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One of Estevan’s most beat up roads is going to be rebuilt … eventually.

It was announced at Monday’s regular meet-ing of city council that the provincial government has given the green light to rebuild the stretch of High-way 47 that passes through the Energy City in 2014.

The City has wanted to rebuild the road for the past couple of years and had signed a deal with the province through the Urban Connector Program that would see the government pick up just over 60 per cent of the cost. However, the City had to wait for the

province to give approval to begin the work and would have been on the hook for the entire cost — last esti-

mated at over $11 million — if they started before receiving approval.

“We’re pumped about

that,” Mayor Roy Ludwig said of receiving approval. “We’ve been after the prov-ince for a few years now to work collectively on the project and they had agreed to that. It was just getting the time nailed down. It looks like they are now willing for us to move for-ward in 2014 so we are very happy about that.”

Ludwig said in 2014, the City would like to re-build the north leg of High-way 47 from Fourth Street to the northern city limits. The following year they would do the remaining portion from Fourth Street to the south city limits.

“(Beginning in 2014) will fi t in with our budget well. We are a little bit tapped right now and we want to fi nish our existing projects before we move forward so we are quite OK with that.”

Because some areas of Highway 47 through Este-van — most notably Souris Avenue North — are in terrible shape, Ludwig said they will have to do some asphalt work in 2013. He added that the watermains and storm drainage system would also be replaced where applicable.

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Bill Shinske, Ray Fre-hlick, Ron Dunville, Bruce Firth, Alan May and Terry Simpson will make up the class of Estevan Bruins alumni inducted into the SJHL Hall of Fame.

The event will be held March 1 in Estevan, as part of the Bruins’ awards banquet.

Shinske is a revered

figure in Bruins history, serving as the team’s gen-eral manager from 1968-71 and 1989-95, until his death in 1995. “Billy Bruin,” as he was known, now has his name on the SJHL’s builder of the year award, as well as the Bruins’ Bill Shinske Ethics Award.

Frehlick is also being inducted as a builder. He

was a key fi gure in getting the New Bruins off the ground in 1971 and keeping them afl oat, serving as the fi rst president and manager. Frehlick has been a lifelong supporter of his hometown team.

Dunville is the Bru-ins’ all-time leading scorer. He sits third in SJHL his-tory with 181 goals, and

12th all-time in points with 349. He did this in just 190 games. Dunville was named the SJHL’s most valuable player in 1980-81.

Firth played with the team from 1977-81 and sits 19th in the SJHL points list, with 128 goals and 304 points in 235 games. Firth was also a long-time execu-tive member for the Bruins

and established the fi nancial reporting system that all SJHL teams now follow.

May played with the Bruins from 1982-85 and was a crucial cog in the 1985 championship team, providing a mix of tough-ness and skill. May went on to play 393 NHL games over parts of eight seasons, mainly Shinske ⇢A2

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A delegation of local health care and City of Este-van offi cials were in Regina Monday for a meeting they hope will lay the framework for a CT scan in Estevan.

The group met with Health Minister Dustin Duncan to make the case for adding the much-needed piece of equipment to St. Joseph’s Hospital.

St. Joe’s executive di-rector Greg Hoffort said the meeting “was a great fi rst step.

“(Duncan) is very open to this discussion and to future discussion so we are looking forward to where that goes,” said Hoffort.

Prior to leaving for the meeting, Hoffort said the group, which includ-ed MLA Doreen Eagles, Mayor Roy Ludwig, Don Kindopp of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Board, Sun Coun-try Health Region board

member Gary St. Onge and local health care em-ployees, planned to present Duncan with a “can’t say no proposal.”

He said Monday’s pro-posal focused on the need for a CT scan in Estevan and other issues.

“There are many rea-sons that it is necessary. Health-related issues of course, proximity issues. We outlaid all of the issues that we think are important to consider and we indi-cated the support that we have from the community, from the muncipal com-munity who is steadfast in their support of health-care

initiatives. “I think that speaks

volumes to the provincial offi cials when you have that community support. It’s not just Estevan itself, there are multiple municipalities in-volved and they all deserve credit.”

Hoffort said their goal remains to have a CT scan operating in Estevan by the end of 2013.

“Who’s to say whether that is optimistic or real-istic; it’s certainly what we are working towards. We did take the fi rst step (Monday). We met with the minister of health and we were pleased.”

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Simpson played with the Bruins from 1960-64 and went on to be a legend-ary head coach with the Prince Albert Raiders in the midst of them winning seven straight SJHL titles. Simpson later was a head coach with the NHL’s New York Islanders and Win-nipeg Jets.

Since the Raiders are no longer in the SJHL,

Simpson’s accomplish-ments with them are also being recognized as part of his induction.

The Hall of Fame event is going ahead after several months of uncer-tainty.

Awarded to the Bru-ins at last year’s SJHL mid-season meetings, the event had originally been scheduled for sometime last fall, but scheduling complications pushed the

event to March.As it is, the usual cus-

tom of having a Hall of Fame Game to coincide with the induction will not take place, as there were no weekends where the Bruins had a game scheduled and Chow was able to attend.

The event is in its fourth year, previously being hosted by Weyburn, Humboldt and Yorkton.

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A1⇠ work would begin in 2014, Ludwig also gave the annual may-or’s address, which has become customary at the fi rst council meeting of a new year.

In his speech Ludwig touched on where the City will be focusing its effort in 2013.

Among the topics he touched on were:

• The completion of a housing study so they can move forward on the affordable housing issue in Estevan.

• The completion of the new water reservoir in northwest Estevan as well as $1 million in upgrades to the wastewater treat-ment plant.

• A facilitator will be

chosen for future strategic planning. He said they hope to do this in concert with the Estevan Chamber of Commerce, Estevan Police Service and key people in the community.

• He is looking for-ward to “fruitful negotia-tions” with CUPE and the Estevan Police Associa-tion. Both groups are cur-rently without contracts.

• Kensington Avenue from King Street to the north city limit will be repaired in 2013.

• The main runway at the muncipal airport will be rebuilt with funding from the Provincial Di-saster Assistance Program.

• The City plans to have an open house in the spring and discuss

curbside recycling and front yard garbage pickup, which is something Lud-wig said many residents have requested.

• He is hopeful that a deal will be reached with Essex Developments to clear the way for resi-dential development in the northwest corner of the city.

• Outstanding projects from 2012 such as the leisure centre parking lot, Torgeson Park, Kensing-ton Greens and pathways will be completed in 2013.

“ A l t h o u g h t h i s doesn’t include all of the issues that we will be deal-ing with in 2013, it gives you a good feel for the ambitious schedule that we do have ahead of us.”

Mayor outlines upcoming projects

Shinske among the honourees

Local health delegation meets with province

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The City of Estevan is on the hunt for a new leisure services manager.

It was an-nounced last week via press release that Brad Gilbert , who was hired to the position in the spring of 2012, was “no longer with the City.”

City man-ager Jim Puffalt would not provide any further details on the matter following Monday night’s regular meeting of council. When

asked if Gilbert quit or was dismissed, Puffalt said, “he just no longer works with us.

That’s our offi cial statement.”

Leisure ser-vice program man-ager Nathan Jesse has been named acting leisure ser-vices manager. Erin Wilson will serve as the acting pro-gram manager in

the interim. A nationwide search to

fi nd a new leisure services manager is expected to begin “fairly quickly” Puffalt said.

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Brad Gilbert

Even though New Year’s Eve was a relatively tame affair in the Energy City this year, members of the Estevan Police Services (EPS) note that they issued several tickets, mostly to minors who were caught be-ing in possession of alcohol.

Police were also called to a residence where they found a young man who had been assaulted as a result of an argument that had broken out and then had escalated to the point where it turned more violent. Police have set up an investigation into the incident.

EPS members also ar-

rested one person for being intoxicated in public as a result of an altercation at a party. During a preliminary investigation, police also charged the man for being in possession of a weapon dangerous to the public.

The man was taken into custody and later released on conditions after appear-ing before a justice of the peace. He now has a Feb. 4 court date.

A local snowmobiler had his machine towed away after he drove it to a gas sta-tion for fuel. It was noted that the snowmobile and rider were off the designated route

that had been established for fuelling snowmobiles.

Just prior to New Year’s Eve, police reported that they had established an in-vestigation into an incident involving a vehicle that had been parked near the central business district in the city. The vehicle had been entered and considerable damage was done.

A traffi c accident in the east central area of the city resulted in a 22-year-old man being charged with driving at a speed greater than rea-sonable and safe under the Traffi c Safety Act. He was also charged for unlawfully having a tinted window on the front side windows in contravention of the Vehicle Equipment Regulations Act.

No injuries were re-corded as a result of the collision.

During the course of that same day shift, several other traffi c-related offences were targeted by police, which resulted in charges.

On the night of Jan. 3, EPS members arrested a 17-year-old male in rela-tion to a shoplifting incident that had occurred at an east central department store. The man now has a Feb. 4 court date.

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You wouldn’t nor-mally think of policing as a growth industry, but the past few years, and most likely the next fi ve to seven years, are expected to be a period of growth for the Estevan Police Service.

In an interview with the Estevan Mercury for the ongoing Estevan 2020 series, Chief Del Block said the biggest challenge facing his department as we inch towards 2020 is keeping up with the growth of the city from a policing standpoint.

In his conversations with local business people, Block said he’s been told to expect Estevan’s growth to continue for at least another 10 years. Armed with that knowledge Block said it will be critical for him and his predecessor — Block plans to retire in 2014 — to keep up with the growth and ensure the EPS is prepared for the future.

“It’s hard for us to project and you don’t want to be behind the eight ball and get in a bind where all of a sudden you need four or fi ve guys, but at the same time you want to keep it within a manage-able amount for the City because of the fi nances and the cost.”

Including Block, the EPS currently has 27 of-fi cers on the staff. When he took over as chief in 2008 they had 19. He added that when looking at staffi ng numbers, they try to keep a ratio of one offi cer for ev-ery 500 residents. At their current totals — based on the recent population num-ber of 12,334 — they have a ratio of 456 to 1.

“Anytime you start getting over (500 to 1) you are spreading your-self pretty thin,” he said. “You are basically doing just necessity stuff, you can’t do the other things that you would like to do like crime prevention and school resources.”

Block said the cur-rent staffi ng numbers are a boon to the EPS as they allow him the fl exibility to shift offi cers around to ar-eas of need. Of note is the traffi c section, which was created in 2012 but had to be put on hold when they

lost two offi cers to long term medical leave.

“We had to pull peo-ple off (traffi c) and we are now back to fi lling in shifts and I can get my traffic section going,” he said. “Traffi c enforcement has been an issue at the police board and in council and we know it’s an issue. That is going to be a

pr i -o r i t y in 2013.”

A n o t h e r important aspect of their current staff levels is changing the overall ap-proach of the department.

Block has noted in the past that he feels the city’s rapid growth caused the EPS to shift from being a proactive police force to a reactive police force. He is hopeful that in 2013 and the years beyond, they can get back to the proactive side with crime prevention programs.

“The only way you can do that is have the resources to do it. Without the resources to be able to complete the task, you are behind the eight ball and we don’t want to be in that position.”

On the topic of re-sources, Block said ensur-ing the department is well equipped is another area he is constantly aware of. He said the City has pro-vided excellent equipment for the EPS and the local officers are well looked after.

There is also the chal-lenge of keeping up with ongoing technological advancements in the po-licing fi eld such as a new fi ngerprinting system.

“But the equipment for that is over $100,000 so for us to do that is a big step,” he said. “It’s a budgetary process, you have to prioritize stuff but

there is all kinds of new stuff, coming out, you just have to have the money to be able to buy it.

“I expect to see con-ducted energy devices approved in the province. I expect to see carbines approved down the road, especially in relation to

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need for that in the vehicles and the

training that comes with it. I think you are going to see those two to three years down the road.”

Block said another issue for them moving forward is their building itself. He said the depart-ment has outgrown their building and an expan-sion will be needed before long.

“I wouldn’t suggest a new building. Because of the proximity to the court house, you couldn’t have a better setting.”

Were they to expand Block said it would likely be into their parking lot, as the building is not de-signed for a second fl oor.

“We are packed full. Every nook and cranny is used.

A n o t h e r a r e a o f growth, and an unfortu-nate one at that, are the crime statistics for the city. Over each of the past four years, the EPS has reported year over year growth on their number of calls and prisoners. Al-though he didn’t have fi nal numbers at the time of the interview, Block said he expects 2012 to continue that trend of increases.

Look ing fo rward , Block said he’s optimis-tic that the numbers will begin to level off but cautioned another huge growth spurt could change things dramatically.

“I think things have tapered off somewhat. I think we are going to continue to see growth, but I don’t think we are going to see growth at the rate we have over the last four years. Now, if we do, clearly we have to go back into the planning stages again.”

When looking at par-ticular areas of concern, Block said drugs remains a major concern for them. Impaired driving is also another issue.

“Drugs is one of the biggest issues here and

continues to be a big is-sue. There seems to be a never-ending demand in this city, and I just don’t know what drives that. I think it’s getting larger and larger all the time.

“The impaired driv-ing, in comparison to oth-er communities on a per

capita basis, we are way out there.”

Block said the EPS will also be placing a spe-cial focus on the activi-ties of organized crimes groups who are directly involved in the local drug trade. He estimates there are at least two groups out of B.C. and two out of Edmonton who are affi li-ated with gangs that have people in Estevan.

“They have the net-work to get the product they need at this end. We also have a local bike club who have patched over to a known criminal organization and although they haven’t caused us a large deal of grief yet, we anticipate that could come down the road. They are certainly in the spotlight. It hasn’t been a huge is-sue yet but, there is that mentality that comes with it and then people are intimidated even if there isn’t anything happening and there is that fear of the unknown.”

To c o m b a t t h e s e groups operating in the city, Block said the EPS will continue to work with the RCMP. They are also in talks with the provin-cial government about the issue.

“We cons ide r the

RCMP to be a huge part-ner of the Estevan Police Service. We are hoping to have a combined forces unit, which would focus on these issues, especially the organized crime and the drugs. It’s a work in progress right now. What the fi nal product will look

like, if any, we don’t know but we are hoping we will have a combined forces unit with our members and the RCMP at some point in the near future. They have them in other cities and they are work-ing very well. They are very successful and I think we have come to the point where we absolutely need it here. We continue to work on it and take those that we can, but we do not have the resources or staff to focus on projects.”

Despite the increase in crime statistics and the spectre of the afore-mentioned groups in the community, Block said Estevan is safe and will remain so over the next few years.

“I still consider Es-tevan a safe place to live and a great place to raise a family. Do we have some issues that we didn’t have five years? Absolutely, and I would never pretend otherwise. But overall we are still a very safe com-munity. We don’t have the aggression and the violence that is in some of the larger cities. We don’t have the home invasions, and we don’t have the large number of break and enters that other communi-ties seem to be having.

“I think you can go anywhere in this city for a walk and feel safe. If you want to fi nd trouble you’ll fi nd it, but overall if you are a law abiding person and still want to go to a bar and go for supper … go do whatever, there is not an issue.”

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One police depart-ment’s bad luck has turned into some good luck for the Estevan Police Service.

The EPS had its ranks swell in December when it graduated four new offi cers from the Saskatchewan Po-lice College in Regina. Ini-tially the EPS was only ex-pecting to have two new of-fi cers — Constables Landon Polk and Paul Chabot — but received word that the RM of Wilton near Lloydminster had decided to switch from a municipal police force to the RCMP.

That switch meant the two offi cers Wilton had in the college — Constables

Mischa Shewchuk and Mi-chael Hamel — were with-out a place to work once they graduated. EPS Chief Del Block was able to do some quick work and when the pair graduated from the police college on Dec. 14, they were hired to work for the EPS.

“It’s a win-win for the police department and the city of Estevan,” Block said. “We got two recruits fully trained, with no cost. It was a savings of about $40,000 to the City.”

The new offi cers come at a good time, Block noted. They lost Sgt. Gary Eagles to retirement in 2012 and

expect another retirement in 2013. They also have two offi cers on leave at the moment.

“We have one surplus offi cer at the moment and that will be taken up in 2013 with retirement,” Block said. “We are sitting in a nice spot right now. I can get the traffi c section going again. That was just starting to pay dividends and I had to pull the traffi c guy off and you can see it in the city. We can direct the offi cers wherever we have a priority.

“I’ve said over the years, we have gone from a proactive police force to a reactive police and with

these new offi cers I am hop-ing we can be more proactive and do some more stuff to prevent crime instead of just reacting to it.”

Block added the EPS might be able to pick up some of the Wilton police department’s equipment, notably two fully equipped 4X4 trucks.

“We don’t have a 4X4 for patrol and if we get a winter storm, then we are borrowing and taking from other sections. (The trucks from Wilton) are fully ready to go to work and I can prob-ably acquire both of them for the price of getting one brand new one on the street.”

EPS adds four new offi cers to its ranks

The Estevan Police Service’s current location is at capacity and Chief Del Block said an expansion is needed

in the near future.

The Estevan Police Service added four new offi cers to

its ranks in December. From left to right: Cst. Landon

Polk, Cst. Mischa Shewchuk, Chief Del Block, Cst.

Michael Hamel, and Cst. Paul Chabot.

“Drugs is one of the biggest issues here and continues to be a big issue. There seems to be a never-ending demand in this city and I just don’t know what drives that.”

– Chief Dell Block

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In our ongoing Estevan 2020 series, we are taking a look at the Estevan Fire Res-cue Service and the expected evolution of the department over the next few years.

