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A Wild RideThe Estevan Fire Rescue Service had a busy Monday. Early in the morning they were called to a vehicle-moose collision while at roughly

10 a.m. they were called to a vehicle fi re on Milne Crescent. According to reports at the scene, the vehicle caught fi re while in operation

and the driver was able to escape with minor injuries.

For the first time in years, Estevan voters will have the opportunity to select a mayor and the six members of council when they head to the polls Oct. 24.

The deadline to file nomination papers for the upcoming election was last Wednesday and when the dust settled, three people had put their name in for mayor while nine people will vie for a spot on city council.

In what will be the fi rst mayoral election since 2005 when outgoing Mayor Gary St. Onge won a byelection, three candidates will be seeking the city’s top job.

Among the triumvirate of candidates are two cur-rent members of council — Lynn Chipley and Roy Ludwig.

The most experienced member of council, Ludwig is making his fi rst bid to be-come mayor after 18 years of serving the community. Aside from his duties on council, Ludwig has also served as the chairman of the Spectra Place Construc-tion Committee, is a mem-ber of the St. Joseph’s Hos-pital board of directors and is currently the chairman of the Estevan and District Health Committee, which is comprised of representa-tives from Estevan as well as the fi ve surrounding rural municipalities.

Chipley has served two terms on council and, like Ludwig, has been very ac-tive in the community. Chi-

The race is onTwelve candidates lined up for municipal election

Candidates for Mayor

Candidates for Council

Roy LudwigJim HalladayLynn Chipley

Rodney Beatty

Chris Istace

Cameron Robock

Lori Carr

Brian Johnson

Kevin Smith

Greg Hoff ort

Dennis Moore

Mohammed Waseem

pley is a former chairwom-an of the Estevan Chamber of Commerce and has also served on a number of com-mittees including the local beautification group and the leisure service advisory board.

Joining the two coun-cillors is local businessman Jim Halladay. The last per-son to throw his hat in the ring, Halladay has owned and operated M & H Taxi in the city for almost 40 years and is also a former member of the Estevan Police Service.

In a recent interview with The Mercury, Halladay said he feels the city’s in-frastructure is a major issue and that council must work together to come up with a proper solution.

After it initially ap-peared that there might not even be enough candidates to fi ll the six spots on coun-cil, nine people ultimately put their name forward to voters.

Included in that group are four incumbent coun-cillors — Brian Johnson, Chris Istace, Rodney Beatty and Dennis Moore.

Of that quartet, John-son is the most experienced member with four terms on council. The remain-ing three councillors are just wrapping up their fi rst terms and will be asking voters to return them for a second.

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Waseem — are looking for their fi rst term on council. Robock ran for council in 2006 while the other candi-dates are entering the race for the fi rst time. For pro-fi les of the four candidates, please see inside.

Voters will have the chance to hear from the candidates and ask them questions on October 9 when the Estevan Chamber of Commerce hosts a Can-didates Forum Oct. 9 at the Estevan Legion.

The chamber is also giving the public a chance to determine the topics and questions that will be asked during the forum through a survey on their website www.estevanchamber.ca

Along with choosing a mayor and the six the members of council, Es-tevan voters will also vote on a plebiscite to determine if the speed limit should drop to 40 kilometres on all streets with the excep-tion of: Fourth Street, Sixth Street, King Street, Perkins Street, Devonian Street, Escana Street, Kensington Avenue, Souris Avenue/Highway 47, Mississippian Drive, Imperial Avenue, Superior Avenue and Supe-rior Road.

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There will be some campaign action in a few of the rural municipalities and villages scattered through-out southeast Saskatchewan as local ratepayers will be asked to go to the polls to determine who some of their council representatives will be.

Outside of Estevan though, there will be only two communities that will be electing a mayor and those will be Roche Percee and Macoun. All other mayors have been declared elected through acclamation.

The town of Midale has eight candidates lined up to vie for six council seats while there are six candi-dates on the hustings seek-ing four council positions in the village of Macoun. Glen Ewen has four candi-dates seeking one of the two council seats up for grabs in that village.

On the rural munici-palities front, there will be elections in the RMs of En-niskillen, Estevan, Cambria and Coalfi elds with the most action being in Coalfields where all three council po-sitions have multiple can-didates looking for voter approval while the others are merely seeking one more.

Following the closing of nominations and the dead-

Candidates all lined up and ready to

roll in nearby RMs, villages and townsline for withdrawing, it was learned that in the town of Bienfait, incumbent Mayor Jamie Bonokoski is back by acclamation and he will be joined by four incumbent councillors and two new-comers, also gaining seats through acclamation. Those taking up the roles as coun-cillors in Bienfait will be incumbents Ken Bonokoski, Rob Forster, Dwight Thomp-son and Shirley Wheeler. The two newcomers are Paul Carroll and Dustin McKercher.

In the town of Torquay, incumbent Mayor Mike Strachan is back through acclamation and he will be joined by incumbent Coun-cillor Terry Malaryk and newcomers Brian Leisso and Anthony Elliott. There is one seat yet to fi ll in Tor-quay’s council chambers so there will be another call for nominations on Oct. 3.

In Midale, Allan Hau-glum, the incumbent mayor threw his hat in the ring again and was unchallenged, so he resumes his role in that community. There will be an election for councillors though, since eight candi-dates have stepped up to fi ll six vacancies. Five of the candidates are incumbents and they are Kiley Craig, Dorothy Fonstad, Armand Hauglum, Michael Lee and Leonard Thompson. New-comers who are seeking a

seat at the Midale council table are Eric Kesslering, Tom Stephens and Ryan Thompson.

The town of Lampman will not require an election since Mayor Scott Greening is returning by acclamation as are council incumbents Janice Bernier and Dorie Greening. They will be joined by new councillors Les Dube, Jamie Taillon, Ryan Fleck and Desmond Bilsky as all six council seats are now fi lled in that community.

On the village scene, there will be a little bit of voter activity required in Glen Ewen where Mayor Glen Lewis is returning by acclamation but incumbents Kristopher Boyes and Barb Stoesz are being challenged by Mike Swayze and Blair

Hanna for the two council-lor seats.

In the village of North Portal, there will be no elec-tion required as Mayor Mur-ray Arnold is back in that chair for a third consecutive term. Incumbents Kevin Vancuren and Shaun Bris-coe are joined by Michael Yurkowski who is new to the civic governance game, as councillors.

In the village of Ma-coun, there will be a mayoral campaign. Incumbent Janice Blenus is being challenged by Stuart Sovdi, while six candidates have lined up to vie for four council seats. Those six candidates include just one incumbent, Nicholas Benoit. The others who are on the candidates’ list in Macoun include Grant Dube, Wade Cox, Glen Mitchell,

Adam Bachorcik and Kelly Foord.

In Roche Percee, the village’s top elected job will be going to either Blake A.W. Penna or Jay Riedel following the resignation of current Mayor Reg Jahn. The two councillor spots in Roche Percee will be taken by incumbent Pat Petrisor and newcomer Clayton Sten-house. It was noted earlier that Paulette M. Gosselin and April Iverte had filed nomination papers, but it was learned later that one nomination form had not been completed while the other was withdrawn during the withdrawal period which was 24 hours following the offi cial nomination.

Moving on to the ru-ral municipalities, it was recorded that there will be

an election in the RM of Estevan with two candidates lined up for the one seat in Subdivision 5. Richard Ger-vais, the incumbent, is being challenged by newcomer Del Block. In Subdivisions 3 and 1, the incumbents Dennis Blackburn and Lorne Jahn are back through ac-clamation as is Reeve Kelly Lafrentz.

In the RM of Cymri, it will be a return of the famil-iar faces as incumbent Reeve Joe Vilcu will preside over a council table also completed by returnees Harvey Schin-del, Keith Eldstrom and Dar-rel Druck in Subdivisions 1, 3 and 5 respectively.

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There will be some ac-tivity when it comes time to elect public school division trustees in southeast Sas-katchewan. But there will be no polls required for the separate school division ac-cording to returning offi cers who have been handling the acceptance of school divi-sion nominations for the Oct. 24 general civic election.

The South East Corner-stone Public School Division announced after nominations closed that there will be elections required in Sub-divisions 2, 4 and 6, but Estevan will once again be represented by incumbents Janet Foord and Pam Currie who were unopposed and therefore declared elected through acclamation as are Weyburn’s two city repre-sentatives Bryan Wilson and Len Williams.

The public board’s chairwoman Carol Flynn was also declared elected through acclamation as the representative in Subdivision 1 as was incumbent Audrey Trombley, the sole candidate for Subdivision 5.

In Subdivision 2, in-

A little bit of election action in one school divisioncumbent Harold Laich is being challenged by Sandy Smith. Subdivision 2 in-cludes school regions around Arcola, Carlyle, Manor, Maryfi eld and Wawota.

In Subdivision 4, in-cumbent Kevin Keating is being challenged by former trustee Garry Hammett. Ke-ating took the trustee spot held by Hammett in the 2009 general election and now Hammett is making a bid to reclaim it. Keating represents schools in Alam-eda, Oxbow, Lampman and Bienfait.

In Subdivision 6, which includes areas such as Glad-mar, Oungre, Ogema, Pang-man, Radville and Yellow Grass, incumbent Bruce Wagner is being challenged by three others and they are Barbara Segal, Elwood White and Anne Lazurko.

In the meantime, Daryl Harrison, who has been representing Subdivision 3 which encompasses schools in Carievale, Carnduff and Redvers, decided to step down and the fi rst call for nominations went unan-

swered, therefore returning offi cer Shelley Toth is mak-ing a second call for nomina-tions with a deadline of Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.

Over at Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division, there has been a trimming of the ros-ter and therefore a full slate of trustees named through acclamation following the closing of nominations.

Holy Family had 10 trustee spots designated in the last civic election and this time, there are only eight.

The separate school division had a diffi cult time fi nding representatives for the former Subdivisions 3 and 4, namely Spruce Ridge Rural and Queen Elizabeth Rural. The Spruce Ridge Subdivision No. 3 was ul-timately fi lled by Sheldon Spilchuk who came on board later in the three-year term while the QE Subdivision No. 4 was unfi lled. Spilchuk declared earlier that he was not going to seek re-elec-tion and it now appears as if those two subdivisions have been dropped from the

Holy Family board that is now reconfi gured to include Subdivisions 1, 2, 5 and 6 plus the cities of Estevan and Weyburn (two trustees each). Subdivision 1 encom-passes the town of Radville and Kristin Bourassa, the incumbent, is back by accla-mation as the lone candidate. In Subdivision 2, Radville Rural, incumbent Teresa Van De Sype is also back in the trustee’s chair.

In Subdivision 5, the town of Milestone, Greg Metz is the acclaimed trust-ee, while in Subdivision 6, which includes Wilcox and the rural area around Mile-stone, the lone candidate, Kate MacLean, was declared elected by returning offi cer Calvin Martin.

The two Estevan rep-resentatives on the Holy Family board will once again be Karen Melle and Bev Hickie while Weyburn’s rep-resentatives will be Bruno Tuchscherer and Jerome Sidloski. Tuchscherer has been Holy Family’s chair-man since school divisions were amalgamated in 2003.

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“Your RM is taking the lead to get ahead of the curve and that is tough to do,” said Tim Cheesman, a community planning consul-tant from Regina who was in Estevan last Thursday to help lead an RM of Estevan open house event.

Using computer graph-ics as an aid, Cheesman said the ultimate goal was to provide a growth and man-agement plan for the local RM that surrounds the city of Estevan and includes an in-teresting mix of coal mining, oil well drilling, manufactur-ing, industrial and commer-cial enterprises mixed in with several pockets of residential development.

“We’re attempting to de-termine where growth should go and provide some criteria to assist. When things slow down here, you still need to be sustainable,” Cheesman told the RM councillors and Reeve Kelly Lafrentz as well as about 25 to 30 people who were packed into the council chambers to hear the presentation and discuss the future with those who will be charged with the task of overseeing future develop-ments.

“We, as consultants, are looking where growth could take place and where there are restraints. For example, the city would have prob-lems growing south now and the heavy truck bypass is a concern for all of you, of course,” Cheesman said.

The consultant and

Lafrentz assured those in the audience that no zoning plans were in the mix since there was a bylaw already in place and no further action would be required in the im-mediate future.

“And when the RM does do it, it will be in con-sultation with ratepayers.”

Cheesman said he would advise the council and all those concerned to wait until the bypass plans and designs are fi rmed up and confi rmed by the provincial Highways and Infrastructure Ministry and then plan for commercial activity around it “and have an idea where residential development will go. But we’re doing home-work on the bigger issue fi rst.”

Lafrentz said it was council’s intention to “weigh requests and make decisions to fi nd the appropriate fi t” for industrial, manufacturing, commercial and residential developments.

Cheesman said council also had to ensure mitiga-tion measures are in place and those have been worked into the new models that are being developed to help steer the RM of Estevan into a new period of growth. He said business candidates have increasing expectations.

“Nothing will be per-fect, but if you work with the City to make sure there is complementary growth, it can happen especially since you have a joint develop-ment plan with the City. You can’t do it in isolation,” Cheesman said.

The community planner

said it was “phenomenal” that the RM and City of Estevan have such a strong working relationship and are completely open and transparent with each other. That situation made it much easier for people like him to move on with ideas for future growth.

“You two talk jointly about servicing, revenue and expense sharing and you have a genuine desire to share and express your ideas and plan together such things as industrial parks and how to protect lands that need to be protected.”

Cheesman assured the ratepayers in attendance that “nothing has been predeter-mined. The plans are being made to help get costs down for infrastructure in both jurisdictions.”

Cheesman later told The Mercury that he and his company have been work-ing on the RM plans for the past eight months and they should be completed to the point where they can provide an offi cial community plan by February 2013 and that would include a user friendly zoning bylaw.

In the meantime, the various plans that are being bandied about are fl exible and emerging on a regular basis.

The RM council ex-plained that in order to adopt a new zoning bylaw, the province requires them to adopt an offi cial community plan which, in turn, led to the hiring of Cheesman to help them reach those two goals.

Lafrentz said the plan-

ning team will conduct more open house events over the next few months to gather public and ratepayer opin-ions and ideas while fi elding their concerns regarding development over the next 10 to 15 years.

Many of the questions directed to councillors and Cheesman following the formal presentation were fo-cused on the planned heavy truck bypass and its implica-

tions on some farmers who needed to move heavy equip-ment in or around the bypass track. The semi-circle bypass will tie in Highway 39 east to west using a northern route around the main highway as well as accommodating traf-fi c coming into the city from Highway 47 north and south.

RM of Estevan resi-dents were also asked to fi ll out a questionnaire that asked them what they felt

were the important assets within their community, what the perceived chal-lenges were and what type of development they would like to see in and around the mu-nicipality as well as things they would not like to see in their RM. The question-naires can be submitted to the RM offi ce on Fourth Street when completed or can be submitted online using the RM Facebook site.

RM of Estevan open house focuses on the future

Tim Cheesman, a planning consultant who has been contracted by the RM of

Estevan to help them plot future development , discussed alternate routes around

a proposed heavy truck bypass with RM resident Leanne Carlson.

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“We’re attempting to determine where

growth should go and provide some

criteria to assist. When things slow down

here, you still need to be sustainable.” – Tim Cheesman

Community planning consultant

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One person running for city council this elec-tion year wants Estevan to be cleaner and greener.

Mohammad Rashed Waseem decided to run for public offi ce this fall as a man connected to the pulse of the Energy City. Was-eem moved here in 2009 from Toronto and bought the Fas Gas franchise. He has an MBA in marketing and management, and he completed his master’s in political science.

“I fi gured I should be the voice of the people in council, because I meet 400 people every day at

my gas station. I listen to everyone about what they want and what the demand is. Everybody is doing the same complaints,” said Waseem, adding that councilors should, above all, know what the public wants. “If they don’t know what the public wants, they shouldn’t be council-lors.”

He said St. Joseph’s Hospital isn’t able to pro-vide all the care it should be providing to the city, as there are some small things that people need to go to Regina to have treated.

“Even for an ultra-

sound, they send you to Weyburn,” said Waseem. “We cannot arrange these small things in this town?”

He said he would also be interested in pursuing more green spaces in the city as well as other beau-tifi cation projects.

“We can make it very clean and nice and green,” he added. “When people come from different cities and enter Estevan, they don’t feel like they are in a city, they feel like they are in an industrial area.”

Waseem said he has also heard lots of grum-blings from people who

come through his store about ineffi ciencies in the way some work is com-pleted in the city.

S n o w r e m o v a l i s something he feels could be shaken up. He has seen a lot of vehicle collisions on the corner of Sixth Street and 13th Avenue, where his store sits, so he said there might be a bet-ter way to handle the ice and snow.

Something also must be done about the state of the city’s pavement, he said.

“The roads are get-ting worse and worse in Estevan,” he said. “When you enter the city, there’s a big sign that says, ‘Energy City,’ and people think, ‘Oh, it must be a nice city,

it’s the Energy City.’ The thing is, Estevan when you look all over the world, is one of the best cities in the world at the moment, as far as jobs and economy are concerned.”

He looks at places in the world, and in countries like Spain and Greece, the unemployment rate is high.

“People a re com-ing from different coun-tries and different parts of Canada to Estevan to work. People want to come here,” said Waseem. “They want to spend and invest millions of dollars here, but when they see the infrastructure, they go back.”

In other areas of road maintenance, he said there

appears to be a lack of leadership. Painting lines, for example, often hap-pens at an inconvenient time.

“They don’t know what time they have to do that. They come at nine o’clock and everybody is going to school or offi ces. Everybody is on the roads. They need some manage-ment.”

He noted that in many cities, roadwork is done during the late evening and overnight when it is less of a disturbance for commuters.

In considering his bid for council, Waseem said he has experienced enough problems that they now motivate him to be a voice of the people.

