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Visits Boundary Dam⇢ A3

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Busy Summer For Eagles⇢ A4

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New WheelsThe newest addition to the Estevan Fire Rescue Ser-

vice’s fl eet arrived Monday as the department received

their new T-rex aerial fi re truck. The new piece of equip-

ment, which cost around $1.3 million, has a number of

uses, most notably the ability to use the aerial unit for

rescues and tackling fi res in larger buildings.

While Estevan contin-ues to have a solid number of doctors practising in the city, news of an impending departure has sent local health care officials on a worldwide search.

It was learned last week that Dr. Yusuf Ka-sim has informed both his patients and those in the health care community that he is closing his practice in early November. Kasim is currently Estevan’s only gy-necologist and obstetrician specialist and his departure will leave a major void, particularly for expecting mothers.

St. Joseph’s Hospital executive director Greg Hoffort said fi nding a re-placement for Kasim is a high priority.

Health offi cials on hunt for OB/GYN

Dr. Yusuf Kasim

“It is of concern for us and it is number one on our recruiting list,” said Hoffort. “And it’s not a short, simple process. You can identify them, but if they are out of the country there is college certifi cation and immigra-tion issues and they just don’t happen that quickly.

“We have some feelers out there and we hope that we can realize those and get them to the point where we can bring one in soon.”

Hoffort declined to speak about why Kasim is leaving and The Mercury was unable to reach him before press time.

Although the even-tual departure of Kasim will leave a hole on the local physician roster, Hof-fort said that on the whole, Estevan still has a strong number of doctors and is always looking for more.

“We have ongoing re-cruiting and we have a couple of irons in the fi re that we are pretty optimistic (about),” Hoffort said.

“It’s a concern when-ever we lose a physician,

but having said that, we are a little ahead of the game to where we were a year ago and it’s not to the point where things have to become a crisis before we spring into action. We are continually recruiting and as mentioned, we do have a couple of physicians that we are quite optimistic may be joining us soon.”

While the hunt for an OB/GYN is an obvious priority, Hoffort said their other recruiting efforts are focused on general practi-tioners and if they also have a specialty, it’s all the better for local patients.

“We have a GP who is also an anesthetist so that is of importance to us to keep that. We also have a GP who is a surgeon and those

are a couple of stable physi-cians. But in general (we are looking for) good quality general practitioners. We want to stay in that nine to 12 doctor range. That can do a couple of things; fi rst, service the public well and secondly, provide the sup-port for one another so two or three doctors don’t have to shoulder the whole load covering emergency. There can be nine to 12 doctors sharing that load and there can be a little work-life bal-ance for them all.”

Hoffort added he and the local health care com-mittee are continuing to work with the Sun Country Health Region to bring a CT scanner to Estevan and al-though nothing is imminent, it also remains a top priority.

By Norm Park

of The Mercury

There have been no cases of humans being infected with the West Nile virus in the Sun Country Health Region ... so far.

Dr. Shauna Hudson, chief medical offi cer for the region, said there has been only one individual in the province testing positive for the virus and he showed no symp-toms. The only way the infection was detected was due to the fact the man was attempting to donate blood when the virus showed up in

the pre-draw test. Hudson said culex tarsalis

mosquitoes, the type that carry the West Nile virus, have been identifi ed in the local health region though. She said two were caught in a trap about one week ago. The traps have been set in Sun Country for the past 11 weeks and this was the fi rst reporting of the culex tarsalis type.

“They have been trapped in very low numbers since. We’ve never had more than 100 culex tarsalis in any trap and usually it’s well below 100 which is lower than previous years and especially lower

than 2010. Last year, the count was very low around Estevan and Wey-burn where we had two positive tests on West Nile in mid-August around Estevan. There was one positive test in Weyburn.”

“This year it was Week 32 when we got our fi rst positive fi nd of this mosquito and it was Week 32 last year and Week 30 in 2010 and it was Week 25 in 2007 which was the biggest year for culex tarsalis,” said Hudson.

“It seems they are now show-ing up later in the season and we’re usually getting 10 culex tarsalis

mosquitoes in traps overnight and some are infected with West Nile but there hasn’t been a lot of trans-ferring to birds or horses yet,” said Hudson.

But with persistent hot weath-er, the mosquitoes are still around so the population is not at zero risk, at least not for a little while.

Those engaged in harvesting operations are warned that the mosquitoes thrive in the rural areas. Culex tarsalis are small mosquitoes that like to bite the lower body.

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Philip Curry, provincial entomologist for the Health Ministry, said there have been no signs of any strict pattern of arrival or departure of the culex tarsalis other than it appears to be coming in a bit later in recent years.

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West Nile virus still in seasonvolume of mosquitoes, he said. Yes, there was a lot of standing water after the event, but the fl ooding actu-ally wiped out a lot of tra-ditional mosquito breeding territory, he said.

“Larvicide programs, especially in the cities, have also helped keep the numbers down,” said Hudson and Curry.

The entomologist noted though that even with over 10 years of careful scrutiny and study, there is still no human immunity to West Nile, although there has been some in birds, that are usu-ally the first species to be infected, followed by horses and humans.

“In 2003 and 2007 we had very high activity with a big buildup of mosquitoes the year before, then the years following those, the

situation was not as bad,” said Curry.

Weather, of course, was a big factor although 2003 was a dry year, the infesta-tion was high due to the build up a year earlier. Mosquito larva can easily survive over winter.

“The southeast had a higher activity level in pre-vious years. Anyone born after 2007 wouldn’t have any natural immunity and after 2003 we had cold and wet conditions in the spring that worked against the culex tarsalis.”

Curry added that the work he and his staff do continues to concentrate on tracking the high mosquito counts that carry West Nile, knowing that there will al-ways be culex tarsalis mos-quitoes around so the prob-lem will never be eradicated.

“Hot weather in sum-mer means more people are out enjoying the weather, which, in turn, means more possibility of exposure to mosquitoes,” he said.

“We need immunity to block it, but we’re not near that yet. A lot of people have never been exposed and you can’t assume that just be-cause you’ve had mosquito bites, you’re immune,” Curry said.

This summer’s early rains and high winds helped keep the mosquito count down too.

“We’ve done evaluation of larvicide programs and they are effective especially in hot, dry years when the mosquitoes’ natural habitats are reduced. Programs in the cities are more effective and West Nile sites can be identi-fi ed and treated. The larger the city, the better the chance of reducing mosquito counts. For instance the City of Regi-na has a larvicide program in all sectors within the city and for 10 kilometres outside the city limits. Mosquitoes can fl y three kilometres a night, so let’s say with 27 square kilometres being treated, you have a good combat system,” Curry said.

“Culex tarsalis is a rural mosquito, it likes the shallow ponds, just like you have in the Souris Valley, so you have the challenge right there, but control programs like the larvicide program you have, does work. But for the farm community, there’s just too much habitat, so I would suggest to the farmers to focus on their own farm yards and regional parks and eliminate the breeding areas there. Clean up the septic systems, get rid of old tires, water livestock away from the dugout or slough and keep the water fresh, put screens on your doors and remember the life cycle for a typical mosquito is just four weeks ... but then the next generation comes along,” Curry said in conclusion.

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Another busload of in-ternational visitors wended their way to Estevan last Thursday as a windup for the three-day International Energy Agency (IEA), con-ference that was hosted by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina.

The acronym for this year’s session was IEAEOR (enhanced oil recovery). Since the delegates were focused on enhanced oil recovery technology, the clean coal carbon dioxide recovery system that is be-ing constructed at Estevan’s Boundary Dam No. 3 power generation unit addresses that topic in spades.

Using Boundary Dam’s 110 megawatt No. 3 unit as the test electrical power generator for the world’s fi rst commercial sized project, it was expected that the event would draw a lot of interna-tional attention.

“This was the 33rd an-nual conference for this agency. Last year’s was held in Vienna,” said Norm Sacuta, communications co-ordinator for PTRC.

About 45 of the nearly 100 delegates who attend-ed the conference climbed aboard the bus that brought them to Estevan to view BD3. A question and answer period followed with experts in the fi eld of capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide underground and then reus-

ing it as an agent to retrieve even more oil from oilfi elds that would otherwise be considered near depletion levels.

The delegates also vis-ited the nearby Aquistore project where the CO2 will be stored miles underground until required for oil recov-ery, they then made their way back to the Goodwater region near Weyburn to see fi rst-hand how current carbon dioxide gases are already being used for en-hanced oil recovery at the Cenovus operated fi eld. In this instance, the CO2 comes from a North Dakota gasifi -cation plant.

“The conference in Re-gina saw a good mix of re-searchers/scientists, another

20 per cent of them were engineers and to a lesser extent there were delegates who were from the private sector along with a few orga-nizers and administrators,” said Sacuta. “I would say there were 15 to 18 countries represented. A few of the delegates who had registered were unable to make it due to visa or some other inter-national travel problems.”

European and South American countries were well represented along with the Middle East, the PTRC spokesman said.

“They are interested in all aspects of the chain ... all enhanced oil recovery methods and of course the CO2 project is the latest and of most interest,” he said.

Research papers and presentations fi lled up most of the delegates’ time but they did spend one full day on CO2 recovery, learning what the studies of the char-acterization of the gas was recovered would translate to once it was implemented.

“PTRC was the host, but we had a lot of help with organizing and sponsoring this event with SaskPower being one of the big sponsors and helpers of course. The Ministry of the Economy, Cenovus and the University of Regina were other big contributors,” said Sacuta.

“It was a good focus session for the academics and industrial communities and those on the industrial and production side got a

lot of solid information too,” said Sacuta.

“There was a lot of dis-cussion among the industry representatives, additional information was made avail-able and the delegates were pretty enthusiastic over the high quality of the presenta-tions. We had some great papers coming out of Austria and France, for instance,” he added.

With interest building on the carbon capture and sequestration process, the delegates were pretty well convinced there would be even more interest building on the PTRC’s research pro-gram and the development of intellectual properties that will accompany it.

The fi eld of candidates is getting defi ned in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division.

This past week, the fi nal two incumbents who had previously not made their intentions known, have now made their decisions public.

Bruce Wagner, the in-cumbent in Subdivision 6 which includes schools in Gladmar, Oungre, Ogema, Pangman, Radville and Yel-low Grass, said he is prepar-ing to seek re-election while Daryl Harrison, the trustee representing Subdivision 3 which covers Carievale, Carnduff, and Redvers, said he will not be seeking re-election this coming Oct. 24 when civic and school board elections are held across the province.

That means there will be at least one new face at the Cornerstone school board table and perhaps more, al-though nobody has lined up yet to take on incumbents such as Pam Currie and Ja-net Foord who are currently

represents Estevan and have declared their intention to hold those seats.

The Weyburn city rep-resentatives, Bryan Wilson and Len Williams have also declared their intention to stay seated at the table and so far no challengers have emerged for them either.

Cornerstone’s board chairwoman, Carol Flynn who represents Subdivision 1 (Moosomin, Rocanville and Wapella) is looking for re-election as is former chair-woman Audrey Trombley who represents Subdivision No. 5 that includes Fillmore, Stoughton and Midale.

Harold Laich, who un-seated Shelley Slykhuis in the 2009 election, is seeking re-election in Subdivision 2 (Arcola, Carlyle, Manor, Maryfi eld, Wawota and Park-land) and Kevin Keating who unseated former trustee Garry Hammett in the same election, is looking to return as a trustee for Subdivision 4 (Alameda, Lampman, Ox-bow and Bienfait).

Harrison said there was no particular issue or event that has caused him to arrive at the decision to step down other than the fact that he has been a school trustee for more than 15 years now, and he feels it’s a good time to let someone else take over. Harrison has been a trustee for Cornerstone since its inception and had served as a trustee with the Souris Moose Mountain board prior to the amalgamation of the smaller boards into the Cor-nerstone confi guration.

“I was there for the start. We handled a little bit of turmoil at the time, but I was happy to see that our students were not negatively impacted by the changes and everyone persevered and got it done. That was the biggest hurdle,” said Harrison. “I believe the board is heading in the right direction. We serve a large region with several trading areas, so there have been disagreements at times but I have no regrets about things I said or done. We’ve had

split votes, but in the end no one ever held a grudge and I really appreciated the fact that everyone around that table was willing to share their opinions and knowl-edge which led to healthy discussions.”

Harrison, who has two children who still attend school but not in the subdivi-sion he has represented, said it was time to devote more attention to family.

“I haven’t heard of any-one yet who is interested in stepping up to take this on, but now that the information is out there, that could hap-pen quickly,” said Harrison who was re-elected by ac-clamation in 2009.

“I am defi nitely going to miss it, not the driving mind you, but the people and the work. It’s been a great time,” Harrison said.

Wagner, on the other hand, after contemplating options, said he was willing to stand for re-election.

“We got things started, we’re starting some long

range planning that I’m in-terested in. We want to do the best for all the students. We’ve had some controver-sies such as with the Lyn-dale School (Oungre) and Pangman School, but when we’ve looked at the big pic-ture we’ve seen that’s the only way we can go and be sustainable.”

Wagner said the division can’t approach problems on a piecemeal basis and that’s why he’s interested in the long range plans. He wants to be there to ensure they are affordable and that they serve the students who are front and foremost in the equation.

“At each point along the way, we have to stop and ask ourselves ‘is this good for the students?’” he said.

Wagner added that he felt more “big things” are on their way in the delivery of elementary and secondary education in the province.

“We had one big change with amalgamation and I think it’s safe to assume we’ll be seeing more as

things change in southeast Saskatchewan. There is an increase in population, so how do we manage that? There hasn’t been a huge in-crease in students ... yet, but I expect that will come too. We certainly haven’t seen a decrease in the past few years like they have in other parts of the province, so I expect we’ll be making changes to accommodate that growth.”

Last year, the division that serves over 8,000 stu-dents saw enrolment grow by about 70.

Wagner said the new provincial funding model does have glitches, “but that happens with any new initia-tive. I expect these things will be ironed out over time and I’d like to be there to help.”

With one seat vacant in the Carievale, Redvers, Carn-duff representation area and with the possibility of some incumbents being challenged by newcomers ... there will be some type of election action on the public school board front this fall.

One public board trustee steps down, others seek re-election

More international visitors for CO2 projectsAn international delegation paid a visit to Boundary Dam clean coal project and later visited the Aquastore site.

“I would say there were 15 to 18 countries

represented. A few of the delegates who had

registered were unable to make it due to visa

or some other international travel problems.” – Norm Sacuta

Communications Co-ordinator PTRC

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For someone who is technically on vacation, Doreen Eagles has had herself a busy few months.

Since the end of the spring sitting of the legis-lature in May, the Estevan MLA has been very active, speaking with constituents, attending a party retreat and making a trip to Wash-ington D.C. And she has no plans to slow down in September as she will be travelling to Sri Lanka for an international confer-ence.

Eagles’ journey to the U.S. capital was for the Legislation Energy Ho-rizon Institute which is an initiative through the Pacific NorthWest Eco-nomic Region, a group which Saskatchewan is a member of.

The institute was cre-ated to educate legisla-tors on the continent’s energy infrastructure and delivery system as well as other issues associated with natural gas, electricity and petroleum.

Eagles said the first phase of the institute was three intensive days of sessions in Portland, Or-egon in 2011, which was followed by online courses throughout the winter and spring. Eagles and her fellow classmates, among them three other Saskatch-

ewan MLAs, then wrapped up the course with the June trip to Washington.

“It was very infor-mative, I found it great,” Eagles said in an interview with The Mercury. “There were great discussions on public policy, electric power — both hydro and coal generation and the grid, harmonization of dif-ferent types of electricity, the dynamics of pricing, the transportation of oil and pipeline safety and an overview of North Ameri-ca’s aging infrastrucuture.”

Eagles said she found many of the topics par-ticularly interesting as they had a direct correlation to the energy sector in her constituency.

“They talked about coal generation and even went into the carbon cap-ture a bit,” she said. “There were some Canadian pre-senters there as well, some from the United States, but we are all dealing with the same issues, the aging infrastructure and things like that.”

Eagles said all par-ticipants received a cer-tifi cate of completion from the University of Idaho when they completed the course and were treated to a graduation ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Washington.

