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The voice of the Parkland for over 100 years
Shellbrook, Saskatchewan Friday, December 26, 2014
VOL. 102 NO. 52 PMR #40007604
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Shellbrook Elementary goes green for Christmas
Santa (Ben Lafond) and Mrs. Claus (Jade Keyowski) lead students from Shellbrook Elementary School in singing “Merry Merry Christmas.”
Shellbrook
Elementary School held its annual Christmas Concert on
Thursday, Dec. 18, with
two showings taking place
throughout the day. The
matinee event began at
1 p.m., while an evening
performance followed at 7
p.m.
Students from Pre- Kindergarten to Grade 5 joined
together in presenting
“Santa Goes Green,” a musical performance in which
Santa (played with ample
jolliness by Grade 5 student Ben Lafond) learns
all about the importance
of being environmentally
friendly.
The afternoon show
began with an exclusive
Christmas Turkey Dance
performed by Mrs. Crawford’s
pre-Kindergarten
students. Mrs. Hladun’s
antlered
Kindergarteners followed the energetic
dance up with a welcome
poem, and a dance of their
own called the Reindeer
Pokey, then all the school’s
students joined in to sing
“Merry Merry Christmas”
to the packed house.
After this, it was time
for the play to really start,
as Santa began to learn
all about the dangers of
Greenhouse gases from
Mrs. Claus (played by
Jade Keyowski), Rudolph
(played by Lynden Kerber)
and a whole cast of Grade
5 students, in a tango number called “The Greenhouse
Effect.”
“In Summer,” a song taken from the popular Disney
movie Frozen, followed this
number, with Carnell playing a summer-loving snowman (no doubt inspired by
the character of Olaf from
the same film).
The next lesson for Santa
was all about alternative
fuels and conserving energy as the Grade 2 students
took to centre stage to perform “Turn off the Pumps.”
Then it was time for everybody to sing a song about
alternative energy sources
in the song “Power to the
People,” which also doubled as a medley of traditional Christmas Carols.
From there, it was the
Grade 3 students in the
spotlight, as they sang a
humorous little ditty about
recycling called “Recycle
the Fruitcake.” The Grade
5 students returned to the
stage after this to sing “It’s
Our World,” and were followed by the Grade 1 students, who performed
“Come on Ring Those
Bells.” As the performance
wrapped up, the Grade
4 students took to the
stage to sing “We’re Going
Green.” The show ended
with all students singing
a reprise of “Merry Merry
Christmas.”
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Shellbrook Elementary goes green for Christmas
Pre-Kindergarten students perform the Christmas Turkey Dance to kick off the afternoon performance of the Elementary School Christmas concert.
Santa (played by Ben Lafond) leads the cast in teaching the audience about renewable energy at the Christmas concert.
Christmas Trees Alexys Chuback and Petra Brix perform a song at the Elementary School’s Christmas concert.
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PMB to reform the Indian Act receives royal assent
Over three years after
Rob Clarke (MP, DesnethéMissinippi-Churchill River)
submitted his ﬁrst draft of
a Private Member’s Bill to
Amend, Repeal and Replace
the Indian Act (C-428), it ﬁnally received Royal Assent
last night.
The purpose of the bill
was to open up a communication channel and create
an obligation on the part of
the government to report
back to the elected representatives of the Canadian
people about progress made
toward replacing the Indian
Act with a more modern
and respectful piece of legislation.
The Indian Act, which was
developed from policy, was
enacted into law in 1876,
making it one of the oldest
pieces of legislation on the
books in Canada. This Act
impacts on almost every as-
pect of the everyday life of
First Nations people on and
off reserve, including right
to trade, execute their own
wills, keep ﬁnes that they
issue for violations of their
by-laws, making their own
by-laws without the consent
of the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and many other
ordinary activities that
other Canadians take for
granted.
Clarke, who was elected
in 2008 for the ﬁrst time,
decided that as soon as
he was able, he would put
forward a bill that would
change the conversation on
the Indian Act and open the
door to its eventual repeal
and replacement.
“After living on seven reserves for 18 years as an
RCMP ofﬁcer and First
Nations band member, I
was painfully aware of the
damage that the Indian
Act was doing to the life of
grassroots members,” said
Clarke. “The Indian Act has
turned the power structure in these communities upside down, from the
band members to Chief and
Council. I am hoping that
grassroots members will
get involved in the development of legislation that
returns the power where it
belongs: to them.
“I am proud to be the
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ﬁrst aboriginal member
of the House of Commons
or Senate to have a Private
Member’s Bill receive Royal
Assent,” Clarke continued.
“And I am proud that it is a
bill which deals with such a
substantive and important
topic. I look forward to seeing the results of these ongoing discussions bring real
change for First Nations in
Canada.”
Highlights of Shellbrook’s town council meeting
brought up the idea of implementing a small increase to
pool fees.
Hosie revealed that the
Curling Club has the wrong
liquor license because it
needs a single lease for the
entire facility, but has been
given time by the liquor commission to ﬁx the issue. Her
recommended solution was
to write up one lease to the
Curling Club, with the agreement that they can sublease
the rink side of the facility back to the Recreation
Board. Council carried a motion to pursue this course of
action.
In the public works report,
Mayor Tomporowski sought
conﬁrmation on the town’s
policy to not service catch
basins on private property.
Council also discussed the
boot allowance, which cur-
rently provides workers with
$75 to purchase work boots.
Council carried a motion to
implement a $200 annual
rebate, which will now have
to be supported by a receipt.
The rebate will be prorated
based on how long the worker is employed, and leftover
money will not carry over to
the next year.
Mayor Tomporowski revealed the town is looking to
develop a plot of land on the
west side of town into country-residential style homes.
He added that the town currently lacks the capacity to do
the development on its own,
and council discussed the
next steps, ultimately leaving
it up to Bevra Fee to pursue
some contacts who may be
interested in the project.
Fee stopped by later in the
evening to provide council
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With our fast-paced lives
it’s becoming increasingly difﬁcult to capture and keep up
with the memory-keeping we
would like to do, especially
during the holidays. Sure,
there are the countless pictures we’ve taken, but when
can one ﬁnd the time to properly document and scrapbook
all these fond memories?