“ T h e r e a r e t h r e e things,” he said. “One is, you make a plan. Second is, are you implementing the plans? And the third thing is, is anybody ac-countable after this plan? If you’re doing a job, are you doing the right job?”

Those are questions he hopes to answer if he is elected in October, and as a councillor, he said he hopes to have some control over those answers.

Prospective councillor wants to be voice of the people

A man with a signifi -cant amount of experience in municipal governments is hoping to bring that knowledge to Estevan city council.

Greg Hoffort is one of the nine candidates seeking a spot on council in the Oct. 24 election. Currently the executive director of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hoffort previously served as the administrator of the RM of Estevan for a number of years.

Hoffort said he has held an interest in council for quite some time but was unable to run because of the potential confl icts with his previous job. Now that he moved to another position, the window for him to run

opened.“I’ve spent 15 years of

my working life in the fi eld (of municipal government) — two at the City of Regina and 15 at the RM of Este-van — and something about running for council has always interested me, but as an employee of the RM of Estevan it just wasn’t a good fi t,” he said. “Since leaving the RM, I started giving it some thought and had some encouragement from several people and decided it was the right time for me to see if I could help make a difference, if in fact the voters of Este-van choose to elect me for council.”

While with the RM, Hoffort was on several joint

committees with the city, which focused on initia-tives that involved the two entities and said he would like to continue working on those issues, this time from the city side. As well, he would also see the City improve some of its day-to-day operations, notably how it communicates with the public.

“There are some good things happening in the city and we maybe have to do a better job of making those known and sharing that in-formation with the people, and at the same time there are probably some things that could use continual improvement,” he said. “It’s also important to plan for the future and it is im-

portant to seek the input of the community members. It’s not council’s city, the city belongs to every single resident, and it is important to seek their input.”

While the majority of RMs and cities in Sas-katchewan have somewhat contentious relationships, the co-operation between the RM and City has been a well-documented success, drawing attention from a number of groups includ-ing the federal government. Hoffort said he feels that arrangement needs to con-tinue and were he elected, that is something he would work on.

“It was a process that was years in the making, and it was a tremendous

success story. It wasn’t always such a hospitable relationship and it has be-come one that is mutually benefi cial for both parties, and I think it is good for both parties to keep that relationship running as well as it has.”

Asked why the vot-ers of Estevan should cast a ballot for him, Hoffort said he has long been an advocate for the city and has backed that up by serv-ing on a number of groups including the Spectra Place construction committee.

“I’m not one just to complain about what is lacking, but to try and get on side and do something about it in the numerous committees and issues I

have stepped up to repre-sent Estevan on in the past,” he said. “That is what I in-tend to do in the future. And by no means have I ever accomplished anything by myself. It has always been from a team approach, be it the relationship between the City and the RM, the Creighton Lodge project, the Spectra Place project, the nursing home project, the health-care improve-ments that the community has done … it has always been a team effort, and that is something I take great pride in. People need to re-alize that no one person can make the difference alone, it is absolutely a team effort and that is what people can expect from me.”

Hoff ort hopes to bring experience to council

As the head of the Board of Police Com-missioners, Kevin Smith is already quite involved with the City of Estevan. However, he is looking to add some new responsibil-ities after deciding to run for city council last week.

The long-time mem-ber of the board is one of nine candidates for the Oct. 24 election and is tak-ing his fi rst run at council. Smith said the feeling that he has a civic duty to “help shape the future of Este-van” prompted him to run.

“It’s important that we continue with some of the infrastructure programs that they’ve already got,” he said. “You’ve got to fi n-ish what you start and it’s important that we continue that path of renewal.”

Smith added with so many new people in Este-

van, the city needs to work to integrate them into the community. He is also concerned about the sus-tainability of the current growth path and would like to see if the direction the current council has pointed the city in is the correct one.

“I’ve been a member of the police board for awhile so it’s not going to be all that new. There are a few pieces of the puzzle in my mind that I would like to fulfi l and there’s a general interest in seeing that we can serve the com-munity well.”

Much like his fellow candidates, Smith said he is concerned about the city’s infrastructure. He said he’s also heard from the public about the need for more green spaces in Estevan.

“I meet people in my daily job and there was just a young lady yester-day who had moved here from Saskatoon and she was expressing a great need for more green spac-es. It’s nothing new, it’s just a continued direction but there also has to be a balance. Sports and leisure takes up 40 per cent of all money in the city. The police take up roughly 40 per cent; what’s the other 20? I am just interested in how we manage our city and how we will manage our city. Just like any other business, we can always improve.”

Smith said he would also like to see the atti-tude of residents towards their community improve, noting there is too much negativity at times.

“We should be a lot

more positive. Estevan has always provided a good living for me and many other people. We have got to make a want to be place instead of a stopping place. I think that is important because my community is my com-munity, home is where the heart is and this is where my heart is.”

Although he has ex-perience in working with the police board, Smith said there is also much he doesn’t know when it comes to municipal gov-ernance and hopes vot-ers give him the chance to learn the City’s inner workings.

“There are way too many questions that I can’t answer because there is a process to everything and how they arrived at their decisions now. I may be able to infl uence how they arrive at decisions in the future and I think that is the most exciting thing about it.”

Smith said if elected he will be very active in council and will give an honest effort to the resi-dents of Estevan.

“I’ll stay neutral and decide on my own on each and every issue,” he said. “I’m not very easily swayed or manipulated, but I don’t think that really happens all that often. I like to make decisions on my own and I’ll be there, I’ll know what the issues are and I’ll work hard to make sure that I am aware of all the information and the issues that do come up.”

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Robock was one of nine people to put their name forward in advance of the Sept. 19 deadline to file nomination papers. He last ran for council in 2006 and said concerns about a hand-

ful of issues, notably the housing shortage in Estevan, prompted him to run again.

“I’m seeing families that don’t have housing,” he said. “I’ve worked in the oilpatch and I see guys living in long stay hotels that have $400,000 to $500,000 sitting in accounts waiting to buy a house and there is no place to buy or when they do go

to buy, they are being outbid. “We should be expand-

ing, we need to expand, infrastructure needs to be put in place and there is no excuse for it.”

Robock added he would like to see the city open more subdivisions in the city and stay away from quick fi xes such as a trailer park.

“We want people that want to stay here and live here for the remainder of their lives and work hard and put down roots. We are missing that opportunity.”

Robock said he is also concerned about what he feels is a lack of foresight at City Hall when it comes to long-term planning. He cited as an example the recent decision to allow a second Tim Hortons location in the Estevan Shoppers Mall park-

ing lot. Robock said the cur-rent traffi c confi guration will lead to a number of problems and potential safety hazards for residents.

“Quite a few years ago, they changed out in front of the mall from being two lane traffi c on the one side to single lane. That needs to be changed,” he said. “The curb either needs to be moved so it can be made back into a proper two-lane road, otherwise we are going to have more traffic jams because everyone goes to Tim Hortons.

“They are missing fu-ture planning. They are not thinking about this. I hate to say it, but some of city council has a little bit of shortsightedness and are not outthinking the box and we are running into problems

with it.”Robock said he is also

very concerned about the state of the City’s infrastruc-ture, in particular the roads throughout Estevan.

“We are always behind on the roads here,” he said. “I have never lived in a city where right in the middle of it there is a gravel street. They have had provincial money for it, to fi x it and change but it’s not being done. I’m looking at this, and I am seeing other projects get done. We defi nitely needed a new hockey rink ... we had construction crews down here for that, we had paving crews down for it, the whole entire works; we should have retained their services for a few extra dollars.”

Should he be elected, Robock said he will be at-

tentive to the cares and con-cerns of residents and would invite them to express their thoughts to him.

“I will always stop and listen to someone’s concerns and try and fi gure a way it can be dealt with,” he said. “I can always be approached, and I am always willing to try and deal with a problem. It may not be 100 per cent what the person may want, but it will be something they can be happy with. We are here to make things easier for everybody.”

Robock said he plans to use the experience gained from his 2006 campaign and put it towards possibly getting elected in October. He plans to go door to door and speak with residents and also be more aggressive than he was the fi rst time around.

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Norm Park

All Things Considered

What you want out of a politician is really the same thing you want out of a neighbour or friend.

You want someone you can count on, someone you can really depend on when the chips are down. You want some-one who has your back, someone who doesn’t bail because a situation gets tough, but sticks up for you when maybe it might be more convenient to do otherwise.

Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart strikes you as the kind of guy who would likely be a pretty good friend and neighbour. In fact, I’m guessing that those who live near his Pense-area farming and ranching operation would likely agree.

As my colleague Bruce Johnstone, Leader-Post fi nance editor, recently wrote: Stewart “doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to expressing how he really feels about things. Just ask the poor slob who tried to steal Stewart’s government-issue Taurus sedan a few years ago.”

Like any good friend or neighbour, you want a politician who doesn’t pull any punches - a stand-up person who doesn’t try to weasel out of tough situations. And when it comes to

Stewart stands up for Sask.

standing up for rural Saskatchewan, there’s a big difference right now between Stewart and his federal MP counterparts.

At issue is the Growing Forward 2 farm program fund-ing agreement that was recently approved in Whitehorse by federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers.

Even before leaving for the Whitehorse meeting, Stewart expressed his reluctance to sign the new agreement. Stewart explained to reporters in Regina that Saskatchewan’s agri-culture stakeholder groups had problems with some of the then-proposed changes and questioned whether others had done the same level of consultation with their stakeholders.

The problems seem to centre around proposed changes to the AgriInvest program - the popular rainy day program in which 90 per cent of Saskatchewan producers have invested. Neither Stewart nor Saskatchewan producers wanted to see that program changed.

Just as problematic, however, was Ontario’s preference for the current AgriStability income support program that the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) simply want scrapped. Instead, Ottawa and others preferred adjustments to AgriStability that include government assis-tance once a producer’s margin falls below 70 per cent of their historical reference margin. Under the current Grow Forward framework, producers get a payment once their margin falls below 85 per cent of their historical reference margin. The move, along with changes to other business risk management programs, reduces payments by as much as $430 million a year for each of the next fi ve years, resulting in a huge savings for the federal government.

After returning from Whitehorse, Saskatchewan’s agri-culture minister candidly expressed his distaste for the back-

room deals that he witnessed that resulted in these changes being a done deal. He said it felt like he “ate something rotten.”

The result of this horse-trading saw the feds reduce their contributions to AgriInvest to one per cent of producers’ al-lowable net sales.

As one might expect from a good neighbour, friend - or perhaps even a good politician - Stewart fought gamely for rural Saskatchewan’s interest. Sadly, the same cannot be said for federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz whose interest seemed mostly to be Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s direc-tive to reduce federal costs.

This is a re-occurring theme in federal politics these days.

Yes, the Conservatives have pushed all the right buttons when it comes to easier issues like getting rid of the Liber-als’ gun registry and implementing tougher sentencing for criminals.

But when it comes to support programs for rural Sas-katchewan like the Indian Head Tree Farm, federal commu-nity pastures and now the AgriIvest and AgriStability funds, Ritz and other Saskatchewan Conservative MPs have not stood up for this province.

And now we’re hearing federal MPs and Conservatives tell us that support for rural Saskatchewan may only get worse if approval is given to the proposed federal bound-ary changes that create more exclusively urban ridings in Saskatchewan.

This isn’t what one would expect from a neighbour, friend or politician. The feds could learn a lot from someone like Stewart.

I don’t know if I should feel sorry for Lynden Dorval or suggest he had it coming. What I do know is that there is probably something more behind his dis-missal as a teacher at Ross Shep-pard High School in Edmonton that is outside his refusal to back off on giving a mark of zero to students who refused to hand in assignments or complete exams.

Here was a teacher with 35 years experience and we know it’s not easy to “downsize or adjust personnel” when it comes to tenured teachers in structured school systems. But that’s what happened.

So what goes here? On the surface, I have to

side with Mr. Dorval. What do you do if the precious little charges refused to hand in as-signments? I know, you give them an “incomplete” or “not meeting target,” classifi cations or whatever jargon is used in today’s schools. When school divisions set themselves up by proclaiming there will be suc-cess for everyone as their stan-dard, there just ain’t no room for Dorval’s zeros.

In fact as I understand it, even giving marks on assign-ments and exams are on the way out. Things are getting re-coded and colour coded. Students are either meeting, approaching or

I’m slightly confused, as usual

exceeding expectations. In other words, in the new world order of education, some are getting it, others appear to be getting it and if some don’t get it at all, they still don’t get zeros ... they get empathy and a spot on the podium of participation I guess.

What if these tutorial dar-lings aren’t getting it and aren’t even trying? What colour code do they earn?

Special remedial sessions? Nope, that won’t work if they aren’t trying. But if they’re not allowed to fail ... what?

I don’t know how often I was told that “you can succeed by failing.” It probably came from some teachers. Boy, did I learn a lot using that educational technique. The dumber I got, the smarter I became. It’s not that devastating. Take it from one who has experience in that category.

Those who aren’t meeting the current colour code require-ments, well, I can’t help them with much advice, not being a 21st century educator. I just fi gure that a little bit of disap-

pointment and failure at an ear-lier age can’t be as bad as being continually fi red from jobs for being incompetent later on.

What will the reaction be? “Hey, you can’t fi re me, I was approaching expectations all through Grade 8 ... I was amber all through high school.”

You know, sometimes a few might just have to fall through the cracks no matter how fool-proof and foul proof we try to make our educational systems function.

In the meantime, I think Edmonton’s school board should look at Mr. Dorval’s zeros and recalibrate their decision. Maybe he just didn’t get along with his boss.

Greater minds than mine are no doubt being invited to tend to this issue.

By the way, in spite of all my misguided youthful ad-ventures in education, I never received a zero although that 12 per cent in geo-trig sure enough came damn close, I’ll tell ya. I think in that case my esteemed educator/mentor gave me that mark simply for providing him with a few moments of entertain-ment ... a sort of digression from the tedious task of scoring the examination papers of the actual qualifi ed scholars who fell under the spell of his erudite guidance.

We can interpret it as a smooth move and some clever calculation regarding the future.

The RM of Estevan is wanting to make changes to their zoning bylaw because, quite frankly, they need to.

To do that though, requires an offi cial community plan, according to the rules set out by the provincial government. So to that end, the RM has hired a consultant to help lead them down a proper path and within the next few months some more diffi cult decisions will have to be made. But right now, we see where they are at least following the recommended procedures and adding a whole swack of transparency to the process. Keeping the community planning and zoning ideas in front of the local ratepayers and general public, including the citizens of their neighbouring city of Estevan, is to be commended.

It would have been easy for the RM council to slip behind closed doors, make some decisions with their contracted community planner in tow, and then show up with a fi nished product to foist upon an un-suspecting public. That would have been the easy way.

The RM, and we hope by extrapolation, the City of Estevan when the time comes, chose the more awkward but also correct route in arriv-ing at zoning changes. It will be a more diffi cult route since each step will be open for public scrutiny and criticism and we expect that these councillors and administration may end up in more than one shouting match with irate property owners along the way. But maybe, with a little luck, those moments will be avoided if the path they continue to follow is one of honesty and full disclosure.

The planners have already delightfully discovered that the RM of Estevan and the City of Estevan have forged a solid working relation-ship that is rarely found in other jurisdictions. With the two principals sharing workloads, revenues, expenses and responsibilities ... the plan-ners can help plot the RM’s future direction without the restrictions of wondering what the neighbouring city’s administration is thinking. They already know what the thinking is and have calibrated that into their equations thanks to the spirit of co-operation, not confrontation.

No doubt the RM’s master plan will provide ideas that perhaps can be adopted by Estevan’s governing and administrative teams.

The RM decided clearer directions were required since they have seen new issues arise due to the complexities that surfaced around the proposed heavy truck bypass. This planning will not only explain and clarify the current situations, but also set the stage for future develop-ment.

The proactive process could, and should, provide a template for the next 10 years and the RM, with a huge mix of residential, agricul-tural, commercial, industrial, recreational and manufacturing concerns to consider ... is doing it with progressive steps that will help it avoid many pitfalls.

Naturally, the end results won’t be perfect, nothing of this mag-nitude ever is, but we must applaud the process and the honest effort to do it the right way.

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TEN YEARS AGO:Industrial divers hired

by SaskPower arrived at the Boundary Dam reservoir on Sept. 17 to carry out some underwater work. Ac-cording to SaskPower, the diving team was to install a permanent extension in the water intake system in order to ensure the city of Estevan continued to receive a reliable source of water. Mayor Tim Perry said that the quality of wa-ter in the city would also be improved as a result of the work being done.

Justin Giesbrecht was the new vice-principal at the Estevan Comprehen-sive School. The official announcement of the ap-pointment was made by ECS board chairman Ron Jickling and managing di-rector Ellery Peters on Sept. 23 during the ECS board meeting.

The Sept. 21 Canada Post food drive to assist the local emergency food

service operated by the Salvation Army resulted in a near-record amount of food being collected. Kent Rogers, superintendent of Estevan and area postal services, said this year’s drive saw 6,467 pounds of food collected - slightly ex-ceeding the previous year’s total of 6,400 pounds. The annual competition be-tween Estevan and Wey-burn postal employees once again ended up with the Energy City’s effort far ahead of Weyburn’s where they collected 4,480 pounds of food.

Two Estevan Mercury reporters were winners of awards handed out at the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association’s fall convention held in Re-gina the weekend of Sept. 20 and 21. Veteran reporter Norm Park was a double winner, capturing the Col-umnist-of-the-Year Award as well as an award for the best sports photo. Sports

reporter Chad Saxon also picked up an award for the feature story he wrote on veteran umpire Bob Burns and his 50 years of calling balls and strikes.