Deputy fi re Chief Dale Feser spoke at length with The Mercury and said one of the keys for the depart-ment is proper planning and ensuring that local fi refi ght-ers are trained to handle any situation placed before them.

Feser noted that over the last couple of years the volume of calls they handle has increased to the point where they are averaging one

every two days. Further to that, Feser

said the nature of calls runs the gamut from house fi res, fire alarms, motor vehicle collisions, hazardous materi-al calls and carbon monoxide calls, something he chalks up to Estevan’s growth.

“The rate of occurrence has a direct refl ection on the population,” he said. “There are just more people out there on the roadways and there are more people in the city. It defi nitely has a direct bearing on the call volumes.”

In looking forward, Fe-ser said they do their best

to make projections for the future, but the nature of their business makes that extremely tough. However, when they are able to, he and Chief Ron Tocker make contingency plans for the various situations they might encounter.

An example, he noted, is when construction on the carbon sequestration unit at the Boundary Dam Power Station began.

“Maybe they are work-ing with elevated heights. When we are developing emergency response plans we are going to have to take

into consideration we are go-ing to need the mine rescue team or the SaskPower emer-gency response team to assist us because they have all the equipment and individuals that are very well trained,” he said. “A lot of that is done in preplanning stages. They invite us out and take a look around and see what we are facing.”

Feser said another area that requires preplanning is hazardous materials, which has become a much larger issue in Estevan with the continued growth of the oil industry.

“We are looking at developing our hazardous material response program further based on a direc-tive from council,” he said. “The amount of hazardous just warehoused inside of our city, let alone what is transported through our city by rail or highway trans-port truck is phenomenal. It’s amazing some of the commodities that are transport-ed through the city that no one knows about.”

F e s e r a d d e d t h a t e q u i p m e n t is also a big factor when it comes to being prepared. He said through the Inter-net they are able to stay on top of the latest equipment and tactics being used by fellow fi refi ghters.

As was well publicized, the department also received a new aerial fire truck in 2012 that will allow them to handle a number of situ-ations, notably blazes in the taller buildings, which are becoming the norm in

Estevan.“Predominantly what

we are seeing is a lot of four-storey construction going on which is combustible. We had some diffi culties reach-ing those heights and to be honest with you, we couldn’t have reached the utmost roof portion if we needed to. This takes that right out of the equation. This is light years above what we were doing. It’s defi nitely the wave of the future. We are very fortunate that we were the fi rst city in Saskatchewan to have one.”

Feser said their units are allowed 20 years of ser-vice before they must be replaced. With the purchase of the aerial truck, which also included a pumper, he said they are in good shape for the near future.

Looking into the future, the City of Estevan has ear-marked land in the Domin-

ion Heights subdivision for a new fi re hall to complement the current one on Third Street. No date has been set for when construction might begin, but the hall is in the City’s long-term plans. The location makes sense as

Estevan’s future growth will be to the north and it would also give the department a hall on each side of the train tracks, although Feser noted with three crossings in the city, they are usually able to fi nd their way through. He did add they could use more room as their surplus equip-ment is currently kept at the City yard.

Another interesting question is how will the make up of the service evolve over the next few years.

At present there are just two full-time employees in the department — Tocker and Feser — while the fi re-fighters are paid on-call volunteers. Each member has a full-time job and must rely on the generosity of their employers to allow them to leave their jobs to attend calls.

However, with the de-mands continuing to grow,

the obvious question is how long will it be

before the depart-ment is forced to

hire full-time fi refi ghters?

W h e n a s k e d , F e -ser said he was unable to speak on the

subject at this particular time.

However, it isn’t tough to draw

the conclusion that such a move is nearing for the

department. Yorkton, which has a population of around 17,000, has 17 full-time fi refi ghters according to that city’s website. Other Sas-katchewan communities of similar size have a mixture of full-time fi refi ghters and paid on-call volunteers.

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The Estevan Fire Rescue Service purchased a new aerial truck in 2012 which will be an important piece of equipment for them over the next few year. The new truck,

which cost around $1.3 million, has a number of usages, most notably the ability to use the aerial unit for rescues and tackling fi res in larger buildings.

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An invitation for anyone in the community to attend an informational workshop re-garding management of men-tal health has been sched-uled for the Estevan Mental Health Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Thursday, Jan. 24 beginning at 1 p.m.

Managing mental health issues will

be topic for Estevan seminarSandy Johnson, intake

worker for Mental Health and Addiction Services for the Sun Country Health Re-gion, said there is no cost as-sociated with the session but pre-registration is required by contacting 1-800-216-7689 or through the Weyburn

offi ce at 1-306-842-8665. Registration may be

made between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The workshop session will include information re-garding the management of depression, anxiety, stress,

relationships, positive think-ing, assertiveness and coping with situations in an effective manner.

There will need to be at least eight participants for the session to go ahead success-fully and thus the need for the early registration.

By Norm Park

of The Mercury

With the impending decommissioning of the Agro Forestry Develop-ment Centre, often re-ferred to as the Forestry Farm or Shelterbelt Cen-tre, in Indian Head, the question has been raised as to whether or not the Shand Greenhouse pro-gram could fill some of the gaps.

Could the greenhouse attached to the Shand Power Station meet the challenge of providing more trees and shrubs for the Prairies by 2014?

The answer is no, but it’s a no that is shaded by a number of variables and alternatives.

First of all, the feder-ally funded and managed forestry farm has a differ-ent mandate in terms of experimental species and a very widespread sphere of infl uence. There is also the possibility that the forestry farm and all its as-sets may still be taken over by a private concern or a co-operative. Or it might simply be shuttered since the federal government has expressed no inter-est in maintaining it as a source of free shelterbelt greenery for Prairie farm-ers past this next growing season.

Fi l l ing the breach would be a huge under-taking and one that would be far too immense for the Shand operators since the local greenhouse is being operated and managed by SaskPower as a voluntary gift to the province. That would require a whole shift in their corporate considerations and mis-sion statements and a huge

Filling in all the green gaps not in the cards for Shand

budget consideration go-ing forward.

But the expected clo-sure of the Indian Head tree farm has certainly impacted the number of requests being fi elded by the greenhouse team.

Shand’s acting man-ager Shelly Heidinger points out that Shand is not mandated to compete with commercial forestry operations, but the re-quests for young trees that usually number 280 to 315 per year have skyrock-eted to over 600 this year. Counterparts at Indian Head, where there will be at least one more growing season before being shut down, or taken over by some other entity, have also been more robust than in the past.

Heidinger said that is a clear indication the need is still there.

“But we’re not here to step on the toes of private growers,” Heidinger said.

Debbie Nielsen, man-ager of environmental pro-grams for SaskPower, said the Indian Head Develop-ment Centre and Shand have different objectives, but in some instances they share the same type of clients.

She noted that the Shand staff and Indian Head team communicate frequently, but for Shand to try to fi ll the gap that will be left with the clo-sure of the forestry farm is a non-starter.

She pointed out that Shand provides about 500,000 seedlings per year whereas the Indian Head farm will produce between two and fi ve million young trees or shrubs annually.

Heidinger said the In-dian Head operation gave

Shand some storage and refrigeration space in the past, so she doesn’t know what they’ll be able to do in the future once that operation closes.

Increasing production significantly would be a big challenge for the cur-rent staff of six or seven full-time people, which increases during peak pe-riods. Shand can produce seedlings twice a year on the current schedule, and while they might be able to pump out a few thousand more, there is no chance under the current set-up to provide a viable alternative to Indian Head.

The requests usually fi lled out by Shand are for traditional blue spruce, na-tive poplar and caraganas.

Heidinger also pointed out that Indian Head has had a proud 110 - year tradition of experimenting

with and producing various types of trees while Shand has a more limited 20-year history.

“We might be able to stretch it a bit over 500,000, but Shand is already close to capacity,” said Nielsen.

She said the green-house came about as a business and demonstra-tion plan for SaskPower to illustrate how waste heat can be utilized for an environmental/sustainable program. This has been done.

“It’s a biodiversity project and it’s a voluntary effort. We look at it from an environmental perspective and it has been used for economic growth in the province, but there is a lot of value on the commercial nursery side too. We have

to consider the interests of the private sector and the marketplace while still doing what we have to do for our mandate, and we will continue to do that,” Nielsen said.

“Our volume right now makes sense with our environmental impacts, our tree production, our educational programs. It’s entirely funded by Sask-Power and we connect to our customers who can come to us for at least some pieces for a project. In the past we have worked close-ly and co-operatively with the agro-forestry program at Indian Head,” Nielsen added.

“But I believe the gov-ernment is still looking at what they want to do with agri-forestry, and it’s obvi-ous the demand is still out there for shelterbelt proj-ects,” Nielsen said.

In t he mean t ime , Shand will provide prod-ucts for their original man-date, which is to provide mitigation plants for such places as the Rafferty val-ley, reclamation programs for the mining operations, shelters for wildlife habitat and other non-commer-cial promotions such as farmland where, she noted “we’ve done some build-ing in their backyard, so we give back and restore.”

Shand will be called upon to provide as many as 25 species at any given time, according to regional needs ... species that will grow within the province.

Either way you look at it ... from the agro-forestry or Shand perspective, it’s a fi ne, green legacy being left behind.

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Volume 110 Issue 36

Norm Park

All Things Considered

The ringing in of 2013 will certainly bring some of the same old problems for rural Saskatchewan ... albeit perhaps, fewer of them.

And it will undoubtedly bring some new problems ... albeit, a few that might be preferred problems to have.

This is the reality of a province still enjoying a relatively strong economy. Let us explore some of the potential economic challenges and how we might expect to meet them.

Agriculture and the uncertainty of the weather and markets: Weather and markets are issues rural residents can do very little about, but agriculture will continue to be the mainstay for the rural economy in 2013.

The heavier snow cover we are now seeing gener-ally bodes well for getting the crops off to a better start. Unfortunately, it can also mean fl ooding or late seeding.

Similarly, the value of our crops will depend largely on crops elsewhere in the world, along with how other economies perform - something equally unpredictable.

That said, the trend towards larger market-oriented farming operations - a trend likely to continue with the

demise of the Canadian Wheat Board, plus emerging Third World economies - should continue to result in wealthier producers in Saskatchewan.

Unfortunately, this trend also means fewer produc-ers to support smaller rural communities. And this trend will continue, although the impact on rural life is slow enough that it isn’t necessarily felt from year to year.

Economic activity and opportunities: A high tide fl oats all boats. And the high tide from the boom in oil drilling and potash mine development has been felt everywhere in Saskatchewan in the past decade.

What should be said, however, is that some boats rise faster than others.

Communities closer to potash mining development projects and drilling will obviously continue to receive more benefi ts than communities further away. In fact, communities like Estevan, Weyburn, Moosomin, Ester-hazy, etc., would probably suffer less from any economic slowdown because it might provide the opportunity for the local economy in these centres to catch up after experiencing an increase in housing prices and a short-age in housing.

Of course, high costs and shortages of housing are some of those so-called preferred problems that only come around when the economy is better. Nevertheless, these are problems that shouldn’t be understated.

Losing the lower cost of living advantage rural com-munities have traditionally enjoyed is a problem. And it’s an even bigger problem when you consider growth can mean new problems normally associated with larger

urban centres like increased violent crime, more drug offences or simply providing adequate infrastructure to meet the needs of growth.

Government support and programming: On the lat-ter point in particular, the Saskatchewan Party govern-ment, with its predominantly rural-based caucus, has been both rather generous and sensitive to the needs of rural Saskatchewan during the past fi ve years.

The problem, however, is that the government’s 2012 budget demonstrated it can only offer so much and will likely continue to slow down its spending.

That means things like less fl exibility to meet the needs of highways that have literally been absorbing the impact of the boom’s increase in economic activity.

Rural voters have enjoyed the advantage of long-awaited breaks in education tax on agricultural land and increased support for health-care initiatives under this Sask. Party government. We will start to see the results come to fruition this year, with the completion of proj-ects like the new Radville Health Centre.

But this will be the second budget of this term - a time when the government focus is traditionally more on austerity than buying your votes before an election.

That said, it would seem unlikely that Premier Brad Wall’s government has any intention of simply abandon-ing rural Saskatchewan - especially given the political efforts to add more MLAs to preserve rural seats.

While there are clearly challenges ahead, 2013 should be another year of opportunity for rural Sas-katchewan.

Now that the NHL is back in business and Bettman’s evil em-pire has been dealt a non-lethal blow, let us turn attention to more salient subjects like modern com-munications, one of my favourite topics since I am so cyber-bound myself.

After listening to all-night radio talk on the mother network, I scratched out a few notes to relay to you, dear diary. Wasn’t that considerate of me? That meant you didn’t have to stay up all night.

The point being made on this BBC-CBC program was that the globe that we so enjoy living on is completely compromised against cyber attacks. Makes you just wanna cuddle up under your favourite comforter, doesn’t it?

The documentary fi rst vis-ited with an unidentifi ed cyber hacker who goes by the name of Q on WikiLeaks. The 20-year-old noted that at the age of 12, he had hacked into and compromised the government network in Iceland, his home country. He then broke into the defence ministry of a “major country,” which he did not name, since his intent was not evil. He just did it because he could.

Out of boredom, he then hacked into the account of an-other well known hacker in hacker kingdom and sabotaged his work. In return, the victim hacked into this guy’s car and messed up all his electronics. So

not to be outdone, our Icelandic friend sought revenge by issu-ing a formal death certifi cate for his cyber friend. It could have been worse, he said. He could have officially bankrupted his pseudo cyber friend like one of the other hackers did to avenge some misdeed performed by a fourth hacker. And so on it goes.

These are the real war games they play. This wasn’t a plot for Big Bang Theory or a Nintendo wannabe.

This 20-year-old Icelander states he is now getting bored with the hacking scene. The world is compromised ... so what? He fi gures it might be time to be a little more constructive. After all, he is out of his teens and feeling a little more mature.

The interviewer asked him if maybe he might be afraid of doing that, because he could be exposed and charged for his activities.

The young man simply chuckled.

“Not really, there are no real laws to prevent it.”

We next heard from another hacker who goes by the moniker of Commander X.

He found great amusement

in the fact that Canada’s best defenders can’t even install anti-spam applications. We have no computer laws to speak of, let alone any kind of privacy legisla-tion that would make them pause.

Canadian industry could be held up any time these jokesters cared to do it. They cited the fact there are 17,000 health care ap-plications that can be stolen as they sit in apparent security on the Cloud.

Dream on McDuff. Password protected? It is to

laugh. Their next challenge, they

figured, was to “read minds.” They want to explore the world of neuroscience as it relates to cyber explorations.

When it came to the subject of energy security, again it was treated as a joke. Fraud, theft of services or intellectual properties, delivering an offi cial corrupted message? Literally child’s play.

And remember, these were the good guys.

The message was ... it’s a linked-in world and all links are compromised before they see the light of mass consumption.

The documentary began to wind down and I began to get a bit fuzzy with sleep depriva-tion ... probably caused by some hacker, so I ended my note taking and slid down into that afore-mentioned comforter and felt a lot better. They’ll never fi nd me there.

Full marks for the committee that has set about the task of rejuvenating the Dana Quewezance Memorial Football Field at Woodlawn Regional Park.

The three-phase plan encompasses a host of positive targets, some of which have already been met.

The fi eld and area that surrounds it certainly merits the attention. The setting is beautiful and begs for further development.

It isn’t until the plans hit Phase 3 that we begin to question the validity of the proposal.

Building up that sector of Woodlawn to include a fi rst-class track and grooming additional areas for fi eld events for a proposed hosting gig for a future Saskatchewan Summer Games brings out the critic in us.

Making Woodlawn the centrepiece and core for the Summer Games will require much more than merely building a track and redesigning some nearby acreage to accommodate javelins, shot puts and long jump pits.

The committee will be made aware of the fact that hundreds of athletes of both genders will have to be provided with complete washroom facilities, including showers. They will require hundreds of pounds of food and will need warm-up facilities and cool down sectors. The pressure on infrastructure will be signifi cant.

If Woodlawn is to be the centre for a Summer Games program, these athletes will need to be bused back and forth according to their busy schedules and that will have to be done from various points in the city.

Perhaps our Summer Games bid committee might be better advised to revisit Estevan’s previous Summer Games bidding plan that called for ECS to be the central point of activity, as it was dur-ing this city’s last successful run at the Games way back in 1980.

ECS already has shower and washroom facilities to accom-modate 1,000 people and a couple of large common areas where athletes could be housed dormitory-style. Or, if hotel accommoda-tions are required, there are eight of them within walking distance. ECS already has a commercial kitchen that can sling out 500 hot and multi-layered meals in an hour. What could be done at Woodlawn, even if the nearby golf course kitchen were to be made available?

The bid that Estevan made for the Games in the early 2000s, included the construction of a track behind the school, making use of the additional acreage that is owned by the school division. To build on what is there would take no more time and money than what would be required at Woodlawn to build or rebuild.

The case for parking, communications and accessibility also favours ECS, we believe.

Now having said all that and perhaps raising some of what we hope will be seen as valid points, we make the statement that we will stand fi rmly behind whatever route our bid committee decides to take. We just thought we would be derelict in our duty if we didn’t point out what we see as possible fl aws in a plan to make Woodlawn and the Quewezance Field the focal point of a Summer Games bid as well as a centre for future track and fi eld endeavours in the Energy City.