This is the dilemma Becky
Higgins, a busy wife and
mother found herself in when
she created Project Life, a
revolutionary back-to-basics
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC MEETING
The Board for Saskatchewan Rivers Public
School Division would like to extend an
invitation to community members of
Shellbrook and surrounding area to attend a
public meeting to discuss planning for a future
school facility in Shellbrook.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
7:00 p.m.
Gymnasium
W.P. Sandin Public High School
110 – 1 Street East
Shellbrook, SK
scrapbooking system for capturing treasured memories.
It’s an ultra-simple and affordable way to get your photos into albums: you just slip
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“It’s a back-to-basics approach to documenting your
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line of products. “In a nutshell
it’s all about spending more
time making memories and
less time scrapbooking them.
There’s no requirement to cut
or glue or embellish anything.
And yet, the end results are
spectacular.”
Project Life makes memory
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card collections, accessory
packs, albums, photo pocket
pages, pens and other accessories. Gardner explains that
you can keep things simple
when you need to, and when
you have more creative energy
you can dress it up with the
coordinating accessory pack.
More information is available at www.stampinup.ca.
with an update on the Main
Street Program. While she
said she will have more information about what the town
can do through the program
following an information session in January, Fee said she
expects to begin working on
beautiﬁcation and signage
to draw more people down
Main Street. She is also working on the marketing plan for
the town, which will include
a trade show in March, a
magazine, and a billboard to
advertise the town north of
Prince Albert.
Council also received visits
from Deb Mervold, who provided an update on changes
in the library, as well as Brenda Piper, who asked council
to consider designating the
old Agnew house as a heritage home. Council agreed
to look into the requirements
for designation, and to make
the designation if the house
meets the requirements.
Later in the meeting, council discussed two bids that
were put in to takeover snow
removal duties around the
post ofﬁce. Council carried a
motion to award the contract
to the Pages, who are in the
process of moving to town, at
a monthly rate of $650.
Elsewhere, council carried
a motion to charge an ad-
ministration fee of 4 per cent
to perform human resources
functions and payroll for the
Shellbrook Medical Clinic
starting in January, as well as
a motion to appoint the ﬁrm
of Gord Krimser and Associates as the Board of Revision
for Assessment Appeals.
Council ended the evening
by discussing adding signage
to the signing corridor to better advertise the town. It also
weighed the prospect of placing signs on all three highways leading to town.
The next council meetings
are scheduled for Jan. 12 and
26. Council will host its public meeting Jan. 20.
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Freeman and Kathleen Nording, as well as the town’s
administrator Kelly Hoare.
Absent was councillor David
Knight.
The evening began with
a report from recreation
director Jenny Hosie. She
told council that she will be
preparing to hire summer
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OPINION
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December 26, 2014
Canadians will pay for
lapsed funding
Lapsed federal government spending has become a very
touchy subject for Canadians since a certain report revealed
that $1.1 billion in funding has gone unspent by Veterans Affairs over the last seven years.
Indeed, even before the damning revelation, the feds were in
hot water with the vets over slashes to services made as part of
the conservatives’ commitment to crushing Canada’s debt and
balancing the budget. Of course, Veterans Affairs hasn’t been
the only department to be subjected to government cutbacks.
According to a report by Natural Resources Canada, the
feds left $321 million in funding for environmental initiatives
unspent last year (about one third of the total budget). The unspent dollars would have funded projects to cut greenhouse gas emissions
and helped to fund renewable energy
development, alternative transportation fuels, energy efficiency and technology innovation, among other essential programs.
Meanwhile, as further proof that
government truly is betting it all on
black, the “fiscal conservatives” overspent on the oil and gas sector, going
over the $438 million that had been
JORDAN
aside last year to fund research, marTWISS
ket development and government advertising.
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This comes as little surprise, given
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Prime Minister Harper’s head-in-thesand approach to climate change – a
stance that he’s clung to steadfastly
this year by skipping out on a number of high profile international environmental conferences.
Worse still, according to Environment Canada, the feds are
planning to cut environmental spending even further, reducing it from the $1 billion set aside in 2014-2015 to $698.8 million by 2016-2017. Similarly, spending on the department’s
climate change and clear air program is projected to decrease
from $234.2 million this year to $54.8 million in 2016-17.
Spending on research and development (R&D) has also
been on the chopping block. According to a report by the
OECD, Canada has slipped out of the top 10 in R&D spending,
and out of the top 20 when it comes to R&D spending relative to GDP. The report also found that as of 2012, Canada was
spending less on R&D than it had been in 2004 ($21.8 billion
in 2012 compared to $22.7 billion in 2004).
Even Harper’s beloved defence spending hasn’t been spared
the axe. According to Public Accounts of Canada, the federal
government failed to spend $763 million of its allocated budget in 2013-2014. Indeed, military spending is down $1 billion
from its high point of $3.8 billion in 2010-2011.
All told, $7.2 billion in lapsed funding was handed back to
the treasury last year. How odd, then, that these so-called fiscal conservatives have so much money returning to the coffers,
yet they have failed to deliver a single balanced budget since
taking power. One must wonder where the money is really going, given that so many essential departments seem to be running on skeleton budgets.
Yet, while the lapsed funding in a number of departments
may raise red flags for the average Canadian, Treasury Board
president Tony Clement is here to assuage their concerns. According to Clement, lapsed funding means “good financial
management.” He also says “there’s no reason departments
need to spend every dollar they’re allocated.”
Though it is always a safe bet to save for a rainy day, there’s
something about Clement’s statements that ring false.
Firstly, it’s hard to take Clement seriously when he says
things like “good financial management,” considering he was
caught using $50 million in funding allocated to reduce border congestion to instead pretty up his riding of Parry SoundMuskoka with parks, gazebos and walkways.
Secondly, if departments and programs are handling their
funds correctly, they should be spending their full budgets to
ensure that the needs of all Canadians are met. We all know
that this isn’t the case, and what’s worse is that the Harper
government will use the lapsed funding as “proof” that these
programs can run on even smaller budgets.
In Harper’s blind mission to slash spending everywhere, it’s
only we Canadians who will do the bleeding.
