SCHOOL10:00 a.m.

Coffee and fellowship after worship

Pastor Stewart Miller

ALL ARE WELCOMEemail: trinity.luth@sasktel.net • www.etlc.ca

Trinity Lutheran ChurchE.L.C.I.C.

Pursuing God Building Relationships Impacting Lives

Church of God

Senior Pastor: Geoff Thiessen10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship with Children’s Ministries & Nursery.

7:30 p.m. Fridays theGROVE Youth MinistriesPlease call us or visit our website for more information about other ministries and events.

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In Loving Memory ofJohn Bunio

December 30, 1942 - April 19, 2013

Gone, dear husband; gone forever,

How I miss your smiling face.But you left me to rememberNone on Earth can take your

place.A happy home we once

enjoyed - How sweet the memory still -

But death has left a loneli-ness

The world can never fi ll.- Sadly missed, your wife Sharon.

Betty Bakusko1925 ~ 2013

Mrs. Betty Bakusko passed away at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital on Fri-day, April 19, 2013, at the age of 87 years.

As a mother and friend, she will live on in the hearts of her son, Norman (Marilyn) of Mission, B.C.; daughter, Mari-lyn (Dennis) of Medicine Hat; son, Mark (Anna) of Abbots-ford, B.C; grandchildren, Kevin (Marissa) Dornian of Medicine Hat, Beau Bakusko of Port El-

gin, Ontario; great-grandchildren, Carson and Ashlyn Dornian; sister, Marie (Henry) Huisman; sister-in-laws, Evelyn and Colleen Aspenlieder as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Betty was predeceased by her parents, Paul and Vera As-penlieder; sister, Irene Mitchell; brothers, Joe and Louis Aspen-lieder.

Betty will be silently remembered by her family and all those who loved her most without the proceedings of a formal service.

(Condolences may be expressed by visiting www.cooksouth-land.com)

Honoured to serve the family is Cook Southland Funeral Chapel, 901 - 13 Street S.W., Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 4V4; Phone toll-free 1-877-528-6455.

Patricia Carol van de GraafJuly 16, 1949 - April 24, 2013

Carol van de Graaf, late of Bienfait, Sask., passed away in Bienfait, Sask. on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at the age of 63 years.

A private family service will be held at a later date. Interment will take place in the Bienfait Cemetery, Bienfait Saskatchewan.

Those so wishing may make donations to a charity of your own choice in Carol’s memory.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Ser-vices, Estevan.

Remember Your Loved Ones with a Memorial Tribute in The Mercury

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Cell: (306) 529-3236

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Commercial and farm land appraisals

Dental

Funeral Directors

Dustin Hall - Owner/Funeral Director

Allan Styre - Funeral Director

Jeff Sully - Funeral Director1506 4th Street, Estevan (306) 634-8233

12 Warren Street, Redvers (306) 452-6020

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Roofing

Muriel Grace Broken-shire (nee Elliott)

April 15, 1935 - April 20, 2013

With sadness and heavy hearts the family of Mu-riel Brokenshire regret to an-nounce her peaceful passing at Riverview Medical Centre in Winnipeg, Man., on April 20, 2013, at the age of 78 years.

She is survived by her children, Brenda, Winnipeg, Man., Clayton, Edmonton, Alta., and Judy (Laird) Paul,

Kenora, Ont.; grandchildren, Elizabeth and Carleigh Paul, Ke-nora, Ont.; and great grandson, Charlie; brother, Earl (Jane) Elliott, Estevan, Sask.; sisters, Evelyn Barbour, Saskatoon, Sask., and Fern Repchinski, Penticton, B.C.; sisters-in-law, June (Lorne) Neifer, Marion Williams, and Janette Brokenshire; brother-in-law, Tony Schoff, Estevan, Sask.; as well as numer-ous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Muriel was predeceased by her husband, Raymond Bro-kenshire; parents, Harry and Alice Elliott; brother, Fenton Elliott; and sister, Hazel Schoff.

Born in Estevan April 15, 1935 Muriel lived in Ontario, Man-itoba and Saskatchewan throughout her life. She married Ray-

mond Brokenshire on November 18, 1953 and they spent 48 years together. Muriel and Raymond were inseparable, enjoying travelling, social events and entertaining company. Muriel would add a plate at the table whenever Raymond invited another to dinner. Muriel could easily expand a meal and always had bak-ing in the freezer. For many years Muriel and Raymond worked side by side at Perth’s Dry Cleaners spending their working and leisure time together.