Doubts about Phase 3

It’s really not that safe out there

Murray Mandryk is a political columnist with the Leader Post

MURRAY MANDRYK

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North Dakota oil pro-ducers were pumping out just under 729,000 barrels

of oil per day in early De-cember of last year with every expectation of hitting the 800,000 mark in the fi rst quarter of this year.

Information gathered by the Crosby Journal for their Dec. 5 issue indi-cated that while the volume

continued to climb, the number of rigs it took to bring it up is decreasing. The state rig count topped out at 218 per month mid-way through 2012 and has since dropped to between 180 and 200. Production increases by three to fi ve per cent a month in North Dakota, which is now the third largest oil producing state in the United States.

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permits continues to in-crease unabated.

Getting oil to market has become a problem for the North Dakota produc-ers just like it has been in this area of Saskatchewan. Currently 51 per cent of the oil produced in the neighbouring state is be-ing shipped to refineries via rail due to the lack of pipeline capacity.

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loading facility in North Dakota started up in 2008 and there are now 19 of them spotted throughout the booming oil patch.

As of September 2012, North Dakota boasted of 7,899 producing wells which were pumping out just under 22 million bar-rels of oil per month.

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The annual general meeting of the Estevan Oil-fi eld Technical Society will be held Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Taylorton Room at the Days Inn.

Brett Campbell, who took over the presidency after Jeff Mosley stepped down last year following several years at the helm, said the agenda will include some discussion regarding the upcoming OTS bonspiel plus the return to a more traditional format for the

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Although we’ve learned that things can change in a second, the future appears to be very bright for the Es-tevan business community over the next few years.

In an interview for the Estevan 2020 series, The Mercury spoke with Michel Cyrenne, the executive di-rector of the Estevan Cham-ber of Commerce, to get a read on what the future holds for the local economy.

Cyrenne said he’s excit-ed about the next fi ve years, noting the chamber expects to see increased oil drill-ing activity over that period. He added the ongoing work at the Bound-ary Dam and Shand Power Stations also bodes well for area business-es that reap the ancillary benefi ts of these projects.

“In terms of oil and gas, power gen-eration and coal mining, those are three very strong industries going forward,” he said. “Agriculture has had a number of good years and in terms of what is going on globally, I think we can expect agriculture to be a strong sector as well.

“On top of that, the entire southeast region is growing and we’re of course the retail and service centre in terms of any professional services, trade services, retail activity … we are kind of the centre of a population much

larger than our own.”While having activity

in the area is obviously posi-tive, there is the question of whether or not Estevan has placed itself in a position to capitalize on all the activity.

Cyrenne said the city does have infrastructure challenges facing it but that can be said for a number of communities across the country. He added one area the chamber would like to see the City of Estevan im-

prove upon is developing a clearer com-munity vision.

“We’d like for the City to maybe have a better idea of where it sees itself in the next fi ve, 10, 20 years,” he said. “I know the City has its offi cial community plan in place and the RM is working on one right now. The three of us together are putting together an economic plan so we are looking to the future.”

Cyrenne added that the

chamber completed an eco-nomic readiness test in 2012 and scored very well. He said that test was useful in the sense that it gives them an idea of what their strengths are and how they can con-tinue to build off them. On the fl ip side, it also highlights weaknesses they need to improve upon.

“What that helped to do was give us an under-standing of what we need to have in place for investment attraction and what types of information are readily in

demand of,” he said. “A lot of it is stuff that we

have had in place for a number of years.

It’s something that we defi nite-ly take some c o m f o r t i n knowing that we are prop-erly prepared to meet with

investors and at-tract investment in

the community.”Cyrenne said the

economic plan, which they are currently working on, is another aspect of being ready for the future.

“Primarily what we want to find is where our core strengths are and how we can expand on those, how can we seek further investment in the community and continued investment in the community,” he said. “Obviously housing is one of the major hurdles right now but beyond that, how can we assure that investment attrac-tion can be sustained over a

long period of time, not just the next fi ve to 10 years of high drilling activity?”

Cyrenne said in speak-ing with investors looking to do business in Estevan, they are often shocked at the pace of the activity in the community.

“They are quite excited about the Bakken (oil play) and obviously clean coal. They are excited about the opportunity to do business here and we often hear that people have never seen a broad-based economy like this one. As much as we are a resource-based economy,

we are a very broad-based resource economy.”

While it’s obvious the local economy has a lot go-ing for it, there are also some major challenges, namely the lack of labour and hous-ing.

There are currently over 1,000 job listings for the Estevan area on saskjobs.ca and a number of others that aren’t listed. For that to change, it’s obvious that the housing issue will have to be straightened out in the near future. Cyrenne said work also has to continue to make Estevan a place where

people want to live and not just work.

“Making Estevan more of a destination community for business and family is a quite critical part of the labour (issue),” he said.

Cyrenne said the cham-ber will continue to take a lead role in helping local businesses attract employ-ees. Of note in 2013, the chamber will be attend-ing a prominent job fair in Calgary.

“Our mission is to be a recognized leader and cata-lyst for positive change for business in the community.”

Business future remains bright

Saskatchewan was once known as next year country, but a recent report shows that attitude has clearly changed.

The Canadian Federa-tion of Independent Business released its latest monthly Business Barometer recently and it showed that optimism among small business own-ers in Saskatchewan remains steady from an index of 66.4 to 66.5 in December, above the national index of 62.6.

Fifty-five per cent of Saskatchewan small busi-ness owners rate their overall state of business as good - the second highest in Canada and well ahead of the na-tional average of 41 per cent. Twenty-two per cent plan to increase full time employ-ment in the next three to four months - the second highest in Canada.

“It is good to see Sas-katchewan small business owners ending 2012 among the most optimistic in Cana-da,” said Marilyn Braun-Pol-lon, CFIB’s vice-president, prairie and agri-business. “Yet, optimism is somewhat lower than we saw in early 2012. Let’s hope upcom-ing federal, provincial, and municipal budgets introduce policies that sharpen Sas-katchewan’s competitive edge and fuel optimism in 2013.”

Nationally, after a few months of swings, Canada’s small business confidence basically held steady in De-cember. CFIB’s latest Busi-ness Barometer Index came in at 62.6 for the month, slightly off its 62.9 reading in November, but not enough to be a statistically relevant

change. The index fi nishes 2012 at a level better than its summer performance, but below levels registered earlier in the year. However, generally positive readings from employment and capi-tal investment plans suggest growth would rebound in the event of renewed economic optimism in the U.S. and Europe.

This latest data shows a continued narrowing of the differences in small busi-ness optimism by province.

Most of the national story is explained by the tempering of optimism in the energy powerhouse provinces. Busi-nesses in Newfoundland and Labrador are still the country’s most optimistic, but the index level is down to 69.1. Similarly, the in-dexes for Saskatchewan (66.5) and Alberta (65.7), still numbers two and three on the list, are now at more than two year lows. With the exception of Prince Edward Island (54.3), the remaining

provinces have index levels tightly bunched in the 59-to-63 range.

Provincial highlights include:

· 55 per cent of busi-nesses in Saskatchewan say the overall state of business is good (41 per cent nation-ally); 40 per cent say it is satisfactory (44 per cent nationally).

· 22 per cent of Sas-katchewan businesses plan to increase full-time employ-ment in the next three to four

months (20 per cent nation-ally) and just eight per cent plan to decrease full-time employment (10 per cent nationally).

· The shortage of skilled labour (50 per cent) remains the main operating chal-lenge, followed by manage-ment skills and time con-straints (30 per cent).

· Major cost pressures for small business include: wages (56 per cent); fuel/en-ergy (55 per cent); and taxes/regulations (43 per cent).

Sask. businesses remain optimistic

Michel Cyrenne

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the next fi ve, 10, 20 years.”— Michel Cyrenne

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With three months to go, the race to take over leadership of the Saskatch-ewan New Democratic Party is now entering the home stretch.

One of the four can-didates vying to replace former leader Dwain Lin-genfelter, economist Erin Weir, was in Estevan last week speaking to local New Democrats.

The stop in the Energy City was part of Weir’s trav-els throughout the province speaking to members of his party. Weir said he’s been happy with the reception he and his ideas have received from his fellow NDPers.

“What motivated me to get involved in the leader-ship race is a sense that the Saskatchewan NDP needs to put forward an alterna-tive policy vision and to be quite specifi c about what we think the Sask. Party is doing wrong and propo-sitional about what the New Democrat government would do differently,” Weir said. “I don’t think we are going to win a personality contest against Brad Wall, but I do think we can win the battle of ideas and we really need to engage the Sask. Party in a debate about issues.”

Among the issues that Weir is most concerned about is the need for Sas-katchewan to get a bet-ter return from its non-renewable resources. He said the province’s oil and potash belong to the people, but there are far too many

Weir continuing run for NDP leadership

loopholes that allow com-panies to avoid paying the standard royalty rates on either resource.

Weir said he would close those loopholes to create additional revenue for the province.

“That additional rev-enue would allow us to develop renewable power to put Saskatchewan on a more sustainable path,” he said. “Currently the

province emits the most greenhouse gas per capita of any province in Canada, so we certainly need to fi ght climate change, which I see as an environmental obligation but also as an economic opportunity.

“There is a lot of po-tential to develop renew-able energy and create jobs in doing so. Estevan, for example, has a tremendous amount of sunlight com-

pared to other parts of the world so I think there is a real potential to develop solar energy.”

One of the loopholes Weir has targeted is the current incentive for hori-zontal drilling. He noted that companies are able to pay a Crown royalty rate of only 2.5 per cent on the fi rst 38,000 barrels extracted from each new horizontal well.

“Those incent ives were introduced in the 1980s when horizontal drilling was a new tech-nology and the provincial government wanted to en-courage its development,” Weir said. “Now horizon-tal drilling is a very well established technology, most of the wells drilled in Saskatchewan are hori-zontal, so I don’t think the province should be giving away oil just to promote horizontal drilling after all these decades.”

The move to close roy-alty loopholes is just one piece of a lengthy platform that has been put forward by Weir who, despite his impressive list of creden-tials, might be the least known in the fi eld of can-didates that also includes current MLAs Cam Broten and Trent Wotherspoon and Saskatoon doctor Ryan Meili who ran in the last NDP leadership race.

A former president of the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats and a fed-eral NDP candidate in the 2004 election, Weir said all of the candidates are looking to build a healthier, more equitable and greener Saskatchewan. He feels what separates him from the pack is that he has a plan to reach that goal.

“I’ve got revenue pro-posals to actually pay for the improvements that all of us would like to make to health care and education and housing and infrastruc-ture and childcare,” he said.

“It’s easy to come up with a wish list of good things we would like to do on the social side, but what I have brought to the table is a concrete plan to implement and fund that agenda.”

Weir is hopeful that if elected, his policies and proposals would help the Saskatchewan NDP rebuild the party and present a strong opposition, and po-tential government, down the road.

“We run the risk of starting to look like the old Alberta, becoming a one party state. It’s imperative that we renew and rebuild the NDP. Even if you’re not a New Democrat, I think people recognize the value of having choices and hav-ing options in a democracy.

“I think a lot of it does come down to setting forth an alternative policy vision. I think it’s that discussion of ideas and principles and values that will attract peo-ple to the NDP and I think it is also presenting clear policy positions that can differentiate the NDP from the Sask. Party and make sure that we are giving the people of Saskatchewan a choice, not an echo.”

The NDP will choose their new leader at their provincial convention March 9 in Saskatoon. Until then Weir said he will continue participating in the eight debates being held throughout the province and presenting his vision for the future to his fellow New Democrats.

Erin Weir

It won’t be required for all calls until May, but SaskTel has activated 10 digit dialing in the province.

The company issued a press release last week reminding customers that 10-digit local dialing, the area code plus the seven digit number, will be required for all local calls in Saskatch-ewan beginning May 11.

The move to 10-digit local dialing is part of a deci-sion by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommuni-cations Commission (CRTC) to introduce a second area

Ten digit dialing activated in Saskatchewancode in Saskatchewan, (639) and will impact all service providers operating in the province.

To help customers pre-pare for the transition to 10-digit local dialing, Sask-Tel has already enabled its network to accommodate 10 digit local dialing. As well, between Feb. 25 and May 11, SaskTel customers who dial seven digits when plac-ing a local call will receive a message telling them they must add the area code for future calls. SaskTel will then automatically complete

the call up until the May 11 date, at which time the call must be re-dialed to include the area code.

“SaskTel is committed to making the transition to mandatory 10-digit dialing as smooth as possible for our customers,” said Ron Styles, SaskTel president and CEO. “With SaskTel’s net-work ready to accept 10-digit dialing and the automatic reminder message running from Feb. 25 to May 11, we want to ensure our custom-ers pro-actively update their communications equipment

and devices to accommodate this change.”

SaskTel customers should update programmed numbers by ensuring an area code is included in their telecommunications equip-ment, such as: home phones, cellphones, fax machines, modems, equipment for the hearing impaired, home se-curity systems, etc.

Customers should also make any necessary changes to calling features such as: speed dial, call forwarding and call blocking. Customers should begin providing their

10-digit phone number in all instances where they need to provide a contact number such as: personal cheques, medical forms, stationery, business cards, insurance forms, etc.

Businesses should also make necessary changes to their telecommunications equipment, advertising ma-terials, signage, websites and any other places where business phone numbers are listed.

SaskTel added that cus-tomers should know that current phone numbers will

not change, and long dis-tance calling (1+area code +phone number) will remain the same. Special three digit numbers such as 911, 611 and 411 will continue to be three digit numbers and won’t be affected. Once the area code 639 is intro-duced, the 306 and 639 area codes will be assigned to new phone numbers interchange-ably throughout the province.

For more information about how to prepare for the area code change, see sasktel.com at http://www.sasktel.com/dial10/

Longer DaysThe days are slowly becoming longer and longer and the Saturday sunset over Estevan stretched out well past 5 p.m., leaving an orange fl are that resembled a

bomb burst in the near western skies.

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LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!

Position: BYLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER • Hours of Work: Full Time - Monday to Friday

Duties and Responsibilities: Enforcement of City of Estevan Bylaws, Property Maintenance, Parking Enforcement, and Animal Control. Respond to incoming complaints and general public inquiries regarding Bylaws. Issue tickets for Bylaw offences and maintain a daily report management system. The Successful Candidate• Must possess a valid driver’s licence• Must have suitable computer skills• Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills. • Must be able to work independently and effi ciently. • Must be able to understand and work within the justice system. • Must pass a Police Security Clearance Process. Successful applicant will be placed on a one year probationary period. Applications are available at the Estevan Police Service. Return completed applications including a resume to:

Chief of PoliceEstevan Police Service

301-11th Ave.Estevan, Sask.

S4A 1C7Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Employment Opportunity

Are you looking for something to do? Tired of TV as an activity? Want to Are you looking for something to do? Tired of TV as an activity? Want to make a difference and be part of something bigger! Estevan Fire Rescue make a difference and be part of something bigger! Estevan Fire Rescue Services is accepting applications for PAID ON CALL FIREFIGHTERS (these Services is accepting applications for PAID ON CALL FIREFIGHTERS (these are not full time positions)are not full time positions)

Can you answer yes to the following questions? Can you answer yes to the following questions? • Are you looking to help your community stay • Are you looking to help your community stay safe? safe? • Do you like to help people that are in need?• Do you like to help people that are in need?• Are you a team player?• Are you a team player?• Do you want to be part of a noble profession? • Do you want to be part of a noble profession?

Looking to get rid of an old derelict vehicle? Looking to get rid of an old derelict vehicle? The fi re department is willing to pick up any junked motor vehicles that The fi re department is willing to pick up any junked motor vehicles that

could be used for Fire Training purposes.could be used for Fire Training purposes.Please contact Ron Tocker, Fire Chief • 634-1850Please contact Ron Tocker, Fire Chief • 634-1850

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

301-11th Ave.,Estevan, Saskatchewan.

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

Del Block – Chief of PoliceEstevan Police Service

TENDERSTENDERSThe City of Estevan invites tenders to provide “2013 Traffi c Paint Tender”

Specifi cations are available at the Legislative Services Business Division – Main Floor – City Hall. For further information regarding this tender please contact Dana Skjonsby, Stores Foreman : 634-1833, Fax 634-1818.

Interested parties are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “2013 Traffi c Paint Tender ”

Mail to the following by 2:30 PM, Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

Legislative Services Business DivisionMain Floor 1102 4th Street

City of EstevanEstevan, SKS4A 0W7

Public opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, March 26, 2013 C.S.T, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

The City of Estevan invites tenders to provide “2013 Fuel and Lubricant Tender”

Specifi cations are available at the Legislative Services Business Division – Main Floor – City Hall. For further information regarding this tender please contact Dana Skjonsby, Stores Foreman : 634-1833, Fax 634-1818.

Interested parties are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “2013 Fuel and Lubricant Tender ”

Mail to the following by 2:30 PM, Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

Legislative Services Business DivisionMain Floor 1102 4th Street

City of EstevanEstevan, SKS4A 0W7

Public opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, February 12, 2013 C.S.T, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

The City of Estevan invites tenders from Equipment Dealers to purchase a new Riding Mower. For more information and a complete list of specifi cations, please contact Gloria Johnson, Parks Manager at (306) 634-1816. The City reserves the right to accept the tender proposal that best meets its requirements and the lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. You are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “Riding Mower Tender” to the following by 2:30pm, Tuesday January 29, 2013.Leisure Services

701 Souris Ave N.Estevan, SK

S4A 2T1Phone 306-634-1880Fax 306-634-2151

Opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, January 29, 2013 C.S.T., in the Conference Room at the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Public Notice is hereby given that the City of Estevan has received an application for the development of a “Multi-family Residential Dwelling (4-unit)” on the following property:

1) Legal Description: Lot 11, Block 23, Reg’d Plan #M4929Civic Address: 801 Fourth Street

The above noted property is zoned Commercial Service Zone (C2) in which “Residential Dwelling Units” are classifi ed as a discretionary use, and are therefore only permitted subject to the approval of City Council.