As is usually the case for MLAs during the sum-mer months, Eagles has also been attending events throughout the constitu-ency and speaking with lo-cal residents to hear about their concerns.

She noted two of the main areas of conversation

were highways in the area and health care.

“That is one of the things the premier charged us with when we left ses-sion in the spring,” Eagles said. “He wanted us to go out and gather ideas from

our constituents in prepara-tion for the retreat we held at Elk Ridge on the 13th and 14th of August.

“I’ve been out to a couple of parades, I’ve been to auction sales … just around the constitu-ency talking to people and I’ve had a lot of input via

the telephone as well.”With respect to health

care, Eagles said many of the concerns over acces-sibility to doctors have subsided somewhat, but other issues such as adding specialists and a CT scan in

Estevan have remained at the forefront. Eagles added that she is continuing to lobby the province to bring a CT scan to St. Joseph’s Hospital and is confi dent it will happen in the future.

“We have to consider the area that the Estevan hospital serves. It basically goes right out to the Mani-toba border. I think a CT scan is desperately needed ,and I am optimistic.”

After collecting the thoughts of their constitu-ents, Eagles and her fellow Sask. Party MLAs made their way to the previously mentioned retreat at the Elk Ridge resort.

She noted the MLAs were broken up into groups and then, as a group, made a presentation to caucus.

“It was pretty general, the concerns out there, infrastructure particularly highways, the need for expanding communities. All of our cities are grow-ing, our towns and villages are growing and there are water and sewer issues for the cities and towns in the province, and of course, housing was an issue.”

Al though summer may be winding down, Eagles isn’t slowing down as she’ll be in Sri Lanka from Sept. 9 to 15 for the 58th Commonwealth Par-liamentary Conference.

The event will bring to-gether participants from throughout the world to Sri Lanka and Eagles will be part of the three person Saskatchewan delegation along with deputy speaker Glen Hart and deputy clerk Iris Lang. Eagles was cho-sen to represent the prov-ince as the government caucus chairwoman.

“They have many workshops … some of them are tackling youth unemployment, terrorism, security, engaging political parties to approve gender responsive governments and the role of parliamen-tarians in confl ict resolu-tion and peace building and a lot of constitutional talks.

“It’s going to be very interesting. Canada will have regional group meet-ings as well so we’ll be meeting to have discus-sions on concerns specifi c to Canada.”

Eagles said she is looking forward to seeing how different countries govern, what their poli-cies are and to the sharing of ideas.

Once back in the country, Eagles said she has a handful of events to attend and will then pre-pare for the fall sitting of the provincial legislature, which is scheduled to be-gin Oct. 27.

Eagles to represent province in Sri Lanka

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Marian Huber makes the tastiest pie and Cheryl Irvine is right next to her in terms of taste, crust quality, texture and pre-sentation.

That was the ruling of a panel of two distin-guished and one not-so-distinguished judges in the St. Joseph’s Hospital second annual Top Pie contest last week.

Seven pies, construct-ed by St. Joseph’s em-ployees, reached the final taste test on Thursday afternoon in the foyer of the hospital.

When all the test-ing and tasting was com-pleted, Huber ’s lemon meringue offering stood just a point or two above Irvine’s pumpkin strudel pie. Irvine’s oats and hon-

ey granola pie captured third prize.

The judges, Audrey Loustel of the St. Joseph’s Auxiliary, and Don Kin-dopp, chairman of the hospital’s board of direc-tors, were joined by rogue, loose cannon judge Norm Park of The Mercury.

After the tasting was completed and the judges’ marks tallied, it was dis-

covered that Huber’s well presented lemon meringue was a clear winner on two of the judging scoresheets and ranked a strong sec-ond on the other, while Irvine’s pumpkin strudel made it to the top of the pie pile on one judge’s scoresheet and second or third on the other two.

Af te r the r ibbons were placed on the pies, it

was noted that Huber was not available to accept her first place prize, but Irvine was present to accept her two ribbons.

One honourable men-tion went to the St. Joe’s laboratory team for their “invisible” entry, simply listed as “Our Pi” a refer-ence to the mathematical insignia which was pre-sented on an empty plate.

Their entry was voted as the one with most origi-nality although sadly lack-ing in substance, texture and taste.

Both Kindopp and Park expressed their dis-appointment that they were only offered teeny, tiny pieces of pie to taste and hoped that the remain-ing pieces from each of the worthy entries would

be consumed by diners who could appreciate the fine tastes of life, while Loustel simply sighed that she was happy to be relieved of this pressure packed selection duty.

St. Joe’s executive di-rector Greg Hoffort, who was seen lurking in the background, later refused comment on the quality of the judges as well as the pies and expressed his disappointment at not being selected for the elite role of pie tasting judge.

“His credentials just weren’t there, and there is a lot that goes into proper pie-tasting,” Park said, as he rolled his tongue around his cheek. “He just hasn’t put enough into his training. Maybe next year.”

The pies have it at St. Joseph’s

Pie contest judges Don Kindopp and Audrey Loustel fl ank Cheryl Irvine, who produced the second and third place pies in the St. Joseph’s Top Pie contest last week.

Missing from photo are fi rst place winner Marian Huber and judge Norm Park.

Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division’s staff and admin-istration are hoping that this time around they’ll be able to fi ll all their trustee positions in one fell swoop on Oct. 24.

In the last election call in the fall of 2009, not all trustee positions were fi lled and two or three additional calls for nominations had to be made before the fi nal chair was claimed.

Karen Melle and Bev Hickie have been filling the two seats assigned to Estevan city representatives with Hickie coming aboard as a rookie a couple of years ago while Melle is a veteran trustee, having been involved in the amalgamation process

that brought Holy Family into being about nine years ago. She was a trustee with the Estevan Roman Catholic Separate School Division before that.

Both have indicated they are prepared to serve again as the local represen-tatives on the Holy Family board, but Hickie added that he was willing to step aside if another serious candidate expresses interest in the po-sition.

“I’ll wait and see if someone steps up. If they do, I will step aside if they are seriously interested,” said Hickie.

“I hate to see an empty position, so I will run again if no one else expresses this

interest,” Hickie, a retired Estevan principal said.

Sheldon Spilchuk, who accepted one of the later nominations as a representa-tive for the Spruce Ridge area near Estevan, has not declared his intention as yet.

One attempt to reach

Spilchuk regarding his inten-tions to seek re-election was unsuccessful.

Holy Family’s long-serving chairman, Bruno Tuchscherer of Weyburn, has declared his intention to seek the nomination and a seat at the table again.

Holy Family trustees split on intention

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Prairie Perspective

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Volume 110 Issue 18

Norm Park

All Things Considered

So is it ever OK for a premier to seemingly switch direction and go against something he seemed to vehe-mently oppose and even campaigned against?

Well, sometimes it’s not only all right, but it’s also the necessary and smart thing to do. Or so we may now be fi nding out in Premier Brad Wall’s handling of a pos-sible review of potash royalty rates.

At issue is a remark he made while reacting to the news that BHP Billiton would be delaying fi nal approval on its $13.1-billion Jansen potash mine for at least this year because of the mining giant’s less-than-stellar most recent fi nancial update.

Wall mused that we may need a potash royalty structure “based on cost more than it is on volume.”

Wall’s potash reversal

right thing to do

Political staff have tried to spin these comments as no big deal and that they are perfectly consistent with what Wall has said in the past about perhaps one day having to sit down with the industry and look at the royalty rates. Certainly, when pushed on the issue in the past, Wall never completely ruled out looking at royalties some day in the future.

But if you look at all the things that Brad Wall has said in recent memory, a time when the Jansen mine may be on hold and when Vale SA’s proposed Kronau mine is postponed, it would seem a dangerous time to be talking about a royalty review - or so Wall has repeatedly told us over the past couple years.

During the election last October, Wall said he feared causing “royalty shock” and scaring off new investment that would hurt provincial revenues and cause job loss. “If we give them royalty shock, if we start jacking around with potash in the middle of worldwide uncertainty, I think we may lose those new mines,” Wall said.

“Mr. Lingenfelter’s plan is a reckless and irre-sponsible gamble with taxpayers’ money, it will drive Saskatchewan into huge defi cits and it will kill jobs,” Wall said on the Sask. Party website during the election campaign. “We can’t afford to go down that path.”

When the former NDP leader fi rst contemplated the idea of a royalty review in March 2011, Wall was even more adamant: “We’re on the side of royalty stability and we do believe fundamentally that changing the royalty now will kill jobs, will risk jobs in the province,”

Wall even went so far as to call Lingenfelter’s roy-alty review plans “crazy.” (He defended the use of this strong term, but instead called such a potash royalty review “reckless” on future references.)

This was also Wall’s consistent message during the BHP takeover bid, telling reporters two years ago: “We’re not going to mess with that.

“What I don’t want is royalty shock in this province that may impact the $6 billion mine expansion plans.”

So why would Wall do this when about $16 billion of mine expansion is now in jeopardy?

Well, the reality is that over-production is a serious concern that might very well affect potash prices and government revenues in the future - especially with BHP Billiton now talking about adding an immediate four million tonnes a year when the Jansen mine comes on stream.

As for “royalty shock” putting those new mines at risk, it is corporate policy and a world economy that are bigger factors for the mining companies than any fears a friendly, conservative-minded government will hit them with unfair royalties. After all, with Wall’s history of opposing “royalty shock”, the industry surely has less to fear from a Brad Wall royalty rate review than what they might have.

Notwithstanding Wall’s past political rhetoric, it likely makes good policy sense for the premier to ra-tionally sit down with the industry and start talk about potash royalties.

All kinds of fun stuff to com-ment on this week kids, so let’s get at it.

Charlie Sheen has a new television series. Yep, you heard it right. Apparently Charlie is to television sitcoms what Goldman-Sachs and Citibank are to the fi -nancial community. Too big to fail.

However, even the infallible sometimes stumble. Charlie ... meet Clint Eastwood.

The Republican conven-tion was somewhat entertaining. Watching Mitt Romney attempt to identify himself with the everyday American was excruciating. Mitt’s roots are a bit different from the masses, by about $800 million. But he made a gallant effort and almost came off as sincere.

I do fear though, the U.S. leaders are having a diffi cult time separating church from state these days. George W. started that trend and now it seems Mitt and crew are taking it to another level.

This is being written just prior to the start of the Democratic convention. I can hardly wait to see how that one fl ails away at reality too.

But then we have our own political issues right here in Ca-nuck land. Quebec’s residents headed to the polls yesterday and well, you know there are some Canucks there who don’t like being Canucks, so we could be back on that old separation train before too long. It seems that fi ght

Things that may, or may not be

worth addressing this week

wasn’t over. So, so sad to receive the news

of the death of the fl ag woman at the construction area along our Havoc Highway last week. I had to drive through that sector a couple of times last week and it wasn’t easy.

Of course I could insert my general rant right about here ... regarding the need to have this highway twinned. But I won’t. Sadly we’ll have to let the incident statistics speak for themselves.

We have to assume that the unholy stretch of No. 39 from Es-tevan to Macoun is next on the list to be paved. Wouldn’t it be a great idea to start the twinning project with those 20 some kilometres being built out to accommodate the actual traffi c?

Guess that’s too much to ask. Drive safely my friends and stay alert.

Let’s finish with a happier item.

I was an offi cial taster in the St. Joe’s Top Pie contest last week. Well, somebody had to do it!

We all know that the secret to good pie crusts lies with the lard. Just by saying lard ... you know it can’t be all good.

The bride is a fabulous cook and baker, but she doesn’t do pie and for that I am thankful ... but ... I have spotted a package of factory-made pie crusts in the bottom of our deep freeze. I think she inherited it from her mother’s freezer when she made a move to smaller digs a few years ago. Now it’s time to clean out our freezer and I’m afraid I’m tossing the make believe crusts with a sigh, wondering what could have been.

So it was a distinct pleasure to pass judgment on these baked beauties crafted by others. Con-gratulations to Marian and Cheryl ... long may you reign as princesses of pastries with yum-fi llings.

Our former summer intern turned reporter and columnist Tonaya Marr was one of those pastry princesses (I said pastry Tonaya, not pasty). She built some pies for the entire staff here a summer ago. The fi llings were wonderful combinations of fruit and stuff, so we could pretend we were eating something healthy.

But Tonaya has taken her reporting and pie sculpting talents to Regina and although we can communicate through modern technology, saskatoon pies cannot be transferred via Twitter or Face-book. Even I know that!

OK, that’s enough drivel for this week, dear diary. Trust you had a great Labour Day weekend. We were all happy to see the ‘Riders fi nally eke out a narrow victory.

It’s a long standing issue that doesn’t resonate loudly with the general public, but continues to fester a bit within certain administration communi-ties as well as with some members of the media.

We refer to the fact that several years after the amalgamation of health districts to form one health region, it’s still impossible to fi nd out what it costs to run one of Sun Country Health Region’s largest entities ... namely the Weyburn General Hospital, probably the second largest facility in the overall group of health-care centres in southeast Saskatchewan.

Basic details surrounding the fi nancial operations of Estevan’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, an affi liated health centre, are documented and presented to the regional board of directors and public. We know that St. Joe’s takes up about $17.7 million of Sun Country’s $141 million budget. The addi-tions and subtractions, along with other details are in the annual report.

But nowhere in these documents can a taxpayer fi nd any kind of fi nancial detail concerning the operation of Weyburn General other than the number of surgical operations that are performed there.

It has been explained that any attempt to “break out” the General’s operating expenses and separate them from the general business costs as-sociated with the Sun Country head offi ce operations, would be diffi cult and the results would be cloudy, at best. Cloudy, perhaps, because they’ve been allowed to be integrated?

Repeated attempts by Estevan civic administrators to get some straight facts regarding fi nancial comparisons between the two hospitals were stonewalled for years by Sun Country who fi nally relented last year. They provided some supposed “in the neighbourhood” comparisons. But it was only done at a secret in-camera meeting with the public and media excluded. Those who were in attendance were instructed not to reveal the comparisons and analysis. All were left to guess as to how accurate the numbers were. The only response we received from those who were allowed to attend this secret enclave was that “there was nothing alarming,” to pick up on.

But again, if there has been no precedent, who would know what could be interpreted as alarming ... or not?

We fi nd it discouraging that fi nancial offi cers ... either Sun Country’s or provincial, aren’t insisting on the provision of some performance-based data from Weyburn General ... especially now that a drive is on to build a new hospital in that community. If the effi ciency or ineffi ciencies of the current model aren’t documented, how can their citizens know what to expect in the future? Is it enough that there are verbal assurances all is well?

How can Estevan and area citizens know what they’re missing out on or not receiving? Secret meetings lend themselves to mistrust.

If the current rage to climb aboard the LEAN effi ciency model is to be adhered to, would one not want to start with fi nancial accountability and a bit of transparency with the region’s second largest facility, its operations, administration and management?

We fi nd it mind-boggling that Sun Country is unable to provide ac-curate fi nancial information to the public regarding this health-care centre and any that were rounded up are to be shrouded in secrecy.

We are no accountants or even bookkeepers here, but it still baffl es our collective minds that Sun Country Health Region is unable to track an individual health centre’s expenses.

As it stands now, the public is, in essence, being told to take Sun Country’s word for it that all is well on the local health region’s fi nancial front, at least on this one count.

Based on past performances, we’re not quite ready to take that leap of faith.

We’ll have to take their word on it

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Editor ’s note: The following letter addressed to Premier Brad Wall and Minister of Highways and Infrastructure Don Mc-Morris is being reprinted here with the permission of the writer.

Hello Premier Wall and Minister McMorris:

Our Time to Twin Highways 39 and 6 com-mittee are extremely sad-dened to hear of the tragic death of Ashley Dawn Richards on Highway 39

Another fatality brings highway

issue to the forefront againThe Editor:Recreation facilities are

the heart of Saskatchewan and are an essential gather-ing place for healthy and vibrant communities. Parks, recreation and open space facilities are key infl uences on the quality of life we experience and the basis for business and individual relo-cation. Strengthening fami-lies, enhancing our health, improving quality of life and supporting the healthy devel-opment of children - these are just some of the many ways parks and recreation makes a difference in your community.