TWENTY YEARS AGO:Ideal weather condi-

tions prevailed on Sept. 20 as the 12th annual Terry Fox Run was one of the most successful ever to be held in the Energy City. Organizer Dave Riddle said the 112 participants was the largest turnout he had seen since becoming involved with the event fi ve years ago. A total of $4,350 was raised, and this amount was also up in comparison to what was realized in the past as previous runs had averaged about $3,000. Top fundraiser was Ellery Peters with $335, followed by David Page with pledges of $228.

Estevan was chosen as a test site for a new customer service program

being undertaken by the Saskatchewan Assess-ment Management Agency (SAMA). From Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, SAMA personnel were to survey approxi-mately 200 randomly se-lected residential and com-mercial property owners to determine methods to improve their customer service. The city had just recently undergone a re-inspection by the agency, and Bryan Hebb, SAMA’s chief executive offi cer, said that Estevan was the ideal community for the test as “our re-inspection program has just wrapped up and therefore the inspection process will be fresh in the minds of ratepayers.”

About 350 people at-tended the official grand o p e n i n g o f t h e n e w 36,000-square-foot Saskoil building located on Kens-ington Avenue in Estevan.

It was announced that Estevan Junior High’s entry was the winner of the el-

ementary and junior middle years division in the Sas-katchewan High School Yearbook competition. EJH Retrospect 1990-91 had been produced under editor Danita Pattemore.

THIRTY YEARS AGO:Marie DeLaet of Ben-

son was the grand aggregate winner at the horticultural show at the Estevan Shop-pers Mall. Rose McGregor of Estevan was a double winner as she collected championship trophies for houseplants and cut fl owers, and also tied with Blanche Schiestel of Frobisher for flower-vegetable display. The gladiolus display was won by Verity Westman of Midale, fruits by Marie Boey of Estevan, and deco-rative arrangements by Eva Farnden of Alameda. The show, sponsored by the mall and the Estevan Agri-cultural Society, concluded with an auction of the plants that were displayed. The $90 that was raised through the sale was to be turned over to the Estevan United Way campaign.

Vandals caused a con-

siderable amount of damage at the Estevan City Cem-etery over the weekend of Sept. 18. Approximately 20 to 25 tombstones were ei-ther smashed or overturned, a number of footstones and two smaller tombstones were thrown into a water tank, and a number of glass fl ower vases that had been placed on gravesites had been smashed.

Estevan and area par-ticipants did very well at the South East Chariot and Chuckwagon Association’s wind-up race meet held at Oak Lake, Man., on Sept. 18 and 19. Dave Andersen of Estevan placed fi rst in both the 48” chariot and 48” Ben Hur divisions, and picked up a second in the 50” chariot category, while Larry Schnell of Frobisher picked up a fi rst in the 48” wagon competition and placed second in the 48” chariot class. Larry Lange-dahl of Estevan returned home with a first-place fi nish in the 50” chariot cat-egory, while Stan Milford of Estevan was a second place finisher in the 50” Ben Hur class.

The Editor:Minister of Citizen-

ship and Immigration Ja-son Kenney has made it quite clear that Canadian citizenship is not for sale and is taking action to strip citizenship and permanent residence status from peo-ple who don’t play by the rules and scam their way into obtaining citizenship.

Having Canadian citi-zenship is an honour and a

privilege and so the Min-ister will apply the full strength of Canadian law against those that cheapen its integrity by fraud.

Our government’s in-vestigation into residence fraud continues to grow, with nearly 11,000 individ-uals potentially implicated in applying for citizenship or maintaining permanent resident status illegitimate-ly. We have already begun

the process to strip 3,100 fraudulently obtained citi-zenships.

In most cases, suspects will use deceitful immi-gration representatives to fraudulently create evi-dence of living in Canada while actually living over-seas. This deception is cre-ated so that individuals can fraudulently maintain their permanent residence status and later apply for

citizenship.Shockingly, criminal

investigations have found that a family of fi ve may pay upwards of $25,000 over four or more years to create the illusion of Cana-dian residence.

This fraud hurts ev-eryday Canadian families. Those who illegitimately obtain permanent residence or citizenship status have access to taxpayer subsi-dized education, health

care, and other social ben-efi ts without ever contrib-uting as a taxpayer them-selves.

It also hurts the major-ity of newcomers who come to Canada, who follow the rules with honesty and integrity, and contribute greatly to our economy and our society.

Over the past six years since Stephen Harper and the Conservatives formed government, Canada has

had the highest sustained level of immigration in history. We are committed to creating an immigra-tion system that brings the world’s best and brightest to Canada while protecting our immigration system against those who would abuse our generosity.

Sincerely, Ed KomarnickiMP Souris-Moose

Mountain

Canadian citizenship not for sale

Do you remember?

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The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) offi cers reported that once again there was a good variety of activity at the province’s busiest land-based international border crossings near Estevan dur-ing the month of August.

North Portal, the ser-vice’s busiest portal which is operated around the clock, was the site for a number of CBSA enforce-ment activities last month.

The monthly review noted that on Aug. 2, CBSA offi cers arrested a suspected impaired driver who failed an alcohol screening test administered at the North Portal offi ce. He was turned over to members of the Estevan detachment of the RCMP for further process-ing.

On Aug. 4, a North Dakota man attempting to enter Saskatchewan to va-cation in the southern part of the province was denied entry when the background check revealed he had been convicted of impaired driv-ing, possession of a con-cealed weapon, possession of burglary tools, assault and assault causing bodily harm.

A North Dakota com-mercial driver coming into Canada to pick up goods on Aug. 7 was checked

False declarations at border crossing spells trouble for travellersinto and refused entry since he had several criminal convictions on his record including break and enter at a casino, bank robbery, unauthorized use of a mo-tor vehicle, felony theft and an assault charge while in prison.

An Ontario man en route to Fort McMurray on Aug. 11 was arrested after CBSA offi cers at North Por-tal conducted a secondary examination of his vehicle. They seized 8.3 grams of marijuana and four doses of psilocybin mushrooms. The man was released later after paying a $440 penalty.

On Aug. 12, a woman from South Africa who was residing in Saskatch-ewan arrived at the North Portal station to finalize her permanent residence status. During the examina-tion, offi cers discovered the woman had been charged with assault with a weapon in June of this year and is currently waiting for a court date. CBSA offi cers seized the woman’s documents pending the outcome of the charges since a convic-tion would make her an inadmissible applicant for permanent residency in Canada.

Local residents re-turning from a furniture purchasing excursion in

Minot on Aug. 14 declared their purchases at a value of $4,921.41. During the secondary examination, CBSA offi cers discovered the couple failed to de-clare an initial deposit of US$4,408.83 on the furni-ture. Offi cers then found an additional $1,207 in unde-clared goods, so all items were seized and a penalty of $2,008.76 was paid before the goods were returned. If the goods had been properly noted and declared the bill would have been $539.63 for taxes.

On Aug. 18, a North Dakota man stated he was heading into Estevan for an overnight visit. He was refused entry when offi cers noted his previous criminal past which included bur-glary, possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, a probation violation and im-

paired driving conviction. The man also had an out-standing charge of assault levied against him at the time. He was turned over to United States authorities.

On Aug. 22, a Min-nesota man told CBSA offi cers he was coming into Canada to visit friends in Alberta for two months but through further interviews and examinations it was determined the man had actually been hired as a teacher in Alberta and was reporting for work. The man did not have proper authorization to work in Canada and had been ad-vised by his prospective employer to be untruthful during the border examina-tion. He was refused entry and barred from returning to Canada for a period of one year.

On Aug. 27, a similar

incident occurred at the North Portal Port when two men from New York arrived claiming they were going on a fi shing trip in Canada. Upon further interviews it was learned that the two were actually coming to work in a mine and did not have the documents to get a work permit. The men also informed CBSA officials they had been advised by their potential employer to be untruthful with CBSA offi cials. They, too, were refused entry and barred from entering Canada for one year.

That same day, CBSA launched a criminal inves-tigation into the unlawful importation of a vehicle by a couple from Alberta. Arriving at the North Por-tal site. they reported they were returning with their race car that they had taken

into the United States for tuning and testing. Further examination revealed that the car did not originate in Canada and that, in fact, it had been purchased in the U.S. during this particular trip for a total of $29,787.

The race car was seized and returned to the couple only after a penalty of $11,914.80 had been paid. Had they processed the car properly with truth-ful declarations, they would have paid just $1,489 in taxes.

If anyone has informa-tion regarding suspicious cross-border activity, please contact the Border Watch Line at 1-888-502-9060. For general information regarding CBSA visit their website at www.cbsa.gc.ca

August was a pretty busy month at the interna-tional border crossings at North Portal and the Este-van Highway according to information released by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA).

In August, the Port of North Portal processed 11,728 regular vehicles plus another 10,527 com-mercial trucks. Between them, they carried 39,008 people.

CBSA reports that of those 39,008 people, 75 were refused entry with 43 of them being rejected due to criminal records.

Offi cers at the North Portal office also issued 145 work permits and 24 study permits while anoth-er 82 people were granted permanent residence status.

At the Estevan High-

August border business

by the numbersway border crossing, there were 3,465 regular vehicles processed along with 475 commercial trucks. They were carrying a total of 6,415 travellers and 13 of them were refused entry. Of those 13 who were turned back, 11 were re-fused entry due to criminal records.

On three separate oc-casions, CBSA officials seized prohibited over-ca-pacity ammunition maga-zines and in one instance, a prohibited pepper spray. In all four cases the travel-lers were issued penalties of $500.

Three times in August, border offi cers at the Este-van Highway Port arrested people on outstanding war-rants which ranged from court-ordered violations to failure to appear in court.

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Woof!Roughly 30 dogs of all shapes and sizes, and their owners,

participated in the Estevan Humane Society’s dog jog on

Sunday. The walk was held in memory of the late Dr. Neil

Howard and was followed by a barbecue.

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TOWN OF MIDALENOTICE OF POLL

Public notice is hereby given that a poll has been granted for the 1. Election of: Councillor for the Town of Midale2. Voting will take place on Wednesday the 24th day of Octo-ber between the hours of 9:00 am to 8:00 pm at the polling place listed below:

Midale 39ers Hall, 201 Main Steet, Midale Saskatchewan

Dated at Midale this 26th day of September, 2012

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Little Warriors will be in Estevan this weekend urging everyone to speak up.

Little Warriors is an or-ganization devoted to help-ing recognize, prevent and treat child sexual abuse, and a fundraising dinner will be held Sept. 29 at the Beef-eater Plaza. The Be Brave Ranch near Edmonton is their initiative, planned as a treatment centre for vic-tims, and they are looking to fund the building and its operations.

Lisa Wock is helping organize the fundraiser on the local side and noted the lack of a support system for victims of sexual abuse in Canada. Wock was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

Cortney Needham is Little Warriors’ program co-ordinator and second-ed Wock’s comments that

there is very little treatment available for victims of this abuse.

“We have looked, and we’ve wanted so badly to just direct individuals to where they can get help, but in Canada there’s nothing,” Needham said. “In reality, perpetrators have access to numerous treatment fa-cilities, but for the kids that they’ve victimized against, there’s nothing.”

The organization is about $2 million shy of their $3.4 million goal. The facility will be the fi rst of its kind in Canada. Little Warriors plans on helping 480 children each year once it opens.

The fundraising eve-ning will include a dinner and a number of speakers, like Wock and her husband Mike.

“I actually blamed him

for a lot things,” said Wock. “It wasn’t until I got coun-selling and he got counsel-ling to understand why I did the things I did … we were on the verge of divorce actually.”

Needham will be on hand to talk about the pro-grams available through Little Warriors and their ranch. She noted the issue of child sexual abuse includes some uncomfortable stats that show one in three girls and one in six boys will experience an unwanted sexual act.

The library will host stewardship workshops run by Needham on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

Wock got involved with Little Warriors after creating a video called The Valentine’s Message About Sexual Abuse by Lisa. It was inspired by Theo Fleury

and Little Warriors, said Wock, who added that she is estranged from her family right now.

She said Little War-riors could help with her situation because it teaches people how to react to these circumstances.

“That’s what Little Warriors will do. That’s the biggest thing is to teach people how to react to this,” she added. “When I told my mom, when I was about Grade 9, her reaction would have been different if I was seven or 37. And the fam-ily’s reaction, had they been educated, it may have been different.”

Wock said anyone who knows a child would benefi t from the workshop.

“They say for every adult that takes this class, 10 children will be protected.”

Needham said the pro-

grams teach adults how they can help prevent child sex-ual abuse, recognize signs and symptoms and how to talk to their children about their bodies and personal boundaries.

“Giving them that re-ally good awareness on the steps that they can take to help protect their kids,” Needham said is what the workshops offer.

Wock is happy to be able to organize the event and help children who may be abused as she was.

“It feels empowering knowing that I’m able to speak up. I know that going out to the community, I’ve had more people than ever tell me that it’s happened to them too,” said Wock, who added it’s not something she has trouble talking about anymore. “The fi rst time I spoke out, I think I teared

up, I cried. Now when I speak, I know what I’m talking about. It gets easier.”

Needham added that it’s time for everyone to come out and broach the topic because of the serious-ness of how prevalent the issue is in our society.

“It’s time to, kind of, remove the blindfold,” she said. “Don’t be afraid to talk about it. It affects more people than you believe. As soon as one person steps for-ward to start talking about it, it allows that open com-munication to start happen-ing within the community. Child sexual abuse doesn’t just affect a survivor, it affects the survivor, the survivor’s family and the community as a whole.”

Money raised Saturday evening will go to the Be Brave Ranch as well as local charities.

Time to remove blindfold on sexual abuse

Two Canadian musical acts will be taking the stage in Estevan later this year.

The Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils announced recently that Speed Control and John McDermott will be per-forming in the Energy City in separate shows as part of the Stars for Saskatchewan series.

Speed Con t ro l i s straight out of the Univer-sity of Toronto’s jazz per-formance program where

Graeme Peters teamed up with brother Jody Peters and combined their love of rhythm and energy to create.

With the added solid power of Ian March on drums, the group uses their knowledge of music, stem-ming from their childhood to the present, to power their music forward. Branded as “real rock”, Speed Control takes control of the stage with a power that will make people jump up and dance while knocking their breath

away, leaving them saying, “What just happened?”

Speed Control will be in Estevan Nov. 6 at the Orpheum Theatre beginning at 7 p.m.

For more information, contact Brenda Lyons at 634-2584 or through e-mail at: bren.lyons@sasktel.net

Also making his way to Estevan is John McDermott who will be in the city Nov. 21 for a performance at the Estevan Comprehensive School.

The popular McDer-mott is an artist whose sense of respect for tradition and understanding of the sen-timent behind the music resonates worldwide. His outstanding musical career includes three Canadian platinum records, fi ve Juno nominations, a solid inter-national touring schedule, and many more albums including Songs of the Isles Ireland and Songs of the Isles Scotland, Images of Christmas with John Mc-

Dermott and Friends, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Stories of Love, Just Plain Folk and On A Whim. McDermott will be performing favourite selections and Christmas classics with his trio.

OSAC annually pres-ents over 300 live communi-ty and school performances, attended by a total audience of approximately 75,000. This is possible because of a dedicated network of volun-teers committed to making culture an integral part of

Saskatchewan community life, and vital funding from Saskatchewan Lotteries, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and Canadian Heritage. Sas-katchewan Lotteries benefi ts more than 12,000 sport, cul-ture, and recreation organi-zations around the province. Each year 600,000 people participate in programs and from activities initiated by these organizations, over $1 billion of economic activity is generated, and 23,000 jobs are sustained.

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1. are physically disabled2. have been appointed as election officials; or3. anticipate being unable to vote on the day of the election

Voting will take place on Wednesday the 17th day of October between the hours of 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. at the town of Midale Office located at 230 Main Street, Midale, Saskatchewan.

Dated at Midale this 26th day of September, 2012

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There is no limit to what a police offi cer may be asked to do in the line of duty.

On Monday of last week, Estevan Police Ser-vice (EPS) personnel were asked to intervene during the process of evicting a tenant from an apartment block and then help settle a dispute about a fence and property.

In both instances, the issues were concluded suc-cessfully.

But the hits just kept on coming.

The next call came from the local Saskatchewan Li-quor Store outlet where it was reported that two people entered, picked up a bottle of booze and simply left with-out paying for it. This matter remains under investigation. This was not a free sample day at the local government outlet.

Next up was a 50-year-old man who arrived at the front desk of the Estevan Police Station ready to turn himself in on a number of outstanding warrants. Po-lice noted that the man was intoxicated so he was taken

into custody until sober and when he was released it was under a number of court-ordered conditions.

On that same evening, EPS personnel arrested an-other man for being in-toxicated in public when they found him passed out on a sidewalk near a local lounge. The 48-year-old was charged accordingly.

On Tuesday, Sept. 18, police were asked to look into a break and enter in-cident at a local residence. Police said it appeared as if two people entered a house looking for a person who al-legedly owed some money. Threats were made and the two people left the house without actually locating the person who apparently owed them the money. Two men were arrested and one was charged with break and enter, uttering threats and being in breach of court conditions.

Police were called upon to investigate a hit and run incident at a stop light when one vehicle rolled back and damaged the licence plate

holder of another vehicle. The first person was too frightened to stop as the person whose vehicle was hit followed him, making gestures to pull over. Police managed to intervene and assessed the situation, ad-vising the parties to attend to the local Saskatchewan Government Insurance of-fi ce and report the incident.

On Sept. 19, EPS mem-bers charged a young of-fender with public mischief as a result of a broken win-dow incident. The matter was referred to alternative measures offi cials.

Later that night police were called to a residence twice to deal with a young offender who was being unruly. The youth would not co-operate so Social Services personnel were asked to attend to the scene and the youth was placed in their care.

An assault where alco-hol was a factor was reported to police on the night of Sept. 19. Several people had been drinking and arguing which resulted in one person

being pushed and falling down, injuring his wrist. The incident remains under investigation.