Muriel was an accomplished craftswoman. She made beautiful quilts, sewed, and knit. Many family members and friends have been fortunate to receive one of Muriel’s projects and they will be treasured.

She was laid to rest beside her husband at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, Estevan, Sask. on April 23, 2013.

A public visitation took place on Monday, April 22, 2013 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

A Funeral Service was held on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. from the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Doug Third offi ciating.

In lieu of fl owers, those so wishing may make donations to the Canadian Diabetes Foundation in Muriel’s memory.

Thank YouThe family would like to thank the pallbearers and Hall Funeral Services for their assistance. The family would especially like to thank the staff at Riverview Medical Centre for their care and kindness towards Muriel in her last few months.

Rest in peace Mom.

Thursday, May 2:• Public Meeting

regarding Curbside Recycling and Gar-bage Pickup - Spec-tra Place Lobby - 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 4:• Mini Show and Shine - Estevan Shop-

pers Mall Parking Lot - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Barbecue - 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. All Proceeds to Estevan’s Relay for Life.

• Relay for Life Expo - Estevan Shoppers Mall - 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Craft & Home Business Products, Slide show of past relay events; Sign up for this year’s relay (team or volunteer).

• Mötley Crüe Concert - Spectra Place - 7:30 p.m.

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HUNDREDS OFMEAL IDEAS

ONE UNIQUEOPPORTUNITY

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYThe R.M. of Browning No.34 is now accepting applications for

FULL TIME SUMMER EMPLOYMENT

• Duties include maintenance of recreation facilities.

• Job to commence May 13 until August 31, 2013.

• Applicants will be required to hold a valid driver’s licence.

• Preference will be given to students, however anyone may

apply.

Send applications to:R.M. Browning No. 34

Box 40

Lampman, Saskatchewan

S0C 1N0

Application deadline is May 8, 2013For more information on this summer employment

opportunity, contact the R.M. Office at 306-487-2444

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYThe Town of Lampman is now accepting applications for

FULL TIME SUMMER EMPLOYMENT

• Duties include maintenance of recreation facilities.

• Job to commence May 13 until August 31, 2013.

• Applicants will be requires to hold a valid driver’s licence.

• Preference will be given to students, however anyone may

apply.

Send applications to:Town of Lampman

Box 70

Lampman, Saskatchewan

S0C 1N0

or email to : browning.lampman@sasktel.net

Application deadline is May 8, 2013For more information on this summer employment

opportunity, contact the Town Office at 306-487-2462

COIL TUBING PERSONEL,NITROGEN SUPERVISORS,

PRESSURE TRUCK OPERATORS,CRANE OPERATORS,

& SWAMPERS

Wanted for outdoor work in the oilfield, combination of walking, standing and bending. Attention to detail, hand-eye coordination and

willingness to learn are definite assets.H2S and First Aid/CPR required, employer

willing to train.

Apply in person to:

Quest Line Locators Ltd.104C Perkins Street or emailquestlocators@sasktel.net

Computer TechnicianRequired Immediately

• Previous computer repair service• Trouble shooting skills• Good customer service skills

Please apply to: Karen or LincolnEmail: link@thos.ca1217 - 4th Street, Estevan, SK

Careers

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Applied Industrial Technologies LP. a group of industrial distribution companies located throughout Canada, and we are currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of:

Customer Service RepresentativeEstevan, Saskatchewan

Responsibilities include but may not be limited to:

• Providing service to branch customers and managing assigned product lines or customers. • Active involvement in company’s Quality Management process as evidenced by continuous improvement in processes directed toward reducing costs, increasing sales/gross profit and customer satisfaction. • Carries out policies and procedures as defined in the company policy manual. • Continuous development through reading, seminars and on the job training. • Provide a high level of customer service to branch customers including timely, accurate responses to inquiries. • Cross train to assist or fill in when fellow team-mates are absent or their workload volume is high • Work with distribution centre to expedite special requests as necessary • Engage in direct sales actives • Provide telephone support for outside sales force • Meet or exceed sales performance targets • Ensure accurate, timely order processing through the computerized order processing system • Maintain cooperative and productive inter-departmental relationships • Attend branch meetings as required • Take personal responsibility for and actively engage in product systems and skills training and development • Maintain highest regard for safety and housekeeping • Perform other similar or related duties as assigned by the branch manager or supervisor.