Improved Community Image

Parks and recreation fa-cilities, programs and events bring neighbours together, encourage safer, cleaner neighbourhoods and create a livelier community atmo-sphere. Facilities and open spaces promote socialization and interaction among citi-

zens, which in turn creates a sense of cohesion. This con-nectedness strengthens com-munity spirit and positively impacts social and emotional health among its neighbours.

Increased Economic Development

Quality recreation fa-cilities attract events which can increase the economic vitality of a community. Spi-noff from hosting events not only showcases the commu-nity, it generates revenue for local businesses and boosts tourism. Increases in the price of residential property are positively affected by the quality of recreation facili-ties and negatively affected by the distance from them. Proximity to parks and open spaces improves the visual environment and ease of ac-cess to recreate, resulting in higher prices for homes and land.

Increased Health and Wellness

Increased participation

in parks and recreation pro-vides substantial returns to the public and private sectors through improved health. Even moderate regular ex-ercise is a positive measure that significantly reduces health costs. An active life-style provides countless physical and mental health benefi ts, skill development and opportunities for social-izing.

Saskatchewan is grow-ing, and recreation is es-sential to meeting the needs of a growing population. SPRA is looking forward to advancing the promotion, development and facilita-tion of parks and recreation opportunities throughout the province while provid-ing leadership and support towards building healthy, active communities.

Norm Campbell,CEO, Saskatchewan

Parks and Recreation (SPRA)

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in your communitylast Friday near Midale.

What we want inves-tigated are the comments from a member or mem-bers of the HJR Asphalt Company. We have been told that their comments were as follows: “High-way 39 is the most dan-gerous highway we have worked on in the past 25 years.”

Our committee has spent the last three years trying to emphasize that exact point to our Sas-katchewan government.

We live here, we drive that highway, our friends and family have to drive that highway.

We have seen too many tragic accidents and deaths on the roads between North Portal and Regina.

Please ... do the right thing and present High-way 39 and 6 from North Portal to Regina as the next highways in Sas-katchewan to be com-pletely twinned, with no use of passing lanes.

The traffic is too fast and dangerous.

There is too much oil-field and semi truck/trailer traffic to make passing lanes anything but a very dangerous choice for these roads, all to save some money.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Marge YoungCo-chair Time to

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The Editor:The Saskatchewan

Heavy Construction Associ-ation is asking the public to SLOW DOWN when travel-ling through a construction work zone. Our members continue to invest heavily in safety training, support, equipment and programs to keep their employees safe, but we need the travelling public to do their part too.

Transportation profes-sionals working within the Orange Zone deserve your respect and attention. The Orange Zone is their work-place and they have a right to the same protection as professionals in any offi ce or other workplace in the province.

Major investments have been made in building

Please slow down in construction zones

The Editor:Saskatchewan is grow-

ing. Our economy is robust, our population thriving. It is an exciting time to be a Saskatchewan citizen. The pride we feel for our prov-ince now serves to attract new residents. They come full of hope, seeking a fresh beginning, meaningful and rewarding work, and the chance to contribute to our shared future. They come from as near as the next province over, and as far as distant continents. They

Growing Saskatchewan comes with a costcome to settle in our urban communities, and most of them come to our cities. Like the grain elevators once did, our cities now serve as the sign to new Saskatchewan citizens that they are home.

Today’s Saskatchewan has 15 cities, and in October, Warman will swell our ranks to 16. Our cities are home to 60 per cent of the province’s citizens, and each year nearly 80 per cent of migrants to Saskatchewan settle in our boundaries. Of course, not just cities are growing; the

last census showed many towns and villages, and even some rural municipalities are growing too. But without a doubt, the fastest pace of growth is in and near our cit-ies. Why? It’s simple: people want to be close to compre-hensive service centres. They want to live near schools, hospitals, post-secondary institutions, shopping malls, movie theatres, hockey and curling rinks, swimming pools and soccer fi elds.

Our growing cities, towns, and villages attract

the best and brightest from across our province, country, and now the world. They’re attracted to our vibrant and engaging communities, to hubs of innovation, invest-ment and prosperity. The key to unlocking sustained growth in Saskatchewan is to invest in these urban centres - the engines of our economy. Not only is it smart public policy, but it pays real dividends.

Investment in urban centres creates jobs in the private sector. The people

filling these jobs, and the companies employing them, reinvest in the economy, cre-ating more jobs and energiz-ing provincial and federal tax revenues. So urban centres put provincial investment to good work; citizens and businesses prosper, and the province and federal gov-ernment see a return on their investment. In other words, everyone wins.

Fortunately, here in Sas-katchewan, our provincial government recognizes this winning formula. That’s why this government launched the Municipal Operating Grant program - to provide direct provincial revenue sharing to all local governments. To ensure it is predictable, sus-tainable, and tied to growth, the premier linked the fund-ing to the PST. Each year the province transfers 20 per cent of PST revenue from a previous year to the 786 local governments in Saskatch-ewan. This program was the fi rst of its kind in Canada and

made our local governments the envy of our counterparts in other provinces.

So now, fi ve years after the launch of this revolution-ary program, Saskatchewan’s cities, towns, and villages are pleased to come together and publicly thank Premier Wall and the government of Saskatchewan for their in-vestment. We want the public to know about the great part-nership that the province has built with us. We are truly Partners in Building Our Saskatchewan. For the next month, I encourage you to look and listen carefully, to learn about our partnership and why the work of our urban centres is important.

Jim Scarrow, Prince Albert, Sask.(Editor’s Note: Scarrow

is mayor of Prince Albert, chairman of the Saskatch-ewan City Mayors’ Caucus and vice-president of cities for the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association.)

and repairing our highway and transportation system. Road construction work zones are not there to in-convenience you, but are necessary to improve the roads for everyone.

Every year we work to educate motorists about the importance of paying atten-tion and obeying the signs in the Orange Zone. The public is reminded of several points when travelling through a work zone:

1) Be alert: Expect any-thing to occur when entering a work zone.

2) Don’t speed: Note the posted speed limits in and around the work zones.

3) Don’t tailgate: Un-expected stops frequently occur in work zones.

4) Don’t change lanes

in the work zone: The time saved just isn’t worth the chance.

5) Minimize distrac-tions: Avoid changing the radio station and using your cellphone when driving in a work zone.

6) Expect the unex-pected: Keep an eye out for workers and their equip-

ment.Safety for our employ-

ees means going home at the end of the day to family and loved ones.

Shantel LippPresidentSaskatchewan Heavy Construction Association

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TOWN OF MIDALENOTICE OF CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Public notice is hereby given that nomination of candidates for the office(s) of:

Mayor: Town of Midale Number to be elected — 1Councillor: Town of Midale Number to be elected — 6

Will be received by the undersigned on the 19th day of Sep-tember 2012 from 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. and during regular business hours from:

September 5th, 2012 - September 18th, 2012 inclusive.

Nomination forms may be obtained at the following location.

The Town of Midale Office233 Main StreetMidale, SaskatchewanDated at Midale Saskatchewan September 5th, 2012

Linda M DuganReturning Officer

Money From Golf MiscuesAt the recent Estevan Chamber of Commerce Net-

working on the Greens golf tournament, mulligans

were sold to the golfers with the money to be di-

rected toward the new regional nursing home. Michel

Cyrenne (right) of the chamber was able to hand

over a cheque in the amount of $300 to Vern Buck,

chairman of the Hearthstone campaign committee.

A total of 52 golfers enjoyed the day of golfi ng under

the C of C banner.

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A quote that was incor-rectly attributed to Chris Henderson in last week’s article on Page A15 may have confused readers. The quote about taking the stage at the Regina Folk Festival and music now being a full-time occupation, should have been attributed to Joel Henderson, not Chris.

The two brothers were featured in the article that tracked their recent musical pursuits.

The Mercury apolo-gizes for any confusion that was caused by this error in identifi cation.

Correction

Several tools were stolen from a shed located on an acreage west of Lampman during the night of Saturday, Aug. 25 and early morning hours of Aug. 26.

The Estevan detach-ment of the RCMP said that some patio furniture was also stolen from the same property at the time.

The police said that a locked door on the shed was breached, allowing the thief or thieves to gain entry.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing and the RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in solving this crime.

Anyone with informa-

Tools and furniture

stolen from Lampman

area propertytion regarding this theft is asked to contact the local detachment at 637-4400 or report anonymously through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

A cash reward of up to $2,000 may be paid for information that leads to an arrest on this offence or on any serious crime or drug-related offence.

When one of the par-ties involved in a domestic dispute left the residence for the remainder of the evening on Aug. 29, the event was deemed to be over from a police per-spective, said the Estevan Police Service (EPS) in a recently released report.

The dispute had bro-ken out in a residence in the central part of the city.

That same night, EPS members were called to another disturbance on the north side of the city. This incident remains under investigation since it is believed that some threats were issued during the course of the event.

A f ight a t a local lounge attracted police attention later that same night. One man was arrest-ed and lodged in cells until sober. He was charged for being intoxicated in public.

On the night of Aug. 31, police received infor-mation that some young people were out past their assigned curfew on two separate occasions and at two separate locations. The youths were arrested and one was remanded for a court appearance in Weyburn on Aug. 4 while

Disputes and assaults attracted

police attention on long weekend

the other was released to the care of his mother under conditions.

A fight in the parking lot of a local lounge led to EPS intervention on Aug. 31. Two men were arrested and charged with fighting under the city’s bylaw. One was taken to hospital where he received medi-cal treatment for the cuts received from the fight.

P o l i c e w e r e n e x t called to intervene in a dispute involving a weap-on. EPS members arrested three men and two of them were charged with assault

and one was charged with assault with a weapon. One was also charged with being in possession of a controlled substance.

Two men who were wanted on warrants were arrested by city police

during the past weekend. They were both charged with being in breach of court-ordered conditions and for being intoxicated in public. They were kept in cells until sober.

A report of a person running over the top of four vehicles that were parked on the street in the 1200 block of Fourth Street was checked into by police. The person in question was located, ar-rested and charged with mischief.

EPS members were also called upon to attend to several noisy parties during the long weekend. In each instance the party hosts and/or homeowners were warned about the city’s noise bylaw.

Police also spent a lot of time responding to false security alarms throughout the city during the weekend.

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The Estevan and Dis-trict Chamber of Com-merce and by extension, the City of Estevan, has a new economic develop-ment offi cer.

Manpreet Sangha had her fi rst day on the job last Thursday and spent it in a fruitful pursuit of informa-tion and visits to a couple of vital business centres.

Sangha , o rg ina l ly from the Punjab area of northern India, has been in Canada for two years now and holds a graduate diploma in internation-al business management from Centennial College of Toronto.

“I spent a year in To-ronto but in May of last year my friends were tell-ing me there were all kinds of opportunities for me in the west. Some of my friends had already come west and they had found things were good. They encouraged me so I was actively looking for a job that would fi t what I am trained to do. I looked for about two months and I had been here in Estevan and this opening came up, so I have this great

opportunity in the Energy City, this beautiful city,” she said.

Having been a resi-dent for just a short time, Sangha said she’s still building a basic under-standing of the city’s re-sources and infrastructure and her early visits will help her learn more about them. “I’ll be able to en-hance the research being done and have more inter-action with the people,” she said.

She’ll also be mov-ing forward with a strong information base left for her by Craig Johnston, who held the position before departing for a new job in Washington.

“ Reading, catching up and interaction, that’s my plan for the fi rst few days,” she said while seated at a totally clean desk contain-ing only a laptop computer while the offi ce still bore the look of being host to a newcomer with bare walls and just a single fi ling cab-inet to keep her company.

“ Of course I’ll ini-tially be bothering Michel a lot for the fi rst few days,” she said with a laugh, re-ferring to Michel Cyrenne, the C of C’s community development manager.

Sangha said her role includes close co-opera-tion with the tourism pro-motion side of the C of C, a position currently being fi lled by Kevin D’Souza who will be departing to take up new challenges in Calgary.

Cyrenne to ld The Mercury that D’Souza’s position, which he will be leaving next month, will be fi lled as candidates and job assignments evolve.

Sangha said her fi rst afternoon on the job would include visits to City Hall and Spectra Place and she was also making con-tact with the RM of Es-tevan management and administration since they share common offi ce space anyway and the two gov-ernments share a healthy working relationship.

“ I will study the vari-ous categories of infra-structure we have here and then what can be done in terms of transporta-tion, water management, basic infrastructure, solid waste management and see where steps can be taken from an economic development standpoint,” she said.

“ I’m very happy. This is a great environment

here, good working con-ditions, great people and I get to help develop and explore Estevan ... help make it the most popular place in Saskatchewan. This is a very interactive city so I expect it will be easy to talk with cham-

ber members to get their ideas out there and move forward.”

Sangha said her moth-er and father live in India, but she manages to keep in contact with them almost on a daily basis thanks to Skype and her friends

here have been supportive as she enters this exciting new phase.

“I don’t think I can add much more right now, this being my fi rst day on the job. I’m still just get-ting used to things.” she said with a smile.

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Saskatchewan now has the lowest minimum wage in the country and the news is not sitting well with the opposition NDP.

In a press release, the NDP condemned the Sask.

Party government for allow-ing the province’s minimum wage to slide to dead last, which they say means thou-sands of workers in Saskatch-ewan will now work for the lowest minimum wage in

Canada.“To have the worst mini-

mum wage in the country after years of prosperity in the province is a shameful embarrassment,” said David Forbes, NDP labour critic.

“It’s an awful fact that too many Saskatchewan people will go to work on Saturday and be earning less per hour than they would anywhere else in Canada.”

The release added the

Sask. Party government has refused to increase the mini-mum wage despite the fact that other provinces are en-acting increases to keep up to infl ation and the cost of living. With Alberta’s mini-mum hourly wage increasing to $9.75 on Sept. 1, Saskatch-ewan fell behind every other province and territory.

“The Sask. Party’s freeze on the minimum wage defi es common sense,” said Forbes. “By accepting a bottom-of-the-barrel mini-mum wage after sharp cost-

of-living increases, the Sask. Party is letting families fall into poverty.”

“Having the worst mini-mum wage in the country is a clear case of the Sask. Party putting ideology ahead of common sense,” said Forbes. “Raising the minimum wage is good for both our economy and a competitive job mar-ket.”

Forbes said New Demo-crats will continue to call for a minimum wage to be in-dexed to Statistics Canada’s low-income threshold.

Sask. now has lowest minimum wage

Internet speeds in a number of Saskatchewan communities are about to take a jump thanks to an infrastructure upgrade by SaskTel.

The Crown corpora-tion has announced the launch of infi NET, its new fibre optic network ca-pable of download speeds of up to 200 Mbps. infi -NET is the offi cial name for SaskTel’s Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Program, a seven-year $670 million investment to deploy fi-bre directly to homes and upgrade the broadband network in the nine largest urban centers in the prov-ince - Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Estevan, Swift Current, Yorkton, North Battleford

and Prince Albert.“By deploying fi bre to

residences in these com-munities, SaskTel is not only providing Saskatch-ewan people with cutting edge technology, they are also proactively planning for the increased network capacity that the continued unprecedented population growth in Saskatchewan will demand,” said Don McMorris, minister re-sponsible for SaskTel.

“We have always been a leader in providing our customers with world class products and services and we are proud to invest in emerging technology that will enhance our custom-ers’ communication expe-riences today, while also setting the groundwork for

technology enhancements in the future,” said Ron Styles, SaskTel president and CEO. “infi NET will future proof SaskTel’s network by allowing up-grades for future speed increases without replac-ing the fi bre.”

SaskTel is deploying infi NET to the provinces nine largest centres in stages and has already begun work in both Regina and Saskatoon. Custom-ers in areas of Regina and Saskatoon where infi NET is now available are be-ing converted to the new network, and SaskTel es-timates that over 40,000 homes will be passed by fi bre by the end of 2012. SaskTel will deploy in-fiNET to all residential

areas in the provinces nine urban centres by the end of 2017. infi NET will be the fastest communications network in Saskatchewan.