Paul Martin Commentary
The average weekly pay package in this province has been
The primary indicator that tracks Saskatchewan’s ecogrowing steadily for a year.
nomic growth spurt in the past ten years has been
September marked the 12th consecutive month
investment. Billions in fresh capital has poured in
that the average wage went up in this province.
the province, growing from an annual average of
Compared to a year ago, it increased nearly 5 per
$7 billion in 2004 to more than $20 billion in the
cent which is in the upper half among the provpast few years.
inces. The improvement from August to SeptemEvidence of the impact that investment has had
ber was minor but StatsCan found Saskatcheis clear in a new report on capital formation in the
wan’s annual trend notable as it has been steadily
country. The report looks at data to the end of last
increasing. That is likely one of the reasons our
year and includes new spending minus depreciaconsumer spending numbers have been so strong.
tion of those assets.
PAUL
The increase brings the average weekly pay
The big number for us was engineering conpackage to just under $950. That is third highstruction.
In other words, major projects such as
MARTIN
est in the country behind Alberta and then Newresource development. We have the second largest
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foundland. All three provinces have large oil
proportion of our capital asset base in this categoindustries which may be a key factor in the perry, accounting for more than half the total number.
formance. However, the falling oil price has become a fac- Only Alberta had a higher percentage. Interestingly Newtor as workers in this ﬁeld saw a two-percent reduction in foundland was third, underscoring the importance of the
average pay in the month. But it had a cushion as workers in oil patch on our economic well-being.
this category are still ahead by nearly 10 per cent compared
The value of housing in this province was $46 billion at
to a year earlier.
the end of last year, slightly more than Manitoba and about
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20 per cent higher than it was ﬁve years earlier.
If you’ve ever stood in line at a coffee shop and waited
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for a young person to pay for a $3 transaction with a debit
The month of September was a tough one for the hospitalcard, you’ll know what I mean. Kids don’t seem to carry ity sector.
cash these days. And it seems to slow the world down.
StatsCan keeps track of revenues in places like restauAnd while the delays can be frustrating, it seems there’s rants, bars and taverns as well as the volume being done
an upside to this routine.
by caterers and publishes them every month. This is one of
A study by RBC Royal Bank on spending intentions for those indicators that provides insight into the mood of conChristmas focused on the outlook of young people. They sumers. Eating out or visiting a pub is one of those discreplan to spend more on gifts this year – to more than $500 tionary expenditures so it provides something of a proxy
from $450 last year. What they will not incur, however, is for consumer sentiment.
debt.
September, however, is an interesting one. Sales were
The study found that 60-percent of 18 to 34 year olds will down in eight provinces. Whether that is a trend or just
use cash or debit cards and another 34 percent will use one of those developments is yet to be seen but it does turn
credit cards but plan to pay them off immediately. In other a few heads. Sales across the piece were down just over one
words, a whopping 94 per cent say they will not have any percentage point and amounts to a reversal of the trend for
additional debt after the Christmas season.
2014, especially here in Saskatchewan.
The debit card trend is especially true in Saskatchewan.
In this province the September sales were down 1.7 per
We had the highest percentage of people in this demo- cent from August which is the biggest decline in the coungraphic saying they will use debit cards.
try. How we should interpret that is unclear as September
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was still ﬁve per cent ahead of the same month a year ago.
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Good cheer for our politicians
Christmas. At no time of the year – or
at least, at no time during a non-election
year – is the spirit of giving so prevalent.
Even old Scrooge-like columnists get
caught up in the spirit of the season. So
let us commence the one column of the
year where I offer nothing but kind words
and fellowship to our politicians.
To Premier Brad Wall, the best of the
season for another successful year of job
and population growth that is at least in
some small part due to the role he has
played.
Be it lobbying he has played in the Keystone XL or Energy East pipelines or his
call for abolition of the Senate, kudos to
Wall for representing us well on the national stage.
And notwithstanding the challenges of
rapidly falling oil prices, a Merry Christmas to Finance Minister Ken Krawetz for
keeping the budget balanced and government spending in check.
The Canora-Pelly MLA announced his
plans to retire after the next election. His
services will be missed along with soonto-retire rural colleagues June Draude
(Kelv ing ton-Wade na), Bob Bjornerud
(Melville-Saltcoats),
Don Toth (Moosomin) and Yogi Hugyhebaert
(Wood
River).
Across the aisle
on the Opposition
benches, NDP OpMURRAY
position leader Cam
Broten kept the govMANDRYK
ernment’s feet to the
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fire on key issues like
problems in nursing
homes, smart meters catching fire and
the concern of wasted dollars on the John
Black and Associates lean contract.
Broten was helped by his small nineperson caucus – especially his deputy opposition leader Trent Wotherspoon who
worked diligently in his capacity as finance and economic critic. Also, congratulations to both on the arrivals in 2014 of
their new daughter and son, respectively.
Perhaps no minister bore the brunt of
pointed opposition questions more than
Talkin’ about
my generation
Dear Editor:
This is my generation. Did you know that today, for
the ﬁrst time in history, we have the power to end AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria? When THE WHO ﬁrst sang
the aforementioned song, no one had heard of AIDS,
but tuberculosis, on the other hand, had been around
for thousands of years. TB is woven into the fabric of
our humanity, from the Bible to opera to those bothersome ads on TV that do not allow us to forget that some
of our brothers and sisters still live in abject poverty
and cannot ﬁght this scourge on their own. Canada is
actually one of the darlings of the world when it comes
to TB. We stand alone as the only country thus far
funding TB REACH, a proven initiative for diagnosing
the hardest to reach and the hardest to diagnose cases
of TB and even DR-TB (drug-resistant TB). Over the
past ﬁve years, TB REACH has provided grants to 145
projects across 36 Countries, with a number of these
projects working to implement new, innovative ways
of integrating TB and HIV healthcare in order to tackle
both diseases together. It is time to renew our support
to the ﬁght against TB by pledging $120 million over 5
years to TB REACH.
Shellbrook Chronicle
Health Minister Dustin Duncan, who
certainly deserves a round of Christmas
cheer for keeping a level head and even
temper in the face of tough questioning
on the lean health program and nursing
home problems.
For as troubling as the nursing home issues have been in particular, Duncan has
always come across as sincerely wanting
answers to the troubling shortfalls in
care. Also, congratulations to Duncan on
the arrival of his son Jack this year.