Preference will be given to candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:

• High School or equivalent • Related industry experience or 3-5 years industrial inside sales experience preferred • Bearing and power transmission experience is a definite asset • Proficient computer skills, experience with SAP is an asset • Sales and customer service experienced • Mechanically inclined • Ability to work independently • Analytical and problem solving capability • Enthusiastic and exhibits a positive attitude and desire to succeed

Applied Industrial Technologies offers competitive salary, comprehensive group benefit plan, company sponsored RRSP/DPSP, ongoing opportunity for training and development and promotion within the company. Send your resume to aithire@aitcanada.com or fax attn.. Chris Babyak 403-214-1423.

Applied Industrial Technologies LP. a group of industrial distribution companies located throughout Canada, and we are currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of:

Shipper ReceiverEstevan, Saskatchewan

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Receiving and shipping all branch product in an accurate and timely manner • Sort material, stock shelves, pick orders, package and label materials • Handle lost shipments as an enhancement to customer service • Organize and maintain all applicable records and files • Maintain up to date knowledge of the company’s service offerings • Maintain cooperative and productive inter-departmental relationships to deliver exceptional customer service • Take personal responsibility for and actively engage in product, systems and skill training and development

Preference will be given to candidates who possess the following qualifications:

• Customer service driven • Experience in shipping and receiving • Forklift operation experience • Proficient computer skills • Detail oriented • Organized • Basic mathematical aptitude • Self-motivated • Can work independently or in a team environment

Applied Industrial Technologies offers competitive salary, company sponsored RRSP/DPSP, career development opportunities and a full benefit package. Please submit resume in confidence via email to aithire@aitcanada.com or fax to 403-214-1423 attn. Chris Babyak.

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Instructors require good presentation skills, industry experience and willingness to travel in the

southeast region to deliver programs both at College campuses and off-site locations. If you have

a great deal of experience and training in the oil and gas industry and are looking for a change, the

Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute is looking for instructors in the following areas:

St John Ambulance CPR/First Aid/AED Instructor—Estevan, SK St John’s certification an asset

Please send resumes to: Sheena Onrait, Campus Manager

Email: sonrait@southeastcollege.org

Fax: (306) 637-5225

Employment Opportunity

Safety Instructor

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By Peggy BoltonTrinity Tower

Correspondent

Here is a little more information on the good work our women are doing in 2013. The women from Trin-ity Lutheran Church spent two days in January and in February, plus one day in April assembling, tying and hemming quilts, most of which are destined for Ca-nadian Lutheran World Relief. Lutheran World Relief distributes these quilts to destinations where they are needed throughout the world. They also give some to local needy people.

The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon was also given several new quilts.

In all, 128 large quilts and 29 small quilts were completed.

The women greatly appreciate the help of several men and many other local women who come to share their quilting talents, as well as the warm fellowship.

The monthly potluck was held on April 24, and it was yummy as usual.

We are happy to have Frieda Seeman home after a

stay at the Pasqua Hospital in Regina.Lawrence Leptick’s birthday was celebrated over

the weekend at Trinity Tower with all the family at-tending.

We send get-well wishes to Martha Rothe. Shirley Clark, Una Seymour and Willene Kerr all

attended the funeral of Mary Howard that was held at Frobisher on April 23.

Dallas and Susan Seeman have returned from win-tering in Texas. En route home to their home in Sylvan Lake, Alta., they visited with Damyen, Lori and Marley Seeman in Lampman, and with their mother, Frieda See-man who was a patient in the Pasqua Hospital.

Frieda’s roommate in the hospital was a former Estevan resident, Nettie Baxter-Holmgren, who is re-cuperating with a broken leg. If you know her, you may send get-well wishes to: Nettie Baxter-Holmgren, #401 Pasqua Hospital, 4101 Dewdney Ave., Regina, S4T 1A5.

This week, I want to introduce you to a lovely woman, Yvonne Steinke. Yvonne is a volunteer and always has a beautiful smile and shares with all whom she meets.

Yvonne wrote: “I was born and raised in the Lac

Qui Parle district, north of Torquay. I was the last of 11 children. I had fi ve brothers and fi ve sisters, who have all passed away.