Once connected, in-fi NET will allow custom-ers to experience blazing fast Internet speeds of up to 200 Mbps for down-loading and 60 Mbps for uploading, significantly improving the customer experience when down-loading or streaming vid-eo, uploading photos and videos, or participating in real-time gaming. It will also enable Max custom-ers to add up to seven high defi nition set top boxes in one home, providing cus-tomers new and enhanced possibilities for home en-tertainment.

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With swathing and combining dominating the thoughts of Saskatchewan farmers at this time of year, SaskPower asks farmers to remember the overhead power lines crossing fi elds and farm yards.

While Saskatchewan’s farmers know their land like the backs of their hands, farmers need to

always stay mindful of the power lines on their prop-erty, according to Sask-Power president and CEO Robert Watson.

“It’s important to re-member that this is a risk that never goes away,” Watson said in a company press release. “It only takes a moment to forget, and when people are working

hard and under pressure, it’s easy for accidents to happen.”

To make sure the farm-ing season is safe and pro-ductive, SaskPower urges farmers to keep the fol-lowing safety tips in mind:

• Plan a safe route around overhead lines and power poles, and make sure everyone working with you

is aware of the route and the location of potential dangers.

• Use a safety spotter to help watch for power lines when moving equip-ment.

• Lower equipment before moving it and watch out for power lines when constructing grain bins and carrying tall equipment

like ladders. • If your vehicle con-

tacts a power line, stay in-side of the vehicle and call SaskPower at 310-2220. Call 9-1-1 for help if some-one is injured. Remember to carry a communication device on you at all times when out in the fi eld.

For more information about electrical safety on

the farm, visit saskpower.com/safety/farm and view the animated farm safety video titled You’ve Got a Lot on the Line. Custom-ers are also encouraged to look for a safety decal in the Sept. 13 issue of the Western Producer, and in the September issue of the Ministry of Agriculture publication Agriview.

Watch for overhead power lines during harvest

Statistics Canada re-leased June 2012 fi gures for average weekly earn-ings last week that show a rise of 6.6 per cent in wages for Saskatchewan workers from last June - the second highest percentage increase in the nation, and a record for the month of June.

Average weekly earn-ings in June were reported to be $914.27.

Saskatchewan’s aver-

age percentage is more than double the national increase of 3.0 per cent.

“The report is very good news,” Economy Minister Bill Boyd said. “With a strong economy, the job opportunities have improved, and workers in the province have been able to take advantage of finding better-paying, higher-skilled work.”

On a monthly basis,

earnings were up 1.7 per cent, the second highest among the provinces, and well above the national average of 0.6 per cent.

“Weekly earn ings are an important measure of our economy and are positive indications that there is more money in the marketplace that supports businesses in communities right across the province,” Boyd said.

Saskatchewanians have a couple of months to nomi-nate a deserving person for the provincial Volunteer Medal.

The government has announced that the public has until Oct. 18 to nominate individuals for the Saskatch-ewan Volunteer Medal. The Volunteer Medal recognizes individuals who have pro-vided outstanding volunteer service or exceptional com-munity involvement.

“Saskatchewan’s great-

est strength is our capable and generous volunteers,” Lieutenant-Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield said. “I encourage everyone to consider nominating a de-serving individual to receive our highest volunteer award, the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal, so that we can pub-licly thank our most outstand-ing volunteers.”

Any Canadian citizen who is a current or former long-term resident of Sas-katchewan is eligible. Nomi-

nations cannot be accepted for sitting members of Par-liament, the Legislature or judiciary. Groups or organiza-tions cannot be nominated. Posthumous nominations are not accepted.

Since its inception in 1995, 148 people have re-ceived the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal. Additional information, nomination forms and a list of previous recipients can be found online at www.ops.gov.sk.ca/svm or call toll-free 1-877-427-5505.

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This one is so simple that consumers all too fre-quently find themselves victimized. This is how the scam works:

Vict im receives a phone call from a “courier service” asking if they are going to be home because there is a package that would be delivered to them within an hour. An hour lat-er, a delivery person shows up with a basket of fl owers and wine. When asked who

sent it, the delivery person’s reply is that they are only delivering the gift but al-legedly a card would be sent separately. No card arrives, but there is a consignment note with the gift.

The delivery person explains that because the gift contains alcohol, there’s a $3.50 “delivery charge” as proof that the delivery per-son actually delivered the package to an adult. The payment is to be made by credit or debit card only. The victim is asked to swipe their card on a small mobile card machine which has a

small screen and keypad where the victim is asked to enter the card’s PIN and security number.

Within a few days, the victim finds out a large sum of money has been charged/withdrawn from their credit/debit account at various ATM machines. The “mobile credit card ma-chine” that the delivery per-son carries collects all the necessary information from the victim’s card and is now able to make a “dummy” card. Be wary of accepting any “surprise gift or pack-age,” which you neither

expected nor personally ordered, especially if it in-volves any kind of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package. Also, never accept anything if you do not personally know them or there is no proper identification of who the sender is.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of this scam, report it to the BBB at 1-306-352-7601 or 1-888-352-7601 or by e-mail to info@bbbsask.com. The BBB also asks you to report it to the Ca-nadian Anti-Fraud Centre

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An Estevan area farmer is one of three new directors of the Canadian Simmental Association.

Wes Mack was selected for the position during the CSA’s 44th annual general meeting Aug. 25 in Truro, Nova Scotia. According to a CSA press release,

Simmental breeders and guests from across Canada and the United States were welcomed by the Maritime Simmental Association.

The three open direc-tor positions were filled by Mack and returning directors Randy Mader of Carstairs, Alta. and John

Sullivan of Kazabazua, Que. The Board re-elected their 2012-13 executive. Returning are Ron Nolan, president; Fraser Redpath; first vice-president, and Randy Mader as second Vice-president.

“It is a great time to be in the cattle business

and an even better time to be in the Simmental busi-ness,” said Nolan. “I look forward to working with this year’s CSA Board and staff to continue to position Canadian Simmental as the leader in genetic improve-ment for the Canadian beef industry.”

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National Trucking WeekKeeping Canadian businesses rolling.Keeping Canadian businesses rolling.

September 2 - 8, 2012September 2 - 8, 2012

What do your weekly groceries, fuel for your car, and clothing pur-chases have in common? They are all made pos-sible by the hard work of Canada’s 400,000 truck drivers who work year

The truckers in our livesround to make sure these things are available when we need them. Their sel-dom-noticed participation in our daily lives will be highlighted again this year during National Trucking Week, September 2 to 8.

The Canadian Truck-ing Alliance is the driving force behind this week of recognition and en-couragement. “National Trucking Week salutes the men and women who form the backbone of the

trucking industry,” notes CTA CEO David Bradley. “Without you the country would literally stop!”

In past years, appre-ciation has been shown to these valuable work-ers in word and in deeds,

whether it’s an executive who washes and fuels a rig for a driver, breakfasts and barbecues in their honour, or complementary coffee or treats at truck stops. This year, similar activi-ties will also recognize their contributions.

This is only fair, since truckers are often will-ing to give their time to others. Trucking associa-tions have participated in programs like the National Food Sharing System. In 2005, Canada’s transpor-tation industry rallied to the call to ship about ten million pounds of food to provincial distribu-

tion centres of the Cana-dian Association of Food Banks.

The advantages of trucking as a means of transportation are services that are flexible, timely, rel iable and efficient . That’s how our fruits and vegetables arrive, fresh and tasty, during the mid-dle of Canadian winters.

Whether i t’s for a big trucking company, a smaller private business, or as an owner-operator, truck drivers get us mov-ing with the more than 600,000 trucks of all sizes travelling our streets and highways every year.

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National Trucking WeekKeeping Canadian businesses rolling.Keeping Canadian businesses rolling.

September 2 - 8, 2012September 2 - 8, 2012

We’ve all been there, hot frustration roiling within as we trail an 18-wheeler, labouring slowly up a hill on a two-lane highway. Rarely do we think about what is in that truck or who is driving it. It might be Mike Bockus, a long-distance truck driver based in Central Canada, up there at the wheel.

“People tend to forget that everything you eat, everything you wear, and everything in your home came in a truck,” Mike says about the role of the trucking industry. “Even if people don’t want them driving down their streets, trucks make their lifestyles pos-sible.”

Mike drives around 5,500 km a week to bring fresh produce and frozen foods to distribution centres all over the continent. When he runs a west coast trip, he might not get a day off until he does over 6,000 km. As an owner-operator, he

has to keep focused on his revenues; it can cost almost $1,000 to fi ll up a truck. On top of that, Mike’s obliga-tions to the road mean that he misses a lot of things back home. “Being on the road can take a toll on relation-ships,” he explains. “I’m usually away for three or four weeks at a time. That’s hard for everybody.”

September 2-8 is the Canadian Trucking Alliance-sponsored National Trucking Week. It’s the perfect time to offer a little drive-by salute to the truckers you share the road with. Remember, too, that trucks have several blind spots that make it hard for them to see you at all times. Mike concludes, “When car drivers get annoyed, they cut us off or jam on the breaks. They’re not thinking of their own safety when they do that. We are big and slow and we need lots of space. Playing tricks with the big trucks, you never win.”

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It’s a new school year and the elementary and high schools in southeast Sas-katchewan are brimming with returning students, freshly arrived youngsters and several new faces in the teaching community.

The Holy Family Ro-man Catholic Separate School Division with its slightly more than 1,000 students housed in six facilities throughout the region is welcoming six new teachers to the fold

in Estevan schools. There are four newcomers in the staff room at St. Mary’s, namely Bryan Famulak, Amber MacLean, Melanie Park-Ciepliski and Agnes Plourde-Do.

Sacred Heart has just two new teachers, and they are Nancy Bourbonnais and Megan Vanstone.

The Estevan Compre-hensive School, the largest facility in the South East Cornerston Public School Division, has added five

new teachers to its roster with Jenilee Wall, Heather Findlay, Robert Toews, Troy Ruzicka and Stephen Froese joining forces with the returning staff there.

South East Corner-stone claims about 8,000 students in its 38 schools scattered throughout the region.

In Cornerstone’s el-ementary schools in Este-van, it is noted that Hillcrest School is adding two new faces in Catherine Costa

and David Gillingham. At Pleasantdale School there is just one newcomer to the teaching ranks, Todd Butler.

Spruce Ridge School has three newcomers on their staff with Meagan Miller, Linda Risdale and Sharon Graff while West-view School adds Breanne Kelly.

In the nearby schools, the public school division sees four new names at Lampman School, with

their kindergarten to Grade 12 program. Those new-comers include Stacey Lang, Michael Caravaggio, Tara Jess and Maegan Biss.

L y n d a l e S c h o o l in Oungre has one new teacher in Alison Wiks and Midale Central School has Erika Helfrick and Jade Ivan, while Macoun wel-comes Katelyn Leblanc.

Oxbow’s Prairie Hori-zon School, another kinder-garten to Grade 12 facility, sees newcomers Angela

Lewis, Shannon Burnett and Jason Peterson joining forces with the returning teaching staff.

Stoughton’s Central School has Gordon Loberg and Nicole Vancaeseele as their newest educators.

Weldon School in Bi-enfait, with its kindergarten to Grade 8 program, has newcomers Melanie Hal-borg and Leslie Dwyre.

Regular classes began on Sept. 4 in all schools across the province.

Local teaching staff s augmented by newcomers

Prairie Winds Hold Annual RideThe Prairie Winds Motorcycle Club held their annual fund run

Sunday. The 35 particiapnts helped the club raise $760 for

Trina McKercher Trust Fund. McKercher was injured earlier this

year in a motorcycle accident near Bienfait and is continuing

her recovery in Regina. Here husband Dustin was on hand to

accept the money raised Sunday. From left to right: Louise Har-

rison-Lee, Pam Currie, Raylene Fieber, Gloria Threinen, Dustin

McKercher, Jan Gross, Tanya Threinen and Rowan Matthewson.

Thirty-five people took part in the annual run and drove

through Lampman and Arcola before heading to Stoughton

where they stopped for a bite to eat and refreshments.

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Saskatchewan farmers are wasting little time in get-ting their crops in the bin.

According to the prov-ince’s weekly crop report, 21 per cent of the 2012 crop is combined and 27 per cent is swathed or ready to straight combine.

The five-year (2007-2011) provincial average for this time of year is 17 per cent combined and 24 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine. Last year at this time, 21 per cent had been combined and 27 per cent

Harvest moving quickly in southeastswathed or ready to straight combine.

Harvest progress var-ies across the province. The southwest has 49 per cent combined and 20 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine. The east-central region has 10 per cent com-bined and 28 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine; the west-central region has eight per cent combined and 28 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine. In the northeast, five per cent of the crop is combined and 35

per cent is swathed or ready to straight combine, and in the northwest, four per cent is combined and 33 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine.

Here in the southeast, farmers are ahead of the pro-vincial average as producers now have 32 per cent of the 2012 crop harvested, up from 20 per cent last week. Twen-ty-seven per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight combine. Ninety-seven per cent of the winter wheat and fall rye, 19 per cent of the

spring wheat and durum, 23 per cent of the barley, 58 per cent of the lentils, 78 per cent of the fi eld peas, 29 per cent of the chickpeas, 30 per cent of the canola and 24 per cent of the mustard have been combined. Forty-nine per cent of the canola and 39 per cent of the mustard has been swathed. Crop conditions and staging vary throughout the region, depending on seeding date, the impact of disease and the excess moisture in the spring.

The region received small amounts of precipita-tion this past week which has helped harvest progress. The Frobisher area received two mm of rain, the Rocanville area fi ve mm, the Grenfell area 10 mm, the Odessa area 24 mm, the Vibank area 20 mm, the Moose Jaw area sev-en mm and the Marquis area six mm. Crop districts 2A and 3ASE reported receiving no rain this past week. Since April 1, rainfall in the region has ranged from 190 mm (Radville area) to 532 mm (Tantallon area). Radville has the lowest cumulative rainfall in the province.

Topsoil moisture ratings on cropland are reported as one per cent surplus, 63 per cent adequate, 35 per cent short and one per cent very

short. On hay land and pas-ture, topsoil moisture is rated as 55 per cent adequate, 43 per cent short and two per cent very short. Crop District 1A is reporting that 75 per cent of cropland, hay land and pasture are short of moisture.

Pasture conditions across the region are rated as one per cent excellent, 54 per cent good, 39 per cent fair and six per cent poor. Ninety-seven per cent of livestock producers have indicated that they have adequate supplies of water for their animals.

The majority of crop damage this past week was due to wind, disease, heat stress and hail. Strong winds during the week blew many swaths across fields and shelled standing pulse and canola crops. Hail was also reported in many areas and damage varies. Reported canola yields continue to be disappointing due to high incidences of aster yellows and sclerotinia. Cereal and pulse yields vary, depending on seeding date, heat stress

and disease. Many crop pro-ducers are spraying fl ax and cereal crops for pre-harvest weed control. Some livestock producers are considering taking a second cut of hay. There have been reports of wildlife feeding on crops.

Producers are desiccat-ing, swathing, combining and hauling bales.

Elsewhere in the prov-ince, pasture conditions across the province are rated as nine per cent excellent, 57 per cent good, 27 per cent fair, six per cent poor and one per cent very poor. Ninety-six per cent of livestock producers have indicated that they have adequate supplies of water for their livestock.

Across the province, topsoil moisture on cropland is rated as seven per cent surplus, 67 per cent adequate, 21 per cent short and fi ve per cent very short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as four per cent surplus, 61 per cent adequate, 26 per cent short and nine per cent very short.

The Canadian Federa-tion of Independent Business has launched a new campaign to celebrate the role of small businesses in our society.

The campaign, which is sponsored by Interac, aims to encourage consumers to shop at local, independent busi-nesses and help entrepreneurs promote their businesses online.

“All across Canada, small business owners tell me they’re looking for new ways to reach out to custom-ers - particularly online - to promote the importance of shopping at local small fi rms, instead of a big box, giant online or cross-border busi-ness,” said CFIB president Dan Kelly. “After all, if we all shop small, we can make a big difference.”