On the night of Sept. 21, EPS members were asked to attend to a local lounge on the north side of the city after several patrons were seen to be acting in a suspi-cious manner. One of the men involved fl ed the scene when police arrived, but after a lengthy foot chase the man was apprehended. The 27-year-old Saskatoon resident, it was revealed, was out of custody under a num-ber of conditions and one of those was to abstain from the consumption of alcohol. The man was also wanted by two other police agencies on a combined nine charges so he was handed two more Crimi-nal Code offence charges and two more under the Alcohol and Gaming Act. He was remanded in custody pending a court appearance.

Next on the list was the arrest of a 25-year-old Estevan woman for being intoxicated in a local lounge on the north side of the city.

She was lodged in cells until sober.

As a result of a traffi c stop, a 25-year-old Estevan man was arrested on an outstanding warrant and later released with a future court date.

EPS members next at-tended to a hotel on the north side of Estevan in response to a call regarding a man who was being harassed and threatened by a large group of men. Patrols were made of the area ,but no suspects were found. The victim of the incident was unharmed.

On the night of Sept. 22, EPS members responded to a disturbance at a multi-family dwelling on the north side of the city. Investigation revealed that two room-mates had a disagreement that turned physical where-upon one of the men left the residence. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident.

A report of an assault at a lounge on the north side was responded to by police that same night. Two women who were allegedly involved in the incident were located and the matter remains under investigation.

Police then responded to a call from the south side of the city regarding a do-mestic dispute. No offences had been committed and the parties agreed to resolve the situation in a peaceful man-ner and no further police action was required.

A report of an intoxi-cated male at a licensed lounge in the north side of the city led to the arrest of a 32-year-old Estevan man who was lodged in cells until sober.

On the night of Sept. 23, police received a complaint of several people ringing door bells at a number of houses in the Pleasantdale area of the city. The area was patrolled by EPS members, but no suspects were located.

Police also responded to a call regarding a man who was reported to have exposed himself to two fe-males under the age of 16 in the Churchill Park area of the city along First Street. The man was described as Caucasian with short brown hair, approximately 18-years-old ,wearing grey and black clothing. The matter remains under inves-tigation.

Local offi cers handle numerous calls

An assault that sent one man to hospital now leaves the assailant head-ing to jail.

Sean King pleaded guilty to aggravated as-sault, as well as a number of breaches, during Estevan provincial court on Sept. 24. The incident stems from Jan. 21 and involves a co-accused. The female co-accused was sentenced recently to a probation order. There was allegedly another male involved in the assault, but no charges have been laid against him.

King was in custody when he appeared in court

on Monday.He and the co-accused

entered an apartment build-ing lobby in Estevan in the early morning to fi nd the victims sitting on a couch. Crown prosecutor Erin Shroh told the court the incident began when the male victim made a motion to reach for something in King’s hand.

At that point the assault began, said Shroh, noting the victim was dragged outside the building.

The 21-year-old re-peatedly punched and kicked the victim in the face and body. The attack

left the victim’s face swol-len and bleeding. Shroh noted one of the victim’s eardrums was ruptured, and there may have been facial fractures, but clarifi ed she did not have the medical evidence to back up the claims of fractures.

She said the victim has undergone surgery as a result of the assault.

Following the assault, the accused fl ed the scene.

King was on condi-tions, which included a curfew, for a previous con-viction when the attack occurred. When his curfew was being checked that

night, he was found to be in breach of the condition. When police spoke to him the next day, he said he was working the night before and provided a forged work note.

The Crown and de-fence presented a joint sub-mission to presiding Judge Karl Bazin. It called for a 15-month jail sentence. King will also be subject to a 10-year fi rearms pro-hibition and must submit a DNA sample to the da-tabank. King also received one-for-one remand credit of 18 days he has spent in custody.

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SaskPower, in a new report, says innovation will be critical to the com-pany’s future.

SaskPower released its annual Sustainability Report last week to report

on the environmental, so-cial, and economic impacts and initiatives of Saskatch-ewan’s electrical utility.

“Innovation is the key to our sustainable devel-opment as a company,”

said SaskPower president and CEO Robert Watson. “SaskPower’s ability to develop innovative solu-tions and overcome chal-lenges is how we ensure affordable, dependable

electricity for customers, and manage our long-term success.”

Watson pointed to ex-amples such as the car-bon capture and storage project currently under

construction at Boundary Dam Power Station - the world’s first and largest commercial-scale integrat-ed carbon capture project - and the partnership with Hitachi Ltd. to create a carbon capture and storage test facility at Shand Power Station.

SaskPower has also embarked on a multi-year service delivery renewal initiative that will improve service quality, productiv-ity, effi ciency and system reliability, while ensuring our employees are pro-vided with the tools to do their best work. Among those tools was the new customer relationship and billing system, which was implemented in July 2011. It replaced an outdated, 25-year-old system that was becoming increasingly diffi cult to maintain.

S a s k P o w e r w a s also recognized as one

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The Sustainability Re-port aligns SaskPower with leading organizations in providing an annual disclo-sure of key sustainability issues and performance to stakeholders. In determin-ing the scope of this report, SaskPower consults with a range of stakeholders and looks to sustainability reporting best practices.

The Sustainability Re-port is available online at www.saskpower.com. Members of the public with questions or com-ments about SaskPower’s sustainability performance can call 1-800-667-4749 (in Saskatchewan) or (306) 566-2853 in Regina or outside of Saskatchewan; or send e-mail to envi-ronmental_programs@saskpower.com.

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Local businesses will have a chance to brush up on their customer ser-vice skills at an upcoming workshop.

The session, Customer Service, Simple and Easy, will be held on Oct. 11 at the Estevan Public Library and is being presented by the library and Community Futures Sunrise.

CF Sunrise staff mem-ber and session facilitator, Verna O’Neill, will lead participants through the time-tested, easy customer service techniques that

are sure to connect with clients.

“As the economy in the southeast region con-tinues to thrive, business owners and managers are extremely busy with day-to-day operations. It’s dif-fi cult to carve out time for staff training, especially the soft-skills of customer relations and client ser-vice. But front-line staff are the faces our custom-ers see, so their friendly and effi cient service and great attitude are a must to keeping customers happy

and coming back,” O’Neill said.

Session topics will include the key skills that can create outstanding customer experiences, the four components of a cus-tomer service strategy, ways to keep customers coming back and how to encourage the potential of your customer service team.

“We look forward to hosting this evening ses-sion and encourage not only front-line staff to attend, but hope managers

and owners will come out and refresh their own cus-tomer service knowledge. Many of the activities planned during the work-shop can be taken back and shared with other employ-ees at staff meetings,” said Jill Kergan, adult program coordinator at the Estevan Public Library.

Space is limited, so registration for this work-shop is required. Contact the Estevan Public Library to reserve your seat at 1-306-636-621 or jker-gan@southeast.lib.sk.ca

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HomeLogic will allow parents and guardians, as well as students, to stay up-to-date with student achievement through a secure web-based portal.

That was the informa-tion released by the South East Cornerstone Public School Division this past week in making the an-nouncement that they will launch the service on Oct. 1 of this year.

Achievement marks for all subjects in Grades 10 to 12 and mathemat-ics and other assorted subjects in Grades 1 to 9 will be available through HomeLogic, so will stu-dent attendance, student schedules, unoffi cial tran-scripts, assignments and other class and school events posted by classroom teachers.

A single sign-on for

parents and guardians pro-vides access for multiple children in a family, and an automated e-mail notifi ca-tion alert feature improves communication between home and school.

Cornerstone’s admin-istration stated they believe that the reporting of assess-ment is vital to the critical partnership between the home and school, and that communications between

teachers and parents con-cerning student progress must always remain open and be an ongoing process.

While periodic report cards are one way of trans-mitting information about student progress to parents and guardians, they said they believed that more frequent sharing of infor-mation strengthens the es-sential association between home and school.

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A sturdy team of 25 walkers from Estevan joined about 230 others from Regina and district on Sept. 9 for the annual Ovar-ian Cancer Awareness Walk

of Hope in the Queen City. The Estevan and area

team, who raised $7,000 in pledges, were led by cancer survivor Mary Antonenko.

“ T h e r e w a s o v e r

$50,000 raised in total,” said Antonenko, “so we did fairly well.”

Antonenko, who has just recently rebounded from treatments for cancer,

still managed to complete the shorter 2.5 kilometre walk that was mapped out in Regina. There was a fi ve kilometre course for the more ambitious walkers.

Walk of Hope team raises $7,000

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When i t comes to campaign action though, nobody beats the RM of Coalfi elds this time around as incumbent Reeve Stan Lainton will preside over a council where there is a lot of interest by a number of candidates in all three council seats.

In Subdivision 1, in-cumbent Barry Harris is being challenged by Garry Johnson while in Subdivi-sion 3, Arnold Jahn, the incumbent has Margaret Baniulis lined up as the challenger. Incumbent Reg Jahn, who has been repre-senting Subdivision 5, is being challenged by Leon-ard Johnson and Walter Shurygalo.

Things are pretty stable in the RM of Benson though where Reeve David Hoffort returns for another term un-challenged as are the three council incumbents Larry Mack, Greg Dukart and Donald Van DeWoestyne.

In the RM of Enniskil-len, Brian Northeast is in by acclamation as the reeve as are Subdivision 1 incum-bent Barry Fitzpatrick and Subdivision 5 incumbent Jack Twietmeyer. There will be an election though, in Subdivision 3 where incumbent Brad Loppe is being challenged by Lloyd Thompson.

Finally, in the RM of Browning, just as in the RM of Benson, there is a returning roster with Pius Loustel heading back to the reeve’s chair and be-ing joined by incumbents Gerard Fornwald, Todd Fichter and Brian Fornwald (Subdivisions 1, 3 and 5 respectively).

Those heading to the polls on election day, Oct. 24 are reminded to bring two pieces of identifi cation with them since this is now mandatory to be eligible to cast a vote in their re-

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southeast communitiesspective rural subdivision, hamlet, village or towns.

There will be some election activity in Frobish-er on Oct. 24.

Bill Ringguth, return-ing offi cer for the village of about 150 people, said that incumbent Mayor Jerry Nashiem is being chal-lenged by Keith Newsham for the role of chief admin-istrator in the growing com-munity while two newcom-ers to the council chamber have been declared elected through acclamation.

Melissa Brock and Aaron Folkerts fi led nomi-nation papers for the coun-cil positions and as the only two seeking the seats, they will join either Newsham or Nashiem at the Frobisher council table following the Oct. 24 general election.

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Saskatchewan’s manu-facturing sector is continu-ing to enjoy a strong year.

July manufacturing sales fi gures were released by Statistics Canada last week and show the prov-ince had an increase of 15.4 per cent when compared with July of 2011, the sec-ond highest percentage among the provinces and more than seven times the 2.3 per cent recorded na-tionally.

“Saskatchewan has a

manufacturing sector that is thriving,” Economy Min-ister Bill Boyd said. “We have innovative products and more importantly inno-vative businesses that have what it takes to compete in today’s world markets.”

On a monthly basis, manufacturing shipments were up by 1.7 per cent in July 2012 over June 2012, the second highest percent-age growth in Canada. Only fi ve provinces had positive growth over this period,

and nationally, manufactur-ing sales declined by 1.5 per cent.

“There are such a wide-range of products produced in our province, that includes food, farm equipment, fertilizer and oil and gas,” Boyd said. “It is the diversity and quality of manufactured goods along with our positive business climate that will continue to support Saskatchewan’s positive growth well into our future.”

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Changes to SaskTel’s wireless Internet service will affect rural residents in the southeast.

Darcee MacFarlane, vice-president of corporate relations, was quick to clarify SaskTel is not exit-ing all of their high-speed services in rural Saskatch-ewan. They will still be offering their DSL service to about 300 towns and vil-lages in the province. The roughly 8,000 customers who will be affected are strictly those outside the four-kilometre radius of SaskTel’s central distribu-tion offi ces.

The Crown corpora-tion will no longer be of-fering their fi xed wireless high-speed service, with service expiring as of Dec. 31. Originally, their wire-less service was supposed to be shut down by March 31, but the deadline was pushed back to the end of the year. SaskTel custom-ers are the only users in the province who will be affected by these changes.

For most of those cus-tomers, there will be an option to switch to the high throughput satellite option. However, that will not be available for customers

in the rural Estevan area. MacFarlane said that could change because they are working with Xplornet, and hoping their “beam” will expand in 2013 to reach the extreme southeast.

The primary option for residents in this area will be the mobile 4G data stick that can be plugged into a computer for Internet access.

The third option is the legacy satellite, which MacFarlane called a “defi -nite last resort,” for cus-tomers.

“We’re (more than) 99 per cent confi dent that the mobile 4G data stick and the high throughput satel-lite will cover the 8,000 customers impacted,” she said, noting there may be a residence or two that won’t receive service through either of those two main op-tions because of the unpre-dictable nature of wireless.

In June, she said Sask-Tel introduced the high throughput satellite option, and was one they intended to offer as an alternative to the fi xed wireless package they knew they would have to exit.

Level of service is one thing some customers may

be concerned about, and MacFarlane said that is something they have heard already.

“The speeds are com-parable, and in fact, you can get higher speeds with our mobile stick, so the speeds are fairly comparable,” she said.

The mobile 4G data stick will offer download rates up to 21 megabytes per second, while the fi xed wireless offered up to fi ve megabytes.

The changes are due in some part to changes in the frequencies as planned by Industry Canada that will allow more mobile services to be offered around the province.

“Switching that band meant Industry Canada wanted one-third of our spectrum back as well, so we had to give up one-third of the spectrum,” she said.

She also noted the technology that ran the fi xed wireless service has

been discontinued. They can’t fi nd parts to keep it running, having to go to eBay to scour what they need to keep service around until the end of the year.

MacFarlane said they have heard not all custom-ers are satisfi ed with hav-

ing to change, but she said there wasn’t much choice in needing to make the switch.

“Technology has a life span,” she said.

The opposition New Democrats sent out a press release disparaging the governing Sask. Party for failing to stand up for rural residents in the face of these changes.

Buckley Belanger, the NDP critic for SaskTel, said in the release, “The Sask. Party is hurting ru-ral businesses, students

and residents by leaving them with limited private options that offer usage limits, spotty service and expensive service plans.”

The 4G mobile service does have an eight gigabyte maximum monthly down-load cap.

Belanger added that Industry Canada changes interfering with the fi xed wireless service were known internally in early 2011 but notification to residents didn’t occur until September of this year.

New options available for rural Internet

Year Of The Co-operativeThe Estevan Co-op made a $1,000 donation to the Estevan Pure Energy Daycare Centre recently. The donation was in honour of the United Nations declaring 2012

The Year of the Co-operative. From left to right: Kayla Mathison with the daycare, Co-op director Scott Kienlen and Shawna Judd of the daycare.

“Technology has a life span.”— Darcee MacFarlane

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A16 September 26, 2012 Estevan Mercury

CITY PAGE ESTEVAN THE ENERGY CITYLET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!

Construction BulletinThe City of Estevan is undertaking concrete work and road works at:6th Street between 7th Avenue and 10th Avenue. This work will commence during the week of September 24, 2012 and will take approximately Eight (8) to Ten (10) Weeks to complete (subject to weather). Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations. Woodlawn ReservoirThe City of Estevan is undertaking construction of a Treated Drinking Water Reservoir. The affected area includes The Woodlawn Avenue Right of Way North of the St. Joseph’s Hospital.This Right of Way is not a though road and no traf c will be allowed in the area that is not involved with the reservoir construction.This work will commence March 5, 2012 and will take approximately ten (10) months to complete. Ledcor Construction Ltd. and JV&M Constructors Inc will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations and speci cations. Alexandra Avenue - (King Street to Henry Street)This work would require closure of immediate areas of excavation and may necessitate parking restriction in adjacent areas. This work will commence during the week of July 09, 2012 and will take approximately three (4 to 6) weeks to complete (subject to weather).

SafetyConstruction site could be dangerous. If you have children, please ask them to keep a safe distance from the site. We will take every precaution to ensure public safety, but we need your assistance to constrain the natural curiosity of younger children. Please DO NOT attempt to go close to areas affected.Theft or VandalismIf you see any act of vandalism, theft or anyone suspiciously tampering with equipment, signage or barricades please contact call Police.Questions and ConcernsThe City of Estevan, Engineering Services apologize for any inconveniences that this work may cause and thank you in advance for your cooperation and patience. If you have any question or concerns, please call at 634-1818 or approach the supervisor or foreman on site.“During asphalt and paving of roads could all citizens please be respectful of construction sites and observe barricades and signage for their own safety. Fines will be issued to all people not obeying the rules.”

CONSTRUCTIONCONSTRUCTIONATTENTION:

Souris Avenue, from the north side of 4th Street to the south side of 6th Street will closed to traf c for September 26 & 27, 2012 (Wed. & Thur.) for Road Construction.Truck Route traf c are directed to use 4th Street during this construction.5th Street, from 10th Avenue to 11th Avenue will barricaded from through traf c.Traf c on 6th Street will remain open to east & west ow. The City of Estevan apologizes for any inconveniences that this work may cause and thank you inadvance for your cooperation and patience. If you have any question or concerns, please call at 634-1818.

The City of Estevan requires Municipal Election Workers for the October 24, 2012 Municipal Election including Poll Clerks, Issuing and Receiving Deputy Returning Offi cers.The successful applicants must possess excellent oral communication skills as well as strong attention to detail and organizational abilities.These positions will require 1/2 day of training prior to the election as well as a long day on October 24, 2012 (Election Day). Interested candidates are invited to apply in writing, including a resume and three current references, on or before October 3, 2012 to:

Judy Pilloud, Returning Offi cerCity of Estevan1102 – 4th Street Estevan, SaskatchewanS4A 0W7Phone (306)634-1852, Fax (306)634-9790

We thank all who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

ADVANCE POLLAn advance poll will be available for eligible electors at City Hall, City of Estevan, 1102 4th Street, at the following times:Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 4:30 PM to 7:30 PMandSaturday, October 20, 2012 - 1:00 PM to 6:00 PMthe advance poll is intended for qualifi ed electors who:1. have a disability or mobility challenges;2. have been appointed as an election offi cial; or3. anticipate being unable to vote on election day.