Prior to the application/development being considered any person can review, make written submissions and/or make representation to Council on the proposal. Any such intentions or questions in regard to the development proposal should be directed to Land Development Services, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, S4A 0W7 [tel 634-1862] [email: ebjorge@estevan.ca] on or before the 11th Day of January 2013.

PUBLIC NOTICEPROPOSED DISCRETIONARY USE

Need a change? Choose a career with a difference.The City of Estevan is searching for a talented individual who wants to grow with the organization and community by supporting a customer fi rst approach. We are currently accepting applications for a;• Permanent Full-Time Maintenance Technician I – operates, maintains and repairs facility systems.• Temporary Full–Time Labour III – performs duties on construction and maintenance projects• Casual Events Staff – assists with sporting or promotional events during evenings and weekends.• Casual Clerk Stenos – performs administrative support and provides outstanding customer service.To thrive in this environment, you will have a desire to make a difference. Be part of our prospering community, and challenging work environment while still maintaining a strong work life balance.For more information, please contact Human Resources at (306) 634-1842 or email tohr@estevan.ca

2013 Discount on Property TaxesEffective in 2013, discounts on the School portion of Property Taxes will not be offered as per Provincial Government directives.The City of Estevan will offer a discount of 2.5% on the City Property Tax Portion for payments made in full based on the 2012 levy until January 31, 2013. There will be no further discounts offered after January 31st. For further information, contact Tim at 634-1813 or Trina at 634-1811.

The City of Estevan is undertaking concrete work and road works at:Woodlawn ReservoirThe City of Estevan is undertaking construction of a Treated Drinking Water Reservoir. The affected area includes The Woodlawn Avenue Right of Way North of the St. Joseph’s Hospital.This Right of Way is not a through road and no traffi c will be allowed in the area that is not involved with the reservoir construction.This work will commence March 5, 2012 and will take approximately ten (10) months to complete. Ledcor Construction Ltd. and JV&M Constructors Inc will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations and specifi cations. Estevan Municipal Airport Rehabilitation WorksThe City of Estevan is undertaking construction works to rehabilitate existing Apron at Estevan Municipal AirportConstruction on: Estevan Municipal Airport Apron This work would require closure of immediate areas of excavation and may necessitate parking restriction in adjacent areas. This work will commence during the week of November 21, 2012 and will approximately complete in June 30, 2013 (subject to weather).

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

CONSTRUCTION BULLETINCONSTRUCTION BULLETIN

Public NoticeProposed Bylaw 2012-1901 to provide for the Control and Regulation of Municipal Cemetaries in the City of Estevan. The proposed bylaw can be seen at City Hall or Leisure Services Administration Offi ce for review.Please contact Gloria Johnson Parks Manager at 634-1816, or Judy Pilloud City Clerk 634-1852 if you have any questions.

Nicholson Road Clinic — 634-2661Dr. GroblerDr. AkenseteDr. HorriClinic @ No Frills Grocery — 634-6444Dr. TsoiDr. ChristieDr. PehlivanHospital Foundation ClinicDr. Sheikh — 637-2750Dr. Omosigho — 637-2760

Physicians In EstevanPhysicians In Estevan

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE ESTEVAN ARTS COUNCILVISUAL ARTS: WINTER CLASSES & WORKSHOPS January – April

– QUILTING – DRAWING – CARTOONING – INTERMEDIATE PHOTOGRAPHY –– PEN & INK VS SCRATCH BOARD – BEGINNING WATER COLOR – POTTERY FOR KIDS –And by popular demand, we offer“FEBRUARY BREAK ART & ACTION DAY CAMP”Ages 6 – 13 yearsFeb 19 – 20 – 21 (note date change)9:00 – 3:00 pm * $90/child – Register Early

STARS FOR SASKATCHEWAN:Couloir (Feb 3rd)Wolak & Donnelly (Feb 24th)

KONCERTS FOR KIDS:Coffi eman ~ African Rhythm & Movement (March 21st)

ENERGY CITY FILM CIRCUIT:Film Dates: Jan 26th – March 16th – April 27thFILMS YET TO BE DETERMINEDCOMPLETE details soon to be online at www.estevanartscouncil.com

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Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

6:10 AM

Spin Set #1.1Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.1Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.1 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.1May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Spin Set #1.1Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.1Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.1 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.1May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

9:10 AM

NCR

Spin Set #1.2Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.2 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.2 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.2 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

NCR

Spin Set #1.2Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.2 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.2 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.2 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

NCR

10:10 AM

Spin Set #1.3 Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.3 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.3 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.3 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Stretch

Spin Set #1.3 Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.3 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.3Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.3 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

11:00 AM

Running in Spectra

Running in

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12:10 PM

Total Body Fitness

Spin Set #1.4 Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.4 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.4 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.4 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Step/Abs

Spin Set #1.4 Jan 3-Feb 7

11 Sessions $110

Set #2.4 Feb 26-Mar 28

10 Sessions $100

Set #3.4 Apr 9-May9

9 Sessions $90

Set # 4.4 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Total Body Fitness

5:45 PM

Spin Set #1.5 Jan 7-Feb 6

(no class Jan 28)

9 Sessions $90

Set #3.5 Apr 8—May 8

9 Sessions $90

NCR Feb. 11, 13, 27, Mar 4, 6,

13, 18, 20, 25, 27

Drop in

Spin Set # 4.5 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Spin Set #1.5 Jan 7-Feb 6

(no class Jan 28)

9 Sessions $90

Set #3.5 Apr 8—May 8

9 Sessions $90

NCR Feb. 11, 13, 27, Mar 4, 6,

13, 18, 20, 25, 27

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Spin Set # 4.5 May 21-June27

11 Sessions $110

Spin Classes start Jan 3, Other classes start Jan 4

No classes Jan 28, Feb 18—26, Mar 11, Mar 29—Apr 8, May 13, May 20

Spin classes are pre-registered, set fees include monthly facility membership

All classes instructor led | Class Descriptions on back

Estevan Leisure Centre, 701 Souris Ave, Estevan | estevan.ca | facebook.com/cityofestevan

Class Descriptions Class Descriptions Class Descriptions

Spin Class (Beginner to Intermediate): Spin Class (Beginner to Intermediate): Spin Class (Beginner to Intermediate): it is a great cardio workout that will strengthen your legs and core on our it is a great cardio workout that will strengthen your legs and core on our it is a great cardio workout that will strengthen your legs and core on our new Keiser M3+ bikes. We focus on proper posture and an introduction to new Keiser M3+ bikes. We focus on proper posture and an introduction to new Keiser M3+ bikes. We focus on proper posture and an introduction to various drills. Once you have the skills, then you get the drills. We will be various drills. Once you have the skills, then you get the drills. We will be various drills. Once you have the skills, then you get the drills. We will be sprinting, climbing hills, and racing on fast flats. Come with a water bottle sprinting, climbing hills, and racing on fast flats. Come with a water bottle sprinting, climbing hills, and racing on fast flats. Come with a water bottle and towel and get ready to sweat! and towel and get ready to sweat! and towel and get ready to sweat!

NCRNCRNCR———No Coordination Required (Beginner to Advanced): No Coordination Required (Beginner to Advanced): No Coordination Required (Beginner to Advanced):

We have tossed the dancy, fancy steps and gone back to basics in the mix and We have tossed the dancy, fancy steps and gone back to basics in the mix and We have tossed the dancy, fancy steps and gone back to basics in the mix and match class. This is a full body workout focusing on aerobic training, match class. This is a full body workout focusing on aerobic training, match class. This is a full body workout focusing on aerobic training, strength and endurance. Interval training, step based power cardio, tabata, strength and endurance. Interval training, step based power cardio, tabata, strength and endurance. Interval training, step based power cardio, tabata, weights, a little skipping and some core work will get you sweating. This weights, a little skipping and some core work will get you sweating. This weights, a little skipping and some core work will get you sweating. This class offers lots of variety. We are going to HIT (High Intensity Interval Train-class offers lots of variety. We are going to HIT (High Intensity Interval Train-class offers lots of variety. We are going to HIT (High Intensity Interval Train-ing) it and quit it! ing) it and quit it! ing) it and quit it!

Total Body Fitness (Beginner to Advanced): Total Body Fitness (Beginner to Advanced): Total Body Fitness (Beginner to Advanced):

This class is guaranteed to reshape your body to the best it has ever been. The This class is guaranteed to reshape your body to the best it has ever been. The This class is guaranteed to reshape your body to the best it has ever been. The class is a combination of boot camp style workouts with abdominal core exer-class is a combination of boot camp style workouts with abdominal core exer-class is a combination of boot camp style workouts with abdominal core exer-cises. That’s right, butts and gluts! With multiple exercise options every level cises. That’s right, butts and gluts! With multiple exercise options every level cises. That’s right, butts and gluts! With multiple exercise options every level of fitness is welcome. of fitness is welcome. of fitness is welcome.

Step/Abs (Beginner to Intermediate):Step/Abs (Beginner to Intermediate):Step/Abs (Beginner to Intermediate): This beginner step class is a great cardio workout. Class is split up with a va-This beginner step class is a great cardio workout. Class is split up with a va-This beginner step class is a great cardio workout. Class is split up with a va-riety of abdominal exercises. Great way to get your body moving and have fun! riety of abdominal exercises. Great way to get your body moving and have fun! riety of abdominal exercises. Great way to get your body moving and have fun!

Stretch (Beginner to Advanced):Stretch (Beginner to Advanced):Stretch (Beginner to Advanced): The three cornerstones of fitness are strength, endurance and FLEXIBILITY. The three cornerstones of fitness are strength, endurance and FLEXIBILITY. The three cornerstones of fitness are strength, endurance and FLEXIBILITY. Stretching helps to reduce muscle soreness, prevent injury, and it feels pret-Stretching helps to reduce muscle soreness, prevent injury, and it feels pret-Stretching helps to reduce muscle soreness, prevent injury, and it feels pret-ty good! Come warm (a few laps around spectra place will do) to this class ty good! Come warm (a few laps around spectra place will do) to this class ty good! Come warm (a few laps around spectra place will do) to this class and let us help you get the kinks out. Bring warm up/cool down gear.and let us help you get the kinks out. Bring warm up/cool down gear.and let us help you get the kinks out. Bring warm up/cool down gear.

Running in Spectra (Beginner to Advanced):Running in Spectra (Beginner to Advanced):Running in Spectra (Beginner to Advanced): This instructor led group running class is designed to teach you how to begin This instructor led group running class is designed to teach you how to begin This instructor led group running class is designed to teach you how to begin a running program and build a base. The program is based on run/walk inter-a running program and build a base. The program is based on run/walk inter-a running program and build a base. The program is based on run/walk inter-vals progressing at a slow pace to allow the body to adjust and prevent inju-vals progressing at a slow pace to allow the body to adjust and prevent inju-vals progressing at a slow pace to allow the body to adjust and prevent inju-ry. Meet at the track in Spectra Place and let the stairs be your hills. Its our ry. Meet at the track in Spectra Place and let the stairs be your hills. Its our ry. Meet at the track in Spectra Place and let the stairs be your hills. Its our goal to get your running! goal to get your running! goal to get your running!

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Hello Computer! Mondays @ 3:00, 3:30 & 4:00 – Come and get answers to your computer questions in thirty-minute, one-

on-one sessions. Bring your laptop or use a public computer. When registering please indicate what you would like to learn. Crafter’s Circle - Tuesday, January 08 & 22 @ 5:30 – Do you knit or crochet? Enjoy the company of others with the same interest. Beginners, advanced and master knitters are all welcome. A great opportunity for ongoing support; share your knowledge or benefi t from the advice of other crafters. Just bring your own materials and come join the circle. No pre-registration required. Adults only.Sprechen Sie Deutsch? - Every Tuesday @ 5:30 – Join Katharina Ulbrich for an introduction to the German language. This is an ongoing program and will take place at the library every Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:00 until the end of January. The classes are designed to be fun and non-competitive; those who want to learn faster will get extra homework. By the end of January students will be able to follow easy directions, introduce themselves in simple sentences, have an idea about Germany (size, regions, customs, do’s & don’ts). If there is enough interest, the program will resume in March. Call 636-1621 to register. All ages welcome. Held in partnership with the Estevan & District German “Feundschaft” Society. Estevan Toastmasters - Meets at the library every Tuesday @ 7:30pm.Author Reading: Dee Dee Chomyk - Saturday, January 12 @ 2:00 – Come for a discussion and reading from Unpunished by local author Dee Dee Chomyk. Unpunished is a story about love, sex, betrayal, murder and the unknown. It’s NOT a pretty story, however it is one woman’s true story. Her experiences were recorded to help those who have suffered or may suffer detestable and ugly experiences and come to realize that life does go on. Copies will be available for sale that day. Refreshments provided. Adults only.Homemade Chalk and Chalkboards – Monday, January 14 @ 6:00-7:30 – Ages 8+. Did you know you can make a real chalkboard out of paper and glue? The chalk made will need to sit overnight and may be picked up the next day.Gluten Got You Down? - Wednesday, January 16 @ 6:00 – Join Lesa Seipp from Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods for a presentation on Gluten-Free living. She will discuss what gluten is, how it affects your body and which foods contain it. She will also discuss tips for living a gluten-free lifestyle including gluten-free alternatives and recipes.Cover to Cover Book Club - Thursday, January 17 @ 6:30 – This month we will be discussing Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. It is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family’s American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation. New members always welcome! Call 636-1621 to pick up your copy today!

Paddle Bats & Balloon Covers – Saturday, January 19 @ 3:00-4:00 – Ages 6+. Do you like games? Increase your activity level, have fun and play this indoor game with a partner! Maureen will provide instructions and materials so you can bring it home to show others!Ovarian Cancer Awareness - Wednesday, January 23 @ 6:00 – Are you familiar with the symptoms of ovarian cancer? Most Canadians are not; the disease is generally not detected until its latest, and most dangerous stages. Join Mary Antonenko for a multimedia presentation on ovarian cancer and help promote awareness and prevention of it in our community.Baby Time - Thursday, January 24 @ 10:30 – Ages 0 – 18 months old & their caregivers. Give your baby a head start on literacy and join us for 30 minutes of interactive songs, rhymes, a short story and baby-inspired craft. Tablet Troubles? - Thursday, January 24 @ 2:30, 5:00 & 6:00; Saturday, January 26 @ 10:00, 11:00, 3:00 or 4:00 – Get a tablet for Christmas but not quite sure where to start? Join Jill for an introduction to your tablet. Jill is most familiar with Ipads but can also give basic assistance on other tablets. When registering please indicate if there is anything specifi c you would like to learn & what kind of tablet you have. All ages welcome.Kool-Aid Play Dough Kits – Monday, January 28 @ 6:30-7:15 – Ages 6+. Come out and learn how to put together a play dough kit using kool-aid and other materials! This kit may be brought home to be made into dough or given as a delightful gift!Stack Your Stuff with Style - Wednesday, January 30 @ 6:00 – Trying to get organized this year? Come make a unique three-tiered unit to hold your jewelry, keys, odds and ends. No one said organization couldn’t be creative! Adults only.Familiar with Facebook - Thursday, January 31 @ 2:30, 5:00 or 6:00 – Come and get answers to your Facebook related questions in one-on-one forty-fi ve minute to one hour sessions. Learn how to utilize your Facebook account to its maximum potential! Use a public computer or bring your own laptop. All ages welcome. Parental consent required for patrons under 14 years of age. Note: You must have an existing Facebook account to take part.

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A group of women who will support, encourage and champion each other in the recovery,

discovery and speaking of their own unique truths through sharing, guided visualization,

meditation, movement, and art projects.

WHEN: Wednesdays, January 23 - March 6 (7 weeks)

TIME: 6:30 - 9:30 pm

COST: $210/person (materials included)

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Beginner Basics

Have you always wanted to learn to draw or to improve your skills? This class is for you! Explore

composition, form, shading and texture using primarily pencil. With demonstrations and

individual attention, this course is perfect for a beginner.

WHEN: Tuesdays, February 5, 12, 19, 26 (4 weeks)

TIME: 7:00 - 9:00pm

COST: $80/person (materials included)

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Photo Canvases

Participants in this class will use a variety of media and materials to create a personalized

canvas. Participants are encouraged to bring in their own photos, letters, postcards or other

materials for use in the class.

WHEN: Tuesday, March 12

TIME: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

COST: $15/person (materials included)

INSTRUCTOR: Starr Mercer Call Karly @ 634-7644 to register!

Pinterest Projects

Are you addicted to Pinterest, but tired of pinning things and never trying them? Then take the

Pinterest Challenge at the EAGM and join us as we stop pinning and start doing. For our fi rst

session we will be making a monthly agenda whiteboard out of paint chips.

WHEN: Thursdays, January 31, February 28, March 28, April 25, May 30

TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 pm

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Basics of Painting

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by creating a still life painting. Participants will create a color wheel, and learn how to mix and

apply paint that will be used on their paintings. Terms, techniques and tips will be explored.