Business owners and consumers are encouraged to register on-line at www.shopsmallbiz.ca. The process is fast, easy and completely free. Businesses will be en-couraged to offer a special promotion or discount on Small Business Saturday in order to attract new custom-

ers. Consumers will benefi t by learning of unique offer-ings and great deals right in their own backyard or from small online businesses.

“We’re pleased to be the sponsor for Canada’s fi rst Small Business Satur-day,” said Mark O’Connell, President and CEO, Interac Association and Acxsys Cor-poration. “Small businesses are the backbone of Canada’s economy, and we’re happy to provide merchants with convenient and economical payment options like Interac Debit that help keep their costs down and their custom-ers happy.”

“One Saskatchewan small business owner who is already getting ready to hit the ground running is Sarah Nichols, the owner of Pure Clothing, a clothing store that has been in Regina for two years,” said Marilyn Braun-Pollon, CFIB’s vice-president, Prairie and Agri-business. “Sarah knows that October 20 is going to be the start of something big for hard-working entrepreneurs here in Saskatchewan.”

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“The way these guys responded to last year’s flooding, they didn’t

mope and groan or anything like that, they just got to work ...

that was motivation for us to want to get behind these guys.” — TS&M regional manager Dan Pratt on the company’s $500,000 agreement for the

naming rights to the Woodlawn golf course.

“It was two evenly matched teams, we just didn’t score when

we needed to score. It’s a game we should have won. That’s the

frustrating part.” — Estevan Steelers head coach Phil Zajac on Saturday’s 30-0 loss to the Regina

Renegades.

On Sa tu rday, t he Moose Jaw High School Football League will kick off with the fi rst instalment of what is sure to become the next big rivalry between Estevan and Weyburn.

For the Estevan Com-prehensive School Elecs, it will mark the beginning of their fourth season.

On the other hand, it will be the first game in the MJHSFL for the Weyburn Eagles, who left the Regina Intercollegiate Football League during the off-season.

“We’re really excited that Weyburn is in our league. I think it’s great for the Estevan-Weyburn rivalry. We’re going to be ready,” said Elecs head coach Mark Schott.

Kick-off time is 5 p.m. The game will conclude a full day of football, with the three minor teams playing earlier. Former Saskatch-ewan Roughriders Don Narcisse and Scott Schultz will also be on hand.

The Elecs are expected to add a few more bod-ies once school starts and they get some players from schools they are affi liated with, such as in the Car-lyle area, but the offensive picture is already coming

Elecs ready to face Weyburn in opener

Elecs rookie running back Kaleb Memory, right, takes a handoff from quarterback Kolby Fleury during a set

of off ensive drills at the team’s training camp on Friday.

together.Second-year quarter-

back Kolby Fleury leads a group that also includes fullback Tyler Hodgson, rookie running back Ka-leb Memory and receivers Evan Tarnes, Ian Ferguson and Austin Garchinsky.

“Our skilled positions on offence are all back,” said Schott. “Granted, we did lose some from those

positions last year, but we have guys returning at all of those positions. So I think we should be pretty strong at the skilled spots. We do need more linemen on both sides of the ball, but from an offensive standpoint, we should be good.”

Schott is expecting more out of Fleury this year after getting his feet wet at the high school level.

“He’ll be huge for us this year. He’s got a strong arm, he’s really smart and he’s a great athlete,” Schott said.

“He’s a lot more con-fi dent this year. I think he was a little unsure as to what to expect at the high school level. He’s got one year under his belt and he just seems more comfort-able. That’s a huge thing

from the quarterback posi-tion, to have somebody with some confi dence and we’re hoping that translates to some more success out on the fi eld.”

Memory, who was a standout with the bantam Steelers last season, has impressed in camp.

“He’s really athletic, strong on his feet, he’s hard to bring down and that’s ex-

actly what you want out of a running back,” said Schott.

Defensively, Schott said some players are still being moved around to try to fi nd the best positions for them.

There are a few return-ing players in particular that the Elecs will key on.

“Nolan Tide, he’s go-ing to be a big stud for us on the defensive line. (Linebackers) Isaac Elder and Jeremy Godfrey will be making lots of tackles for us out there,” said Schott.

The Elecs are coming off a 2-4 season that saw them lose 42-3 to the pow-erhouse Vanier Vikings in the semifi nals.

Although the team lost close to 20 players from last year, Schott said enough veterans are back that it didn’t take long to establish fundamentals and system play in this year’s camp.

“Our guys are really smart out here. They’re catching on really fast,” he said. “I’d say we’re further along at this point than we were last year, where we had a lot of rookies last year and a lot of our key guys, especially on offence, are returning, so we’re able to speed things up a bit.”

A linchpin of the sports world and a staple of the busi-ness community have come together to ensure that golf in Estevan continues to thrive.

The Estevan Woodlawn Golf Club announced Aug. 29 that it has sold the naming rights to the course to TS&M Supply for a sum of $500,000 to be divided evenly over 10 years.

The course will now be known as the TS&M Wood-lawn Golf Club.

“It’s a huge day in the history of the golf course,” said Woodlawn general man-ager Brian Dueck.

“It’s very important to our fi nancial situation with our corporate community coming to the forefront and helping us out.”

The course also received a $50,000 grant from the Spectra Community Foun-dation recently, along with a number of commitments to sponsor hole signs — worth $25,000 over fi ve years — and bench signs, which are for $5,000.

With the club juggling its fi nancial situation — in-cluding a large loan from Spectra Credit Union —

Woodlawn sells naming rights to TS&M SupplyLocal company commits $500,000 over a decadewhile rebuilding the back nine and recovering from the decimated 2011 season, Dueck said all of this will “keep golf affordable in Es-tevan.”

He added: “If you’ve travelled anywhere out and about, you know that for our type of facility that we do have here, you pay quite a bit more money than you do in Estevan to play golf.”

Dueck said the deal came together very quickly after Woodlawn advertised an opportunity to buy hole signs, bench signs and nam-ing rights, the latter having no price tag on it.

“They came forth when they saw that, and a couple of e-mails back and forth to the right people and before you know it we had a deal.”

TS&M regional man-ager Dan Pratt said the mat-ter was discussed amongst himself and general manager Doug Hunt as well as Chris Irwin and Chris Davidson, both in the fi breglass division of the company.

“We were all fairly

Representatives of the Woodlawn Golf Club and TS&M Supply pose with a cheque for $50,000, the fi rst instal-

ment of a 10-year, $500,000 agreement for the naming rights to the course.

unanimous right off the start that we wanted to get behind something like that and sup-port something like that,” Pratt said.

“We met with Brian and his guys. It was fairly open-ended. We said, ‘What can we do to see Woodlawn continue to fl ourish?’ They got dealt a pretty bad hand

of cards last year with the fl ooding and whatnot.”

Pratt said the agreement “just made sense” consider-ing the company is based in Estevan, often sponsors local sports teams and that Woodlawn responded to the disaster in the right way.

“The way these guys responded to last year’s

fl ooding, they didn’t mope and groan or anything like that, they just got to work at rebuilding that back nine and making the course even better than it was before ... that was motivation for us to want to get behind these guys and help them in their cause.”

Hunt added that the fi -nancial commitment was “a

quick, easy decision” and “it was just a matter of working out the mechanics.”

Hunt said part of the agreement is an annual tour-nament that TS&M will sponsor. No details have been arranged yet, but the first one next year will coincide with the company’s 40th an-niversary.

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The Estevan Bruins’ road to the Canalta Cup starts on Friday as the SJHL club begins its 2012-13 training camp at Spectra Place.

Among the roughly 80 players in camp will be defenceman Patrick Hurley, who was acquired from the Wisconsin Wilderness of the Superior International Junior Hockey League on Aug. 28 for future consid-erations.

Hurley, 20, is listed at 6-foot-3, 216 pounds and

has two years of NCAA Division 3 college hockey under his belt at Gustavus Adolphus College.

The Duluth, Minn., native had two goals and eight points in 17 games with Wisconsin last year, along with four goals and 10 points in 14 playoff games.

Meanwhile, 19-year-old left winger Austin Daae was cut by the Regina Pats and will be in camp. The Es-tevan native recorded six as-sists in fi ve games with the Bruins last year. He spent

the rest of the season with the Prince George Cougars.

In addition, 17-year-old forward Wyatt Johnson will be here after going to camp with the Vancouver Giants. Johnson, who broke the point-per-game barrier as a 16-year-old in midget AAA, was acquired in the Ryan Ostertag trade last season.

Following registration and orientation on Friday, scrimmage action will begin with White playing Gold at 6:30 p.m. and Red facing Black at 8. Those two games will feature 4-on-4 play.

There are four intra-squad games on Saturday:

9 a.m., Gold vs. Red; 10:45 a.m., Black vs. White; 4 p.m., Red vs. White; 6 p.m. Gold vs. Black.

There is also a goal-tender session, including eight shooters, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. that day.

Cuts will be made fol-lowing Saturday’s action and the remaining players will be organized into Team Black and Team Gold. The two squads will practise Sunday morning, followed by the annual Black and Gold Game at 3 p.m.

For full updates on training camp, visit the Bru-ins Banter blog at estevan-mercury.ca/bruinsbanter.

Dylan Smith is not the only impact player who won’t bet returning to the Estevan Bruins.

Team captain Josh Jelinski has decided to skip his last year of junior eligibility and continue working in his family’s electric company.

The Avonlea native had informed the Bruins earlier this summer that he was considering the deci-sion, and more recently he made it offi cial.

Jelinski could not be reached for comment.

It was not a good sum-mer for the 20-year-old, who pleaded guilty to and was convicted of impaired driving after he was pulled over the morning after the Bruins’ year-end party.

He also lost a pair of close family in a short pe-riod of time.

Bruins head coach and

general manager Keith Cas-sidy said the team tried to give Jelinski enough time to make a strong decision.

“Some things in life are more important than hockey and I respect his decision. We endeavoured to give him time over the summer to think about it and just make sure he was comfortable with that deci-sion. A lot of guys (in that situation) ... the season rolls around and they’re chomp-ing to play.

“I think Josh is mature enough to know which way he wants to go with it.”

Jelinski’s particular brand of impact came in his ability to set the physical tone in games and devastate opponents with open-ice hits.

But Cassidy said that fi lling the void off the ice is the bigger priority.

“What I’m more con-

cerned about is he was a pretty positive voice in the dressing room.

“When we decided to go with a younger captain last year, the reason we

did that is we were hoping he’d be around for a year or two.”

Cassidy added that Jelinski did “a tremendous job” learning on the fl y as a

19-year-old captain, some-thing that isn’t always easy.

“He had some hiccups along the way, but all in all he did a solid job for us and I can’t thank him enough for that.”

There has been no de-cision made or timeline set for naming the Bruins’ next captain. Cassidy mentioned defenceman Connor Mil-ligan and forwards Cole Olson and Calder Neufeld as players expected to lead the way.

“I’m not going to say that one person’s going to be a Josh Jelinski, because he’s a pretty unique indi-vidual.”

Jelinski is one of six eligible returnees who will not suit up in the black and gold this year.

Aside from him and Smith, defenceman Zach MacLellan is going to school, right winger Mi-

chael Hengen needs an-other knee surgery that will keep him out nine months and goalie Tyler Ross is with Muskegon of the United States Hockey League.

Defenceman-turned-winger Eric Baldwin re-quested a trade and the club agreed that it was time for him to move on.

Cassidy said when Ma-cLellan was acquired at the trade deadline, “that was part of his deal, he was go-ing to fi nish out the season and go to school the follow-ing year.”

He added that the setback for Hengen, who missed nearly the entire 2010-11 season with the original injury, came as a bit of a surprise.

“I don’t envy him try-ing to go through pos-sible reconstructive surgery again.”

Bruins’ captain foregoes fi nal year of junior

Josh Jelinski

Bruins’ training camp begins Friday

The Estevan Strippers struck out in their bid for a medal at the Canada 55-plus Games held in Sydney, N.S. last week.

After capturing the bronze medal in the last three Games, the Strip-pers ran into serious op-position.

They were soundly defeated 7-1 by Bramp-ton, Ont., in their opener. Brampton, a team that holds tryouts, came into the tournament having won 50 games in a row.

Terry Rohatyn had the Strippers’ lone goal.

The second game saw the Strippers earn their only victory with a 7-1 win over the Northwest Ter-ritories. Estevan led 3-0 after the fi rst period and outscored the Territories 4-1 in the second period. Bob Lausch scored twice, with singles from Darcy Rohatyn, Tim Bangsund, Rod Boll, Neil Unger and Don Dayman.

Goaltender Jerry Sin-clair, 76, picked up the win in net.

The Strippers lost their third game 7-3 to Windsor, N.S. They fell behind 3-0 early before rallying to close the gap to 4-3. Conditioning took over late in the game, as Windsor scored the next three goals. The Stripper goals were scored by Brian Flaman (2) and Lausch.

Sydney Casino laid a bad beating on the team in the fourth game, defeating them 11-3. Flaman scored two again, with Lausch adding one.

The Strippers’ 1-3 re-cord qualifi ed them for the bronze medal game, where they were again defeated by Windsor, 6-0.

The team faced very stiff competition in the Games, but made use of their time by visiting many sites in Cape Breton.

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The Estevan Sher-ritt Coal Miners’ offence showed some signs of life in the atom team’s 40-15 loss to the Regina Kats on

Saturday.The club was very

much in the game through-out the first half before falling behind in the sec-

ond.“The k ids p l ayed

well. They went hard and then about the middle of the third quarter, they

started to lose some gas,” said Miners coach Garth Deitz.

The drive that led to the Miners’ first touch-down of the season gob-bled up eight and a half minutes of the first quarter as the visitors ran the ball consistently.

“We got first downs on anything other than penalties. We sustained our first downs, scored our first touchdown (of the year), our first convert,” said Deitz.

Cameron Jones did the deed on a quarterback option.

“ T h e w h o l e s i d e opened up and he ran in from about 10 yards out,” Deitz said.

“ ( T h e n R e g i n a ) scored right away on that sweep again. They ended up scoring a couple of touchdowns on us, then

we got another one before half.”

The Miners’ second major came on a 65-yard sweep by Kade Bachorcik, who was playing his first game at running back.

“It looked like it was stopped, then all of a sud-den he took off out of nowhere,” Deitz said.

The Miners trailed 20-15 at the half.

Deitz said the club was able to run inside on a regular basis and marched the ball well.

“ E v e r y t h i n g j u s t clued in with them. We ran the inside and they could not stop it. We got between five and eight yards per carry. They’d score on the quick hit, we’d drive down the field, they’d score a quick one.”

He added that while it was “nice to score some points,” there’s still a long

way to go.“We’re going to work

on the good stuff, fine-tune it, work on stuff with the defence and I think we’ll be ready to go.”

Following the game, the Miners got a visit from Kats coach Fred Perry, the former Roughrider and two-time CFL All-Star at defensive end.

“Their coach Fred Perry came over and talk-ed to the kids about stop-ping the sweeps.”

Meanwhi le , Dei tz said he is stepping down as the Miners’ head coach, saying he was tired of “polit ics” following a combative Penta Comple-tions Estevan Minor Foot-ball meeting recently.

Associate coach Evan Helfrick will take over the reins, with Deitz re-maining on the staff in a smaller role.

The Estevan Lions Club Steelers felt more like the Winnipeg Blue Bomb-ers than the Saskatchewan Roughriders following their Labour Day weekend matchup against the Regina Renegades.

The Steelers dropped to 0-3 with a 30-0 loss in Regina on Saturday.

The Renegades led 7-0 after one quarter and 14-0 at the half.

Steelers head coach Phil Zajac said there was no reason his team shouldn’t have beaten the 1-2 Ren-egades or at least been com-petitive to the end.

“It was two evenly

matched teams, we just didn’t score when we need-ed to score,” he said.

“ I t ’s a g a m e w e should’ve won. That’s the frustrating part.”

The Steelers nearly broke the shutout bid late in the game.

“They stopped us three times at the goal line in the fourth quarter, (which was) aggravating, then they scored a meaningless touch-down with a minute left,” Zajac said.

He said the Steelers’ defence “played pretty well” overall, aside from some big plays that cost them.