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Notice: Estevan CemetryUnder restrictions of the new cemetery bylaw, we ask that everyone who has loose objects and memorabilia sitting on/around the gravesites at the Estevan City Cemetery to remove them as soon as possible. These items can be broken easily, and also make it dif cult to do snow removal and grass cutting in the cemetery. We ask that this be done before October18, 2012, or our cemetery employees will be removing them and storing them for a limited time. After that, if no one has claimed them, they will be disposed of by October 31, 2012 in accordance to Bylaw 2010-1838 #7 M,N,O, P.Q. A copy of our cemetery bylaw is available at Leisure Services for your reference.Thank you for your understanding in this matter. If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to call our of ce at (306) 634-1880.

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ACCEPTABLE NON-PHOTO ID OPTIONSNon-Photo ID OptionsIf you don’t have photo identifi cation and are unable to obtain photo-ID before Election Day, you can present two other pieces of information, as long as both contain your name and at least one contains your address.Examples include:• Valid ID cards or certifi cates issued by the Canadian or Saskatchewan government, a Saskatchewan municipality or school division, a Saskatchewan Indian band, the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan or an agency of one of these entities.• Personal correspondence, benefi t/contribution statements and tax/assessment notices issued by any of the above entities.• Bank/credit union cards, credit cards and statements.• Utility bills and statements issued within six months of the date of the election.• Personalized attestation of residence, letter of stay or admission form issued by a seniors or student residence, long term care or shelter facility.

ACCEPTABLE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION OPTIONSPhoto ID - Your BEST option to take to the pollsAcceptable photo identifi cation is ID that is government-issued, valid and has your photo, name and address. If your identifi cation does not meet these criteria it will not be recognized as an acceptable form of photo identifi cation.Examples include:• A valid Saskatchewan Driver’s Licence. (If you still have a two-piece licence, make sure you have both pieces).• A valid Saskatchewan ID card issued by SGI or any motor licence issuer. (Available for $10 or free for seniors).• Any other valid government issued photo ID issued by a Canadian government whether federal, provincial or municipal, or an agency of that government, so long as it includes your name and address.

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Notice: Estevan CemeteryUnder restrictions of the new cemetery bylaw, we ask that everyone who has loose objects and memorabilia sitting on/around the gravesites at the Estevan City Cemetery to remove them as soon as possible. These items can be broken easily, and also make it diffi cult to do snow removal and grass cutting in the cemetery. We ask that this be done before October18, 2012, or our cemetery employees will be removing them and storing them for a limited time. After that, if no one has claimed them, they will be disposed of by October 31, 2012 in accordance to Bylaw 2010-1838 #7 M,N,O, P.Q. A copy of our cemetery bylaw is available at Leisure Services for your reference.Thank you for your understanding in this matter. If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to call our offi ce at (306) 634-1880.

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SOUNDING OFF

“We told the guys, ‘We’re in a situation where there is no

pressure on us, the pressure is all on Central.’ We came out

and played loose, we played focused.” —Elecs football coach

Mark Schott on his team’s hot start in Saturday’s game against the Central

Cyclones.

“After the non-performance we came up with (on Thursday),

having something to build on is good.” —Bruins head coach Keith

Cassidy on Friday’s tight loss to Melville in the team’s home opener.

The CanElson Drill-ing Estevan Bruins’ show-ing in their home opener on Friday was much better than the night before, but in the end, the result was the same.

The Bruins lost both ends of a home-and-home series with the Melville Millionaires to kick off the SJHL season.

That included a 10-2 thrashing on Thursday in Melville and a much closer 4-2 loss at Spectra Place the next night.

Newly named captain Connor Milligan said lack of communication on the ice was an issue in the first two games, with play-ers still adjusting to new teammates.

“Right now we’re still getting used to each other. It’s a long road. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” he said.

Bruins head coach and genera l manager Keith Cassidy said some players appeared to be out of sync on Friday, but he was happy with the overall effort.

“You can still tell that some of the timing’s not there with some guys, but the hard work is what I was looking for. After the non-performance we came up with (on Thurs-day), having something to build on is good. I’m not concerned about our work ethic or anything like that. We build that solid foundation and start getting the timing down, and we’re going to be all right,” he said.

Friday’s game was a sellout for the Bruins, their first in seven years.

Bruins struck down twice by MilsSJHL club implodes in 10-2 opening lossThe Mils opened the

scoring three minutes in when Alex Elliott man-aged a weak goal on Bru-ins starter Curtis Martinu.

Martinu, 20, was ac-quired from the Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL) last week as a temporary fill-in for starter Steven Glass, who is out with an aggravated knee injury.

“He’ll be the first to tell you he wasn’t happy with that first goal, but I thought he bounced back rather strong after that with some good saves for us,” Cassidy said of the 6’4”, 216-pound net-minder.

Nick Weiss struck back for the Bruins, pop-ping in a rebound off a scramble in the goalmouth at 8:21.

Melville had the only two goals of the second period to take a 3-1 lead.

Ian McNulty tipped a Russell Trudeau shot past Martinu at 6:55, and Colin Mospanchuk knocked in a rebound about six minutes later.

The Bruins got back in it when Weiss scored his second of the night nine minutes into the third period.

The play started with rookie winger Wyatt Ga-ragan taking a pass fresh out of the penalty box and slipping it to Calder Neufeld, who then dished it across to Weiss for an easy goal.

“I thought as the game wore on, we certainly got better. I thought the third period was one of our stronger periods in terms of moving the puck between one another and

Bruins rookie defenceman Zach Douglas tries to steer the puck away from Melville Millionaires forward Con-

nor Lowe-Wylde and out of danger during the Bruins’ home opener on Friday.

having some tape-to-tape passes,” said Cassidy.

Rhett Kehoe put the game away for Melville with an empty netter with 54 seconds left.

Cassidy said he was happy with the Bruins’ performance against one of the most powerful teams in the SJHL.

“If they’ve got the best offence in the league, then I’m a happy guy. I think for the most part, we kept them in check. You look at the goals that did happen, two of them were incredibly stupid mistakes by guys that you wouldn’t expect to make mistakes.”

He added that de-fenceman David Rob-ertson and centre Ben Williams were among the more impressive rookies

Friday.“ I t hough t Dav id

Robertson played like a veteran out there. He hits like a truck. He makes smart, simple plays and that’s what we brought him in for. The more guys who can identify and em-brace the role that they’re playing, like he does, the better off we’re going to be.”

On Thursday, the wheels came off for Es-tevan midway through the second period after Melville scored two quick goals to take a 4-0 lead.

“The fourth goal, I think, really took what-ever wind was in the sails right out of it. It’s tough to go through those situa-tions. You can rah-rah-rah all you want, but it’s not

going to excite the guys,” said Cassidy.

“I thought in fits and spurts we had some pres-sure in their zone, but obviously every time that happened, they’d come back down and score. The mindset of a hockey club, you can probably bounce back from two, maybe three of those in a game at worst, but if you do it six or seven times it’s very disheartening. No excuses. We were bad. End of story,” he added.

Sean Aschim led the Mils with a hat tr ick. Trudeau (2), T.J. Reeve (2), Mospanchuk, Ke-hoe and Landon Hall also chipped in.

Tanner Froese and Nick Sova had the Bruins’ goals, both in the third

period. Martinu arrived in Es-

tevan at 3 a.m. on Thurs-day and struggled in his first SJHL start.

“We put our goalten-der in a bad situation and we didn’t help him much with the effort,” said Cas-sidy. “It’s probably not fair to him to do what we did, but we did.”

Martinu was yanked after six goals in favour of rookie backup Travis Pelletier.

Milligan said nerves were apparent in the sea-son opener and that “a lot of guys were playing uncharacteristically.”

The Bruins took on Melfort last night and will hit the road this weekend for games in Nipawin, La Ronge and Humboldt.

The Estevan Com-prehensive School Elecs could not have asked for a better start on Saturday.

They certainly wished for a different ending.

The Elecs (0-4) saw their hot start fade away in an eventual 28-19 loss to the undefeated Central Cyclones in Moose Jaw.

Estevan dominated most of the first quar-ter, but as the game pro-gressed, the Cyclones (3-0) played to their potential and took control.

Still, Elecs head coach Mark Schott said the early success was a confi dence boost for a winless club playing in a very com-pressed schedule.

“That was our first lead all season. It was nice to have the lead and it defi nitely gave the guys a lot of confi dence,” he said.

“Our offence really moved the ball well, start-ing right with the opening drive. We marched down inside their fi ve and un-fortunately we weren’t able to punch it in, but we had a positive drive. I think that opening drive gave our offence a lot of confi dence, and then our defence came out and got

Early lead slips away in Elecs’ defeat

a two-and-out.”From there , Elecs

quarterback Kolby Fleu-ry threw two touchdown passes in the fi rst quarter, a 21-yard completion to Tyler Thiessen and a 36-yard bomb to Evan Tarnes.

The Cyclones d id get on the board before halftime, as quarterback Bren Forbes threw a 26-yard touchdown to Park-er Chow, narrowing the Elecs’ lead to 14-7 at half.

Turnovers were a big part of the Elecs’ downfall.

“There was a fumble on a punt where they re-covered, and then a kickoff where they also recovered a fumble, and a couple of interceptions. We took re-ally good care of the ball in the fi rst half, and in the second half the turnovers hurt us,” Schott said.

Forbes gave Central a one-point lead on a short plunge across the plane, and the Cyclones also capitalized on the two fumbles, with Chow reel-ing in touchdown passes of

34 and 40 yards to put the home side ahead 28-13.

The Elecs would add another major on a 27-yard connection between Fleury and Tarnes, but that was as close as they would come.

Schott said he was happy with Fleury’s game, which included three ma-jors through the air.

“Kolby Fleury and our receivers have been on the money all season. They continued to move the ball really well. It was

great to see. The first play of the game was a 50- or 55-yard pass to Austin Garchinski. I think we kind of caught Central sleeping there.”

Schott said the Elecs’ coaching staff wasn’t sure how the team would re-spond to playing three games in 10 days, espe-cially with mounting in-juries, but that turned out not to be an issue.

“We told the guys, ‘We’re in a situation where there is no pressure on us, the pressure is all on Central.’ We came out and played loose, we played focused.”

Earlier in the week, the Elecs were defeated 36-14 by the Swift Current Colts on Tuesday at ECS.

The Elecs beat Swift Current three times last season, including a playoff win, but the Colts took a 14-7 lead to halftime and didn’t look back.

“You never want to use injuries as an excuse, but in the span of six or seven minutes (in the third quarter) we had three of our four starting receivers go down with injuries and not return to the game. For a team that relies on the

aerial attack, that hurt us,” said Schott.

One highlight for the Elecs was a spectacular 90-yard kick return to the end zone by Cole Mac-Cuish in the second quar-ter. That play came after Swift Current’s second touchdown.

The Elecs have sev-eral players on the injury list at the moment and Schott said the tight sched-ule in the Moose Jaw High School Football League isn’t helping matters. ECS has played all four of their games in just 15 days.

“Guys don’t get a chance to recover when you’re playing a game every four days. Football’s a physical game and there needs to be time between games to allow players to recover.”

The Elecs will face the Vanier Vikings at home on Saturday. After domi-nating the league last sea-son, the Vikings (1-3) are fielding a young squad and are in sixth place, ahead of only ECS.

Central and Yorkton share first place at 3-0, followed by A.E. Peacock (2-1), Swift Current (2-1) and Weyburn (1-2).

ECS Elecs quarterback Kolby Fleury throws a pass over the middle during the

team’s 36-14 loss to the Swift Current Colts on Sept. 18.

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SCHOOL DIVISON ELECTION

An insufficient number of nominations having been received to fill the office of:

Board Member: Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division No. 140

Sub-division No. 3 – (Spruce Ridge attendance area) – Number to be Elected: 1Sub-division No. 4 – (Queen Elizabeth attendance area) – Number to be Elected: 1

The undersigned will receive nominations of candidates for the said office:

(a) During normal office hours from September 24th, until October 2nd, 2012 at the office of Holy Family R.C.S.S.D. No. 140, 3rd Floor, 110 Souris Avenue, Weyburn, SKAnd(b) On the 3rd day of October, 2012 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the office of Holy Family R.C.S.S.D. No. 140, 3rd Floor, 110 Souris Avenue, Weyburn, SK

Nomination forms may be obtained at the following locations:• Holy Family R.C.S.S.D. No. 140 3rd Floor, 110 Souris Avenue, Weyburn, SK• St. Olivier School, Radville, Sk.• Sacred Heart School/Ecole Sacré Coeur, 1846 Gibbs Road, Estevan, Sk.• St. Mary’s School, 615 Arthur Avenue, Estevan, Sk.• St. Michael School, 426 – 13th St. NE, Weyburn, Sk.• St. Augustine School, Wilcox, Sk.

Dated this 21st day of September, 2012

Calvin G. MartinReturning Officer

The Estevan Bruins fi lled their vacant captain position last Wednesday, tapping defenceman Connor Milligan to take on the job in his last season of junior hockey.

Milligan’s alternates will be fellow 20-year-olds Cole Olson, Calder Neufeld and Tyler Paslawski.

“It’s an honour in your last year. You try to work your hardest to earn some-thing like that,” said Milli-gan, who is entering his fi rst full year in Estevan after being acquired from the

AJHL’s Camrose Kodiaks last October.

Bruins head coach Keith Cassidy said Milli-gan was an obvious choice for the role.

“I think as we went through camp, it became more and more apparent, talking both with returning players and some of the new guys, who they felt the leadership group was going to be and there was certainly a core of four guys that kept coming up,” said Cassidy.

Milligan, who is from Winnipeg, said he expects

the four players wearing letters to operate as a unit.

“There’s no lack of help there. The guys to-gether, we’re combined as one group. We’re all going to be there to help each other out.”

Milligan said he can provide a mix of leadership on and off the ice.

“I’m vocal, but I like to bring the edge on the ice and show it through work ethic,” he said.

“I had a great captain in Clayton Jardine in Camrose, he was vocal, and last year

(former Bruins captain Josh) Jelinski was intense, and he brought a passion for the game each night. I learned a lot from Josh and how he came to play every night.”

Cassidy said Milligan has shown his ability to pro-vide leadership and expects him to be effective wearing the ‘C’.

“In terms of who fi t the role of being able to handle the captain’s role, I think Milly does a fantastic job of that. We look forward to him doing a great job for us this year.”

The good news for the Estevan Lions Club Steelers was that they put up nearly 40 points. The bad news: they gave up a lot more.

The Steelers couldn’t sustain a hot start in a 68-38 loss against the Lums-den Devils on Saturday at Estevan Comprehensive School.

The bantam football club had a 16-0 lead in the first quarter, but were shut out for almost the entire second half as Lumsden’s offence ran rampant.

“I think we’ve got a classic case of we got a little overconfident,” said Steelers head coach Phil Zajac.

“We rolled through last week (against Wey-burn), we came in this week and scored on our f i r s t two dr ives , and looked like we were just

going to keep rol l ing along.

“I guess we kind of went to sleep. Not that we

quit playing, it’s just we figured, ‘well, we’ve done two in a row, and they’re all going to be easy.’ Un-

fortunately we let them get back in it and then we had some turnovers and some bad breaks with a

few long runs.”Lumsden was ahead

36-22 at the half and quickly put the game out of reach for the Steelers (1-5).

Aside from two Steel-er touchdowns in the last few minutes of the game, the Devils dominated the second half.

“I think the most im-portant thing for a football team in a loss is to not quit. These boys proved it (Saturday) that they’re not quitters,” said Zajac.

“The offence scored a touchdown in the final five minutes and the de-fence scored a big touch-down in the final five min-utes. That’s stuff that you can build on. The heart of a program is when you have players who, no mat-ter what the score is on the scoreboard, they continue to fight and play hard and good things happen.”

After scoring on a long rushing play on their first drive, the Steelers added to their lead later in the first quarter when Matt Haux ran into the end zone.

Lumsden responded with three straight touch-downs, all coming on the ground.

The Steelers replied with a rushing touchdown of their own, only to see the Devils add two more before halftime. One came on a 31-yard quarterback keeper play, and the other was on a 30-yard passing major at the end of the half.

Lumsden broke the game wide open with three straight touchdowns

in a span of less than six minutes.

After a 23-yard rush-ing major with four min-utes left in the third quar-ter, the Devils recovered an Estevan fumble on the ensuing kick and took it all the way back for a second touchdown.

Early in the fourth quarter, the visitors picked up another major on a third down conversion for 50 yards.

Zajac said the Devils’ offensive line allowed the backfield time and space to make plays.

“I think their offen-sive line did a good job of executing. They’re good blockers and they were opening up big holes,” said Zajac. “Unfortunate-ly, when you play a gap defence, if you have a gap that happens to get blocked and they run to that hole, they’re going to gain yards.”

After Lumsden added another score on a short passing play, the Steelers woke up.

With 1:27 left in the game, quarterback Jus-tin Taillon completed a seven-yard pass to Kolby Dyck in the end zone. That capped off a quick drive that included a keeper play by Taillon, a long run by Levi Pick, and two short passes to Dyck in the red zone.

With about 30 sec-onds left, Evan Stabenow came up with an inter-ception deep in Steelers territory, then proceeded to shred the Devils on a touchdown return for nearly 100 yards.