“I got my public schooling locally, taking high school at SLBI, Outlook, Sask. I married Clarence Steinke in 1953. We farmed south of Macoun for 40 years. We have four children, Adele, Darwin, Curtis and Bonnie. We retired from farming in 1991, and moved to Estevan in 1995.

“Clarence passed away in 2011 after several years of poor health. I moved to Trinity Tower later that year.

“I enjoy my time quilting, crocheting, reading and singing in the church choir. I try to keep tabs on my kids, two sons-in-law, grandchildren and great grand-children. I fi nd my days go by quickly, taking in some of the activities that go on here and at Trinity Lutheran Church, just across the street.

“I appreciate the fellowship we have here. It is a good place to be.”

Until next week, God bless and keep smiling.

Trinity Tower community news

By Betty BaniulisNorth Portal

Correspondent

Emily and Mike Gil-lies and family travelled to Saskatoon where they spent the April 19-21 weekend with Emily’s family, helping both her

dad and her brother to celebrate their birthdays.

Audra MacDonald of Moose Jaw is spending the summer living at the home of her grandmother, Bette MacDonald. Audra will be working at Percy Davis Brokerage.

Blair MacDonald of

Vancouver, B.C., arrived in Regina by air on April 27, and will be spend-ing the summer with her parents, Scott and Dorna MacDonald. Blair has employment in Estevan for the summer months.

Maxine Amos of Ox-bow spent Thursday, April

25 visiting with her niece, Betty Baniulis in Estevan.

The bridge club met at the home of Arva Wal-ters on Monday, April 22 with two tables in play.Velma Smith took high honours with second high going to Bette MacDon-ald.

North Portal happenings• Born to Chris and Mallory Oleshko, on

April 18, 2013, a daughter, Amelia Jo-Jean; a sister for Adeline. Proud grandparents are Raymond and Marlene Oleshko, and Rodney and Mona Dukart.

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CITY PAGE ESTEVAN THE ENERGY CITY

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF ESTEVAN CITY OF ESTEVAN NOTICE OF ASSESSMENTNOTICE OF ASSESSMENT

Pursuant to subsection 187 (1) of The Cities Act, notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the City of Estevan for the year of 2013, has been prepared and is open to inspection at the City of Estevan, Finance Department, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following days: Monday to Friday, March 13, 2013 to May 13, 2013.

Any person having an interest in any property who wishes to appeal the assessment of that property to the Board of Revision is required to le a notice of appeal in writing to: The Secretary of the Board of Revision, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, SK S4A 0W7 on or before the 13th day of May, 2013.

Dated this 13th day of March, 2013

Trina Sieben City Assessor

GUARD/MATRONThe Estevan Police Service is seeking applications for the position of Guard/Matron. Successful applicants must be honest, trustworthy and able to work independently with little supervision. The Guard/Matron will provide constant observation of persons who are being held in custody.Retired persons are also encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be on call and will have the right to turn down shifts. Applicant must pass a Security Clearance.If you would like to apply or would like to receive further information please contact the Estevan Police Service at

301-11th Ave.,Estevan, Saskatchewan.

S4A 1C7Or call 306 634 4767. You can also email schartrand@estevanpolice.ca

Del Block – Chief of PoliceEstevan Police Service

CAREER OPPORTUNITIESCAREER OPPORTUNITIESCity of Estevan

Equipment Operator - Swing OperatorPermanent Full-Time

• Operate and maintain heavy equipment such as: • Compactor • Grader • Excavator / Backhoe• Maintain assigned tools and equipment• Complete logs, records, and reports

• Operate additional vehicles and equipment as required (skid steer, tandem trucks)• Relieve Sweeper Operator• Perform Labourer type tasks and duties as required

Education• Grade 12 or GED Equivalent• Valid Class 3 Driver’s License with Air Brake Endorsement

Experience• 500 hours operating Heavy Equipment

Contact: Human Resources - City of Estevan1102 Fourth Street • Estevan, SK S4A 0W7Ph: 306.634.1842 • Email: HR@estevan.ca

PUBLIC OPEN HOUSEPUBLIC OPEN HOUSEFOR CURBSIDE RECYCLING THURSDAY MAY 2, 2013 AT 7:00 PM

SPECTRA PLACE LOBBYSNACKS AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED

ALL ARE WECOME TO ATTEND, PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION SESSION!