Economy Minister Bill Boyd clearly deserves something under this tree for the
forthright way he took on both the federal
government and the railways on the question of grain movement last winter. Also,
not steaming ahead with an unpopular
new Surface Rights Act was a wise move.
Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart
clearly deserves similar kudos for his nononsense approach on the grain handling
and other related agriculture issues.
Along with our thanks, let us also offer
Stewart a Christmas wish for good health
and happiness in the struggles that he
and his family endured in 2014.
YOUR TWO
C
ENTS
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Let’s make this a historic generation - the generation
that ﬁnally eradicates TB!
Connie Lebeau
Victoria, BC
Fire Fantino for his
treatment of veterans
Dear Editor,
It is now abundantly clear that the care provided
to our veterans, who stood ready to give their all for
our country, has been shameful under Minister Julian Fantino.
The Conservative government claims its cuts to
the Veterans Affairs Department were to the “back
office” and did not affect front line services.
Yet nearly a quarter of the department’s staff –
nearly one thousand people – have been eliminated;
the vast majority coming from branches that support disability benefits, pensions, health and rehabilitation. Nine specialized veterans service centres were closed. Over a billion dollars in veterans
programming was approved by Parliament, but left
unspent by the Conservative government in recent
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To new rural ministers, Scot Moe (Environment) and Greg Ottenbreit (Rural
and Remote Health), congratulations for
their promotion and best wishes in dealing with their challenges.
The same should be said for former rural and remote health minister Tim McMillan who has moved on the oil sector
in Calgary. Congratulations are also in
order to Colleen Young who has now replaced him as MLA for Lloydminster.
To new Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer, who faces one of the more
challenging portfolios, we should wish
the best of luck. In fact, let us toast her
with some spirits from her last portfolio,
liquor and gaming, where she deserves
Christmas cheer for bringing our antiquated liquor laws into the 21st century.
Harpauer now must pass on the challenge to new Highways and Liquor and
Gaming Minister Don McMorris, who
must now sort through the divisions in
how our booze may sold in the future.
To all of our elected officials and those
of you who voted for them, the best of the
season and a happy 2015.
years. Management was given bonuses not for better
treatment, but for slashing services and staff.
It’s no surprise that such reductions stymied veterans’ access to critically needed services. According
to the Auditor General, many with mental health issues had to wait months, even years to get the psychological help they need.
On top of that, the government has failed to hire
the mental health personnel for those serving in the
Forces today that it committed to years ago.
Delaying and denying mental health services has
all too tragic consequences, up to and including
suicide, which claimed the lives of more Canadian
Forces personnel than the conflict in Afghanistan,
during the same time period.
Instead of addressing these challenges head on,
Minister Fantino left the country. Instead of allowing the situation to be fully considered in the Veteran Affairs Committee, the government shut it down.
At a private company, negligence on this scale
would cause management to be sacked. It’s high
time that the Prime Minister wake up, fire this incompetent Minister and start giving our veterans
nothing less than the best of care and support from
a grateful nation.
Yours sincerely,
Joyce Murray
Liberal Party of Canada
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December 26, 2014
Government endorses 10-year mental health
and addictions action plan
Dr. Fern Stockdale Winder, commissioner of the Mental
Health and Addictions Action Plan, today submitted her report
to Health Minister Dustin Duncan, recommending improvements to how the province responds to people with mental
health and addictions issues.
“This report is the culmination of extensive public consultations across the province with a particular emphasis on the
voices of people with lived experience of mental health and
addictions issues and their family members, service providers across the human service sectors, and concerned citizens,”
Stockdale Winder said. “These collective voices were powerful in the call for change and this report reflects our process of
careful listening and responding to this call for change.”
The Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan outlines 16
recommendations that fall into seven categories:
•Enhance access and capacity and support recovery in the
community;
•Focus on prevention and early intervention;
•Create person and family-centred and co-ordinated services;
•Respond to diversities;
•Partner with First Nations and Métis Peoples;
•Reduce stigma and increase awareness; and
•Transform the system and sustain the change.
Minister Duncan received and endorsed the commissioner’s
report, emphasizing the government’s commitment to improving its response to people with mental health or addictions issues.
“I want to thank Dr. Stockdale Winder and the participants
for all of their hard work in creating this report,” Duncan said.
“The recommendations in the Mental Health and Addictions
Action Plan will guide our efforts to improve mental health and
addictions services over the next 10 years.”
In 2013, Minister Duncan appointed Dr. Stockdale Winder
as commissioner to develop a 10-year inter-ministerial action
plan to address the complex and often connected issues of
mental health and addictions. Led by the Ministry of Health,
partner ministries include Social Services, Education, Justice
and Corrections and Policing.
Public consultations began in August 2013 and concluded in
April 2014. Dr. Stockdale Winder and her team travelled the
province learning from clients and stakeholders in more than
150 meetings, and heard from more than 4,000 individuals
through a variety of ways, including an online questionnaire.
“The response to the consultation process is a reminder of
just how important this work is to Saskatchewan families,”
Duncan said. “We are already making improvements across
the system, and the recommendations in this plan affirm that
direction.”
Since 2007, funding for mental health services has increased
34 per cent. Working Together for Change: A 10-Year Mental
Health and Addictions Action Plan for Saskatchewan is available online at www.saskatchewan.ca/live/health-and-healthyliving/mental-health-and-addictions-action-plan.
Multi-material recycling program to launch in new year
The Government of Saskatchewan is moving forward with implementation
of a province-wide MultiMaterial Recycling Program (MMRP) that will
launch in early 2015.
MMRP is a cost-sharing
program between businesses and municipalities
to help pay for the collection and recycling of
household packaging and
paper materials. Currently, municipal recycling
programs are paid for by
municipalities.
Under
MMRP, businesses and organizations that distribute
packaged goods and paper
to households in the province will now share responsibility for the cost of
recycling these materials.
“Our government is
committed to seeing effective and sustainable
municipal recycling programs for the residents
of Saskatchewan,” Environment Minister Scott
Moe said. “After careful
consideration of feedback
from various stakeholders
over the past number of
months, we are adjusting
the program to provide
more clarity on how it will
apply to various types of
businesses.”
Businesses that distribute or sell packaging and paper products
in Saskatchewan are required under The Household Packaging and Paper Stewardship Program
Regulations to participate
in MMRP. The program
will be operated by MultiMaterial
Stewardship
Western (MMSW), a nonprofit organization.