Bruins choose Milligan for captain’s job

Steelers lose shootout battle to Lumsden

Connor Milligan

Estevan Steelers running back Matt Haux tries to evade a would-be tackler from

the Lumsden Devils during the Steelers’ 68-38 loss on Saturday.

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Whereas a poll is not required pursuant to The Local Government Elections Act for the office of:

BOARD MEMBER: Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division No. 140

Sub-division No. 1 – Town of Radville – Number to be Elected: 1Sub-division No. 2 – Radville Rural – Number to be Elected: 1Sub-division No. City of Estevan – Number to be Elected: 2Sub-division No. City of Weyburn – Number to be Elected: 2Sub-division No. 5 – Town of Milestone – Number to be Elected: 2Sub-division No. 6 – Wilcox/Milestone Rural – Number to be Elected: 1

I hereby give public notice that no voting for the said offices will take place and that the following persons are elected by acclamation:

Sub-division No. 1 – Town of Radville – Kristin BourassaSub-division No. 2 – Radville Rural – Teresa Van De SypeSub-division No. City of Estevan – Karen Melle – Bev HickieSub-division No. City of Weyburn – Bruno Tuchscherer – Jerome SidloskiSub-division No. 5 – Town of Milestone – Greg MetzSub-division No. 6 – Wilcox/Milestone Rural – Kate MacLean

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The Estevan Century 21 Chargers struggled to get anything going against one of the top clubs in the Regina Minor Football peewee division on Sat-urday.

The Chargers went down to their fi fth loss in a 49-0 defeat against the Regina Thunder at Estevan Comprehensive School.

Regina led the game 27-0 at the half.

“I was pre t ty im-pressed with our defence. That team’s pretty good, they’re pretty big, pretty strong, so I think actually overall I’m pretty happy with both sides of the ball,” said Chargers head coach Steve McLellan.

The Thunder picked up their fi rst major almost halfway through the fi rst quarter on a 35-yard rush-ing play.

The Chargers spent the rest of the quarter mov-ing the chains on a lengthy

Peewee Chargers stonewalled by Thunder

Donny Mortenson of the Estevan Chargers is brought down during the Chargers’

49-0 loss to the Regina Thunder on Saturday.

drive, but couldn’t fi nish it off, punting on the fi rst play of the second quarter.

Regina proceeded to return the punt for a touch-down to take a 14-0 lead.

“It was a bit frustrat-ing, but it’s just football,

you know. They’re a top echelon team and I think we kept up with them, so I was pretty happy about that.

We could move the ball pretty well,” said McLellan.

“We had a little injury there to (running back) Colein (Poole), so we were a little shorthanded there, but I think overall we were able to move the ball and we had some playmak-ers make some plays, so

there’s not much to worry about.”

The Thunder added two more touchdowns late in the fi rst half. After com-pleting a seven-yard pass into the end zone, Regina recovered an onside kick but wasn’t able to take advantage of it.

On the Chargers’ next possession though, quar-terback Cameron Rioux threw a pick-six deep in Chargers’ territory on the last play of the half.

The Thunder picked up where they left off in the third quarter, scoring on a 35-yard rushing major early in the half.

In the fourth, another Estevan turnover helped the Thunder add to their lead. On the first play after Regina was forced to punt, a pass by Rioux was tipped, then picked off, al-lowing the Thunder to take over on the Chargers’ sev-en-yard line. They would

score two plays later.Shortly after that, the

Chargers fumbled and lost the ball in the backfield, but managed to get it back two plays later on another fumble.

The Thunder closed out the scoring late in the fourth quarter on a 25-yard rushing touchdown.

“It’s the same old thing, execution, each week get t ing be t ter,” McLellan said of the plan in practice this week.

“I think the results on the scoreboard maybe aren’t there, but I think overall we are getting better and just continuing to progress. If we could start the season over again the way we are today, I bet you we’re a different team.”

The Chargers are on the road Sunday, visiting the Regina Unicorns in their second-last regular season game.

Although they had their chances, the Estevan Sherritt Coal Miners were not able to get on the board in their last regular season game Saturday.

The atom Miners (1-5) lost 34-0 to the Regina Bengals in a morning game at Estevan Comprehensive School.

The Miners managed to stay within striking dis-tance in the fi rst half, main-taining a 7-0 defi cit until the Bengals scored a touch-down in the last minute of the second quarter.

Estevan almost struck back on the last play of the half, with quarterback Cameron Jones taking off on a long run and almost making it to the end zone.

“We were just about at midfi eld there and we had

Miners come up empty in regular season fi nale

Estevan Miners running back Kade Bachorcik looks

for a hole during the atom team’s 34-0 loss to the

Regina Bengals on Saturday.

the quarterback fake and he ran all the way down to about the 10 and got pushed out,” said Miners head coach Evan Helfrick. “(It’s a) tough break, if

you score there, it’s a little momentum going into the second half.”

Helfrick said the Min-ers had trouble taking ad-vantage of their trips to the red zone on Saturday.

“We got inside the 20 on the fi rst possession we had and just weren’t able to execute inside the 20. We’ve been really good at that this year, as soon as we’re inside the 20 we’ve put it in, but this week we had a little diffi culty with that.”

The Bengals added two touchdowns in the third quarter to extend their lead to 27-0.

The Miners’ defence shut them down for most of the fourth quarter, but Re-gina did break through for a short rushing major with

a minute left in the game.Rylan Erdelyan had an

interception for the Miners in the fourth, but it was called back on a roughing the passer penalty.

“The defence actually really stepped up for us this week and made quite a few stops, so lots of gain was made. We had a couple of quarterback hits and that sort of thing on the passes,” said Helfrick.

“They’re making the play for sure, it’s just up the middle we got burned a few times where we were crashing in hard to make the play, and they opened up a really big hole for the running back to get through

and they outran us to the end zone.”

The Miners do have one game left, a bowl game on Saturday expected to be against the Regina Lions at Estevan Comprehensive School. Game time had not been confirmed at press time.

He l f r i ck sa id the team’s blocking needs to improve in order for them to win their last game of the year.

“We’re always just that one block away. One guy misses that one key block and the guy’s able to make the play in the backfi eld or stop you from getting the angle to get outside.”

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There was some spe-cial entertainment on the weekend to close out the 2012 season at Estevan Mo-tor Speedway, as two events were held.

On Saturday, the Kick-in’ Up The Dirt special brought modifield, stock car and hobby stock drivers together for one last race day this season, as well as an appearance by the INEX Legend cars from the Da-kota Legends series.

On Sunday, the track held its annual enduro race, which crowns the driver who completes the highest number of laps in the midst of crash-fi lled mayhem.

Tyson Turnbull was the winner of the mod feature on Saturday, picking up his second victory of the year at EMS.

No other results were available from Saturday’s program.

Sunday’s enduro fea-tured a huge group of 71 cars, the most ever for the event.

With that many cars on the track at the same time, there were collisions early and often as the track was littered with bumpers, a tire and other random parts.

The cars were lined up again several times as some vehicles exited the race and the remaining ones got more space to work with, meaning fewer crashes and less entertainment.

Mike Zohner was the winner, completing 104 laps by the time the 90-min-ute race was over.

A fundraiser for cancer research sent people dodg-ing hay bales, climbing racks and trudging through the bush.

The inaugural Crushing It for Cancer was held north of Estevan in a fi eld that was set up for a more leisurely Tough Mudder challenge. Tough Mudder is an extreme obstacle course event that has its participants dunked in icy water, crawling un-der barbed wire and getting shocked with high voltage electricity.

Abbey Webber’s ob-stacle course challenged the participants but was all about fun and raising money for a good cause. The event raised about $2,000 and pro-ceeds went to the Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation in support of breast cancer research.

Webber decided to start the event this year because a friend of hers from Eastend, where Webber hails from, was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. Their fathers lived together when they were younger and were neighbours when Webber was growing up. Another neighbour of hers died of breast cancer about 10 years ago.

“We lived out by Cy-press Hills and we didn’t have a lot of neighbours, so

two neighbours within 10 years of each other when there’s not that many of us was a lot (to take),” said Webber.

She said she wanted to help and her friend was re-ally impressed by the Breast Health Centre in Saskatoon. She encouraged Webber to take on some initiative that could continue to make the centre an even better place for women diagnosed with breast cancer.

“To go up to Saskatoon, face that, and go through treatment, it’s such a dif-ferent environment,” said Webber. “She really just felt like the improvements that they’re making to the Breast Health Centre, I think it really hit home to her. She got attached to that cause.”

Webber is new to Es-tevan, but said there is so much generosity in the city, she thought this could be a good way to meet new people and raise some mon-ey for a cause that means something to her and many others.

“This race is always something I’ve wanted to try,” said Webber about why she chose the obstacle course.

She wrestled in uni-versity, and some of her old teammates told her she should try Tough Mudder.

She has her family and young children so it’s not easy for her to travel to the Tough Mudder event and take part.

“This is how we exer-cised when I was a kid grow-ing up,” said Webber. “On the farm, we never would have thought of going on a treadmill. Fitness doesn’t have to be a treadmill. It can be home based.”

The Crushing It for Cancer obstacle course had participants running through tires, scaling mounds of hay bales and even going low, crawling head fi rst through a hole. That doesn’t even count the natural gopher holes the roughly 30 racers always needed to be wary of. The obstacles were planned and constructed by Web-ber’s husband, Ryan Hogg.

She said she wanted to make it fun and something that people would want to do.

She would like to host more of these events and is even considering holding one in the winter.

“I’d defi nitely like to do it next year. Now that the dry run has gone really well, I’d like to do it really big.”

It was a little last min-ute this year, so she is hop-ing with a little more time to plan, they can go bigger and better next year.

First year a success at Crushing It

Jamie Shire steps over the climbing rack without any trouble, during the Crushing

It for Cancer obstacle course challenge on Saturday.

Speedway season comes to an end

Saturday’s show at Estevan Motor Speedway was highlighted by the appearance

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(1) A vote will be held for the election of a councillor for Division No. 5 (2) The vote will take place on Wednesdy, the 24th of October, 2012, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm

DIVISION No. 4 POLL at the RM office at #1, 322-4th Street Estevan, Sask.

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Dated at Estevan this 21st day of September, 2012

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As sports fans, we tend to get a little panicky when our team is expected to do well and they have some bad games early in the season.

They were supposed to be awesome but they lost two games in a row and now they suck and they won’t make the playoffs and ...

There’s a lot of nega-tivity fl oating around after the Estevan Bruins’ start to the season.

They laid an egg in back-to-back games, fi rst in their fi nal preseason tune-up against Notre Dame on Sept. 17, then in the one that

counts, the season opener in Melville on Thursday.

They had a much better game in their home opener against the Millionaires on Friday, but still couldn’t pull off a win.

There was a lot more to be encouraged about on that night, but as a fan, when your team gets smacked around 10-2 in its season opener, nothing short of a decisive win in the next game will erase the uneasi-ness.

Let’s not sugar-coat anything: for the last 35 minutes of that debacle, the Bruins looked like noth-

ing more than a last-place Junior B club. That might be a generous assessment.

Although they weren’t terrible for the fi rst period and part of the second, the rest of the game was an embarrassment.

Melville’s offence has a ton of fi repower, but let’s not kid ourselves for a sec-ond and pretend that it gen-erated 10 goals on its own.

Bad goaltending and an incredibly porous de-fence were major contribu-tors as well.

You never see season openers like that. You know why? They’re easy to get amped up for. Your first game in months that means something.

It didn’t take long for the Bruins to fold on that night, though.

Friday’s effort was much better. The Bruins outshot the Mils and had

their share of scoring chanc-es, but seemed to be just a touch out of sync all night. Passes just missed their mark, and for awhile the home side had trouble get-ting across the red line.

That’s something that usually gets better as the season moves along, as teams pare down their ros-ter to a reasonable size and players get more comfort-able on the ice with each other.

The Bruins were 0-2 heading into last night’s home game against the Melfort Mustangs. It’s a long season, even after be-ing cut down to 54 games, and unlike with a football schedule, this start is not likely to affect anything come playoff time.

I still look at the Bru-ins’ roster and see a team that should contend. To change that opinion based

on two games would be silly.

***I’ve never offi ciated a

sporting event, much less a football game, so I’ve refrained from chiming in on the NFL’s replacement offi cials until now.

The shenanigans at the end of Monday’s game be-tween the Green Bay Pack-ers and Seattle Seahawks took this mess to a whole new low.

Some of the most re-spected people in the sport are calling this one of the great embarrassments of the league’s history. That is when the powers that be need to wake up.

When you have NFL players like Packers guard T.J. Lang sending tweets like “F*** it NFL... Fine me and use the money to pay the regular refs,” the problem has gotten out of control.

How about when up to $250 million (according to one report) in gambling money changes hands when the Packers went from cov-ering the spread to losing in one cringe-worthy call that decided the game?

Money talks. And may-be that is the only thing

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will understand in this situation.

Look, I understand that the replacement refs aren’t really to blame here. They are being asked to perform at a level that they aren’t qualified to perform at. They are doing it in front of national TV audiences with diehard team allegiances.

When people vent at the replacement offi cials, they’re venting at the NFL.

A league that brought in $9 billion in revenue last season would rather see its reputation irrevocably tarnished, its integrity sac-rifi ced, its players and fans livid, than hand over a bit more money to its regular, qualifi ed refs?

All I know is this: those regular refs have more and more leverage with every week that passes.

Get a deal done now, NFL.

Josh Lewis can be reached by phone at 634-2654, by e-mail at sports@estevanmercury.ca, on Twitter at twitter.com/josh-lewis306, or on his Bruins blog at estevanmercury.ca/bruinsbanter. The new Tim Hortons literally cannot get here fast enough.

A rough start for Bruins, but it’s early

Eight golfers from Es-tevan competed at the pro-vincial high school grass golf championship on the weekend at the Cooke Municipal Golf Course in Prince Albert.

The ECS girls were second in the female team competition, in a fi eld of 10 schools.

The girls had a com-bined 36-hole total of 383, which put them fi ve strokes behind the winners, Coro-nach.

Maddie Blischak had the top performance for Estevan, fi nishing in a tie for eighth place with rounds of 100 and 107.

Rayna Gibson was tied

for 14 after fi ring rounds of 107 and 113. Tija Donavon’s scores of 111 and 117 put her in a tie for 25th, and Shayna Hamilton shot a 110 and 120 to fi nish tied for 27th.

On the boys’ side, the team fi nished 11th out of 14 schools, with a total com-bined score of 521.

Dylan Lay led the male

ECS contingent, tying for 36th after fi ring rounds of 86 and 91.

Regan Haukeness had scores of 94 and 88 to tie for 42nd.

Jason Hengen’s totals of 88 and 95 had him not far behind, in a tie for 45th, and Ryan Stovin shot 108 and 99 to fi nish tied for 66th.

ECS girls second at golf provincials

A local football coach is attempting to win some prize money for the Es-tevan program through a national contest.

Steve McLellan is a regional nominee in the Scotiabank Game Chang-ers contest, which features a grand prize of a $100,000 donation to a charity of one’s choice.

McLellan is one of 72 nominees across Canada to reach the regional level and will receive a $1,000

donation to Penta Comple-tions Estevan Minor Foot-ball, to be awarded at the Saskatchewan Roughrid-ers-B.C. Lions game this weekend.

McLellan is the presi-dent of EMF and coaches its peewee team.

He can still become one of eight regional fi nal-ists who will be invited to the Grey Cup in Toronto in November. From there, one winner will be awarded $100,000 for their charity.

McLellan nominee

for contest

Josh Lewis

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Fall Home ImprovementFall Home ImprovementCreate a timeless look in your home

(NC)—Like fashion, interior design trends change with the seasons. Each month, different co-lours and patterns become the new “it” look, inspir-ing us to overhaul our home décor.

Keeping up with the latest looks can be chal-

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Choose multi-func-tional products with hid-

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“Adding sleek pieces in a colour that you'll always love – rather than a trendy colour – makes your style timeless, not to mention wallet-friendly,” says Jo Alcorn, a Toron-to-based interior design expert.

Update fabr ics to those that feature timeless geometric designs, over-lapping layers, or stripes. All of these can instantly make a home more con-temporary without a large investment.

Sleek and simple ar-chitectural details add maximum design impact and can become the focal point in any room.

“Paying attention to your hardware including cabinet handles, light fix-tures and even faucets can play a huge role in mak-ing your place look more modern,” says Alcorn. For instance, the strong, angu-lar lines of the Vero lava-tory faucet bring a sense of urban sophistication to the bathroom. See more at deltafaucet.ca. When considering furniture, look for pieces with glass or painted wood, and materi-als like coloured acrylic, fibreglass, and chrome. These features will ensure your choices stand the test of time.

Nothing dates a space like clutter. Organize and store - or even neatly dis-play - magazines, news-papers, and books. Elec-tronic cords should be off the floor and not visible to keep your room looking neat and clean.

Is your home safe?(NC)—Whether you

have a young child who spends time at home with a babysitter, or a teen who comes home after school to an empty house, your home should be as accident- and injury-proof as pos-sible. These precautionary measures will help ensure your children's safety when you're not home:

Children of all ages –• Install smoke and

carbon monoxide detectors strategically; check their batteries regularly.

• Invest in a fire ex-tinguisher; instruct your caregiver or older child in its use.

• Make sure your child or caregiver has emergency phone numbers and knows what to do if an emergency arises.

Young children –• Make sure your care-

giver understands the level of supervision your child requires and is CPR-cer-tifi ed.

• Childproof your cabi-nets, electrical outlets, stair-ways and toilets.

• Never leave poisons within reach. Safe Kids Canada reminds that poi-sons include medications, cleaning products, garden-

ing/pest control products, car supplies, health and beauty products, art sup-plies and other toxic sub-stances.

• Examine your home for potential choking or strangulation risks – toys with small parts, dangling drapery cords, etc.