“We wanted to start to

eliminate some penalties we took last week, and we did better on that,” he added.

Running back Levi Pick accounted for roughly 100 yards on the day, and safety/cornerback Evan Stabenow had roughly 10 individual tackles. Prestin Bergen had an interception for the Steelers.

Zajac said the plan now is to repeat the plays until they stick.

“What I’m planning to do this week is simply repetition and execution. We’re not going to add any plays on offence or defence, we’re just going to review, review, review and rerun,

rerun, rerun until we perfect our execution. We’ve got the right people in the right spots, we just have to do the plays right.”

Meanwhile, the Este-van Century 21 peewee Chargers were in action on Monday against the Regina Patriots. The score was not available at press time.

All three Penta Com-pletions Estevan Minor Football teams will be in action on home turf Satur-day. The Miners host the Regina Cardinals at 11 a.m., the Chargers host the Regina Thunder at 12:45 and the Steelers play the Junior Grif-fi ns at 3 p.m.

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Tanner Carson, left, of

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Estevan Minor Hockey AA Tryouts

The Estevan senior men’s city soccer fi nal was held Aug. 28 at the soccer facility at Cactus Park.

United came out on top, earning a clean sheet in a 2-0 victory over the XS-iV Yellow Youngfellas.

Patrick Miklaszewski and Nathan Schnell struck for United in a game that was completed just before darkness took over.

XS-iV had defeated United 3-0 in a game a week earlier.

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Estevan will not have a peewee A minor hockey team this season.

That bit of news was among the items discussed a t the Estevan Minor Hockey Association’s an-nual fall meeting on Aug. 29.

Minor hockey presi-dent Kelly Kjersem said the loss of the peewee club is due to a Hockey Regina ruling that will accept no out-of-town teams more than 80 kilometres from the capital city. The deci-sion affects all A divisions from peewee down.

Kjersem said the asso-ciation explored having a peewee A team in another

Minor hockey association holds fall meetingleague, but that was shut down by the Saskatchewan Hockey Association.

There will be a pro-vincial squad though.

Meanwhile, the issue of improving the associat-ed player system had been discussed at the EMHA’s spring meeting and was added to the fall agenda.

Kjersem said usage of APs will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

“We’re monitoring how many each team can have, and they can’t be used in practices. They can only be used when they absolutely need them,” he said.

The association had

been in need of a trea-surer following the spring meeting. That position has now been fi lled by Scott Dryden.

The EMHA was not able to find a learn-to-skate co-ordinator and that program has been replaced with a Sunday afternoon program for four-year-old players.

In terms of the AA program, Tim Lequyer had been confi rmed to return to the Apex Bruins, but he has since stepped down as his son Branden, a main-stay on the team’s back end last year, is recovering from a serious accident.

“Our thoughts are for

Tim Lequyer and his fam-ily,” said Kjersem.

Dalton Giblett has been named his replace-ment.

Trevor Morrison will coach the bantam AA club, Jeff Pierson is the new coach for the peewee AAs and Trent Bell is leading the atom AA squad.

The Estevan CCA Ro-deo is fast approaching and the local rodeo grounds have a new look to them this year.

The rodeo is scheduled for Sept. 7 to 9 this year and everyone can expect some changes at the rodeo grounds.

Competitors will be happy with the changes as the Estevan Exhibition As-sociation has redone the grounds and replaced all the perimeter fencing. Fans will also be happy as the west side bleachers have had all their planks replaced.

Dallas Spencer, Este-van Exhibition Association president, said he is looking forward to another success-ful rodeo this year.

Last year the event was moved from July to Septem-ber, due to the fl ooding, and Spencer said they were look-ing to return to the summer for this year.

“We wanted to move the rodeo back to the sum-mer this year, but we had trouble booking a stock contractor for the dates we wanted,” he said. “Hopefully next year, we will be back to running in the summer.”

Although they didn’t get the date they originally wanted, Spencer is optimis-tic about the rodeo this year.

“Last year we were re-ally happy with the rodeo,” he said. “We lucked out with some great weather and had one of our best audiences ever.”

Last year attendance was over 400, Spencer said. He is hoping to see similar numbers this year at the gate.

In addition to having

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another good audience this year, Spencer said the benefi t of having the rodeo in the fall is that it is one of the last ones of the year.

“We are expecting a good turnout for competitors as there is only one other ro-deo that weekend,” he said. “And being one of the last rodeos of the year, people are anxious to get out and get their last rides in.”

The rodeo will start Sept. 7 with a parade at 4 p.m. The cowboys and cow-girls in the Canadian Cow-boys Association (CCA)

will then start to compete Friday (Sept. 7) and continue on Saturday. As always, the weekend will wrap up with the Ranchers Rodeo Sept. 9.

It has been a busy year for the Estevan Exhibition Association as they have been planning the rodeo since March. Throw into the mix all the renovations the group has done, and it has

required a lot of dedicated volunteers.

Spencer said the work at the grounds has taken up a lot of time.

“We get the same peo-ple out here every year help-ing out,” he said. “I don’t know what will happen if any of them ever leave.”

The changes to the grounds will be great, but

the association has made other changes to the rodeo this year.

During intermission at the rodeo, there will be a trick rider to entertain the fans. Spencer said they have had one in previous years and decided to bring it back.

There will also be a food vendor open at the exhi-bition grounds to feed all the

hungry fans and participants.Spencer is hoping for

another great crowd at the ro-deo this year. For those new to town, the rodeo includes such events as bareback riding, saddle bronc, team roping and bull riding.

“Come out and enjoy the weekend,” said Spencer. “And get in one last summer weekend.”

Colter Bannow of Marsden hangs on for dear life during his saddle bronc ride at the 2011 Estevan Rodeo. (File Photo)

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At lower levels of hockey, particularly in Junior A, it’s important for reporters and coaches to develop a healthy working relationship.

The team and the me-dia both need each other, and the sooner both sides realize that, the better.

Still, beat reporters have to remember that there are 20-some players in the locker room who usually have their own take on things.

It’s easy — and I’ve seen this all over the Ju-nior A ranks — for the coach’s quotes to domi-nate a story, particularly when it’s about a road trip that the reporter didn’t have the benefit of watch-ing, or a story where it’s tough to track down the relevant player.

I say this knowing that some of our readers probably see the words “Cassidy said” when they go to sleep on Wednesday

nights in the winter.I try to engage players

in our Bruins coverage as much as possible, but I can do better.

We ran two stories recently about prominent Bruins leaving the team — captain Josh Jelinski this week, leading scorer Dylan Smith last week.

In both cases I was unable to reach the player to give their thoughts or side of the story.

Who knows what the circumstances were, but at the end of the day it boils down to the fact that their point of view wasn’t represented in print.

I wanted to get their side. I felt uncomfortable running stories with only the team’s comments.

But ultimately you can only do what you can with what is available to you.

It’s one of the an-noying things about jour-nalism: that one phone

call that never comes can change everything.

***

Here’s another thing that needs to improve: soccer coverage.

Soccer, in this case, is a stand-in for every less-mainstream sport that doesn’t get the exposure it should. Roller derby, lacrosse, wakeboarding, you name it.

People in my position have an obligation to pro-mote and give these sports the coverage they deserve.

It may not be listed in the job description, but

it’s a responsibility not to be taken lightly.

Since I arrived at the Mercury 16 months ago, you can probably count the number of soccer items we’ve printed on

one hand.I haven’t received

much information about the goings-on of the beau-tiful game in this town, but that’s not an excuse to stop trying.

I love soccer. Grant-ed, my watching is mostly limited to World Cups, Euro, Champions League and Major League Soccer, but you won’t find me whining about the sport because of diving.

It’s called the beau-tiful game for a reason, diving or no diving.

Athletes like Chris-tine Sinclair can inspire a generation of young kids, but we have to hold up our end of the bargain by giving sports poised for a breakthrough the appro-priate coverage.

Josh Lewis can be reached by phone a t 634-2654, by e-mail at sports@estevanmercury.ca, on Twitter at twitter.com/joshlewis306 or on his Bruins blog at estevan-mercury.ca/bruinsbanter. So, uh... Joe Mack?

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Southeast Saskatch-ewan’s roller derby team will play the NorSask DiefenBreak-Hers from Prince Albert in an event d u b b e d “ N e c e s s a r y Roughness.” It will be the fi rst bout for that club.

Doors open at the Icon

Centre at 6:30 p.m., with the game starting at 7:30. Tickets are $10 at the door and the event will be licensed, meaning minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Hillbilly Hurt mem-ber Lorelei Lachambre explained a few things for those who aren’t familiar with the current-day sport.

“Picture women rock-

ing killer outfi ts with wick-ed roller skating skills and sporting nicknames like GhostBustHer and Arson Fire, and you’ll get the idea,” she said.

“There are hard hits and big blocks, tough atti-tudes, and an abundance of aggression. The sport has once again become a phe-nomenon, and the women of the Hillbilly Hurt want

southeast Saskatchewan women to know the fun and fulfi lment of the sport they are dedicated to and passionate about. It is the most inclusive, adrena-line-pumping, and em-powering sport there is.”

Lachambre said derby has been revived in many areas and that it is a wel-coming sport.

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porates athleticism and competitiveness in a team environment, while at the same time encouraging individuality and self-expression. Roller derby is for everyone and all body types are welcome. Both large and small are assets to the team, as you need them all to block, to jam, to play.”

Roller derby is a full contact sport. A game, or a bout, is comprised of two 30-minute periods, in which the teams skate as many two-minute jams as possible in the time limit.

The objective of a jam is to score as many points as possible, done only by the jammer from each team. That person tries to breach and pass through the pack, which includes

a pivot and three blockers from both teams. A point is earned for each opposing player passed.

Safety is a priority in roller derby. Mandatory gear includes a helmet, mouthguard, wrist guards, knee pads and elbow pads.

Each woman a l so must pass comprehensive written and on-track test-ing to ensure they are fully ready to get on the track.

Penalties are called by up to seven offi cials and can land a skater a minor or major penalty. A minor penalty sees the team skate one player short until the one-minute ban is served.

Any males or females interested in offi ciating in the future are asked to at-tend to get a better picture of what the sport involves.

The outlook is not good for a potential female midget AA hockey program in Este-van this season.

A skate was held on Aug. 26 to gauge interest in a team, and with 18 skaters and one goalie showing up, the turnout was disappoint-ing.

Another skate was scheduled to be held last Friday.

Estevan Minor Hockey Association female director Tia Dukart said she was expecting at least a handful more players to come for the second event, but she added that wouldn’t be enough.

“We need a lot more than that. We just didn’t have the numbers ... and I think some people use that as a free skate (to help get in shape),” she said.

“We definitely didn’t have the numbers and the interest and the capability

we were looking for.”Dukart said she wanted

to see about 40 players come out to ensure a stable and competitive program.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen; it’s highly unlikely. So I’m not holding my breath.”

On the heels of a lot of success for the city’s female A teams in recent years — including a league champi-onship and provincial fi nal appearance last year — a AA program would be the next step in growing the sport for girls in the Energy City.

“Estevan would be making a milestone. Our girls, they’ve climbed for so many years to get to where they’re at. If we could get to play at that level, I think it would be an eye-opener for the younger divisions that they could have that op-portunity. It’s more intense hockey.”

Low turnout for

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Gather AroundElecs football head coach Mark Schott, left, speaks to players following a practice at training camp on Friday. The team will play its season opener against the

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Bromhead — The fi ne dust of harvest was in the air on Aug. 30 as mas-sive combines all around gobbled up one of the earli-est harvests in a long time. A few farmers gathered beside a railroad car and engine, waiting for trucks to arrive.

But this rail car wasn’t a hopper car, and there was no auger to load it. Instead, several tanker trucks full of crude turned up, to be hooked up in turn to a trans-loader which would meter oil as it was pumped into the rail car.

For the farmers, this was a little different than what they expected when they fi rst got involved in resurrecting a rail line. They fi gured the fi rst rail car would be filled with grain.

That’s still coming. But for now, it’s oil.

J a n i c e A s h w o r t h brought out her new camera to get some pictures of the affair. She, along with her husband Kelly and sons, Owen, 16 and Kyle, 19, farm 9,800 acres and have 250 purebred Simmentals. They are one of the farm families who invested in the rail line as a way to reduce their shipping costs. All came out to see the show.

“We farm at Oungre and have land at Brom-

head,” she said.“The initial goal was to

haul our grain. Since then we’ve expanded to oil, and later grain.”

“We’re right back to 1910, when they pulled down that elevator in Tri-bune,” said Dennis Zack-risson, another farmer and investor in the railroad who was on hand for the fi rst loading. He and his son Brennan farm 3,500 acres.

“Your great-grandfa-ther had to haul bags of grain to Halbrite. It took two days,” Zackrisson told Owen and Kyle.

There are now plans to load grain out of Tribune, Janice said.

“This rail track goes through the middle of my land. We’re using a thing that was here,” Zackrisson said.

Janice added, “We’re creating jobs.”

Indeed, the railroad has two staff members so far.

Ric Boxell is one of those two workers for the new railroad. He used to mine nickel in Thomp-son, Man., working both aboveground and under-ground, prior to retiring earlier this year.

He had a little experi-ence with underground rail-roads in the mine, he said, “but nothing like this stuff.”

When general manager Bob Holden needed help, Boxell came. They have a

family connection, and be-sides, retirement isn’t quite his thing just yet, said the 54-year-old. “I’ve got lots of years left.”

Holden is also retired, having superannuated a little over a year ago. He spent 36 years with Cana-dian Pacifi c.

“I was a maintenance foreman. I worked out of Bienfait; I worked in the Brandon division ... it ends in Estevan.”

In all those years, oil simply wasn’t a commod-ity they dealt with. Lots of coal, potash and grain, yes, but oil, no. It’s a new thing, Holden explained.

As for retirement, he agrees with Boxell. “It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.”

This fi rst car is likely a portent for many more to come. Torq Transload-ing, the Shaunavon-based company that is doing the transfer of crude from truck

to rail car, would eventually like to load unit trains of crude oil on this line.

It took seven years for Canadian Pacifi c to sell the line to the new shortline. It has been a long time since the track that now belongs to Long Creek Railroad saw any action - so long in fact, that neither Ashworth nor Zackrisson could re-member the last train. She recalled school trips riding on the train, with students

either in the caboose or engine.

Kyle is in a different type of school these days, as he is in his second year of an agriculture business di-ploma program at the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan. Asked what he thought of being farmers in control of their own railroad, he said, “It improves your bottom line. Anything to keep your costs down, because ex-penses aren’t going down.”

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Torq Transloading will use transloaders that fi ll rail cars from the bottom.

Pat Breckon’s truck awaits unloading, parked beside the newly refurbished locomotive.

The transloader in the middle car is a metering and

fi ltering system. The pump on the truck is used to

push the oil onto the rail car.

“We’re right back to 1910, when they

pulled down that elevator in Tribune.”– Dennis Zackrisson

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Steven Rohatyn, son of Mel and

the late Sandra Rohatyn of Medicine Hat, AB was called

to the Bar of AB on August 17, 2012

in Edmonton, AB. He is currently practising

with the firm of Parlee McLaw in Edmonton. Steven is the

grandson of Lorraine Rohatyn and Pat Stang.Proud of you —Love your family

Estevan music fans will be treated to the hits of broadway at a show in April.

It has been announced that Henri Loiselle and Martin Janovsky will be performing as part of the

Stars for Saskatchewan series on April 12, 2013 at St. Paul’s United Church.

Moving freely from Broadway show tunes to music of the ‘40s to the ‘60s, Loiselle and Janovsky present a show

that is as amazingly di-verse as i t is unique. Loiselle’s bass-baritone voice takes his audience on a musical journey with familiar songs such as Tennessee Waltz, It’s Now or Never and Wonderful

World; Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, and his sig-nature If I Were A Rich Man. Janovsky’s virtuoso keeps the audience spell-bound with renditions of his favourite composi-tions such as Hooked on Classics, Twelfth Street Rag or Frank Mills’ Mu-sic Box Dancer. Having very successful individual careers, their obvious joy in performing together is evident in the fun and camaraderie they share on stage. Together they treat their audiences to

superb renditions of the classics, delighting new listeners and having fans returning for a thoroughly enjoyable evening of fun and nostalgic trips down memory lane.

The Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Coun-cils annually presents over 300 live community and school performances, at-tended by a total audience of approximately 75,000. This is possible because of a dedicated network of volunteers committed to making culture an integral

part of Saskatchewan com-munity life, and vital fund-ing from Saskatchewan Lotteries, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and Canadian Heritage. Saskatchewan Lotteries benefits more than 12,000 sport, culture, and recreation organiza-tions around the province. Each year 600,000 people participate in programs ,and from activities initi-ated by these organiza-tions, over $1 billion of economic activity is gen-erated, and 23,000 jobs are sustained.

Loiselle and Janovsky to perform in EstevanMartin Janovsky and Henri Loiselle will perform in Estevan as part of Stars for Saskatchewan next April.

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By Catrina MoldenhauerMidale Correspondent

The Midale Museum will remain open through September. They welcome you to come and have a coffee and bring your sum-mer guests and see the great displays.

The sixth annual Black Gold Bullnanza will be held Saturday, Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. on the sports grounds north of Midale Central School. The gate will open at 12:30. There will be up to 25 bull riders and six junior bull riders. New this year is mutton bustin’ that will be open to the fi rst 14 kids who are aged eight-and-under and weigh less than 70 pounds. The mutton bustin’ will take place in between the long and short go rounds. There will be a beer gardens on the grounds until 7 p.m. when they will

shut things down and move to the Harry O’ Memorial Arena for the cabaret fea-turing Alex Runions. The cabaret begins at 9 p.m. and goes until 2 a.m.

The Midale Public Li-brary wrapped up their TD Summer Reading Program on Aug 22. The library ap-preciates Andrea Piper and Maggie Peters for facilitat-ing the program and the Community Initiatives Fund for the grant money that made the program possible. The theme was Imagination and the young participants enjoyed the stories, crafts and games featured each week. Readers received points for every book read and got to enter their name for Scholastic gift certifi -cates for $75, $50 and $25. The respective lucky win-ners were Tina M., Brendan V. and Kadyn V. Thanks to all our young readers for

participating! The Midale and Area

Recreation Board’s annual fowl supper will be held on Sunday, Oct. 14. If anybody is donating any vegetables this year, please call Catrina at home at 458-2887 or on the rink cellphone at 458-7555 and let her know.

The rec board is hop-ing to have the ice in the rink around the middle of October this year.

Keep your eyes open for posters placed around town and for information in the school newsletter regarding the Midale Minor Hockey registration meeting and Midale Skating Club registration. Information will be put in this column as it becomes available.

Please remember to call Catrina at 458-2887 if you have any news you would like others to know about.

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In Loving Memory of

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Brooke

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September 5, 2010

Two years have passedSince I’ve seen that smile

Kissed your soft cheekHeld you in my arms

I miss you every single dayThat will never change

There is a vast empty spaceIn my heart thatconstantly aches

I wish that you could havestayed longer

But I’m so thankful to have known you

You were the light of my lifeYou’ll always be my

daughter,My best friend and my angel.

I’ll see you in heaven.We miss you Brookie

- All our love, Mom, Toog, Beau and Bailee.

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Then she gently flew awayfrom me

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Brookie.- Gramma Doreen.

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HOUSE FOR SALE: In Hillside. Approx. 1,180 sq. ft. Bungalow. 2 Bedrooms up, 2 bedrooms down; 1 bathroom, central air, all appli-ances included - fr idge, stove, washer/dryer, dishwasher, freezer, 2 TVs. Taxes $1,200/yr. 50 by 120 foot mature lot. Asking $289,500. Extensive renovations inside and out. To view, call 461-6906.

OUT OF TOWN

FOR RENT: 1 Bedroom Apar t-ment in a senior housing unit. 1 year lease. Avai lable Sept. 1. Phone 306-923-2124.

FOR SALE In Stoughton: New modular home on own lot. 3 Bed-rooms, 2 baths. Vacant. $8,000 down; Payments $800/month. Must have good credit and be able to bank qualify. Phone 1-587-434-8525.

APARTMENTS/CONDOS FOR RENT

FOR RENT: Sept. 1 - 1 Bedroom Suite. Private entrance, private driveway. All utilities paid. Fully furnished. No laundry facilities. Single occupant. $1,200/month. No pets. Contact 421-2821.

HARVEST HEIGHTS APARTMENTS

1 & 2 Bedroom Units. Utilities in-cluded. Air conditioning, fridge and stove, laundry facilities in building. Ample parking and plug-ins. Se-curity entrance. No pets. See our Web Site at:

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PARK PLACE 402 PERKINS STREET

FOR RENT: 1, 2 BR Apartments. Air conditioning, 5 Appliances. Fireplace in suites; Security doors. No Pets!! For more information, Phone 634-4010 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. only, or see our Web site @ www.apartmentsestevan.ca

ROOMS

ROOMS FOR RENT - Uptown Motel. Singles - $400 + Tax week-ly; Doubles - $500 + Tax Weekly. All rooms have cable, microwave, f r idge, f ree wireless Internet. Kitchenettes also available. Bus Depot Access. Month ly ra tes available upon request. Phone 634-2624.

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CUSTOM BUILT READY TO MOVE HOMES: R. Barkman Con-s t ruc t ion , Cromer, Mani toba. Quality workmanship and materi-als. Please Phone Randy at 204-662-4561 for Estimates and De-sign or Stop In to Visit Our Homes.

LOTS & ACREAGES FOR SALE

FOR SALE: Acreage in Kennedy, 5.4 acres. 1,400 sq. ft. 4 Bedroom, 2 bathroom, 3 garages + outbuild-i n g s . Ac c e p t i n g o f fe rs ove r $240,000. Call Kevin: 1-780-742-4846.

LAND FOR SALE: RM of Cymri #36. Accepting offers until Sept. 26 for three quarters of farm land - 5 miles southeast of Midale, Sask. S 1/2 of 9-5-10W2, NE 1/4 of 4-5-10W2. Cult ivated acres - 440, Pasture - 30. All cultivated acres seeded to alfalfa/alfalfa pasture mix. Dilapidated house has water, power, sewer and telephone bur-ied to basement. Quonset 32x40, complete with cement floor. High-est or any offer not necessarily ac-cepted. For more information or site inspection, contact Matt Mes-ser at 306-458-2536 or cell 306-458-7739.

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STEEL BUILDINGS / GRANARIES

FOR SALE: Grain Bins - Westeel Rosco on wood floor. 1 of 3350 bushel and 2 of 1650 bushel. $1.2 per bushel. Nor th of Torquay. Phone 306-861-4592.

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2005-2007 Peterbilt 387’s- up to 19 to choose from-Various en-gines-Cummins ISX, Cat C-13, & C-15 with various trans- 13 & 18 Speed Fuller Man, Meritor A/T, Ful ler A/T, Odometer 1.2-1.6M KM. Well maintained, just off fleet, operated-Can/USA maj highways, Spec/build sheets avail-mid $20’s-m i d $ 3 0 ’ K d e p e n d i n g o n cond/miles/config. Some identi-cal(if need to purchase multiple units). Located in MB w/del pos-sible. Contact: Gerald: cell 204-227-0469, Len 204-227-4117, da-lew@arnoldbros.com

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FOR SALE: New ATV Wagons. Great for farm, play, hunting, etc. Tandem walk ing beam axles. Made from 14 gauge checker-plate. $1700 each. e-mail: rcnor-din@hotmailcom or call 306-483-2239.

FOR SALE: New Firewall cover-al ls, 3 XLarge, 1 - 2XLarge - $75/each; Mastercraft snowblow-er, 10.5 HP, 30” wide sweep, like new - $600; Honda lawn mower, like new - $300; 4 cu. ft. Danby stainless steel-look refrigerator - $175; large fish tank and accesso-ries, 48” x 18” x 12” wide - $175. Phone 634- 5568.

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AUCTIONS

Estate Auction Sale for Long Time Collector of Phonographs & An-tiques Saturday September 15, 2012 @ 9:00AM, Sunday Septem-ber 16, 2012 @ 10:00AM. Cosmo Civic Centre, Sasktoon, SK. SAT-URDAY SELLING ANTIQUES: SUNDAY SELLING ALL MUSIC RELATED ITEMS Live Internet Bidding @ 1:00PM 1-877-494-2437, www.bodnarusauctioneer-ing.com PL#318200

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TRUCKS & VANS

FOR SALE: 2000 Dodge Ram 3500 Cube Van. Cummins 24 valve motor, turbo diesel, shelves in back of van, sleeper (next to cab), 295,507 km. $15,000 or Best Offer. Phone 634-5568.

FOR SALE: 2000 GMC Jimmy 4X4, 193,000 km, black, hood scoop, Euro tail l ights, Westin chrome bars, Viper Command and alarm system. Runs great - $4,000 O.B.O. Phone 461-9163.

PARTS & ACCESSORIES

REMANUFACTURED Diesel En-gines: GM 6.5L, $4750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L, $4950 installed; New 6.5L engines, $6500; 24v 5.9L Cummins $7500 installed; GM Du-ramax 6.6L-Ford 6.0L, $8500 in-stalled. Other New/Used/and Re-man Diesel Engines available, can ship or install. Call 204-532-2187, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Mon. to Fri. Thickett Engine Rebuilding, Bin-scarth, Manitoba.

RVS/CAMPERS/TRAILERS

CJAY TRAILERS - Located in Moose Jaw - Offers full line ser-vice, repairs and par ts for al l makes and models of RV trailers. We handle SGI claims for any type of damages including hail and wind damage. Let the experts at CJay Trailers take care of all your RV trailer needs. Call 306-691-5474.

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CARS2010 CHRYSLER 300 white diamond, 34,500 kms .......................................$18,9002009 CADILLAC CTS AWD, local trade, black, 82,500 kms .............................$29,7002009 PONTIAC VIBE auto, p.w., p.l., air, only 53,700 kms............................$14,9902009 CHEV COBALT 2 door, 5 speed, power roof, yellow, only 42,000 kms .....$13,9002009 CHEV MALIBU 2LT heated seats, 69,000 kms ....................................$13,9002008 CADILLAC CTS AWD, 3.6L, 66,700 kms ..............................................$28,7002008 CADILLAC CTS AWD, 3.6L, 48,000 kms ..............................................$26,7002008 CHEV COBALT 4 door, sport red, 56,840 kms ......................................$11,9002007 CHEV MAILBU LT Local trade, 77,000 kms .........................................$10,9812006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE CONVERTIBLE 5 speed, 23,000 kms ................$15,9002005 CHEV MALIBU LS local trade, 134,200 kms ......................................... $8,700

TRUCKS, SUVS, VANS2011 CHEV TAHOE hybrid, loaded, rated at 27 mpg city, 4,000 kms ...............$54,9002011 FORD F350 KING RANCH CREW 6.7L diesel, pw roof,nav, 109,000 kms ..........................................................................................$44,9002011 CHEV CREW LONG BOX 4X4 6.0L, 43,000 kms .............................$34,900 2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE AWD 6.2L, loaded, 22” rim pkg, 42,500 kms ...$59,7002010 GMC 1 TON CREW CAB DURAMAX 163,000 kms .........................$28,7002010 CHEV EQUINOX LTZ 4cyl, leather, pw roof, 8 way pr. seat, 73,700 kms $26,9002010 GMC CREW 1500 5.3L, red, WOW - 30,000 kms ...............................$26,9002010 GMC TERRAIN htd seats, rear camera, 47,700 kms .............................$24,900Coming Soon 2010 GMC CANYON CREW 4x4, silver metallic, 61,600 kms ...................................................................................................$21,7002009 BUICK ENCLAVE AWD CXL2 leather, 7pass, excellent,174,300 kms ...$19,9812009 FORD ESCAPE XLT 4X4 62,000 kms ...............................................$19,9002009 CHEV AVALANCHE LTZ roof, D.V.D., local trade, 225,000 kms, clean ...................................................................NOW ONLY $18,9002009 CADILLAC SRX 4.6 V8 SPORT power roof, 58,7000 kms .................$32,7002008 GMC YUKON DENALI XL AWD black, loaded, 66,000 kms ...............$38,9002008 CHEV TAHOE cloth buckets, 7 pass., power roof, 54,900 kms ................$32,9002008 DODGE RAM QUAD CAB black, leather, 108,000 kms .......................$22,9002008 CHEV SILVERADO CREW 4x4, local trade, 101,000 kms ...................$21,9002008 SATURN VUE AWD A/C, cruise, tilt, pw, pl, 78,000 kms .....................$17,7002008 JEEP COMPASS black, 87,000 kms ....................................................$12,7002007 INFINITI FX35 AWD white, leather, 82,000 kms ................................$26,9002007 CHEV CREW 1500 CLASSIC 4x4, black, 112,400 kms ..................... $18,9812007 CHEV COLORADO CREW 4x4, flame yellow, pr. roof, 57,600 kms ......$18,9002007 JEEP LIBERTY 4X4 leather, local trade,123,000 kms ...........................$13,9002005 HUMMER H2 black, leather, 92,000 kms ............................................$24,9002002 GMC 1 TON DUALLY REG CAB duramax diesel only 157,000 kms .....$11,900

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M O T O R H O M E F O R S A L E : Flair/Fleetwood 30’, 2000, 7.4L en-gine, only 13,600 miles, fully load-ed with awnings, Onan power plant, TV, VCR, satellite dish, etc. Well maintained by couple with no children. Asking $38,500. Leave message please: 306- 585-1131 or 800-546-3354.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

ALBERTA BASED COMPANY looking for qualified & exper i-enced: Equipment Operators, Mulcher, Feller Buncher & Proces-sor Operators. Out of town & camp work. Safety tickets & driv-ers abstract required. Email re-sume: jobs@commandequ ip -ment.com. Fax 780-488-3002.

Church of God

Faith Lutheran Church

PastorsRev. Christopher SmithPastor Waylon Klix

Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

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

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TH Vac Services, Kindersley SK is now hiring Vac Truck drivers and HydroVac/Combo Vac Truck Driv-ers. Class 3A or 1A drivers license required. Compet i t ive wages, benefits package, scheduled days off. Tickets an asset. Email re-sume to thvacs@sasktel.net or fax 306-463-3219. Call Don or Tim @ 306-463-7720.

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A&B PIPELINERS is immediately recruiting for a large pipeline con-struction project in the Bengough, Sask . a rea : Fo remen , Lead Hands, Labourers, HE Operators, Journeyman Welders and Pipefit-ters. Visit http://www.abpipelin-ers.com for more information. Send resumes to: Fax 780-384-2402 or e-mail:

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CORAM CONSTRUCTION is hir-ing Carpenters and concrete fin-ishers to work PCL sites in Sas-k a t c h e w a n . $ 3 1. 6 0 , G o o d benefits, 3-5 years experience. Join, fit and install form work. E-mail: iknibbs@coram.ca Fax: 306-525-0990 Mail: 205-845 Broad Street Regina, SK S4R 8G9.

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ESTEVAN DQ GRILL N CHILL ORANGE JULIUS. JOB TITLE: Front Counter Attendant /Kitchen Helper. # OF POSITIONS: 10 FT positions DUTIES: * Take guest orders * Operate cash register / accept payment * Prepare and pack food for takeout guest * Serve prepared food for inside guest * Clean, chop, slice prep food and bottle condiments using manual electrical appliances * Pre-pare menu food items such as: chicken, burgers, fr ies, salads, sandwiches, and soft-serve prod-uct, etc. * Wash work area and guest areas (clean tables, floors, windows, counter tops, condiment containers, appliances etc.) * Mis-c e l l a n e o u s re s p o n s i b i l i t i e s . WAGE/SALARY INFO: $11.01/hr. EDUCATION: Some Secondary school ing preferred. EXPERI-ENCE: Willing to work shift work alternating days, evenings, week-ends, split shifts; Experience pre-ferred but not required. HOW TO APPLY: Please send resume by fax, mail or e-mail to: ADDRESS: 901 13th Ave. Estevan, SK. S4A 2L9 FAX: 306-634-4168EMAIL: estevandq@gmail.com CONTACT NAME: Lorette Zohner.