In July of this year, the
Minister announced that
the deadline for stewards
to register with MMSW
was being extended indefinitely. At that time,
a commitment was made
that further engagement
and feedback from all
stakeholders would be
sought on the best way
to move forward with
MMRP.
As a result of consultation, adjustments have
been made to the program
and will be finalized in the
new year. The proposed
changes include the following:
• Small businesses, including newspapers, that
have a gross revenue of
less than $2 million, or
generate less than one
tonne of packaging and
paper, or operate as a
single point of sale (not
a franchise or chain) are
fully exempt from participating in MMRP.
• A two year temporary
transition exemption will
be in place for businesses
whose annual revenue is
between $2 and $5 million.
These businesses
will not be required to
report their tonnage of
household packaging and
paper during this period,
but will be required to
register with MMSW and
contribute a $500 annual
flat fee.
• The two year transition
exemption will also apply
to all larger newspapers
(all those not captured
within the small business
exemption).
• During the two-year
transitional period, a
working group with representatives from municipalities, businesses,
newspapers, and the waste
reduction community will
be supported by the Ministry of Environment, with
an aim to identify further
program adjustments that
would bring mid-size businesses and larger newspa-
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• During the two year
transitional period, program fees will be set by
the Minister of Environment and any changes to
fees will be approved by
the Minister.
• The Ministry of Environment will reallocate
$500,000 to help municipalities cover the costs of
recycling over the twoyear transition period.
Businesses that do not
fall into any of these categories are required to
participate fully in MMRP.
“We clearly heard that
the costs and reporting
requirements associated
with MMRP could prove
challenging for many
within the small business
community and the newspaper industry,” Moe said.
“By exempting small businesses from the program,
and allowing a transition
period for mid-size businesses to come into compliance, we can continue
working with all stakeholders toward a madein-Saskatchewan solution
that will assist municipalities with the cost of
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Rob Clarke Report
I am proud to announce
that my Private Member’s
Bill, C-428, has received
Royal Assent and has now
become law.
My Indian Act Amendment and Replacement
Act was a long time in the
making and I would like
to sincerely thank all of
those who helped me in
the formation of the Act
and those who supported
me and this Bill every step
of the way.
Certainly, there was a
great deal of misinformation being floated about
this Act in the early stages, with some individuals
choosing to portray it as
something that it wasn’t.
This was bound to be
the case, as the Indian Act
always has been and always will be a contentious
issue.
Luckily, the truth about
my Bill became clear to all
and it has received broad
support.
The Indian Act Amendment and Replacement
Act was never an attempt
to eliminate the Indian
Act, leaving nothing in its
stead.
Rather, this Bill was in-
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tended to – and now will
– lead us to a more modern and respectful version
of the Indian Act, which,
among other things, at
last removes all references to Residential Schools.
The most important
part of the Bill is a mandate for collaboration between Canada’s First Nations and the Crown for
the purpose of repealing
and replacing the Indian
Act.
The Bill requires the
Minister of Aboriginal
Affairs and Northern De-
velopment to make yearly
reports to the House of
Commons on the progress
made toward the replacement of the Indian Act.
I believe that this action
will keep us all on track
for the abolition of this
fundamentally racist and
flawed piece of legislation
and help us move forward
with mutual respect.
Absolutely no one supports the Indian Act in
its current incarnation.
I believe that Bill C-428
will help us to create new
legislation that we can all
get behind.
I would like to take this
opportunity to wish you
all a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your support in 2014. I hope that
you will all enjoy a happy,
healthy and prosperous
2015.
As always, I look forward to your letters, emails and calls. Write me
at: Rob Clarke MP, House
of Commons, 502 Justice
Building, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6. I hope you
will find time to visit my
website http://www.robclarkemp.ca
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Farming requires hands-on management
With the recent financial issues of Broadacre Agriculture, discussed in this space a couple of weeks ago the
issue of who owns land in Saskatchewan is back on the
front burner for a time.
Broadacre Agriculture is a farming corporation, one
which is a model for what many see as the future of farmOn Agriculture
ing, even with this particular entities woes.
Broadacre was incorporated in 2010 as a company with
a mandate to purchase large tracts of land and exploit
the aforementioned economies of scale.
The goal was to farm more than 200,000 acres, but had
amassed only 9,000 acres of owned and 56,000 acres of
leased land in Saskatchewan, when it filed for protection
under the weight of some $14 million in debt.
While some will point to Broadacre’s need to seek protection from its creditors as a last ditch effort to right its
flagging financial situation as a failure of large farms,
that is putting too much on the experience of a single
entity.
Dozens of manufacturers in North America started out
Calvin
Daniels
making cars.
There was a feeling they would fail
as no mechanical creation no matter how marvelous would usurp the
horse.
Most of the early car creators
failed, but others grew ever, and
ever larger, the biggest remaining
today.
The same happened in tractors
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and even snowmobiles. I can recall
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in my teen years there were literally
dozens of snowmobile manufactur~
ers, but only four remain, all large
in scale by comparison.
Farmland is different in that it requires very hands-on
management, especially in the compressed time periods
of spring planting and fall harvest.
A single farm entity struggles with that as it grows ever
larger.
But land ownership does not require owner operation.
Canadian banks have in essence co-owned thousands
of acres of land across this country over the years as they
put up the money to purchase the land, creating a partnership of sorts with the farmer.
The next logical step is for investors to buy up land, in
turn leasing it to one, or more farm operators to actually mange the day-to-day farm operations. The farmer
takes on the production risks; the land holding company
builds a return it is satisfied with in the lease price.
We are already seeing such processes in place, including pension funds, and similar money pools, taking on
land as investment as opposed to the more traditional
stock portfolios we have seen in the past.
Certainly smaller ‘family’ farm units remain the primary landowners in Saskatchewan, and across Canada,
but there is a trend to non-operator land ownership
which is likely to continue as land purchase requires major capital which can often be found in investor pockets
more easily than a traditional farmer’s.