WHEN: Wednesdays May 8, 15, 22, 29 (4 weeks)

TIME: 7:00 - 9:00pm

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Portrait Photography

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store lights. Equipment will be supplied.

WHEN: Tuesdays, April 16 and 23 (2 weeks)

TIME: 6:00 - 8:00 pm

COST: $20/person (participants may provide their own camera)

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The Art of Pencil Crayons

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Learn to Draw from Photographs

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photographs, using grids, proportion and accuracy. Participants are encouraged to bring in

their own photographs for subject matter and use in the class.

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Six men who have entertained fans on the ice and helped keep the Este-van Bruins afl oat off it will be enshrined in the Sas-katchewan Junior Hockey League Hall of Fame on March 2.

Former players Ron Dunville, Bruce Firth and Alan May and builders Bill Shinske, Ray Frehlick and Terry Simpson will be inducted alongside other greats in SJHL history dur-ing the ceremony, which will coincide with the Bru-ins’ annual awards night.

However, there will be no Hall of Fame Game be-cause of various schedul-ing issuesThat is also why the event was postponed from last fall to March.

Frehlick has been a crucial player in helping the Bruins survive over the years. He was the presi-dent of the Big Bruins before they moved to New Westminster, B.C., and then was part of a group that acquired an expansion franchise in the SAJHL. He was the fi rst president of the New Bruins and also served as a general man-ager in that era.

Frehlick has also been a major fi nancial supporter of the team since his days in a hands-on role.

“It’s a real honour. There are certainly a lot

of other people deserving of that honour too. When you look back 25-30 years, I guess certainly the fran-chise wouldn’t have been totally successful without the help of other people like Gord Tenold and Dave Matchett,” Frehlick said.

He added that he re-fl ects with pride on the fact that his Bruins kept a clean image.

“We didn’t use a four-letter word in the dressing room. We used the word love. Wherever we stayed, we always got letters back thanking us for staying

there and how polite our hockey players were,” he said.

“The friendships you make over the years, you carry them for the rest of your life. It’s a long time ago. The first year our budget was only $45,000.

They spend that now on bus rental.

“I look forward to re-ceiving this award and you can be assured that when I do say a few words, it’ll be inspirational.”

Shinske, who will be inducted post-humously, was the Bruins’ general

manager from 1968-71 and again from 1989-95, when he passed away at age 65 after a lengthy illness.

Nicknamed “Bil ly Bruin,” Shinske was re-vered for his intensity and his commitment to keeping the bottom line in good shape. The SJHL’s builder of the year award bears his name, as does the Bruins’ Bill Shinske Ethics Award.

According to the Mer-cury’s 50th anniversary special supplement chroni-cling the Bruins’ history, the purpose of Shinske’s second stint in the 1990s was “to bring some sta-bility to the Bruins and make the franchise a win-ner again.”

Melodye Pierson, a long-time Bruins secretary and billet, worked under Shinske during that second go-around. She also gave the eulogy at his funeral.

“He was just like a mentor to me, I can’t even explain it,” she said. “He didn’t piss around. He was hard-nosed and hard-assed but one of the kind-est people you ever met in your life. I just can’t say one bad thing about him. He was just a pioneer.”

Pierson said Shinske would go “all over town to get notepads and pens to watch the dollars,” and that sense of fi scal respon-

sibility didn’t end with his own team.

“He stood up for all the franchises. He was furi-ous when Melfort got let in the league because he said Nipawin and Melfort were too close together and it would hurt the Junior B team in Kinistino.”

Shinske was also a big believer in accountability, Pierson said.

“He believed in fi nes. One guy, he got him three times before he stepped through the double doors at the Civic. He got him once for no hat on backwards, one for no gum and one for no (expletives).”

Dunville played with the Bruins from 1978-81 and is the New Bruins’ all-time leading scorer with

181 goals and 349 points in 190 games. He sits third in league history in goals, and 12th in points.

Dunville was named the league’s most valuable player in 1980-81 after leading the circuit with 138 points in 56 games

“It’s a great honour. I knew The Mercury had had a poll last year and I’d heard that I received the most votes in that poll, but I really didn’t think anything of it. When the call came (Thursday), it was a surprise for me,” said Dunville. “When you think about the players already in there and the names go-ing in, Bill Shinske, Terry Simpson — Ray Frehlick has been a

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The Harlem Globe-trotters came to Estevan, and they didn’t disappoint.

The world-famous ex-hibition basketball team brought their act, their laughs and the Global Select — a pseudonym for the opponent Washington Generals — to Spectra Place on Sunday.

An estimated crowd of 1,600 people watched the Globetrotters defeat the Select 99-87 in the fi rst basketball event to be held at the arena.

Most of those points weren’t scored the con-ventional way, though. A staple of the Globetrotters’ 2013 tour is allowing fans to vote on special rules for each game.

Rules used at different points during Sunday’s game included two balls on the court at one time, all points counting double, and shots taken from cer-

tain marked spots on the court counting for four points.

Far from a typical basketball game, Sunday’s performance had it all: impromptu dance breaks, mascots falling on their faces, a player climbing the hoop and standing on it, ridiculed referees, pop-corn spilled on the court, and fans picked from the crowd asked to do any-thing from jumping over a player to spinning a ball on their fi nger.

But the incredible basketball ability required to be a Globetrotter — or an opponent with a spec-tacular losing streak — shone through from start to finish, with the fan favourites at times spend-ing an entire shot clock executing quick one-touch passing, or making im-pressive trick shots.

And the Globetrotters

made sure to serve up what every fan wants to see: dunks, and lots of them.

Sunday’s game fea-tured both the tallest and the shortest Globetrotter ever.

“Tiny” Sturgess is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest pro bas-ketball player, standing 7-foot-8 and 325 pounds. His signature move is the no-jump dunk.

M e a n w h i l e , “ To o Tall” Hall is the most un-dersized player ever to wear the red, white and blue of the Globies, at 5-foot-2, 142 pounds.

Other Globetrotters who came to Estevan were “B-Nice” Narcisse, “Fire-fl y” Fisher, “Flight Time” Lang, “Hammer” Harrison, “Jet” Williams, “Slick” Willie Shaw, “Special K” Daley, “Spider” Wilks and “T-Time” Brawner.

Six ex-Bruins to be enshrined in SJHL hallFrehlick, Shinske, Dunville, Firth, May, Simpson to be inducted

Globetrotters entertain with energetic show

Among the acrobatics of the Harlem Globetrotters at Spectra Place on Sunday was

this stunt by “Jet” Williams, who climbed the hoop and stood on it, even dancing

atop it when a referee told him to “get down.”

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SOUNDING OFF

“As a player, you come here, you’re a snotty-nosed kid who doesn’t

know anything. You come here and your billets treat you like fam-

ily. When I had a chance to move back to Estevan, I jumped at the

opportunity.” — Bruce Firth, one of the six former Bruins who will be inducted

into the SJHL Hall of Fame.

“It’s kinda funny how you bury hatchets and old grudges from way

back when and just talk about where everyone’s at in their lives

right now.” — Former Bruin Dean Ehrmantraut, who played in the annual alumni game on Jan. 1.

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This is not the way the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins wanted to come out playing after the Christmas break.

A pair of losses to the Melville Millionaires on the weekend stretched the team’s losing streak to four games, dropping the Bruins to a record of 12-21-2.

Their only saving grace was that the Weyburn Red Wings lost all three of their road games and remain two points back in the race for the fi nal playoff spot in the Sherwood Conference.

A few days after Jack-

son Schneider scored with 0.2 seconds left to give the Wings a sweep of the an-nual New Year’s Day clash in Weyburn, the Bruins lost 4-3 to the Mils on Friday at home and 9-4 in Melville the next day.

On Friday, the Bruins matched the Mils for most of the game, but Chris-tian Magnus’s goal midway through the second period was the winner.

Sean Aschim tipped a shot into the net only 88 sec-onds into the game to kick off a choppy, high-scoring fi rst period.

“It was kind of a weird game in terms of the ebb and fl ow because there re-ally wasn’t much of an ebb and fl ow,” said Bruins head coach Keith Cassidy. “It was kind of a choppy, we’ll have a whole bunch of op-portunities here, you’ll have a whole bunch of opportuni-ties there (game).”

Hudson Morrison re-plied for the Bruins at the 6:18 mark on a defl ection that went up and over Mils goalie Alex Wakaluk.

Morrison agreed with his coach that it was an odd game with not much fl ow

and some curious offi ciating at times.

“It was a different game. It was hard to play in because of sloppiness and (the) ref’s getting in your head. I think we played well, but didn’t come out with the outcome we wanted,” Mor-rison said.

Taylor Reich gave the Bruins the lead midway through the first period, pouncing on a turnover right in front of the Melville net to score a shorthanded goal blocker side.

Aschim would tie it one minute later on his second of the period, putting in a rebound off a scramble in front of the net.

Melville scored the only two goals of the sec-ond period. The fi rst came 11 minutes in when Magnus skated down the right wing and fi red a shot over Bruins starter Curtis Martinu’s left shoulder from the faceoff circle.

Russell Trudeau added to the Mils’ lead with 28 seconds left when, on a power play, he sent a fl oater through traffi c that got past a screened Martinu.

Cassidy said he felt the Bruins “dominated” the third period, but it resulted in only one goal when Nick Weiss banged in a rebound at the side of the net at the 7:52 mark.

The Bruins had sev-eral other notable scoring chances, one coming shortly before Weiss’s goal when Tanner Froese missed a mostly empty net.

“We had a couple of chances where we could’ve

buried them and put them in the back of the net, but we didn’t. That cost us in the end,” said Morrison.

On Saturday, the two teams were again knotted 2-2 after one period, but Melville scored four times in the second period and three more in the third.

Weiss (2), Morrison and Tyler Paslawski scored for the Bruins. Ian McNulty (2), Lucas Froese (2), As-chim, Colin Mospanchuk, Daniel Orsborne and Kevin Woodyatt supplied the Mils’ offence.

The Bruins will be with-out left winger Wyatt Gara-gan for four to six weeks with a dislocated elbow and concussion suffered Jan. 1 against Weyburn.

Meanwhile, the SJHL trade deadline is on Thurs-day and Cassidy said last week that the team will be looking to add two forwards, with the team only having 11 healthy right now. He added that an impact defenceman

is a priority as well.“If there’s a player out

there that can help us get to where we need to be, we’re certainly interested. Age isn’t an issue for me at this point.”

However, Cassidy’s comments after Friday’s game were less bullish.

“I’m not leaning one way or the other. I believe in the work ethic of the guys in there. I guess we’ll sit back and analyze whether or not we actually have the talent to do what we want to do,” he said.

“I think as evidenced by pretty much our entire season so far, we’re look-ing for goal scorers. More importantly, I’m looking for guys ready to play from the drop of the puck to the fi nal buzzer.”

The Bruins are on the road this weekend, playing the Battlefords North Stars on Friday and the fourth-place Kindersley Klippers on Saturday.

Bruins’ losing skid hits four games

It didn’t take long for Rick Oakes to fi nd a new job in the scouting world.

Only 13 days after re-signing from his post as the Estevan Bruins’ director of player personnel, Oakes made it public that he is joining the Western Hockey League’s Red Deer Rebels as a scout.

Oakes, who spent 12 years with the Bruins organi-zation, will remain in Moose Jaw and act as a Saskatch-ewan scout for the Rebels.

Oakes said in an inter-view with The Mercury last week that he had received “overwhelming” interest in terms of other scouting op-portunities.

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Estevan Bruins right winger Tyler Paslawski plays the puck as Melville forward

Sean Aschim (16) looks on during the Millionaires’ 4-3 win on Friday.

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After rolling through the round-robin, the Este-van Sherritt Coal Bruins came up just short in the A fi nal of a peewee tourna-ment in Portage la Prairie, Man., on the weekend.

The peewee AA squad went 4-0 in the round-robin, including a win over the Portage Terriers in their last game, but fell 2-1 to the same Terriers in the fi nal.

Ryder Pierson had the team’s lone goal in that game, which saw Portage score the winner on a pow-er play with three minutes remaining.

The Bruins began the tournament with a 10-3 win over Shoal Lake on Friday. Cole Fonstad led the charge with fi ve goals. J.D. Gervais had two, with Pierson, Reegan Robinson and Hayden Cutler adding singles.

On Saturday, the Bru-

ins topped the St. Boniface Seals 6-4. Fonstad and Carson Benning had two goals apiece, with Ma-son Strutt and Cutler also scoring.

Later that day, the Bruins slaughtered the Thompson King Miners 16-0. Fonstad had five goals, Cutler scored four, and the Bruins got two each from Pierson and Colton Schell. Strutt, Ter-ran Holzer and Jake Palmer added singles.

In their final round-robin game on Sunday, the Bruins edged the Ter-riers 6-5.

Fonstad and Strutt each scored a pair, with Benning and Kade McMil-len adding one each.

Meanwhile, the Bruins did it the hard way, but they held off the Moose Jaw Warriors to earn a 6-5 victory in Game 1 of their fi rst-round provincial

series on Jan. 2 at Spectra Place.

Game 2 of the two-game, total-goal peewee series goes tonight in Moose Jaw.

On Wednesday, the Bruins led 3-2 after the fi rst period and 5-2 after two.

Colton Schell opened the scoring only 89 sec-onds into the game, and Hayden Cutler made it 2-0 three minutes later.

Moose Jaw got on the board with a Brogan Townsend power play goal six minutes in, the fi rst of four power play markers for the Warriors.

Schell scored again just eight seconds after the goal, but the Warriors got another man advantage goal from Ethan Douglas at 10:46 to make it 3-2.

The Bruins got two power play goals of their own in the second period, coming from Cole Fonstad

at the three-minute mark and Cutler at 13:48.

The Warriors made a concerted comeback effort in the third, scoring three goals. The fi rst came from Quinn Ingalls midway through the period, on the power play.

Schell completed a hat trick 54 seconds later, and the 6-3 score held until late in the period.

Hayden Wiebe scored with four minutes left and Cooper Cole added a power play goal with 36 seconds to play to bring the

Warriors within one.The Bruins played

in a tournament on the weekend and will return to league action on Friday and Saturday, hosting the fi rst-place Yorkton Terri-ers at 2:30 p.m. at Spectra Place both days.

The Estevan Chargers and Estevan Bulldogs both competed in the annual Girls International Tourna-ment in Fargo, N.D., on the weekend.

In an event that boast-ed 80 teams overall, the Chargers and Bulldogs were in the 14-and-under division with 14 other teams.

The Chargers were two goals away from win-ning the tournament, los-ing 1-0 to a team from Roseau, Minn., in the fi nal on Sunday.

The only goal of the game came in the first period. Roseau outshot Estevan 39-19.

The Bulldogs, mean-while, lost 7-1 to the Anoka (Minn.) Tornadoes in the B fi nal.

The Chargers had gone undefeated in round-robin play, winning all three games by one goal.

They edged Anoka 6-5 in a shootout in their opener, then beat the Still-water (Minn.) Black team 3-2 before taking a tight

1-0 win over East Grand Forks.

The Bulldogs had a 2-1 record in the round-robin.

They started out Fri-day night with a 2-1 loss to the Stillwater Red team. On Saturday, they ham-mered a Winnipeg team, the Bord-Aire Wings, 11-0, and went on to sneak past the Grand Rapids (Minn.)

Peewee AAs lose A fi nal in Portage

Chargers lose gold medal game in Fargo

The Estevan Power Dodge Chargers made it to the gold medal game at the Girls

International Tournament in Fargo, N.D. on the weekend. Back row, from left:

Brad Friars (coach), Megan LeBlanc, Kamryn Friars, Rachel Mack, Kailey McLellan,

Drew Wrubleski, Ashton Magotiaux, Dan McKersie (coach). Front row: Allie Butler,

Michaella Matthies, Tamara Irwin, Mariah McKersie, Taylor Currie.

Kersey Reich of the Estevan peewee AA Bruins tries to take the puck away from

an opponent during a recent game. (File Photo)

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While he expected his team scoring record would fall some day, Dunville admitted he’s happy that it still stands.

“I never imagined that that (record) would hold up. I only played three sea-sons and there are people who have played four. You don’t think something like that will hold up and it’s just amazing to me that it has all these years. You don’t want it broken,” he laughed.

Dunville added that he was part of some talented teams and that his team-mates deserve a lot of the credit for his success.

“I think I was fortu-nate enough to play with some very good players as well. It’s not one person, it has to come from the players around you. I plan fully on mentioning a few of those at the induction. You can’t do it by yourself, you have to have coaching, player support.”

Firth is the second-leading scorer in Bruins

history and 19th on the SJHL’s all-time list, but he had no idea until he moved back to Estevan in 2000. He played here from 1977-81, putting up 128 goals and 304 points in 235 games.

Firth has also played a key role off the ice. He was a long-time accountant for the team and spent nearly a decade on the executive. He is now the treasurer for the Bruins alumni and was an original board member.

Firth said the recogni-tion is “very humbling” and that he doesn’t like “being in the limelight very much.”

He expressed appre-ciation to the community for welcoming him as a player and being an ideal place to live later in life.

“As a player, you come here, you’re a snot-ty-nosed kid who doesn’t know anything. You come here and your billets treat you like family. When I had a chance to move back to Estevan, I jumped at the opportunity. Knowing the type of community it was, it was a no-brainer to come back to this area.

“I don’t know how

anybody could have a bet-ter life than by following their dream and enjoying life where they want to enjoy life,” Firth said.