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HUSKY HOUSE JOB TITLE: Food & Beverage Servers .NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 5 F-T positions. DUTIES: - Greet cus tomers ; Present menus - Make recommen-dations - Serve food and beverag-es - Clear, clean and set tables - Present bill to customers and ac-cept payment. SALARY: $11.00 per hour. EDUCATION: Some Secondary Schooling. EXPERI-ENCE: Experience preferred but not required; Work rotating shifts. HOW TO APPLY - By fax, mail, or drop off resume in person at: LO-CATION: 201- 4th Street, Estevan Sk. S4A 0T5 FAX: 1-306-634-7888 CONTACT: WANDA.

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Job Title: Food Counter Attendant (Crew Member). Location: ESTE-VAN. Details: Apply today! Food Counter Atten-dant - 10 Full-time Vacancies!! Job Description: - Take customer or-ders - Accept payment/operate cash register - Clean & clear din-ing/work tables, counters & trays - Unpack supp l ies in s to rage. $11.01/hour depending on experi-ence; some secondary schooling preferred. We provide full training! Benefi ts include Medical/Den-tal /Vision/, Plat inum Discount Card, Free Uniforms. Wage/Salary Info: $11.01/ hour depending on experience. # of Positions: 10. Employment Terms: Full Time. Employment Length: permanent. Requirements, Education: Com-pleted at least some secondary school. Application Information, How to Apply: Fax resume to 634-1969 or e-mail resume to tim.jen-ish@post.mcdonalds.ca. Employer Name: McDonald’s (2 Locations). Employer Address: 1310 - 6TH STREET ESTEVAN, SK. S4A 1B3; 413 KENSINGTON AVE. ESTEVAN SK. S4A 2T5. Contact Name: Tim or Chris Jenish. Con-tact Fax: (306) 634-1969. Contact Emai l : t im. jenish@post.mcdo-na lds.ca ; Employer Webs i te : www.worksforme.ca

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Ida Elizabeth HarrisSeptember 23, 1916 - August

21, 2012Ida Harris, late of Estevan,

Sask. and formerly of North Portal, Sask. passed away in Estevan on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at the age of 95 years.

Ida was predeceased by her parents, Andrew and Ida Olsen; husband, Oliver Roddick Harris; siblings, Ella Olsen, Peter (Ethel) Olsen, Harry (Hilda) Olsen, Oscar (Alice) Olsen, Mary (Douglas) Thomas, Anna (John) Wood and Frances Olsen; and sisters-in-law, Lois

Thomas, Libby MacKenzie Fox and Tressa Fox. She is survived by her loving family: sons, Rodney, Estevan,

Barry (Fay), North Portal and Don (Marcia), Raymore, Sask.; daughters, Gwenn (Reg) Ronyk, Regina, Sask. and Michele (Dale) Milne, North Portal; 13 grandchildren, Jeffrey, Sara; Gillian (Chris), Andrew, Nathan; Carla, Brandon (Andrea), Vaughn; Evan (Monica), Brittany (Ryan), Keith; Kristopher (Amy) and Julia (Nathan); 4 great grandchildren, Abigail, Dale, Egan and Katherine, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

A service to celebrate Ida’s life was held on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan, with Rev. Brenna Nickel offi ciating. Interment took place in the North Portal Cemetery.

Those so wishing may make donations to the New Estevan Regional Nursing Home, c/o 1201 - 2nd Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 0M1 in Ida’s memory.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank YouThe family of Ida Harris would like to express their thanks for the kindness and support from relatives and friends, the memorial donations, and fl owers. Thank you to Dr. Christie and the staff at St Joseph’s Hospital and at the Estevan Regional Nursing Home. The support and guidance from Hall Funeral Services and Rev Brenna Nickel is much appreciated. Also thank you to the UCW for serving lunch.

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With so much activity in the area, fi nding a con-tractor is becoming tougher than ever.

Despite that shortage, people should not settle for just anyone when it comes to their projects. The Saskatchewan Better Business Bureau recently released some information to help anyone looking to hire a contractor in an ef-fort to help them avoid any potential headaches.

The release noted that whether you are planning a small repair project, like repaving your driveway, or a more extensive project, like adding a family room to your home, it pays to look beyond the lowest bid when selecting a contractor. Right from the start, you can eliminate less-than-reputable contractors by considering a list of traits common to rip-off artists.

· Do your research. Check with your own insur-ance company about your policy coverage and how it may relate to your home improvement project.

Plenty to consider when hiring a contractor· Get multiple quotes

and shop around. For all projects take the time to obtain three to four esti-mates including references of customers the contractor has already served. Ensure quotes are refl ect virtually identical specifi cations, ma-terials, project completion timelines, and details you can quantify and identify. Reject ballpark estimates that are too general as these tend to result in dissatisfac-tion and disputes.

· Check references. Check the references pro-vided in the quotes, and specifically inquire with customers who had work done that is at least one year old. Visit the work sites and observe the quality of workmanship and similarity to your project.

· Confi rm licensing. Al-ways verify that the contrac-tor is properly licensed to undertake the work. Check with municipal offices to determine what building permits and technical in-spections are required and obtain guidelines around

the timing of inspections. Building and technical in-spectors may need to view some work before interior fi nishing is started.

· Confi rm contractor’s insurance coverage. This is essential for your pro-tection and should include confi rmation that bonding is in place when required. Confirm that workman’s compensation coverage is current, and that liability insurance is carried at ad-equate levels. View actual copies of insurance polices if possible. Make short phone calls to the appropri-ate offi ces if you can’t see actual documents. You can even check the contractor’s history of compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.

· Stay calm. While you may be anxious to get things back to normal, avoid letting your emotions get the better of you. Don’t be pressured into making an immediate decision with a long-term impact. It is your project and home so be pro-active in selecting a

company and not re-active to sales solicitations.

· Avoid high-pressure sales tactics. Be wary of door-to-door workers who claim to have materials left from a job “down the street” and can fi x some-thing right away. Reject businesses that do not have a permanent place of busi-ness. If sales people go door-to-door then a direct sellers licence is required and sales people should be able to produce it. Call the BBB or consumer protec-tion offi ce for confi rmation of this licence.

· Consider the price. If one estimate seems much lower than the others and it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Contractors’ below-cost bids seem at-tractive, but these contrac-tors often are less skilled and may provide a lower quality of workmanship. There is a direct correlation between the price paid and the quality of the outcome. Remember that quality of workmanship cannot be regulated.

· Ask questions. Dis-cuss options with contrac-tors before contracting the work. Clarity and under-standing about what is pos-sible and fi nancially afford-able adds to satisfaction.

Also, get everything in writing. It is your right to require a written con-tract agreement. Be sure their name, address, licence numbers, and phone num-bers are included in the con-tract. Read and understand the contract in its entirety, including the fine print.

Never sign a blank contract, and make sure you get a copy of the signed contract at the time of signature. Re-member you will be bound by the terms of the contract as will the contractor. All changes agreed to and made as the project progresses should be recorded either on all copies of the original contract or as an addendum to the original contract. Written addendums should clearly reference the origi-nal contract date, number, amount and signatories.

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is looking for a

Carrierfor a small, 75 paper route.

500 to 900 King Street.$20.25 per week, all carriers are entered into a $100.00

monthly draw

If interested call Gayle634-2654

Starting wage - $11.01/hr.If you are interested in joining our team apply

in person with resume or call:

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FOOD SERVICE WORKERSWe are accepting resumes for

part & full time positions.

Duties include: Food preparation, stock and inventory, serving customers, some baking, making sandwiches, operate cash register and be able to

give proper change as well as general cleaning and equipment maintenance

Margaret - Subway517 - 4th Street,

Estevan • 634-6616

101 Supreme St. (Shand access road)

Sun Country Well Servicing Inc. is currently seekingexperienced Service Rig Personnel. Preference will

be given to Class 1A and 3A applicants.

Interested individuals can submit a resume via email or fax to Shannon Leibel at:

Email: sleibel@suncountrywellservicing.caFax 306 634 1200 • Cell 306 421 3418

NoretteOILFIELD SERVICES (2005) INC.Experienced Hot Oil Operator• Class 1 with Q Endorsement• 2-5 years Hot Oiling Experience• Applicable Safety Tickets• Competitive Wages & Benefi ts• Residence within 20 minutes of Drayton ValleyQualifi ed candidates please submit your resumes & drivers’ abstracts by:

Fax: (780) 542-2664Mail: Box 6307, Drayton Valley, AB T7A 1R8

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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634-2654Looking for Skilled Help??

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Administrative Assistant – Estevan CNRL has a full-time Administrative Assistant position available in its Estevan office. The role will be for handling paperwork and correspondence relating to Operations and Surface Land issues:

distributing mail and sending mail

- word processing and spreadsheet applications

Please apply online atwww.cnrl.com/careers

No telephone inquiries please

We thank all applicants for submitting their resume; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Submitted byShirley GrahamClub Secretary

Overheard at the mall check-out: “I’ve been standing here so long I’m going to miss my show.”

Clerk: “Oh, you’ll make i t , lady, wi th a strong tail wind and a ‘new broom!’”

The club members are

looking forward to a very busy fall season. Along with canasta, bridge and cribbage, there will be tournaments, jam ses-sions and potluck sup-pers. More information will be available after our meeting that is slated for Thursday at 1 p.m.

I’ll keep you posted, so stay tuned.

Winners of the bridge

on Wednesday, Aug. 29 were: Carr ie Lept ick, first; Joan Derosier, sec-ond; and Frieda Hirsch, third.

Cribbage on Thurs-day, Aug. 30 had the fol-lowing as winners: First went to Adele and Louis Belanger, second to Dick Willows and Jake Fich-ter, and taking third were Dennis Zimmerman and

Jim Ward.A man in jail wrote

his wife: “Don’t plant the potatoes, that’s where I buried the money.”

The wife wrote her husband: “The sheriff censored your letter and they dug up the whole back yard.”

The husband wrote back: “Now you can plant the potatoes.”

COMING EVENTSWednesday, September 5:*Fall City-wide Registration - Icon Centre - 5:30

to 9 p.m. (Registrations for Estevan Leisure Centre Services programs.)

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 7, 8 & 9:*Estevan CCA Rodeo - Estevan Exhibition

Grounds. Friday: Parade - 4 p.m.; Rodeo - 7 p.m. Saturday: Rodeo - 7 p.m.; Fireworks - 9:30 p.m. Sunday: Ranch Rodeo - 2 p.m. Beer Gardens opens at 2:30 p.m. all three days.

Wednesday, September 12:*Estevan Arts Council - Annual General Meeting

- Library Room “A”, Souris Valley Aquatic & Leisure Centre - 7 p.m.

*Estevan Bruins vs. Weyburn Red Wings - Spec-tra Place - 7:30 p.m.

60 and Over Club notes

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Talented people keep Enbridge moving forward.

At Enbridge, we recognize that it is the talent and inspiration of our dedicated team that have positioned us as a leader in the safe and reliable delivery of energy in North America. Innovation and vision have secured our standing as one of the ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’. A company focused on growth, we value the contributions of every employee and support each of them in reaching their full potential. At Enbridge, we build, celebrate and grow together. Join our ESTEVAN, SK team in one of these rewarding roles:

SENIOR FINANCIAL ADVISOR – JOB ID # 19870 As the Senior Financial Advisor, you will work with the Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. Accounting, Commercial and Business Services teams to enable the execution of project planning and financial activities for new and existing business initiatives.

SUPERVISOR, ACCOUNTING – JOB ID # 19745 As the Supervisor, Accounting, you will oversee the accounting functions for the Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. group of companies. You will be responsible for analyzing and communicating earnings performance, oversight of cost allocation processes, ensuring accounting compliance with shipper agreements and the supervision and development of staff.

For further details and to apply prior to September 18th, please visit jobs.enbridge.com and search for the Job ID # above.

Enbridge was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and Alberta’s Top 55 Employers for 2012.

Enbridge is an equal opportunity employer.

WHERE ENERGY MEETS

12092BS00

Journeymen Electriciansand Apprentices

PowerTech Industries Ltd. in Estevan is seeking Journeymen Electricians and Apprentices for

work in the Estevan and Carnduff areas.

Experience: Safety Certifi cates are needed. 1st Aid/CPR, H2S. Applicants must have a valid driver’s license. Full benefi ts packages and RSP plan.

Duties: Day to day electrical construction and maintenance in the oilfi eld.

Wage/Salary Info: Depending on experience & qualifi cations.

To Apply: Fax: (306) 637-2181, e-mail sschoff .pti@sasktel.net or drop off resume to 62 Devonian Street, Estevan, SK.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Book Your Career ad today!

Call6 34-2654

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STREET SWEEPING

NORTH EASTMay 14th – May 18th August 13th – August 17th

NORTH WEST June 4th – June 8th September 4th – September 7th

SOUTH WESTMay 28th – June 1st August 27th – August 31st

SOUTH EASTMay 22nd– May 25thAugust 20th – August 24th

SUCCESS STARTS HEREThe Administrative Clerk is responsible for processing accounts receivable/accounts

payable, preparing communication materials, assisting in product logistics, assisting in

grain sampling, providing excellent customer service and performing general office duties.

The ideal candidate will possess an Administrative Certificate/Diploma, or equivalent

experience in an administrative role; knowledge of bookkeeping, general office practices,

and Microsoft applications; experience in word-processing and/or data entry; excellent

organizational and communication skills and have a strong understanding of customer

service. An agriculture background is considered an asset.

ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK LAMPMAN AND ESTEVAN, SK

Location Assistants contribute to the safe, efficient and profitable operation of a grain

handling and/or crop input facility. Specific responsibilities include the storage and

shipping of Western Canadian grains; operational support and assistance to location

staff and customers; the operation of facility equipment and controls; and providing

excellent customer service. The ideal candidate will possess a strong work ethic, proven

communication and interpersonal skills, ambition and organizational skills, an orientation

to accuracy and detail and excellent customer service skills. While not required, an

agriculture background would be considered an asset.

Richardson International provides an excellent compensation package consisting

of competitive salary, pension, a flexible benefits plan and training and career

development opportunities.

Interested candidates should apply online by visiting

www.richardson.ca to upload their cover letter and

résumé before September 14, 2012.

LOCATION ASSISTANTWEYBURN AND ESTEVAN, SK

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Richardson International is a worldwide handler and

merchandiser of major Canadian-grown grains and oilseeds.

We sell crop inputs and related services through our western

network of Ag Business Centres and actively participate in

canola processing as one

of North America’s largest suppliers

of canola oil and meal.

In all areas of our business,

Richardson continues to

provide high-quality products

and superior customer service.

For more information on these positions and other career opportunities visit www.richardson.ca

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Approval: City of Estevan Road Construction & Drainage Improvements; Watermain Replacement & Road Restoration Estimated. Cost - $3,854,684

Application was received from council of the City of Estevan for approval to undertake local improvement(s); road construction & drainage improvements; watermain replacement & road restoration on the following location(s) at an estimated cost of $3,854,684 pursuant to section 5 (1) (b) of The Local Improvements Act, 1993:

It was decided to grant approval to undertake work(s) on the above mentioned location(s).Furthermore, in accordance with the subsections in 8(2)(a) and (b) of The Local Improvements Act, 1993, the Local Government Committe confirms that the work benefits the land to be specially assessed and approves the proposed financial arrangements as set out in council’s report adopted by the resolution on July 10, 2012.

• Boats • Campers • Trailers • Fishing Shacks • Vehicles • Skidoos • QuadsAs well, people are reminded that City property cannot be used for any purpose such as storing construction materials, dirt or materials while working on your own property without permission from the City and that permits are required from Engineering Division for any work being done on City Property . For further information contact 306-634-1800 and your co-operation is appreciated.

People are reminded that boulevards cannot be used for parking of any private property such as

but not limited to the following:

Only successful candidates will be contacted.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (Dispatcher)Duties and Responsibilities:The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills. This person will handle incoming telephone calls, general public inquiries and complaints, and will communicate via radio transmissions with members on patrol. Must be able to work independently under stress as well as produce a high degree of accuracy.

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