Anthrax case confirmed in RM of Hazel Dell
Saskatchewan Agriculture
is reminding producers to
be aware of the risk of anthrax after conﬁrmation of a
positive case in a cow in the
Rural Municipality of Hazel
Dell No. 335, on Dec. 5. An-
thrax is the suspected cause
of death in two other cattle
from the same herd. The
suspected source of anthrax
is believed to be soil-contaminated slough hay. As
feed is the source, there is
not a widespread geographical risk. However, producers are reminded to be
vigilant. Anthrax is caused
by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis, which can survive
in spore form for decades in
soil. Livestock are affected
when they eat forage contaminated with the spores.
Affected animals are usually found dead without any
signs of the illness.
Anthrax can be prevented
by vaccination. Producers
in regions that have experienced previous outbreaks
are strongly encouraged to
vaccinate their animals each
The Federal Government’s decision
to extend minimum volume requirements for grain movement by rail
comes as welcome news to the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask. Wheat), which has
been working with other farm organizations to ensure producers have a
voice at a national level when it comes
to issues in the transportation and
grain handling system.
“We are pleased to see the government’s continued pressure for adequate capacity in grain handling and
grain transportation in Canada,” says
Bill Gehl, Sask. Wheat Board chair.
“However, capacity constraints still
exist and better solutions are needed
to ensure Saskatchewan wheat producers’ interests are protected and
that customer demand is being met in
all corridors.”
Minimum volume requirements
have helped improve timelines for
west and east coast shipments from
Canada. Agriculture Minister Gerry
Ritz announced last week new requirements would be in effect until
March 2015, and penalties will be issued for non-compliance. However,
despite these improvements, Western
grain producers are still facing significant challenges and consequential costs. According to a study commissioned by Sask. Wheat, capacity
shortfalls in the transportation and
handling system cost Western grain
producers an estimated $3.1 billion
in 2013/14 and are on pace to cost
an additional $2 billion in 2014/15.
These losses are primarily due to an
extraordinarily wide gap between
export prices and the prices paid to
producers, whenever export capacity
is constrained. Currently the export
basis is $40/tonne more than the
historical cost of getting producers’
grain to export positions. If this continues through the remainder of the
year it will be a tremendous economic
loss for Saskatchewan and for prairie
grain producers.
“When we start talking about losses
in the billions, it is clear that grain
producers are uniquely and significantly affected by these issues,” Gehl
says. “We’re not asking for special
treatment, just for fair and effective
measures to be put in place, and we
want to continue to work with the
government to ensure Saskatchewan
wheat producers’ concerns and interests are being heard at a national
level.”
Western Canada is estimated to
have the second largest exportable
supply of total grains and oilseeds in
recent history in 2014/15. “Our producers are growing some of the best
grain products in the world, and yet
they are being charged an excess basis to ship their products to the markets that want them,” Gehl says. “We
just want to ensure that we can efficiently get these products everywhere
there’s demand for them.”
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Protecting grain grades with two-pass fungicide system
For the second harvest
season, producers in Western Canada have had the
freedom to market their
grains to a buyer of their
choice. With this freedom,
producing a high-quality
and high-yielding crop has
become critical. In order
to satisfy individual buyers and meet strict market
grade tolerances, it is important that growers take
a proactive approach and
manage disease pathogens
within their cropping systems.
Fusarium head blight
(FHB) has become a major
concern for cereal growers
in Western Canada. The disease has spread throughout
the prairies and has caused
severe yield and quality
losses in areas of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and southern Alberta. Implementing
an integrated disease management strategy to control
cereal pathogens is an important step to help growers
produce a high-quality crop.
There are two crucial application timings for fungicides; the ﬂag leaf timing
where up to 65 percent of the
yield is set and the FHB for
protecting grade. If left un-
managed, diseases can decrease yield and downgrade
quality in cereal crops.
Dan Ronceray has been
using a two-pass fungicide
system for a number of
years as part of his management strategy. He has
seen great returns and plant
health beneﬁts on his farm
near Somerset, Manitoba.
“We use Twinline fungicide on the ﬂag to protect
yield and we use Caramba
fungicide on the head to
protect quality; it’s paid
very well for us,” said Ronceray. “Some AgCelence
beneﬁts we see with Twin-
line are that we have healthier, greener looking plants;
healthier leaves, diseasefree, spot-free; and stronger
stems. We ﬁnd we have very
little lodging issues.”
AgCelence refers to the
unique beneﬁts of disease
control, increased growth
efﬁciency, and better management of minor stress
that occurs from a select
group of BASF products that
contain pyraclostrobin.
According to BASF ﬁeld
research, spraying Twinline fungicide at ﬂag leaf
resulted in taller plants (5
percent), larger head sizes
(4 percent), longer, thicker leaves (6 percent), and
thicker stems (10 percent)
when compared to an untreated check.
“After growers spray a
fungicide at ﬂag leaf to protect the ﬂag, the next step
is to maintain grain quality with an application of
Caramba fungicide at heading to prevent the onset of
disease,” said Glen Forster,
Technical Market Specialist
for fungicides at BASF. “Our
ﬁeld research has shown
that the two-pass fungicide
system helps growers keep
disease in check, protect
their grain grades, and get
the most out of every acre,
while beneﬁtting from the
AgCelence beneﬁts.”
According to Ronceray,
growers looking to maximize their returns at market
time should look to the twopass system.
“We’ve seen on our farm
that grade is very important
– the better quality of grain
you have, the easier it is to
market and the better price
you’ll get,” said Ronceray. “I
would recommend the twopass system to anyone who
wants to grow more bushels
and high-quality bushels.”
Strong support from Viterra for government scholarship
The Government of Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that Viterra Inc., Canada’s grain industry leader,
is contributing $150,000 in scholarship funds for postsecondary students at regional colleges across the province over the next three years.
The funds will be matched by the Provincial Government through its Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship Program (SIOS), generating a total of
$300,000 in student support from the initiative.
“This generous investment by Viterra in Saskatchewan is much appreciated and it will have a significant
impact on students who are pursuing a post-secondary
education close to their home communities,” Advanced
Education Minister Kevin Doherty said. “This scholarship program is focused on innovation and excellence,
and is helping our long-term plan to support the province’s growing economy.”
“We’re excited to be launching this program which
will have a positive impact on post-secondary students
through the 27 communities across Saskatchewan that
are part of the regional college network,” Viterra’s President and CEO for North America Kyle Jeworski said.