May played with the Bruins from 1982-85 and was a member of the club’s fi rst SJHL championship team in 1984-85. May was a tough customer and played a key role on that squad on a line with Serge Poulin and Wade Stubley.

May went on to play 393 NHL games, scoring 31 goals and 76 points over parts of eight seasons with the Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames.

May is currently a hockey analyst for Com-cast SportsNet Washing-ton.

Simpson played for the Bruins from 1960-64 before becoming a leg-endary coach with the Prince Albert Raiders for 12 years, during a period when the team won seven straight SJHL champion-ships.

He later spent three years as the head coach of the New York Islanders and three with the Winni-

peg Jets before helping to bring the Red Deer Rebels into the Western Hockey League as an expansion team.

Because the Raiders are no longer in the SJHL, Simpson is being recog-nized for those achieve-

ments as part of his induc-tion.

Frehlick said Simp-son’s teams were nearly impossible to beat.

“We had some very good hockey clubs and we always had to play PA, which was coached by

Terry Simpson at the time, and we could never get by them because they always had a tremendously tal-ented hockey team. They ended up beating us all the time. They were similar to what Humboldt is now,” Frehlick said.

The Estevan Apex Bru-ins began the new year on the right foot, doubling up the Lumsden/Bethune Lions 4-2 on Sunday in Lumsden.

Kyle Salaway led the midget AA Bruins (10-7-4) with a goal and two assists, while Jason Hengen added three helpers of his own.

Estevan, which sits in seventh place in the South Saskatchewan Midget Hockey League, led 2-0 after the first period on goals by Tanner Jeannot two minutes in and Salaway with less than two minutes

to play.Bruins captain Steven

Henderson extended that lead early in the second period, scoring at the 3:23 mark, and Jolan Lingelbach put the visitors ahead 4-0 with a tally at 12:57.

Lumsden woke up shortly after that goal, with Matt Whitteron lighting the lamp just 36 seconds later to get the Lions on the board.

Tyler Prokopiuk had the only goal of the third pe-riod for Lumsden, scoring midway through the frame to get the Lions within a goal.

Mason Benning and Blaine Herzberg also had assists for the Bruins. Levi Eiteneier earned the win between the pipes.

T h e B r u i n s w e r e scheduled to visit Weyburn yesterday, and will host the Notre Dame Hounds on Friday at 8 p.m. at Spectra Place

Meanwhile, the Bruins will kick off provincials on Saturday when they visit second-place Weyburn (13-7-4). The second game of that two-game, total-goal series is Jan. 16 at Spectra Place.

Apex Bruins pick up

win over Lions

The Estevan TS&M Bruins opened the 2013 por-tion of their regular season slate with a 2-2 tie against the Regina Silver Foxes, who currently sit in third place in the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League.

The Bruins (7-8-2) moved into a tie for fourth place with the draw, al-though they have played more games than the teams they are tied with.

The Silver Foxes (7-4-5) scored the only goal of the

fi rst period, but the Bruins tied it up 2-2 after 40 min-utes before a scoreless third.

Parker McCormick opened the scoring for Re-gina at the 11:24 mark of the fi rst.

Peyton Stevenson lev-elled the score for the Bruins only 44 seconds into the middle frame.

The Silver Foxes got back on top thanks to a Mostyn Findlay marker eight minutes into the pe-riod.

Later in the frame, the Bruins tied it again courtesy of a Mitchell Morrison tally at the 14:22 mark.

Morrison, Stevenson, Brayden Pachal and Kolten Ganson all had assists for the Bruins.

Estevan’s next regu-lar season action is tonight when they visit the Notre Dame Hounds. They will be at home on Sunday for a noon tilt with the Swift Current Raiders at Spectra Place.

Bantam AA

Bruins earn draw

Rivalry ShowdownKristen Skjonsby of the ECS junior girls’ basketball team fi ghts off a member of

the Weyburn Eagles as teammate Tess Lindquist and Weyburn’s Ashley Kaip look

on during the junior team’s home tournament on the weekend.

Bruins announce SJHL Hall of Fame inductees

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held in Estevan on Dec. 30, with the duo of Drew and Jim Heidinger winning the event.

The Heidingers led the 15-team fi eld with a score of 1,293 points. Drew had an average of 145 in the three games and Jim’s average was 152.

Blaine Boyle had the highest average in the tourna-ment with 194.

Other teams entered were Jordan and Brett Howie (1,280 points), Danyck and Monique Belanger (1,240 points), Boyle and Zach Crouse (1,189 points), Emily and John Gooding (1,176 points), Mariah Pho and Vern Eagles (1,155 points), Dallas Gordey and Shawn Ludtke (1,127 points), Riley and Jaosn Bresciana (1,112 points), Cameron and Kelly Janssen (1,103 points), Kolby and Cordell Janssen (1,098 points), Kohl and Steve Marklinger (1,091 points), Dillon and Shelley Heidinger (1,089 points), Skylar and Julyn Millman (1,077 points), Dylan and Deb-bie Gordey (1,054 points), and Jasmine and Vance Crouse (998 points).

The Estevan Century 21 bantam A Bruins had a strong showing at a tour-nament in Yorkton on the weekend, losing the B fi nal after posting a 2-1 record in the round-robin.

The bantam A club fell 5-3 to Hudson Bay in the B fi nal, getting a pair of goals from Preston Brodziak and one from Colein Poole.

Hudson Bay capped off

The Estevan Bruins are in fi fth place in the Sher-wood Conference, holding the fi nal playoff spot, and two points out of last place.

Sometimes teams in that position trade away some of their older players at the trade deadline in an attempt to make themselves stronger in the future.

But all signs point to the team being buyers.

With the team making a profi t of about $200,000 last year, the executive has given head coach and gen-eral manager Keith Cas-sidy unlimited resources to improve the team via trade.

This team can afford to buy a star player, a luxury not all teams have, and the message from the executive has been to use the team’s off-ice success to improve the on-ice product as much as possible.

Cassidy has given mixed messages leading up to Thursday’s SJHL dead-line, but the underlying feeling seems to be that the Bruins will, at the very least, add a pair of forwards to make up for the long-term loss of Wyatt Garagan and the uncertainty regarding whether Calder Neufeld (high ankle sprain) will re-turn at all this season.

Further to that, the Bruins will be looking for at least one potent top six forward. Cassidy has been attempting, unsuccessfully,

Bruins unlikely to sell at deadline

to bolster an underachieving offence all season, although the latest option, Alex Cote, certainly shows some talent.

Cassidy also said the Bruins will try to add an impact defenceman if one is available.

Still, an onlooker will take stock of all this and perhaps ask why the team isn’t selling.

A fifth-place team that has been in that spot all year and has lost four straight games at a point in the season where the most important game is always the next one. A team that hasn’t remotely looked like a club that can make some noise in the playoffs. A team with seven 20-year-olds (al-though you might not know it by their performance this season) whose 1995-born list could use a boost.

It makes sense on the surface, to see whether a conditional deal involving Neufeld could net a list player, or what kind of value players like Cole Olson, Tyler Paslawski, Connor Milligan and Curtis Martinu

have (although concerns about the health of Steven Glass’s knee have arisen again lately).

But you can understand why it won’t happen.

Every junior hockey team goes through cycles, except, apparently, the Humboldt Broncos. In the Bruins’ recent history, when it’s time for the “high” part of the cycle, they fall fl at. This isn’t the fi rst time this has happened in a season they were expected to do well, and fans are fed up. They, for the most part, don’t want to see the B’s throw in the towel. They want them to do everything in their power to change the situation they find them-selves in.

One thing’s for sure,

nothing will change unless the Bruins bring in some leadership at the deadline. That’s missing in spades right now.

Ex-Bruin Matthew Dochylo was in town for a visit on the weekend, and the team only wishes he could play. Dochylo would fi ll so many voids: leader-ship, heart, desire, tough-ness, grit, did I mention leadership?

This year, the Bruins do not have a Matthew Dochylo. That, more than anything, is the problem.

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I can’t begrudge any-one from being excited that the NHL is back. I can’t blame people for immedi-ately rushing back to buy tickets, jerseys, hoodies or Center Ice subscriptions.

All I can say is have fun during the 2020-21 lockout.

In 1994, baseball play-ers walked off the field and the World Series was shelved for the first time ever.

And baseball fans sent

a message.Attendance was way

down, revenue was down and Major League Baseball took three or four years to recover.

MLB got the message. Not one missed game since 1995 for a league that used to be notorious for labour strife.

The NHL lies to us, condescends to us, paints Donald Fehr as Satan and drives the agenda for the most unnecessary lockout in the history of pro sports — oh, and did I mention it was the third time they’ve done it in 18 years? — and we come back like nothing happened.

All those people who said they weren’t coming back? They’re fi rst in line.

The league takes its fans for granted because it can. After the last lock-out — the only full season cancelled ever among the Big 4 sports leagues, by the way — fans came flood-ing back and the league realized record revenues for the next seven years be-fore locking out the players

again because the “system didn’t work” (translation: our owners can’t control themselves, so you have to pay for it).

Look, I’m not asking for people to leave the game and never come back. I’m asking the people who were “mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” or simply stopped caring dur-ing the lockout to stop giv-ing the league their money.

I’m asking for one statement. Arenas half-emp-ty on opening night, and not just in Phoenix. Can’t we even manage that?

Lockouts are the NHL’s method of choice in nego-tiating new collective bar-gaining agreements because there are no consequences.

They failed, and in ac-cepting their failure, we did too.

Josh Lewis can be reached by phone at 634-2654, by e-mail at sports@estevanmercury.ca, on Twit-ter at twitter.com/joshlew-is306 or on his Bruins blog at estevanmercury.ca/bru-insbanter. Sooo… go Irish?

Bantam A Bruins lose B fi nala tight game with an empty-netter late in the third.

Zack Miller started in goal for the Bruins, but he had to be replaced by Ethan Veroba after suffering an injury.

The Bruins began the tournament with a 3-1 win over the Melville Bills. Af-ter a scoreless fi rst period, the Bruins led 1-0 after the second and Veroba’s

shutout bid was only ended with two minutes left in regulation.

Es tevan’s scor ing all came from the line of Brodziak, Poole and Wyatt Haux, with each player net-ting a goal and two assists.

Tyson Collins had the lone marker for Melville.

In their second game, the Bruins fell 4-1 to the host Yorkton team. Brod-

ziak had the only goal for the Bruins, who had Miller in goal.

The team’s fi nal round-robin game saw them ham-mer Grenfell 8-2. Brodziak, Poole and Prestin Bergen each scored a pair of goals, while Josh Giblett and Sage Dayman added singles.

The Bruins will be at another tournament in Prince Albert this weekend.

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The Estevan juvenile Raiderettes and Raiders played in their fi rst tournament of the year in Odessa on the weekend.

The Raiderettes started slow, losing 7-0 to Odessa in their opener on Friday and being shut-out again by Big River in their second game.

Their third game was a 4-2 loss to Bruno, which saw Kristina Chamney score both goals. The fi rst came on a breakaway and the second was assisted by Jenna George and Emily Schroeder.

The Raiderettes fi nally picked up a win in their fi nal game, edging Manitoba 1-0. George had the only goal, with Shelby Frehlick earning an assist.

Chamney was named to the tournament’s second all-star team at forward.

The Raiders, meanwhile, went winless at the tournament, but they did place two players on the fi rst all-star team.

Dusty Schlamp made the squad at defence and was named the top defenceman, while Brayden Tuchscherer was named a fi rst-team all-star at forward.

Both teams will play in Bruno this weekend. The midget Raiders and Raiderettes will also be in action, playing exhibi-tion games against Odessa on Sunday.

A strong start helped the Estevan Bruins alumni capture the Challenge Cup with a 10-6 win over the Weyburn Red Wings alumni on Jan. 1 in Weyburn.

The fourth annual edi-tion of the game saw Estevan take back the trophy after Weyburn won it for the fi rst time last year.

About 40 former play-ers from the two organiza-tions, with their playing years ranging from 1977 to 2011, suited up for another chapter of the traditional rivalry.

“It’s kinda funny how you bury hatchets and old grudges from way back when and just talk about where everyone’s at in their lives right now,” said Dean Ehrmantraut, who played for the Bruins from 1982-87.

Dillon Johnstone, who scored twice in the game and played with the Bruins in the 2000s, said it was fun to play with and against players from different eras.

“There’s a vast history amongst the Bruins and when you can get all differ-

Bruins alumni earn win over Red Wings

ent ages, it kinda shows that there’s still a level of care and everybody still remem-bers their roots. It’s kinda neat because a lot of these guys are guys that I watched growing up, and yet they’re still guys I’m playing with (now).”

Lonny Forrester also had two goals for the Bruins, with Lorne Tytlandsvik, Dan McKersie, Dom Cote, J.J.

Fisher, Karry Biette and Eh-rmantraut adding markers.

Estevan roared out to a 4-0 lead in the first 15 minutes, thanks to goals by Johnstone, Tytlandsvik, For-rester and McKersie.

“I think maybe our little pre-game speech we had in the dressing room will point to that,” laughed de-fenceman Stephen Moon, who played in Estevan from

1993-97.But Weyburn clawed

back with goals from Chris-tian Cote, Eric Calibaba and Pete Anderson in a span of 11 minutes to make it 4-3 after the fi rst of two 30-min-ute periods.

The Bruins started the second period quickly as well, starting with Cote’s goal 20 seconds in. Fisher and Forrester also lit the

lamp early in the period.Jason Vermeulen put in

a rebound about fi ve minutes in to give Weyburn their fourth goal, and Biette re-sponded less than a minute later to put the Bruins ahead 8-4.

The Red Wings scored another goal less than three minutes later to cut into the lead.

Johnstone’s second goal came at the 12:50 mark and Ehrmantraut scored halfway through the period.

The scoring slowed down after that, with Cali-baba’s goal with about a minute left being the only other marker.

Forrester had a chance to score an 11th goal for the Bruins, but he was stopped on a penalty shot with 30 seconds left.

Moon said he was “probably a little rusty” but enjoyed the outing.

“It’s a pretty good feel-ing to be able to come back to a team like that, old and young, just to see the guys in the dressing room, how they vary. I always jump at

the chance to be able to come back,” he said.

Ehrmantraut, one of the older members of the team, cracked, “Thank goodness we had fi ve lines,” adding that his line was up there in age.

“We had a pretty young squad for the most part, ex-cept for our line I think was 142 years old,” he laughed.

“It’s a lot of fun to get into the dressing room be-fore and after. On the ice you can see guys don’t take it overly seriously. I think it’s more fun for your kids and spouses, and parents for that matter.“

On the other hand, Johnstone thought his line still had some game.

“I felt actually pretty good, considering I haven’t played a whole lot of hockey in the last year and a half. I played with some good guys too. Lonny Forrester still has some pretty good hands and Riley Tetreault’s got some good vision.”

Next year’s alumni game will be at Spectra Place.

Broomball teams

play in Odessa

J.J. Fisher of the Bruins and Eric Calibaba of the Red Wings exchange face washes

for old time’s sake as Bruins goalie Derek Tendler scoops up the puck during the

annual Estevan-Weyburn alumni game on Jan. 1

Shortest to Tallest“Too Tall” Hall, left, measures the height diff erence between himself and “Tiny”

Sturgess at Sunday’s Harlem Globetrotters game. They are the shortest and tallest

players in Globetrotters history, at 5’ 2” and 7’ 8” respectively.

ChampionsThe Estevan Stars novice team cleaned up at a tournament held in Moose Jaw on

the weekend, defeating the Lafl eche Flyers 7-3 to capture the A fi nal.

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It’s not a pretty story, but it’s true and its mes-sages are powerful.

That’s what is in store for those who attend the Jan. 12 book launch of Un-punished, a debut biograph-ically styled novel penned by local author D.D.K. or Donna, as she is identifi ed as in a media release issued prior to the event.

The launching will take place in the Estevan Public Library beginning at 2 p.m.

Donna (D.D.K.) will

be reading passages from the book and that will be followed by a book signing and refreshments.

Unpunished is a true account of this Saskatche-wan woman’s experiences. It’s a story about love, abuse, mental illness, mur-der and unknown factors.

“It’s not a pretty story, however it is one woman’s true story,” said Donna.

It addresses controver-sial issues and examines forms of abuse she faced and is written to help peo-

ple understand that “we do not have to dwell or wallow in the past. Life goes on and it is what we make of it.”

The novel took shape over several years from diaries, letters, phone calls and legal documents that Donna had saved. After she began sharing some information with friends and those involved in the legal aspects of events, she was encouraged to have her story written and often she was told it was a fascinating story that could

be turned into a book or movie.

After some time and consideration, she began the task, but only after she had reached the conclusion that maybe her life hadn’t been that normal. Life was not, in fact, the same for everyone and it was im-pressed upon her that her story could help others deal with abuse.

After many years and collaboration, Donna’s story reached the state of being a completed novel

that has resulted in a lot of positive feedback from those who have read the early releases.

“If you recognize these situations in your life or somebody else’s life ... reach out for help. It is sad how many people waste a huge part of life in dark-ness. This was written in hope that both men and women take a good look at their lives. We can all end the cycle and live a won-derful, happy life.”

Jill Kergan, adult pro-

gram co-ordinator for the public library, said after reading the book that “this is a powerful story. It’s remarkable how much one woman can endure and overcome through resil-ience and a positive outlook on life.”

Kergan added that the fact the story is a true recol-lection indicates the author holds nothing back in the telling, which makes it immensely readable and appealing to both men and women.