Older children –• Make sure your child

understands the parameters for acceptable behaviour while you're gone. Include rules to ensure safety in and around your pool, on the balcony or deck, and in your yard.

• Set and enforce a strict policy about visitors, and make sure your child knows what to do in case a stranger comes to the door or into the yard.

• Keep matches, light-ers, gasoline and other fl am-mable materials locked away.

“Keeping our children safe is the most important responsibility parents face,” says Jeff Burke, president & CEO at Western Financial Group, an organization pro-viding services to protect families. “Strategic plan-ning coupled with ongoing communication ensures their well-being.”

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“Wi th t he w in t e r months quickly approach-ing, many Canadians may be looking to escape south or go away for the holi-

days. While away, people want to know their home is safe, secure and properly monitored,” says Ian Pattin-son, Vice President, Smart Home Monitoring, Rogers Communications. “There are many new options out there that give Canadians that peace of mind that their home is kept safe and prop-erly maintained whether they're away for a weekend, or gone all season long.”

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your entrances and exits are properly weatherproofed this cold weather season.

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When you close and lock your windows and doors, there's often a crack between the top and sides and the frame or thresh-old. Opt for seals to place along the inside perimeter of your windows and doors to prevent drafts from enter-ing. For the easiest instal-lation, choose seals that are self-adhesive. Popu-lar options for this are the Duck brand Heavy-Duty Weatherstrip Seals, made of durable EPDM rubber, or Self-Adhesive Foam Seals. Both are good choices for

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For an added barrier between the inside of your home and the winter weath-er, make sure you have a storm door installed. This extra amenity will provide an additional level of pro-tection from the frigid tem-peratures of the cold weather season, allowing you to keep your thermostat – and your heating bill – low.

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Splurge: Streamline

your layout to evoke a sleek and sophisticated vibe. Inte-grating built-in appliances, such as a Jenn-Air(®) 30” single wall oven in Floating White Glass, adds polish and maximizes under-coun-ter space. For entertain-ers, an open-concept living space with an oversized island creates a central hub at parties. The addition of an under-counter bever-age centre is always a hit with guests and wine lov-ers alike. For texture and elegant contrast, select a high-gloss stone countertop

and dark-stained fl oors.

Save: Backsplashes are a blank canvas and offer the opportunity to create a big impact. Whether you embel-lish the space with mosaic tile, glass, or even stylish marble, a show stopping backsplash creates a feature wall that is as beautiful as it is functional. Another op-tion is to install a statement light fi xture, whether archi-tectural or ornate, to shine new light onto the space.

2: Turn up the heat

Splurge: Take inspira-tion from a modern gas-tropub and incorporate a fi replace into your kitchen. While this is a signifi cant design commitment, a fi re-place is a modern addition to the kitchen and unites living spaces, particularly in open concept homes. Richly stained cabinets exude fur-ther warmth and provide a restaurant-at-home feel. Keep the lines of the cabi-nets and countertops slick and you'll have a contem-porary, eclectic space.

Save: If you live in a condo where the addition of a fi replace isn't an option, bring in warmth through ac-cessories. Cookbooks, cozy throw pillows, and ban-quette seating will soften the space and create a relaxed

atmosphere. A vintage set-tee in place of two chairs at the table is another way to add a touch of luxury and comfort.

3. Add rustic charm

Splurge: Create a chic space with rustic touches: butcher-block countertops, a reclaimed wood dining table, and wide wood plank fl oors. Clean cabinetry with built-in stainless steel appli-ances provide the ultimate base and maintain the focus on your overall design.

Save: Adore the look of a built-in fridge but not ready to splurge? Jenn-Air(®) offers cabinet depth refrigerators that appear built-in and are mounted fl ush with the cabinets; cus-tom overlay panels can even

be added to further blend with surrounding cabinetry. Bring in additional rustic elements through thought-ful accessories: a reclaimed wood plank is a beauti-ful table runner, especially when stained to compliment your kitchen, and a vintage milk jug doubles as a state-ment vase.

As a fi nal tip (and the quickest and most simple of all), stop by your local farmer's market or fl ower shop—fresh blooms add visual interest and bring instant life to any space.

So whether you choose to do a major renovation or some quick revitalizing, keep these design trends in mind as you update your kitchen this fall to bring new energy, warmth, and style to your home.

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cooling account for nearly half of your home's energy consumption, so when reno-vating, be sure to bone up on the latest advancements. Proper insulation will ensure that the air you want inside doesn't escape through the roof, fl oors or windows. As importantly, advanced in-sulation will make sure that all the money you spend on household fuel doesn't go down the drain.

When renovating, retail-ers tell us that a top-seller is the Nudura RetroFit Insula-tion technology, a system for insulating foundation walls, inner and outer walls, as well as fl at, or cathedral ceilings.

“This do-it-yourself product is a shiplap system of expanded polystyrene (EPS), which allows large 4 X 8 foot sheets of foam to be installed without any

gaps for air leakage,” says Todd Blyth at the Ontario offices of Nudura. “Made from recyclable material, it is easy to cut, easy to install, and the performance value is up to R-14. Drywall can then be attached directly to the embedded fastening strip allowing the electrical wiring to be easily run.”

For more details take a look in the homeowner section of www.nudura.com.

Since prospective buy-ers can now measure the energy efficiency of your house, it is worth paying close attention to the quality of every upgrade and renova-tion, Blyth points out.

“Not only does ad-vanced insulation reduce home heating costs, it will reduce outdoor noise, drafts, and unexpected cold spots from room to room.”

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recent fashion trends are emerging on the home front in the mint, coral, pink and vanilla families. The Lemon Sorbet paint colour makes the perfect backdrop to these hues.

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With the window quickly closing, Saskatch-ewan farmers are getting close to wrapping up the 2012 harvest.

Seventy-four per cent of the 2012 crop is har-vested and a further 20 per cent is swathed or ready to straight combine, ac-cording to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly crop report.

The five-year (2007-2011) provincial average for this time of year is 55 per cent combined and 28 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine.

Harvest progress var-ies across the province. The southwest has 93 per cent combined; the east-central region 73 per cent; the west-central region 64 per cent; the northeast 55 per cent and the northwest 45 per cent. Sixty-seven per cent of spring wheat; 85 per cent of durum; 71 per cent of barley; 74 per cent of canola; 85 per cent of mustard; 27 per cent of fl ax; 92 per cent of lentils and 98 per cent of fi eld peas have been combined.

In southeast Saskatch-

ewan, 90 per cent of the 2012 crop is in the bin, up from 76 per cent last week. Crop District 1A has 96 per cent combined, CD 1B 89 per cent, CD 2A 86 per cent, CD 2B 88 per cent and CD 3ASE has 96 per cent combined.

The majority of the region did not receive any rainfall this past week, although the Frobisher and Maryfield areas received three mm, the Tantallon, Wilcox and Radville areas one mm and the Kisbey area two mm.

Since April 1, rainfall in the region has ranged from 191 mm (Radville area) to 533 mm (Tantal-lon area). Radville has re-corded the least cumulative rainfall in the province.

Topsoil is becoming increasingly dry in many areas of the region. Top-soil moisture ratings on cropland are reported as 31 per cent adequate, 56 per cent short and 13 per cent very short. On hay land and pasture, topsoil moisture is rated as 24 per cent adequate, 60 per cent short and 16 per cent very

short. Crop District 3ASE is reporting that 33 per cent of cropland and hay land and pasture are very short of moisture. A signifi cant rainfall will be needed after harvest to recharge the soil.

Crop reporters are in-dicating variable yields ranging from above aver-age to very poor. Excess moisture at seeding time, heat stress, disease and wind damage have all af-fected yield. Average yields have improved in the past few weeks and are predict-ed to be as follows: winter wheat 51 bu/ac, spring wheat 32 bu/ac, durum 36 bu/ac, oats 56 bu/ac, barley 49 bu/ac, fall rye 47 bu/ac, fl ax 20 bu/ac, canola 24 bu/ac, mustard 704 lb./ac, sun-fl owers 1500 lb./ac, lentils 1121 lb./ac, peas 29 bu/ac, chickpeas 1466 lb./ac and canaryseed 990 lb./ac.

Grades for harvested lentils are reported as 19 per cent 1 CAN, 48 per cent 2 CAN and 33 per cent 3 CAN. Grades for fi eld peas are reported as 30 per cent 1 CAN, 47 per cent 2 CAN and 23 per cent 3 CAN. Grades for durum harvested

are reported as 27 per cent 1 CW, 38 per cent 2 CW, 29 per cent 3 CW and six per cent other.

Strong winds continue to damage crops and blew swaths across fi elds. There have been several reports of combines being lost to fi re. Fall work is now underway and the majority of produc-ers will be fi nished harvest in the next week or two. Many livestock producers are baling a second cut of hay.

Producers are busy combining, hauling bales,

working the fields and spraying weeds.

Provincially, topsoil moisture on cropland is rated as three per cent sur-plus, 50 per cent adequate, 33 per cent short and 14 per cent very short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as one per cent surplus, 45 per cent adequate, 34 per cent short and 20 per cent very short.

Rainfall this week ranged from trace amounts in the majority of the prov-ince to 31 mm in some ar-eas of the northwest. Crop

quality is generally good; yields vary from region to region.

The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corpora-tion also reminded pro-ducers that the deadline to submit forage claims and declarations is September 30. If producers have not completed harvest by this date, they may request an extension of insurance.

T h e l a s t d a y f o r AgriStability participants to submit their 2011 pro-gram forms without penalty is Sept. 30.

2012 harvest nearing conclusion

The Saskatchewan Transportation Company is extending its $10 se-nior seat sale by an extra month.

Seniors aged 60 and over can continue to ride across Saskatchewan for $10 one-way for the entire month of October as well.

“We think this will be a welcome surprise for the many seniors who rely on STC’s services,” Minister responsible for STC Don

McMorris said. “I hope many seniors will be able to take advantage of these savings, particularly over the Thanksgiving weekend when travelling to be with friends and family.”

Many seniors have taken advantage of the company’s senior seat sale in the past, making it STC’s most popular sale. First introduced in Sep-tember 2009 and running for the months of May and

September each year, this sale marks the fi rst time that STC has extended the sale and offered it for two successive months.

“We’re excited to see what the reaction will be,” STC president and CEO Shawn Grice said. “Our senior seat sales have been a terrifi c success so far and we believe the extension will be well received by our senior customers. We hope they enjoy it.”

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They’re back in busi-ness with renewed energy and a new place to play.

The Sun City Prop Busters, the radio control model airplane afi ciona-dos, have a new takeoff and landing fi eld to call their own after they had to leave their former well-groomed fi eld just a short distance south of their current digs.

The current land, do-nated to the club by Sher-ritt Coal in return for their previously donated land that had to be reclaimed for mining purposes a couple of years ago, won’t undergo a similar fate in years to come.

“They’ve promised us there is no coal here that they’ll want and it’s our land to develop through a long-term lease,” said Shelly Folbar, the club’s secretary.

The Prop Busters are now in the procsess of grooming their new three-acre site, beginning with a fresh crop of grass that will be left uncut this fall in anticipation of good growing conditions next

spring.They’ve done quite a

bit of land levelling and

fi lling in a low spot on the edge of the property.

“We had a great fi eld before, we’ll have another great one again,” said Folbar.

“We’ve had this land for about four years now,” said Elroy Dougherty, a club member whose son Art is the current presi-dent.

“It was too soggy to work on much last year, but we got a road built in here and we got a min-iature temporary fi eld in the meantime. It’s good for small planes and he-licopters, but not all the planes,” said Dougherty.

Thanks to a mining excavation site nearby, an underground irrigation system will be implement-ed in the spring to make full use of a good water supply.

As far as membership goes, Folbar said the Prop Busters have never had to conduct a membership drive.

“We’ve had as few

as 20 and as many as 80. We’re down a bit now, but that’s mainly because we

didn’t have a home, but that’s changed. Our mem-bers are as young as eight and as old as 80 and all are pretty active,” she added.

So far simple word-of-mouth about the local club has kept the member-ship growing with radio controlled model enthu-siasts joining the club from as far away as North Dakota and Oxbow and Lampman in southeast Saskatchewan.

Their new clubhouse came to them by way of a donation from a con-struction company that no longer needed the building following the completion of a major hotel building project last year.

The excavation work, road building, grass seed-ing and cutting has all been done through volun-teer efforts and Dougherty noted that as many as 40 companies have donated equipment, time and per-sonnel just so that the club could get back up and operating at full potential again.

“We have the water, the grass, the three acre

field, the insurance and mandatory training that is required to be a member and we’ll have the mem-bership back up again, I’m sure by next spring, when the word gets out that we’re ready to go,” said Folbar.

Anyone wanting to fl y with the Prop Busters has to pass the mandatory wings test, which is simi-lar to remote control pilots who fly drone aircraft. The course is presented by the club’s insurance provider. The club backs that up with a master in-structors’ designation for added safety.

“Everyone stays safe here, it’s a requirement that anyone who fl ies with us completes the course,” Folbar said.

The club maintains a Facebook and website page for those interested in further details.

The Prop Busters have a rich history in Estevan,

dating back to the early 1980s when they operated out of the former Estevan Airport that used to be located just south of the city ... forged out of the Second World War pilot training program. After the old airport was claimed for the coal underneath, the club eventually found a base on land donated by the coal company and now, after a little upheaval and recovery from fl oods, they’ll be back on good soil and good company next spring. As was evi-denced by the enthusiasm displayed by current mem-bers, they won’t have any problems fi lling out their membership roster once more. The word will get out and former members and new members will be welcomed into the fold and regular flying ses-sions will resume with special events scheduled throughout the prime fl y-ing months.

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A few members of the Sun City Prop Busters who made their way to the club’s new fi eld and clubhouse a couple of weeks ago were, from the left: Elroy Dougherty,

Shelly Folbar, John Reid, Sheldon Buck, Nika Buck and Don Twietmeyer.

The new landing strip for the Sun City Prop Busters, the remote control model airplane club, is not ready for

fi xed wing aircraft yet, but Sheldon Buck used the new fi eld near the Estevan Motor Speedway grounds to

test his helicopter which he sent into a variety of tricks including total inversion and steep banking moves.

The remote control helicopter piloted by Sheldon Buck hovered over the Sun City

Prop Buster’s new landing strip that is being groomed for club activity next spring.

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NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF POLL

The Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5Municipal Election 2012

Whereas Lorne Jahn, nominated for the office of Councillor of Division No. 1,

Whereas Dennis Blackburn, nominated for the office of Councillor of Division No. 3,

And

Whereas Kelly Lafrentz, nominated for the office of Reeve.

Were the only candidate nominated for each position, I hereby give notice that no voting for these offices will take place on Wednesday, October 24th 2012

Dated this 20th day of September, 2012

Kim McIvorReturning Officer

By Catrina MoldenhauerMidale Correspondent

The Midale Lions Club

will be sponsoring their fi rst-ever Santa Parade. It will take place on Satur-day, November 24 at 11 a.m. Following the parade, there will be hot chocolate and hot dogs available at the rink, as well as a free public skate from 1 to 3 p.m. Please consider putting in a fl oat or any Christmas items to make the fi rst Santa Parade a success. Please have entries in by Nov. 10 to Marilyn Gust.

Midale Cooperative Play School is holding Thanksgiving Day raffl e for a basket of food. Included in this basket is a turkey with all the trimmings. Tickets are available from any play school parent. The draw will take place on Oct. 4. The hockey rink is hoping to have ice in by mid-October. The ice times have booked up quickly this year and there aren’t many spots open from Monday to Thursday. The Mustangs won’t have their schedule until the end of the month. We will have an initiation team and a novice team as well. Midale has a rec team and will be scheduling one

ice time each week. Don’t forget the Mi-

dale and area annual fowl supper will be held on Oct. 14.

Midale Central School will be participating in the Terry Fox Walk/Jog on Thursday, Sept. 27. Pledge sheets that have been sent home are to be returned on or before that date. Parents and guardians are more than welcome to come and walk/jog with their children.

Cross-country prac-tices take place after school on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. They should only take about half an hour to 45 minutes, depending on speed and training pace. The cross-country meet will be on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at the Carnduff Golf Club during school hours. More details will be forthcoming. There are elementary cat-egories starting in Grade3.

Farm Credit Canada - Drive Away Hunger! Bags will be going home with the students and we ask that you fi ll them up with non-perishable food items to be

returned to the school by Oct. 15. The FCC will pick up the bags at the school and distribute them to hungry families in Can-ada. Most needed items are: pasta and rice, canned

meat and fi sh, canned soup, canned fruit and vegetables, fl our, cereal, peanut butter, canned or powdered milk, fruit juices, beans, infant formula and baby food.

A reminder to Parents who are driving students: In order to drive students to extra-curricular activities, you must have $2 million vehicle insurance and a criminal record check that was done in the past fi ve years.

Volunteers are needed once again to provide the kids with the fl uoride rinse

program that takes place once a week and is approxi-mately one hour in duration.

The senior girls’ vol-leyball team played in a tournament in Weyburn in Weyburn and this weekend, they will be playing in Es-tevan. On Oct. 12 and 13, they will travel to Lumsden and their home tournament will be here on Oct. 26 and 27. Conference playoffs will be held in Stoughton on Nov. 2.

Senior boys’ volley-ball practices are held on Mondays from 5:15 to 7:15

p.m. and Wednesdays from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Their fi rst tournament was in Carnduff last weekend where they lost their fi rst game to Carn-duff in a close match and then beat Gladmar in three sets. The team played very well for their fi rst matches of the season. They will be hosting an exhibition match with Gladmar on Oct. 15. The following tournaments are scheduled so far: Oct. 12 and 13 in Oxbow, Midale on Oct. 20, and in Arcola Oct. 27. Provincial playoffs will be starting the second

weekend of November. Midale Skating Club

held registration Sept. 17. If you missed the meeting, please contact Michelle Kleinsasser.