“This is an investment in the youth of our province,
and one that is an ideal fit for our company given our
ubiquitous presence across rural Saskatchewan. As we
move forward, we will look to expand our commitment
to education through other institutions across Western
Canada.”
Nearly 10,000 scholarships have been awarded since
the SIOS program was launched in 2011. The government has allocated $18 million for this program, with an
additional $11 million in matched donations.
The colleges that will receive SIOS scholarship funding
through the Government of Saskatchewan and Viterra
initiative are: Carlton Trail, Cumberland, Great Plains,
Northlands, North West, Parkland and Southeast.
The SIOS scholarship funding is focused primarily on
innovation and excellence and is targeted at students in
new and emerging areas of study or fields of study where
innovative work is being done. A secondary objective
allows the public post-secondary institutions to target
scholarships in key priority areas of their strategic plan.
For further details on the SIOS program, please visit
www.saskatchewan.ca/informationforinstitutions.
Still growing: Saskatchewan’s population up
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“Since then, we have seen
steady growth of another
130,000 people – nearly
20,000 per year,” Wall
said. “That kind of growth
creates both opportunities and challenges. One
of those challenges will be
to keep our economy and
our population growing in
2015 in the face of falling oil
revenues. Our government
will be working hard to
meet this challenge through
sound ﬁscal management,
continued investment in
important infrastructure
projects and tax incentives
for new growth and job creation.
“The good news is that
Saskatchewan’s economy is
a lot more diversiﬁed than it
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slowdown in one sector can
be offset by growth in other
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That’s why we continue
to enjoy the strongest rate
of job creation and the lowest unemployment rate in
the country, in addition
to continued population
growth.”
Over the past year, Saskatchewan had the secondstrongest rate of population
growth among the provinces, behind only Alberta.
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granted an interview will be contacted.
Saskatchewan’s population has grown to nearly
1,130,000 according to the
latest ﬁgures released last
week by Statistics Canada.
As of Oct. 1, there were
1,129,899 people living in
Saskatchewan, an increase
of 4,489 in the past quarter and 18,102 in the past
year.
Premier Brad Wall noted
it was just seven years ago
that Saskatchewan’s population hit one million people.
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Not long ago, Saskatchewan’s population was in decline with many of our young
people leaving the province
to ﬁnd work and raise their
families elsewhere. Today,
thanks to the hard work and
determination of our people, Saskatchewan is strong
and has a growing population that’s closing in on
1,130,000 – a steady growth
of nearly 20,000 people per
year since 2007.
The steady growth we’re
experiencing creates both
opportunities and challenges. Despite recent economic
volatility in the price of oil,
our government remains on
track to deliver another balanced budget. This is in part
thanks to a diverse economy
and sound ﬁscal management.
Saskatchewan still enjoys
the strongest rate of job creation in the country – three
times the national average,
and we have enjoyed the
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country’s lowest unemployment rate for 24 straight
months. A growing population and volatility will
present us with challenges,
however a robust, diverse
economy, continued tax relief for families, and ongoing
investments in infrastructure will help us rise to meet
these challenges and keep
Saskatchewan strong and
moving forward.
The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program
is an important part of a
strong and growing Saskatchewan. Our province
recently received a boost in
the number of nominations,
bringing our 2014 nomination cap to 4,818 – a 218 per
cent increase since 2007.
This reﬂects both our government’s commitment to
welcoming newcomers to
Saskatchewan as well as the
federal government’s recognition of the labour force
shortage we face now and in
the future. It also reﬂects
the fact that, once the place
to be from, Saskatchewan is
now the place to be.
We’ve got a strong working relationship with the
Government of Canada and
we thank them for responding to our needs by increasing allocations and providing more opportunities for
immigrants and their fami-
lies to live, work and invest
in our growing province.
The nomination cap for 2015
will be increased to 5,500 –
a jump of 15 per cent over
this year.
There is no doubt that
Saskatchewan people are
Saskatchewan’s
greatest
strength. When I think of
the values that built this
province, I think of neighbours helping neighbours
and even strangers helping
strangers, particularly in a
time of need. These acts of
kindness are part of who we
are and are among the many
things that make us proud to
be from Saskatchewan.
Some of the greatest contributions to our province
are those that come from
our many service clubs.
Just recently, the ﬁrst four
recipients of the Premier’s
new Service Club Award
were announced. The Kinsmen & Kinettes (Meadow
Lake), Lions Club (Kipling &
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572) and Young Fellows’
(Weyburn) are the inaugural recipients. New nominations are now being accepted for the award. Volunteer,
non-proﬁt service clubs or
fraternal organizations that
meet to perform charitable
work either by hands-on effort or by raising money for
other organizations are eli-
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gible. The nomination deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
Visit saskatchewan.ca/premierserviceclubaward
to
learn more.
If you haven’t yet received
your health card renewal
stickers, I would encourage you to contact eHealth
Saskatchewan before Dec.
31. The renewal packages,
which were mailed out earlier this fall, ensure residents
are covered for a variety of
medical services.
The most common reason for not receiving renewal stickers is a change
of address that hasn’t been
updated with eHealth. To
ensure your Saskatchewan
health coverage is not interrupted, you can update your
information at ehealthsask.
ca or by calling 1-800-6677551.
Merry Christmas – and
best wishes for a happy,
healthy & prosperous New
Year!
Top budget wishes for 2015
Recently the Canadian
Taxpayers
Federation
(CTF) met with Saskatchewan Finance Minister Ken
Krawetz to discuss our recommendations for the upcoming budget.
Here are some of the
ideas we put forward:
First, the Saskatchewan
government needs to better plan for, and discuss,
the demographic tsunami
that is starting to hit the
province. The first of the
baby boom generation
started to turn 65 years
of age back in 2011. Thus,
every day more and more
of Saskatchewan’s population retires compared with
those who are still working.
This is significant for
two reasons. First, when
people retire, they earn
less money and pay less in
taxes. Thus, the government will be facing a revenue squeeze over the long
term. Second, older people
tend to require more expensive health procedures
like hip replacements and
24-hour nursing care.
Both factors will have a
significant financial impact on the provincial government, yet they haven’t
conducted
significant
analysis on how things
will look 10, 20 or 30 years
from now.