Book dealing with powerful topic to be launched at library

TEN YEARS AGO:Snow clearing, or

the lack of it, prompted Estevan residents to vent their frustrations through a number of letters to the editor and numerous tele-phone calls to City Hall. Several inches of snow had been dumped on Estevan a week before Christmas and two weeks later, motorists were still struggling to get around the community, especially in the residential areas. Even the downtown business areas on Fourth and Fifth streets proved to be challenging for anyone trying to park. In response, the City was now removing snow from priority routes, back alleys for garbage col-lection, and some collector streets. It was hoped that barring any further snow, crews would have streets passable by Jan. 8.

Jack Eldon Connor Schnell, who arrived at 2:12 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 3 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, was declared as Estevan’s

offi cial New Year’s baby. Jack was the son of Cur-tis and Allison Schnell of Oxbow.

Former ECS student Brad Seipp, who was cur-rently attending the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan where he was enrolled in the College of Engineering, was recently recognized for his academic achieve-ments. Seipp, who gradu-ated from ECS in June with an average of 97.8 per cent, was presented with the Governor General’s Aca-demic Medal by ECS prin-cipal Maurice Jago. The bronze medal is awarded to the student who achieves the highest average upon graduating from a Canadian secondary school.

After suffering their fi rst and only loss of the South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League season, the Estevan BorderTown Midget AA Bruins stormed back with three straight wins. The Bruins lost to Swift Current on Dec. 21,

but came back over the weekend to improve their record to 24-1-1- for a league best 49 points.

As of Jan. 1, users of the City’s leisure services and facilities were paying 10 per cent more than in the past. The increase in fees had been approved by city council in 2002.

TWENTY YEARS AGO:

The fi re had been put out and non-smokers were rejoicing. As a result of a narrow decision made by city council on Jan.1 1, smoking had been banned at the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre. The new ban took effect the next morning, and it in-cluded every facility in the complex with the exception of the Over 60 Clubrooms.

A number of volun-teers in Lampman joined together to form a group known as New Friends. Co-ordinated by Bernice Storle and consisting of 20 other people, the purpose

of the group was to spend some time each week visit-ing shut-ins and others in the community to provide some relief from loneliness and isolation, making it easier for the clients to cope with living alone.

Phil Mamchur, eco-nomic development offi cer for the City of Estevan, and Alan Davis of North Portal, were appointed as represen-tatives to the Central North American Trade Corridor Association. Mamchur was appointed as the repre-sentative for the Estevan Chamber of Commerce, while Davis would repre-sent Percy H. Davis Ltd., a customs brokerage fi rm. The association was to act as a catalyst in promotion and development of the natural north/south trade corridor through the heart-land of the Great Plains of the North American continent from Canada to Mexico. The purpose of the CNATCA was to strive to facilitate trade and en-hance transportation along this route.

Members of the Es-

tevan Real Estate Board reported 1992 had been an excellent year for home sales. The city’s three real estate fi rms sold 210 houses on the Multiple Listing Ser-vice (MLS) in 1992, with total sales volume jumping to almost $13.5 million, a 79 per cent increase over 1991. The average price for homes sold was $64,000.THIRTY YEARS AGO:

Employees of Este-van Brick who had been laid off before Christmas was gradually returning to work. Mike Csada, com-pany comptroller, said 10 employees were back on the job on Jan. 10, and more would be called back on Jan. 21 when the kiln would be fi red up. He said the workers were being called back on the basis of seniority and experience. It was expected that all 31 employees who had been laid off would be back on the job by the end of the month. The shutdown at the plant had resulted from slumping sales and a provide-wide strike by the construction trades.

The Estevan Cham-ber of Commerce reported the popularity of reaching Santa Claus reached a new high during the past fes-tive season. For the past several years, the chamber had SaskTel install a local telephone number so chil-dren could enjoy talking to Santa Claus and relay to him what they wanted for presents on Dec. 25. This past Christmas, Santa received 26,126 calls, the highest number recorded since the telephone line was established.

Paul Donovel, who had been elected as a new member of the Estevan Roman Catholic Separate School Division No. 27 Board in the October civic election, was selected to become chairman of the board at their fi rst meeting of the new year on Jan. 10.

The Estevan Bears re-mained undefeated in Big Six Hockey League actions as they made it 12 wins in a row on Jan.9 when they dumped the Lampman Im-perials 10-3 at the Civic Auditorium.

First BabySundance Dream McArthur arrived at 2:12 a.m. on Jan. 2 at St. Joseph’s Hospital to claim the title of being the fi rst baby born in Estevan in 2013. The little boy

checked in at seven pounds, fi ve ounces, and was born to Melissa Ahenakew and Nathan McArthur of Kisbey, a third child for the couple.

“We do not have to dwell or wallow in

the past. Life goes on and it is what we

make of it.”— Donna

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The Christmas season came and was wonderful for us all. We enjoyed visits with family members from both far and near.

The entertainment that we had during December month was excellent. We had so much entertain-ment that we are looking forward to some quiet time in January. We feel the same about all the dain-ties and chocolates ... they were super tasty while we ate them and now during January, we will be walk-ing the halls as we try to whittle our waists back down to size.

Our Christmas supper held on Dec. 3 was deli-cious. We had it catered and we would like to thank EB’s Dining for providing us with such a lovely meal. A big round of applause to EB’s chefs and kitchen

staff as you were able to give our chefs a well de-served break from cooking.

After our supper, we enjoyed Christmas carols sung by the Creighton Lodge Songbirds and then a beautiful song was per-formed using bells. Ev-eryone is so talented. Jim Pratt and Leroy Schlamp joined in on the reindeer fun by singing for us - boy can those men sing! We could have listened to them all night, but we had to let them go so that Santa and Mrs. Claus could come to the Lodge to hand out our presents. Everyone enjoyed a gift bag, oven mitts and cookies.

We are so loved and spoiled at Christmas - it really makes us smile. The magic of Santa Claus is wonderful to experience at any age.

The Church of God, St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Trinity Lutheran, Living Hope and

the Church of Christ all helped to fulfi l our spiritual needs during December. The Sunday school chil-dren brought us beautiful trays of dainties and some fellowship on a Sunday morning. You are all much appreciated for being so kind and loving.

Our exercise ladies kept us hopping all month with stretches, bends, leg lifts and weight training. We sure appreciate that you made the time and were able to fi t us in during the busy month of December. January is when we really need you so that our lovely lady fi gures remain with us well into our senior years.

We had lots of enter-tainers come to Creigh-ton Lodge in December. We enjoyed the sounds of Freddie and the Free-bies, the Happy Wanderers, Bob Olson and family, the Church of Christ Singers, Lois Sutcliffe on the piano, Elly Foster, The Red Hat

Ladies, The SaskPower Singers from Regina, the Westview School choir, Drewitz dancers, the Men-nonite Singers, Jim Pratt and Leroy Schlamp, the Filipino Choir, Josh Pele and friends, and our own songbird choir. We heard so many songs and saw so many dancers that our toes are still tapping and the songs are playing in our hearts. We love know-ing that we are thought of throughout the Christmas season.

We are welcoming two new residents to Creigh-ton Lodge. Rudy Stubel and Irene Davis have both joined us and we look for-ward to getting to know them.

New Year’s Eve was spent in our lounge with appetizers and refresh-ments. We enjoyed one another’s company and visited, but not very many of us made it to midnight. However the important part of New Year’s Eve is spending it with the people

who are most important to you and we are thankful that we were able to spend it with one another.

We would l ike to wish health and happiness in 2013 to our friends, families, and all of you who continually support Creighton Lodge.

We all have been busy making our New Year’s resolutions and when we report about January hap-penings, we will let you know if we have been able to stick to them.

Creighton Lodge happenings

Students from the Dre-witz School of Dance in Estevan, under the direc-tion of Lorie-Gay Drewitz-Gallaway, were examined in Highland dance skills on Nov. 2 by Lynne Hamilton from Glasgow, Scotland.

Students were exam-ined in medal, national and jig categories.

The results of these examinations were recently released and posted.

Highland Medals Pre -b ronze f l i ng :

Highly commended - Abby Hanson, Tiana Seeman and Renee Lavoie; Com-

mended plus: Brooke Strutt and Elsie Alexander.

Bronze Medal: Highly commended - Abby Hanna, Jillian Fornwald, Cazlynn Barnstable, Olivia Carr and Faith Englot; Commended plus: Taylor Geisel.

P re -s i lver Medal : Highly commended - Co-lesey Goetz, Gabrielle Bokhorst, Mia Hanson, Racquelle Gibbons and Emily Alexander.

P r e - g o l d M e d a l : Highly commended - Kia Rosenbaum and Kelsey Romanyk; Commended plus: Shelby Tytlandsvik

and Camryn Brown; Com-mended: Tamira Krall.

Gold Medal: Highly commended - Becky Black-burn and Michelle Fergus-son; Commended plus: Madison Frehlick.

Scottish Award 2 Med-al: Highly commended - Hunter Hildebrand.

Scottish Award 3 Med-al: Highly commended - Teagan Graham.

Scottish Award 4 Med-al: Highly commended - Kiera Baryluk.

Scottish Award 4 Med-al: Highly commended - Kiera Baryluk.

Scottish National Medals B r o n z e N a t i o n a l :

Commended - Taylor Geisel, Olivia Carr, Faith Englot, Jillian Fornwald, Abby Hann and Cazlynn Barnstable.

Silver National: Com-mended plus - Mia Hanson; Commended - Ricki Gra-ham, Colesey Goetz, Em-ily Alexander, Racquelle Gibbons and Gabrielle Bokhorst.

Gold National: Com-mended - Taira Krall and Camryn Brown.

Scottish Award Na-tional 1 - Highly com-

mended - Becky Black-burn; Commended plus - Madison Frehlick, Kia Rosenbaum and Kelsey Romanyk.

Scottish Award Na-tional 2: Highly commend-ed - Teagan Graham.

Scottish Award Na-tional 3: Highly commend-ed - Hunter Hildebrand.

Irish Jig Medals Pre-Bronze jig: Com-

mended plus - Ricki Gra-ham; Commended - Shelby Tytlandsvik.

Bronze jig: Commend-ed plus - Kelsey Romanyk; Commended - Kia Rosen-

baum, Camryn Brown, Tamira Krall and Shelby Tytlandsvik.

Gold jig: Commended plus - Madison Frehlick; Commended - Becky Blackburn and Michelle Fergusson.

Scottish Award 1 jig: Highly commended - Tea-gan Graham and Hunter Hildebrand.

Congratulations were extended to all the dancers who successfully complet-ed the examination process and will now move on in the development of their dancing skills.

Drewitz students complete dance exams

Submitted by Shirley GrahamClub Secretary

Happy New Year! Hope it will be a good one.

Make any resolutions? Me neither.

However, I did no-tice that as you get older, everything either dries up or leaks.

On behalf of the club memberships, I would like to thank Al Fellner and Charlene Anderson for the “best Christmas party ever.” Many long hours went into decorating, or-ganizing the supper and handing out the many door prizes. We are so glad to have you on our “team.” Also thanks to the many

businesses that donated the door prizes.

The first meeting of 2013 was held on Thurs-day, Jan. 3 with cribbage following Winners were as follows: First place went to Ed Schell and Colin Ren-wick, taking second were Elizabeth Olson and Brian Callfas, and placing third were Lorna Stubel and Jake Fichter.

Bridge was played on Wednesday, Jan. 2 with the following emerging as winners: Al Fellner, fi rst; Helen Marriott, second; and Lorna Stubel, third.

Don’t forget the jam session that will be held on Sunday, Jan. 13 beginning at 2 p.m. As well, round dancing begins once more

on Wednesday, Jan. 16.Again, I welcome our

new members and hope you will enjoy your time with us.

This is my last Christ-mas poem (I promise):

I made myself a snow-ball,

As perfect as could beI thought I’d keep it

as a petAnd let it sleep with

me.I made it some py-

jamasAnd a pillow for its

head,But last night it ran

awayBut fi rst it “wet” the

bed!Great to be back ... see

you next week.

The Estevan Christian Women’s After 5 Club held their December meeting at Living Hope Community Church with 35 members in attendance. A delicious

supper was catered by Pat Bellavance, a schoolteacher from Macoun.

Joni Gustafson enter-tained with several Christ-mas carols, which really put everyone in the festive spirit.

The special feature was given by Heather Pyra, whose hobby is reflexol-ogy, which she does on the evenings. She gave a very humorous presentation on the benefi ts of refl exology, while also noting she would go to people’s homes to pro-vide this service.

Guest speaker was Shei-la Anderson from Saskatoon. She spoke about her bucket list that includes adventures ranging from hand-bell ring-ing to zip lining.

The next supper meet-ing will be held on Jan. 16 at Living Hope Community Church. Guest speaker will be Wendy Kroeker of Medi-cine Hat, Alta., and the ECS percussion band will also give a musical presentation. If you wish to attend, please contact Colleen before Jan. 13 at 634-4017.

60 and over club notes

Christian Women’s After 5 Club

Tuesday, January 15:*Estevan Bruins vs. Notre Dame Hounds - Spectra Place - 7:30 p.m.

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The great room in-cludes a gas fireplace, set into a corner to save space. The french doors in the dining room open out

to the veranda, offering a perfect spot for al fresco dining. Another doorway, close to the kitchen, also leads to the verandah and a step down to the back garden.

The kitchen is divided from the dining area by a large prep island, provid-ing extra counter space as well as storage below. Natural light will flood through the window over the double sink. A walk-in pantry occupies space beneath the stairway to the second fl oor.

Tucked into space be-hind the double garage are a two-piece powder room and the laundry room, as well as space for the fur-nace and water heater and a work-bench. The laundry room contains a closet for family gear, and handy coat hooks are installed

on a nearby wall. Thanks to the doorway from the laundry room that leads to the back garden, this room can double as a mudroom. Another doorway opens into the garage.

Also on the main fl oor is a den, ideally located for use as a home offi ce, and a coat closet.

Upstairs, the master suite overlooks the front garden and features its own covered balcony at one side, the ideal spot for morning coffee when the weather is pleasant. With plenty of windows, the master suite also includes a half wall, 42 inches high, which overlooks the foyer below.

A walk-in closet will provide plenty of space for clothing and accessories. The ensuite includes a soaker tub with a tiled sur-

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The two secondary bedrooms share a three-piece bathroom. The linen cupboard is adjacent. On the stair landing is a com-puter desk. Ceilings are nine feet high throughout.

Exterior finishes in-clude horizontal wood sid-ing and hexagonal wooden shingles in the gables, as well as painted trim.

The home measures 63 feet, six inches wide and 44 feet deep, for a total of 2,049 square feet.

Plans for design 7-3-994 are available for $746 (set of fi ve), $835(set of eight) and $890 for a su-per set of 10. Also add $30 for Priority charges within B.C. or $55 outside of B.C. Please add 12 or 13 per cent HST or fi ve per cent GST (where ap-

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STOREY TWO

WIDTH - 63'- 6" (19.4M)DEPTH - 44'- 0" (13.4M)

MAIN FLOOR PLAN 1087 SQ. FT. (101.0 M2)

PLAN NO. H 7-3-994TOTAL 2059 SQ. FT. (191.3 M2)

SECOND FLOOR PLAN 972 SQ. FT. (90.3 M2)

9'-0" CEILING HEIGHT

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IN MEMORIAM

Betty Johanna Mary

Wright

1947 - 2005

If Roses Grow in Heaven

If roses grow in Heaven LordPlease pick a bunch for me.

Place them in myMother’s arms

And tell her they’re from me.Tell her I love her and

miss her,And when she turns to smile,Place a kiss upon her cheek

And hold her for a while.Because remembering her

is easy, I do it everyday,

But there is an ache withinmy heart

That will never go away.- Fondly remembered and sadly missed by: Aaron, Melanie & Family; Shauna, Rennie & Family.

In Loving Memory of

Evelyn Lisafeld

September 27, 1932 -

January 14, 2011

God looked around His gardenAnd found an empty placeHe then looked down upon

this EarthAnd saw your tired face.

He put His arms around youAnd lifted you to rest,God’s garden must be

beautiful,He always takes the best.

- Dearly missed by Raymond and Family.

IN MEMORIAM

In Loving Memory of

Our Mother

Carol Koberinski

Who passed away

January 3, 2011

We little knew that morning,God was going to call your

name,In life we loved you dearly,In death we do the same.

It broke our hearts tolose you,

You did not go alone.For part of us went with you

The day God calledyou home.

You left us beautifulmemories,

Your love is still our guide,And though we cannot

see you,You are always at our side.Our family chain is broken,

And nothing seems the same,But as God calls us

one by one,The chain will link again.

- Your loving children, Jeff, Janice, Sherisse, Valerie, Brad and Barb.

In Loving Memory of

Penny Dukart

Who passed away a year ago

January 1, 2012

Your touch, your smile,Was always so tender,

Today, tomorrow,We will always remember.

- Love you always, Darcy; Jody & Misty and your precious Aaliyah; Crystal & Danny & Miracle Baby,

Ty.

IN MEMORIAM

In Memory

Alfred Saxon

December 15, 1921 -

January 8, 2007

One by one they go before us,They are fading like the dew,

But we know they’rewaiting for us,

They the good, the fair,the true.

They are waiting for us onlyWhere no pain can ever marDear one, you left us lonely,

Watch us through thegates ajar;

There a Mother,there a Father,

Gone within those gates ajar.Sunshine fades and

shadows fall,But sweet remembrance

outlasts all.- Loved, Remembered and Sadly Missed by Your Family.