Midale Hockey As-sociation’s registration and meeting was held on Sept. 18. If you did not get your child registered, please call Catrina Moldenhauer and she can direct you to the right person.

Please remember to call Catrina at 458-2887 if you have any news for this column.

Midale community happenings

By Betty RiblingOutram-TorquayCorrespondent

Sympathy is extended to the family of the late Ina Irwin. Ina passed away at Estevan on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at the age of 98 years. Her funeral service was held on Monday, Sept. 17 at St. Paul’s United Church in Estevan with Rev. Brenna Nickel offi ci-ating. Ina was predeceased by her husband, Art and daughter, Sandra. She is survived by her daughters,

Merle (Gordon) Youck of Strasbourg and Arlene (Jim) Dye of Griffi th, Indi-ana; sons, Henry (Deanna) Irwin of Macoun and Law-rence (Edna) Irwin of Es-tevan. She is also survived by 25 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren, two sisters, Edith Munshaw and Wilma Tedford, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Those from a distance who attending the funeral were Danny (Jody) Irwin and family from Redwater, Alta.; Ar-lene and Jim Dye and Tracy

Zimmerman from Indiana; Ron (Susan) Luthi from Saskatoon; Gordon, Deb-bie and Brenda Youck of Strasbourg; and Danny and Susan Ehrmantraut from Winnipeg, Man.

Donald and Faye Man-tei and Travis and Farah Klatt and family attended a chicken roast on Satur-day, Sept. 22 at the home of Art and Linda Klatt of Alameda.

Rebecca and William Duncan performed in the Missoula Children’s The-atre version of The Wiz-

ard of Oz on Saturday, Sept. 22. There were two performances, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. Wilma Mantei was the pianist.

Best wishes to Marga-ret Duncan who celebrated a birthday on Sept. 23.

Heather and Jeff Prya and family of Outram at-tended the Missoula Chil-dren’s Theatre presentation on Saturday at Westview School in Estevan.

Rider fans are pleased since the Roughriders beat Calgary on Sunday.

Outram-Torquay news

Submitted byBetty Baniulis

Publicity

Pres iden t Audrey Loustel opened the regu-lar monthly meeting of St. Joseph’s Health Care Aux-iliary on Monday, Sept. 17 with 21 members and one guest, Barbara Tait, in at-tendance.

Secretary Eva Ha-gel read the minutes of the June meeting and Darla Wilhelm gave the treasurer’s report Corre-spondence was received from United Way Estevan regarding the upcoming telethon.

Committee reports were presented by Nola Joseph on behalf of the gift

shop, and knitting and me-morial by Sharon Heinz. Anyone who donates yarn, slippers, etc., to the auxil-iary is asked to please give their address so that they can be thanked. Jean Du-kart reported that she had received a letter from Bai-ley Holzer, the recipient of the auxiliary’s scholar-ship presented this past June, and Laura Baryluk gave the sick and visiting report.

Thirty-one members had their pictures taken in the hospital auditorium, and were then served cake and coffee by the social committee.

Past president Ginger Anderson installed the new executive for 2012-

13 as follows: President, Audrey Loustel; fi rst vice-president, Rose Owens; second vice-president, Marlene Haygarth; sec-retary, Eva Hagel; and treasurer, Darla Wilhelm.

Presentations in rec-ognition of years of ser-

vice to the auxiliary were made to Rose Owens, fi ve years; Chris Cossette and Elsie Walliser, 20 years; and Lillian Gedak, 60 years.

The United Way asked the auxiliary to provide two loaves of sandwiches

for the telethon on Oct. 12 and 13 with Beatrice John-stone and Darla Wilhelm volunteering to do so. Audrey Loustel and Eva Hagel will represent the auxiliary at the telethon.

The auxiliary will be holding their annual tea

and bake sale on Monday, Dec. 3 in the hospital au-ditorium.

Marge Heidinger was recognized as the birthday girl in September, after which lunch was served by Mary Martin-Drader and Heidinger.

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room, dining area and kitchen fl ow into one an-other. The kitchen is adja-cent to the dining area, so serving meals is a matter of just a few steps. The U-shaped counter confi gu-ration promises effi ciency, while the raised eating bar provides a pleasant spot for snacks and casual meals. A pantry offers extra storage.

The great room’s fi re-place, fl anked by built-in entertainment units, will make this a favourite gath-ering place for family and guests on cooler days and evenings. French doors provide access to a sun-deck that overlooks the front garden, perfect for al fresco dining and warm-weather relaxation.

T h e m a s t e r s u i t e boasts a spacious walk-in closet, as well as an ensuite with a shower. The second and third bedrooms share a bathroom with a tub and a linen cupboard.

At the back of the home is a small covered porch that overlooks the back garden.

The laundry room is downstairs, along with a den that overlooks a small veranda. The den would make an ideal home of-fi ce, since business visitors would not have to intrude in the rest of the house. A coat closet is positioned at the back of the foyer.

A double garage com-pletes the ground-floor plan.

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Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 28, 29 & 30:*19th Annual Estevan Business Expo - Showcase Twenty12 - Spectra

Place & ICON Centre. Friday: 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, September 29:*Estevan Antique Auto Club - Fall Swap Meet - Wylie-Mitchell Building

- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.*Estevan Broomball Association - Bottle Drive - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.*Souris Valley Trekkers - Saddle Horse Trail Ride - Roche Percee - Ride leaves at 9:30 a.m.*Speak Up - Giving Child Sexual Abuse a Voice - Little Warriors Fundraiser - Beefeater Plaza.

Doors Open - 5:30 p.m.; Supper - 6 p.m.; Speakers, 50/50 Silent Auction, Raffl e to follow.

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IN MEMORIAM

Archie Mantei

1928 - 2010

September 30, 2010

God took you home to proveto us

He only takes the very best.I miss you more each day

For life will not be the samefor me

Since you’ve been calledaway.

I will always rememberThe way you looked

He was my soul-mate for60 years.

- Missed by Lois, Terry and Wilma, Grandchildren and Great Grand-children.

Bette Geil

In Loving Memory of a

Dear Wife, Mother,

Grandmother

Who went to be with God on

September 26, 2000

You did so many thingsfor me

Your heart was kind and trueAnd when I needed someoneI could always count on you.

The special yearswill not return

When we were togetherBut with the love inside

my heartYou will walk with me forever.

- Lov ing ly remembered and missed by Lorne and your family.

In Memory of

Wendy May Curtis

March 19, 1961 -

September 27, 2010

Time passes; life gets busy;We become occupied,

but there is not a single daythat goes by that we do

not think of you!We carry the love you

had for us,and the world in our hearts.

And every morning,we spread that love alittle more with each

breath we take.Until we meet again,

shine through us,as we shine through others.

- We love and miss you, Dave, Blaine, Jessica, Kenneth, Carrie, Hailee, Desceus, Rayelle and De-yasic.

IN MEMORIAM

Steve Kazuik

1941 - 2009

October 1

We do not forget, nor dowe intend,

We’ll think of you to thevery end.

Forgotten by some youmay be,

In our memory you willever be.

- Lovingly remembered by Berva, Garnet and Sheldon.

Woolsey

In Loving Memory of

My Husband Duane

Who passed away

September 28, 1983

So Loved and So Missedby wife Marian.

CARD OF THANKS

I would like to express a heartfelt thank you to all the friends, family, co-workers and acquaintances from near and far who offered their sympathy, help, support, concern and donations during the most try-ing time of my life, the tragic pass-ing of my eldest son, Derek Olson. The kindness, support and gene-rosity shown for me and my family is greatly appreciated. We couldn’t have gotten through such a diffi-cult time without it. My gratitude will be never ending. May God bless each and every one of you.- Sheila Olson, Estevan, Sask.

Thanks to all who supported the Estevan Dance Club. Due to de-clining attendance and the depar-ture of our president, the Dance Club has folded. $1,900 remained in the bank account. With some in-put from supporters, we have do-nated $1,500 to the new nuring home and $400 to the Seniors’ Club.- President Denise Dukart; Treas-urer, Rita Kramer.

Thank you to all who came to my 75th Birthday Tea, and for all the cards and calls and gifts. A huge thank you to my family for putting on the tea and our family supper. I feel truly blessed with such good family and friends.- Lois Collier-Hughes.

COMING EVENTS

Estevan Antique Auto Club

FALL SWAP MEET

Saturday, Sept. 29

Wylie Mitchell Building

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Auto Parts, Tools, Antiques,

Household Items,

Collectibles

Vendors Wanted

Call Nathan at 634-1909

Pierson Carnival of

Crafts ...

34th Annual

Pierson, Manitoba

Saturday, October 6th

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Ina Irwin1914-2012

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Ina Arlene Irwin, late of Estevan, Sask. passed away in Estevan at the age of 98 years.

Ina is survived by her children, Merle (Gordon) Youck of Strasbourg, Sask., Arlene (Jim) Dye of Griffi th, Indiana, Henry (Deanna) Irwin of Macoun, Sask. and Lawrence (Edna) Irwin of Estevan; 25 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren; sisters, Edith

Munshaw and Wilma Tedford, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents, Charles and Stella Henderson; husband Arthur Irwin; daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Bill Ronchi; granddaughter Candice Zimmerman; son-in-law Norman Zimmerman; brothers, Lawrence and Cyril Henderson; sisters, Mary Henderson, Myra Henderson and Agnes Howitt; brothers-in-law, Ernest Tedford, Jim Howitt and Ross Munshaw and sister-in-law Alice Henderson.

Public Visitation was held on Sunday, September 16, 2012 from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan. Funeral Service was held on Monday, September 17, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan, with Rev. Brenna Nickel offi ciating. Interment followed in Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, Estevan.

Those so wishing may make donations to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation or St. Paul’s United Church in Ina’s memory.

Arrangements entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank YouTo everyone, for expressions of sympathy, cards, beautiful bouquets of fl owers, memorial tributes, also for gifts of food, phone calls and prayers. To the nurses and staff at the long-term care at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Thank You! The loving care and kindness you gave to Mom-Grandma touched our family more than you can know. Thank you to Hospital Chaplain, Marian Huber, and Pastoral care-giver, Kaye Hemus. The scripture, song, and prayer gave great comfort to Mom in your daily visits. Rev. Brenna Nickel, Thank you for your compassion and prayers, also for offi ciating at the celebration of Life for Ina. To Shirley Andrist, the organist, St. Paul’s United Church choir, scripture readers Edna Irwin and Susan Luthi, Debbie Youck Stewart for the time of remembrance and tributes and to grandson Glen Irwin for singing “There will be Peace in the Valley.” Thank You! Also to St. Paul’s United Church ladies for preparing and serving the lunch. Our thanks to Hall Funeral Services, Your care, compassion and professionalism gave our family great comfort and peace. Thank you to the Pallbearers, grandsons, Craig, Glen, Danny, Neil, and Byron Irwin. Great Grandsons, Jordan, Matthew, Dalton and Karson Irwin. Honorary Pallbearers, St. Joseph Long-term care givers, Marian Huber and Kaye Hemus. With God’s blessing, her family’s handprints and roses, Ina was gently laid to rest in Souris Valley Memorial Gardens. GOD BLESS. - The Ina Irwin Family

John Stubel1926 - 2012

John Stubel, age 86, passed away on Monday, September 10, 2012 in Estevan, Sask.

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Patricia; children, Carol (Mike) Adams, Gordon (Lizanne), Gwenn Melanson (Rob Bennett), Connie (Wayne) Brokenshire, Wayne, Warren (Monika); 18 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren; siblings, Alma Vicary, Elsie (Don) Fiest, Ann Zohner, Velma (Kurt)

Cornies, Rudy Stubel, Marlene Riley, Dorothy (Don) Caves; sisters-in-law, Lorna Stubel and Helen Stubel.

Predeceased by his parents, Reinhold and Caroline Stubel; brothers, Julius, Erwin, Ernest, Edward, Harold, Fred and infant brother; sister, Lila Langedahl; sisters-in-law, Rose Stubel, Helen Stubel and Victoria Stubel; brothers-in-law, Melvin Langedahl, Fred Vicary and Gus Zohner; daughter-in-law, Collette; son-in-law, Neil Reiley.

A Funeral Service was held on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 2:00 pm from St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan, with Pastor Danny Krauss offi ciating. Interment followed in the Estevan City Cemetery.

Arrangements entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank YouA special thank you to the staff at St. Joseph’s hospital, Dr. Tsoi and Dr. Horri for the excellent care Johnny received. Thank you to all our wonderful family and friends for the beautiful fl owers, delicious food, kind phone calls, and encouraging words. Thank you to Pastor Danny Krauss for the comforting message and the Faith Lutheran Church Band for the beautiful music during the service. Also a special thank you to Jeff Sully and Halls Funeral Services for the outstanding compassion and guidance we received during this diffi cult time. - Sincerely, Patricia Stubel and family.

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Submitted byShirley GrahamClub Secretary

Words of wisdom: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let peo-ple “think” you are a fool than to open it and prove it!

There was another great turnout for the club’s bridge tournament last week. Here are the win-ners: Taking fi rst in bridge were Margaret Sawyer and Carrie Leptich, second place went to Jo Woll-ner and Gordon Freeden of Lampman, while Jean Brown and Lucie Nickel of Weyburn fi nished third. The 50/50 draw winners

60 and Over Club noteswere Joe Claude, Carrie Leptich, and Diane Bell of Weyburn. Congratulations, everyone.

Cribbage was played on Thursday, Sept. 20 with Charlene Anderson and Al Fellner taking fi rst. In second were June Engelke and Dot Bridges, and third place went to Adele and Louis Belanger.

Another reminder of some upcoming events: The first potluck of the season will be held on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m., with cribbage to fol-low at 6 p.m.; the bridge on Wednesday, Oct. 3 will be hosted by the Estevan Public Library; and the

next monthly meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 4 at 12:30 p.m., with cribbage commencing at 1 p.m.

Mother said, “Son, it’s time to get up and go to school.”

“Mother, no one likes me in school. The teach-ers don’t like me, the kids don’t like me, the bus driver hates me and the school board wants me to quit.”

Mother said, “Son, you are healthy, you have a lot to learn, you are a born leader and besides, you are 45 years old and you are the principal.”

Have a good week!

North Portal newsBy Betty Baniulis

North Portal Correspondent

Bette MacDonald, Gene and Cathie Davis, Scott and Dorna MacDon-ald, all of North Portal, along with Lauren and daughter Ellie Packer of Estevan, flew to Austin, Texas to attend a wedding on Sept. 15. They returned home on Sept. 17.

Alan and Shirley Davis drove to Unity last weekend to attend the 60th wedding anniversary celebration for their friends, Roy and Mary Livesley.

Rev. Brenna Nickel spent a week in New Jersey with her parents and also took part in a study leave a Princeton while away. She is minister at the Unit-ed Church International Charge in Estevan.

*Born to Dustin and Jannel Hockey, 281 Sy-mons Bay, Estevan, on Sep-tember 12, 2012, a son, Jake Travis; a brother for Olivia Rose. Proud grandparents are Laverne and Debbie Hockey, and Danny and Glenda Johnstone.

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Welcome back ECS. This year the Es-

tevan Comprehens ive School welcomed 860 s t u d e n t s t h r o u g h t h e doors. Most were return-ing fo r ano ther year, while some entered, eyes wide, as they took in the size and confusion of 900 bodies roaming the halls.

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Grade 9s, ECS gained six new teachers and two interns.

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Mrs . Wal l , a new p h y s i c a l e d u c a t i o n t eache r, comes t o u s from Lampman.

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Allan and Mr. Hintz is shadowing Mr. Renas in the field of chemistry for the semester. Mrs. Huck is teaching for Ms. Savill, who is on medi-cal leave.

S tuden t s have a l -ready begun making a sp lash in the a rea o f spo r t s . The Es t evan -Weyburn r iva l ry was a p p a r e n t a t t h e E C S footbal l home opener on Sept. 8. The team ex-ecuted many good plays, but in the end, the Eagles took the game 36-8.

The E lecs lo s t t o Swift Current in their second home game by a score of 36-14.

T h e s e n i o r g i r l s ’ socce r t eam has a l so begun their season with two away games and three home games in the

last two weeks. Senior boys’ soccer

i s a lso underway and our golf team is playing regularly. At the t ime this was being written, the ECS senior golf team sent eight players to pro-vincials in Prince Albert.

T h e s e n i o r g i r l s ’ volleyball team will be hosting their home tour-namen t Sep t . 28 and 29. We look forward to well-played, successful games from them.

The S tudent Rep-resentative Council has also been hard at work. They, a long wi th the SHOUTS group, hosted new student orientation in August to help new s tuden ts g row accus-tomed to the building. At their first meeting of the year, the group decided

one of their goals will be to increase attendance at sporting events. To ac-complish this they have begun to hos t ac t iv i -ties in the lunch periods to promote upcoming events. Such events have been a barbecue at the footbal l home opener and a soccer ball kick at the school. As a sur-p r i s e fo r t he s tuden t body, there have also been two Period 6 food g iveaways . I n p r ev i -ous years students have asked what the SRC does fo r eve ryone bes ides holding events. This is their way of giving back.

Members of the SRC a t t ended t he S tuden t Leadership Conference in Watrous Sept. 19 to 21, and will be attending the Canadian Student

Leadership Conference in Weyburn Sept. 26 to 28. These are opportuni-ties to share ideas with high school leadership teams from across the country.

Thus far, Septem-ber has been busy for students. Some have en-tered a new school, oth-ers are enrolled in new classes, and still others have become involved w i t h n e w s p o r t s a n d clubs. There is still time to sign up so pleace con-tact homeroom teachers to get advisers’ names. Luckily, that is only the beg inn ing o f wha t i s sure to be an exciting school year. Be sure to watch for our coming art icles to hear al l of the happening at ECS this year.

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