Up for a new challenge? Still accepting registrations for the next spin session beginning May 21 - June 27! Openings at 10:10 am

and 12:10 p.m. Childcare available. Call 634-1876 for more info or to register!

Are you interested in becoming a Fitness Instructor? We are looking for energetic, motivating people to join our team.

Email tness@estevan.ca for more info.

Fitness Classes

118 - 4th STREET | HOURS: Mon to Fri 10:00am - 6:00pm | Thurs 10:00am - 9:00pm | (P) 306 634 7644 | (E) galleryed@sasktel.net | (W) www.eagm.ca

The Art of Pencil Crayons

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to learn the very basics of drawing with pencil crayons, using vibrant colours and shades. Participants will work from photographs for inspiration.WHEN: Tuesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 (4 weeks)

TIME: 6:30 - 8:30PMCOST: $100/person (materials included)INSTRUCTOR: Kayla Hanson Call Karly @ 306-634-7644 to register!

DRAWING IN COLOUR

Basics of Painting

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to learn the very basics of acrylic painting by creating a still life painting. Participants will create a color wheel, and learn how to mix and apply paint that will be used on their paintings. Terms, techniques and tips will be explored.WHEN: Wednesdays May 8, 15, 22, 29 (4 weeks)

TIME: 7:00 - 9:00pmCOST: $150/person (materials included)INSTRUCTOR: Judy Swallow Call Karly @ 306-634-7644 to register!

BEGINNER PAINTING

COMING EVENTS:

7:30pm July 87:30pm May 4 7:30pm September 17

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Estevan Toastmasters - Meets every Tuesday @ 7:30pm.Toddler Time: May 7 – June 12 Ages 18 months – 3 years Tuesdays or Wednesdays 10:00-10:30 am Listen to a

story, do themed ngerplays for songs then nish with a fun craft! Caregivers participate with their child in Toddler Time.Story Time: May 7 – June 13 Ages 3-5 years Wednesdays & Thursdays @ 1:30-2:15 or Tuesdays @10.45-11:30 am Join us for stories, ngerplays, games & crafts! A different theme every week! Caregivers remain in library while the child is in program.Tablet Tips & Tricks. Thursdays May 2nd & 20th @ 2:30, 5:00 & 6:00 Tablets, e-readers and smart phones – oh my! If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by your mobile device, we are here to help! Join Krista for a 30 minute one on one tutoring session on your device. To register, please call 306-636-1621 and let us know which device you require assistance with.May the Fourth Be With You. Saturday May 4th @ 1:00. Come celebrate International Star Wars Day at the Library! Make a Star Wars snow-globe as we watch the rst movie of the epic franchise – Star Wars: A New Hope and sample some cool Star Wars themed treats. For Ages 13 and up, movie is rated PG. Register at 306-636-1621, you must.Cinco De Mayo. Sunday, May 5th @ 2:00. Sip some (virgin) margaritas, munch on some Mexican food and beat that piñata like it stole your candy. What better way to celebrate “The Day of the Battle of Puebla” at the Library? Ages 13 and up, please call 306-636-1621 to register.Hello Computer! Monday 6th & 13th @ 3:00 and 4:00. Computers are complicated, but don’t let them get you down. Come and get answers to your computer questions in 30 minute one-on-one sessions. Bring your laptop or use a public computer. To register, please call Krista at 306-636-1621 and indicate what you would like to learn.Crafter’s Circle. Tuesdays, May 7th & 21st @ 5:30 Do you knit or crochet? Enjoy the company of other crafters like yourself. Beginners, advanced and master knitters are all welcome. A great opportunity for ongoing support; share your knowledge or bene t from the advice of other crafters. Just bring your own materials and come join the circle. No pre-registration required. Ages 15 and up.Celebrate Children’s Book Week with Children’s Author Lois Peterson Friday, May 10 @ 1:00-2:00 pm Enjoy the creativity and humour of Lois Peterson as she shares her enthusiasm and love for stories and storytelling.Mom & Me Spa Time: Saturday, May 11 @ 2:00-3:00 pm Ages 6+ and a parent or caregiver.Get a head start for Mother’s Day! Bring your Mom or other special lady in your life and sip on Shirley Temples,

while making peppermint lip gloss and homemade bubble bath.

To pre-register or for information call 306-636-1621

At The Library...All Programs are FREE!

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