CARD OF THANKS

THANK YOU

The Hanelt Family would like to thank those who joined us in cele-brating Karl’s life. Thank you for the well wishes, cards, donations, etc. Thank you to Hall Funeral Services, Pastor Krauss and Parry Phillips. Greatly appreciated are the neighbours who have helped us the past few years and also the staff and residents of Creighton Lodge who welcomed Karl into their fold.

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Congratulations to

Wayne and Elaine Davidson

on their

60th Anniversary

Please join us for cake and

coffee at the

St. Joseph’s Hospital

Auditorium

on

Sunday, January 13

from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Please, no gifts

- Karen, Art, Garth, Jim and Fami-lies.

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Matchett-Francis

July 16, 1993 - January 5, 2007

In Loving Memory of

Dad’s “Special Angel.”

To hear your voice, and see your smile.

To sit with you and talk a while.To be together in the same old

way,Would be our greatest wish today.

There will always be a heartache

And often a silent tear.But always a precious memory,

Of the day you were here.We hold you close in our heartsAnd there you will always stay.

Remembering you is easy,We do it everyday.

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- Forever loved, remembered and deeply missed by her Dad Ken, Tammy, Cassie and Airyanna, Josh, Elijah, Coltyn, Grandma and Grandpa Matchett and Uncles Douglas and Darren.

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Elizabeth (Betty) Muriel SchlapkohlJuly 12, 1929 - December 30, 2012

It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of Elizabeth (Betty) Schlapkohl - wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and friend.

Betty will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Arnold of 59 years; her daughter, Diane (Roland) Nordick; son, Wayne (Laurie) Schlapkohl; three grandchildren, Jeffrey Nordick, Mi-chelle Nordick and Katherine Schlapkohl; one sister, Pauline Bilawich; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Betty was predeceased by her parents, Ignatius and Rose Dillman; four brothers, Valentine, Jake, Peter and John; four sisters, Marie, Magdalene, Rose and Katherine.

Betty was the youngest of ten children and grew up on a farm nine miles northeast of Bienfait, Saskatchewan. Being of small stature - 5’ 1-1/4” - she was nicknamed “little-bit” at Rich

Prairie School. But her small stature was in no way indicative of her character. She was a very de-termined person, stood up for what she believed was right and could out-work many of the “skinny city boys” that were hired to help out at the farm during harvest. Her father passed away in 1944, leaving her and her mother and youngest brother on the farm. They lived there until her brother John was married and took over the family farm, at which time Betty and her mother moved to Estevan. She worked at Symons Grocery and Bakery, Grundeen Creamery and the Bank of Mon-treal. After her children grew up, she worked at Love Story for 20 years.

Betty married Arnold Schlapkohl on April 30, 1953. Betty had a profound commitment to her marriage. She and Arnold not only found the love of their lives in each other, but tackled every task of daily living together and were best friends until the end. Betty also had a strong commit-ment to her children and grandchildren and cherished every moment that could be spent together with them.

Betty also believed in “giving of herself” to her community. Accordingly, she was a leader for the 4th Estevan Brownie Pack for fi ve years, Treasurer for the Cubs and Scouts Club and volunteer for the St. John Ambulance as well as their Treasurer. It was during this time that she was invited to Ottawa to receive the Serving Sisters Award from the then Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, for her years of volunteer work. Two years later, in 1992, she received the Volunteer Recognition award.

Betty’s faith in God was unwavering. She was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for fi fty-fi ve years and volunteered her time and talent in many ways over the many years.

One of Betty’s passions was dancing. Betty and Arnold were members of the Estevan square and round dance clubs for over 37 years. They also enjoyed old-time dancing.

In their retirement years, Betty and Arnold were able to travel to many places around the world, play cards and coffee with friends and spend time with family. If there were any spare mo-ments left in the day, Betty could be found quilting, gardening or reading.

Elizabeth Muriel Schlapkohl was a great blessing to so many lives and will be greatly missed.A funeral service for Betty was held at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Estevan on Friday,

January 4, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. Pastor Randy Kleemola offi ciated at the service. Interment followed in the Veterans Section at the Estevan City Cemetery.

Those so wishing may make donations to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church or the New Estevan Regional Nursing Home in Betty’s memory.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank YouThank you to all the friends and family for your cards, phone calls, gifts of food and words of en-couragement. Thank you to Allan Styre at Hall Funeral Services, and to the members of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for the funeral luncheon.

Frank Mokelky

Frank Mokelky late of Lampman, passed away at Estevan, on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at the age of age 83 years.

Survived by his wife, Eileen, Lampman; son, Rodney (Vera) Mokelky, Lampman; daughter, Delee (Dennis) Priem, Regina; grandchildren, Chad and Owen Mokelky, Lampman, Kevin Priem, Regina; siblings, Lena Donald, Brandon, Man., Anne Yale, Calgary, Alta., John (Dorothy) Mokelky, Medicine Hat, Alta., Louise Doyle, Regina, Nick Mokelky, LaRonge.

Predeceased by his parents, Nicholas and Lena Mokelky; siblings, Ralph Mokelky, Tony Mokelky, Mary Keutz, Kay Polley, Margaret Ulmer, Grace Reid and one infant brother.

Celebration of Frank’s life was held on Sunday January 6, 2013 with Pastor Walter Engel offi ciating. Interment followed at Elm Lawn Cemetery, Lampman

In lieu of fl owers, friends may make donations to the Canadian Cancer Society in memory of Frank Mokelky.

Funeral arrangements in care of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

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The past year as gov-ernment we have focused on our number one priority, the economy. That’s why we passed the Economic Action Plan 2012, including two budget implementation bills.

The plan is working. Since July of 2009 when the global recession hit, over 820,000 net new jobs were created, the best growth record of all G7 econo-mies, with 90 per cent of these new jobs being private sector created full-time positions and more than two-thirds in high wage industries.

Challenges remain in the global economy, and particularly in the United States and Europe. Much has been said of the Ameri-can fi scal cliff, which many hope will be resolved and the sovereign debt and banking crisis in the Euro area which have the poten-tial to fuel another global downturn. There appear to

Komarnicki looks back at 2012be more downsides than upsides, with respect to the economy, at least in the short term.

In 2011, 74 per cent of Canada’s exported goods were bound for the U.S., down from 87 per cent a decade earlier, showing our government’s efforts to di-versify trade have worked, and indeed this has been mirrored by rising shares of our exports to Europe, emerging Asia and other markets. As a government, we will continue pursuing trade deals.

As a government, we are on track to return to balanced budgets over the medium term, and unlike the previous Liberal gov-ernment we have not and will not reduce transfers to Canadians, such as seniors and children, or transfers to other levels of government for services that Canadian families rely on, such as health care and social ser-vices.

We continued to attract foreign investment, subject to ensuring that the foreign investment is of net benefi t

to Canada, and that national security interests are re-spected, especially when looking at investments from state owned companies. After the CNOOC decision, any state owned company takeover in the oilsands will not be permitted, except in exceptional circumstances. When such takeovers do occur, we should always ensure that in every case acceptable conditions are placed with respect to criti-cal matters, such as the environment, treatment of labour, corporate gover-nance, financial transpar-ency, and operation on a commercial basis.

A number of particu-lar steps have been taken throughout the year to en-sure continued economic growth and defi cit reduction including:

· Cutting government expenses and moving pen-sion plans for MPs, Sena-tors and public servants to a 50 - 50 cost sharing basis and raising the age of retirement to 65 for all MPs, Senators and newly hired public servants.

· Making changes to the Canada Grain Act which remove certain Canadian Grain Commission services that are no longer required, and allow the Canadian Grain Commission to focus on its core objectives.

· Reducing regulatory burdens by moving to a “one project, one environ-mental review” model.

· Replacing the Naviga-ble Waters Protection Act, a perennial thorn in the side of local rural municipalities and landowners seeking to make developments near or on waterways with the new Navigation Protection Act. This new act will re-move the federal oversight requirement for projects affecting waterways other than 100 listed lakes and oceans and 62 listed rivers.

· Increasing the Tax-Free Savings Account con-tribution limit by $500, to a total of $5500 per year.

· Introducing legisla-tion that expedites refugee reviews from Designated countries of origin from an average of 1038 days to 171 days.

· Strengthening Ca-nadian food safety by an-nouncing $51.2 million dol-lars of additional funding over the next two years to the Canadian Food Inspec-tion Agency, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada.

· Passing the First Na-tions Financial Transparen-cy Act, which will disclose the salaries and expenses of band chiefs and councillors.

· Ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s Monopoly and finally bringing mar-keting freedom back to Western Canadian Grain farmers.

Our government has also delivered on a long-standing promise by end-ing the Long-gun registry, which needlessly targeted law abiding gun owners, farmers and hunters instead of focusing on real crime.

It is particularly impor-tant that we keep our fi scal house in order, pay down debt, and continue with sound economic policies as set out in the Economic Action Plan 2012. It is not a time to engage in risky NDP

policies and programs that would not only slow down our economy, increase our defi cit, and have a dramatic effect on Western Cana-dians.

After becoming NDP leader, Thomas Mulcair referred to the “Dutch dis-ease” when talking about resource development, a reference that should have all of us very worried about what his cure might mean. The NDP leader has said he would have a cap and trade program with respect to greenhouse gas emissions that would produce billions in tax revenue, something that would hurt every Ca-nadian in their pocketbook. The NDP platform outlines their plan to raise $21 bil-lion in revenue, and it does that through a proposed cap and trade program. This is a stark reality that we cannot risk, particularly in Western Canada.

All in all it has been a good year with sound, solid fi nancial management and an economy that continues to outperform all other G7 countries.

Saskatchewan job numbers closed out 2012 with a monthly record high of 539,800 employed peo-ple in December, according to the labour force survey released by Statistics Can-ada last week. December’s increase of 16,300 over De-cember 2011 marks the 13th consecutive month where records have been set.

“2012 was a very suc-cessful year for our prov-ince, with strong job growth of 2.1 per cent and jobs up by 11,200 from the previous year,” Economy Minister Bill Boyd said. “We are working diligently to en-courage even more people to choose Saskatchewan as their place to live, work, do

Employment records set in 2012business, and raise a family, and are looking forward to an equally successful 2013.”

Saskatchewan’s sea-sonally adjusted unemploy-ment rate of 4.6 per cent was once again the second lowest in the country. Na-tionally, the unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent.

Other year-over-year highlights include:

• Saska tchewan’s growth rate of 3.1 per cent was the third highest among the provinces;

• Full-time employ-ment increased by 11,400 for 20 months of record monthly highs and part-time jobs increased by 5,000;

• The goods producing sector was a key contribu-

tor to strong employment growth of 10.8 per cent which includes gains in construction, agriculture, manufacturing and forestry, mining, oil and gas;

• The seasonally ad-justed youth unemployment rate was 9.9 per cent, once again the second lowest among the provinces; and

• Off-reserve Aborigi-nal employment was up by 500 (1.3 per cent) in 2012.

“Saskatchewan is in an enviable position - we are seeing growth all around us,” Boyd said. “The Sas-katchewan Plan for Growth has laid out a very clear direction for the province and that will mean more growth, more investment,

and more people working and living here.”

Despite experiencing overall employment gains in 2012, Saskatchewan saw disappointing losses in pri-vate sector employment and the First Nations and Métis labour force.

Although happy with the increase in public sector jobs, the opposition NDP raised concerns about the drop in private sector em-ployment in 2012.

The NDP noted that the private sector lost 600 jobs during 2012, according to the latest jobs report from Statistics Canada. During the same time period, the public sector added 11,800 jobs and 5,200 people be-

came self-employed. This is the third consecutive month in which Statistics Canada has reported a year-over-year drop in the number of private sector jobs.

Statistics Canada also reported that the Métis la-bour force shrunk by 1,500 over the last year while the First Nations labour force shrunk by 700. The labour force includes those who are either working or actively looking for work.

“Public sector employ-ment and self-employment are both important, but the decline in private sector employment is concern-ing,” said NDP employment critic Cam Broten. “And it’s especially concerning

that, for six months in a row, the jobs report has not painted a very good picture of First Nations and Métis employment. Once again this highlights the need for the Sask. Party government to reverse its decision and reinstate the Aboriginal Employment Development Program.”

Sectors that lost jobs in 2012 included: accom-modation and food services (-4,600 jobs); fi nance, in-surance, real estate and leasing (-2,500 jobs); trade (-1,700 jobs); professional, scientifi c and technical ser-vices (-1,100 jobs); utilities (-600 jobs); and transporta-tion and warehousing (-200 jobs).

A recent report says that animal shelters throughout Canada, including here in Estevan, are being overrun by cats.

The Canadian Federa-tion of Humane Societies released a multi-stakeholder report on the cat overpopula-tion crisis in Canada. The report reveals that the animal sheltering system is at ca-pacity or dangerously over capacity for the number of cats in care. The Mercury reported in 2012 that the Es-tevan Humane Society was dealing with an excess of cats and the shelter itself was over capacity.

The CFHS report was based on data provided by 478 stakeholders from across the country, including the Saskatoon SPCA and the Saskatchewan SPCA. Other participants included humane societies, SPCAs, municipali-ties, veterinarians, rescues, trap-neuter-return groups and spay/neuter organizations.

“We undertook this re-search to better understand the negative consequences of cat overpopulation” said CFHS CEO Barbara Cartwright.

Research indicates that in 2011, more than 600,000 homeless cats in Canadian shelters did not find new homes. These cats remained

Homeless cats a

growing problemin shelters, awaiting perma-nent placement or facing euthanasia. Overwhelmingly cats in shelters are euthanized due to illness or a change in health status compounded by long stays in shelters.

The CFHS report noted that cats are twice as likely as dogs to end up abandoned at a shelter or rescue. Fur-thermore, cats entering the sheltering system have less than a one per cent chance of being reunited with their families, compared with 30 per cent of dogs.

The report indicates that adoption is the most read-ily available solution to cat overpopulation. However, it appears not enough Cana-dians are choosing to adopt cats from shelters. Only an average of 44 per cent of cats brought into animal shelters fi nd homes.

Stakeholders agreed that the long-term solution to the overpopulation problem in-volves spay/neuter programs for all felines, including in-door cats.

Among the other rec-ommendations in the CFHS report are stricter enforcement of municipal bylaws and bet-ter education about the over-population problem. As well, pet owners must take more responsibility for their pets.

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tiful Lengths program which makes wigs for people battling cancer.

One man is heading to jail after providing false identifi cation upon entering Canada at the North Portal Port of Entry in 2012.

Estevan provincial court proceedings on Monday saw sentencing for Marcel Allary in the matter.

On Sept. 7 at 3 a.m., Allary was travelling with a group of people from the United States looking to enter the country. There were a number of people in the pick-up truck, and when they arrived at the port, were asked to exit the vehicle and head into the offi ce to pro-vide documentation while the vehicle was searched.

When a Canadian Bor-der Services Agency offi cer looked under the tarp in the back of the truck, they saw some blankets move. Allary

Immigration matter leads to jail timewas underneath the blankets and told the offi cer he had been sleeping.

Allary was asked to go into the offi ce and provide documentation. He produced a birth certificate for Ty-son Dayman, born in 1984, though Allary is 38 years old.

The offi cer questioned Allary about how to spell the last name on the provided birth certifi cate, and that’s when he told offi cer the iden-tifi cation was not really his.

The federal Crown pros-ecutor noted the maximum sentence for the charges was 14 years in jail, though he added that there were no aggravating factors and Al-lary immediately came clean about the improper ID.

The Crown added that it is still a serious crime.

“It sounds like an innoc-

uous thing in many respects, but it’s not,” he said. “There is an obligation on people to tell the CBSA who they are. Depriving the authorities of the opportunity to assess who is coming and going in our country is a serious offence.”

It was unclear exactly how Allary came by the birth certifi cate, but it does belong to an actual person.

Allary’s criminal record in Canada dates from 1994 to 2007, and there had been a break in convictions until 2011 when he had charges involving impersonation.

The Crown and defence agreed to Allary serving 30 days in jail and presented that sentence to Judge Karl Bazin.

Bazin accepted the sub-missions and Allary was taken into custody.

In other court proceed-ings, Davin McConnell pleaded guilty to theft over $5,000 and was handed a 15-month conditional sen-tence order.

McConnell was at an acquaintance’s house on May 8 last year. He had just met the female victim that day and had been drinking. While at her house, he took the keys to her car and after excusing himself to go to the bathroom, started the vic-tim’s 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt and drove off.

He was pulled over and arrested near Milestone.

McConnell admitted to stealing the car and then driv-ing on back roads to avoid the police.

McConnell’s criminal record dates back to be-tween 2002 and 2008, and

the charges include prop-erty offences and theft under $5,000.

A victim impact state-ment was fi led by the Crown and it noted how the incident has shaken the victim’s trust in other people.

The victim also needed to have the vehicle towed back to her house, so Mc-Connell must pay $102.90 in restitution to cover that cost.

As part of the 15-month conditional sentence order, McConnell must abide by a curfew of 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. for the fi rst four months, not have any contact with the

victim and seek any neces-sary counselling or assess-ments.

Also appearing in court was Ron Lukye, who faces charges of sexual assault, as-sault and sexual interference. Lukye had a trial scheduled in December, but it was ad-journed. A new trial was set for May 7 to 10.

Lukye also had some conditions to his release amended. He previously had to remain within 40 kilome-tres of his residence, but that was stretched to 250 kilome-tres. Lukye is still banned from entering Estevan.

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