The second major issue
we highlighted concerns
government
employee
pension problems. While
pensions can be a complex
topic, the impact on taxpayers is not. Several government employee pension
funds in Saskatchewan ran
into financial problems, so
governments bailed them
out with millions of extra
dollars each year. For example, back in 2006 the
Saskatchewan Healthcare
Employees Pension Plan
(SHEPP) received $76
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million from government,
but as of 2013 it was receiving over $147 million
each year.
That’s not right. Governments need to reform the
plans to prevent taxpayers
from footing the bill for
such bailouts in the future.
In terms of health care,
we expressed support for
the premier’s recent musings about allowing private MRIs in the province.
It just makes sense for
Saskatchewan patients to
be able to decide for themselves – go on a government waiting list for the
service or pay out of pocket
for faster care. Each year
many Saskatchewan residents pay for faster care
outside of Saskatchewan.
Why not keep those dollars in Sask. by allowing
private MRI companies to
operate alongside the public health care system? The
province has both private
schools and public schools
and the sky hasn’t fallen.
It’s time to give patients
the same choice.
In terms of alcohol sales
reform, we encouraged the
government to pursue the
Alberta model – only private businesses sell alcohol. Our recommendation
came following a survey
of CTF supporters across
the province about the five
options being floated by
the government. A healthy
majority of supporters felt
it doesn’t make sense for
the government to contin-
ue to spend money opening up new liquor stores to
sell spirits and warm beer.
We also encouraged the
Wall government to put
pressure on organizations
it funds (school boards,
health regions, universities, municipalities) to deliver services more cost-effectively. Statistics Canada
data shows that Saskatchewan leads the nation when
it comes to the number of
people working for either
a municipal or provincial
government (as a percentage of the province’s population, not including crown
corporations).
It’s time for those organizations to follow the
Wall government’s lead
and trim the fat. (Recall,
the Wall government has
trimmed the number of
Ministry employees by
over 1,900 over the past
several years).
If you like any of the
aforementioned ideas, be
sure to speak up. The more
people pushing for change
the more likely it is to happen when Budget 2015
come out.
Colin Craig is the Prairie
Director for the Canadian
Taxpayers Federation
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land:
Blk R2 Plan 80PA04566 Ext 4
AFFECTED LAND The land is generally known as Public Reserve R2 on the map displayed below in the bold dashed line:
REASON The reason for the sale
of the said land is that the public reserve has been encroached
upon. Council is considering
the sale of a portion of the public reserve to rectify the existing
encroachment.
PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaw at the
RM of Canwood No. 494 office
located in Canwood during regular office hours. Copies of the
bylaw will be made available.
PUBLIC HEARING Council will
hold a public hearing for the
Bylaw on January 22, 2015 at
1:00 pm at the RM of Canwood
No. 494 office in Canwood. The
purpose of the public hearing
is to hear any person or group
that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments
received at the hearing (or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing).
Issued at the RM of Canwood No. 494 on December 18, 2014.
Signed:
Lorna Benson
Administrator
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Investors Group donates to Happy Hearts
Tips for a
‘Winter-Ready’ home
Paul Bourgeault and Paul Beaulieu of Investors Group recently presented a $500 donation to Nicole Philp
and Marliese Kasner of Happy Hearts Childcare Centre. The funds will be used to purchase items still
needed for the childcare centre.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts another ﬁerce winter
in many regions of the country, but this year let’s be more
prepared. From leading supplier, Superior Propane, here
are 10 steps you can take to make sure your home is more
comfortable, more responsible, and with energy costs that
are much more affordable in the face of harsh Canadian
weather:
1. Have your furnace, appliances, and propane system serviced. Efﬁcient running appliances conserve more fuel and
save money.
2. Fill propane tanks now and take advantage of ﬁxed
price deals ahead of the high demand winter season.
3. Arrange for automatic propane reﬁlls to avoid ever running empty.
4. Sign up for a SMART* Tank, Superior’s exclusive, a
one-of-a-kind notiﬁcation email system.
5. Set a programmable thermostat. By resetting it when
you are away you could save up to 10 percent on your fuel
bills per year.
6. Water heating adds up to 14 to 18 percent of most utility bills, so reduce yours by setting your water heater to no
higher than 49 degrees Celsius.
7. Make sure your attic is well insulated to avoid heat loss.
8. Seal cracks and holes in outside walls and foundations.
9. Purchase a propane generator. If a power outage occurs, a propane generator can keep your house operating.
APAS membership means savings to producers
“APAS’ main focus is to provide a business
environment that is supportive of farmers
and ranchers by advancing provincial and
national policies that take time to implement
and last for an extended period of time,” says
Norm Hall, president of APAS. “For the shorter term, APAS is looking for options to provide more immediate value to our members.
We believe our Member Rewards Program
partially addresses that requirement.”
The APAS-Chrysler Fleet Program has
beneﬁted more than 115 producers since its
inception last year. APAS members need
to take only their GST number and RM tax
notice to the Chrysler dealer of their choice
to access the Fleet Program. Fleet Program
participants can realize savings of several
thousands of dollars on a new vehicle. The
Fleet Program is in place for 2015. APAS is a
member-owner of Co-operators. As a result,
Co-operators can offer farm, home, auto and
travel insurance premiums at reduced rates
for APAS members. Tools, safety items, fasteners and other products can be purchased at
Acklands Grainger twenty-six locations and
receive various discounts. Acklands Grainger
has a catalogue of over 300,000 items.
APAS has a number of other Member
Reward Beneﬁts. These include a private
health services plan, allowing each business
to provide tax-free reimbursement of medical expenses with a 100 per cent business
deduction. MyCare Expert Diagnosis and
Treatment Option affords APAS members
and their family access to over 3,700 experts
at the Mayo Clinic within days. Producers
who sell or purchase products within or outside of Canada could ﬁnd value in the Foreign
Exchange Risk Management to manage their
currency risk. Mark’s Work Wearhouse has
a year-round discount of 10 per cent off their
regular priced items.
“APAS’ Member Rewards program means
savings on trucks and cars, insurance, tools,
work clothes and other reward beneﬁts that
producers can realize by their RM becoming
an APAS member,” says Hall. “APAS continues
to look for opportunities to provide value to
farmers and ranchers by developing alliances
with various retail chains that members and
their families can participate in. Membership
in APAS can produce an immediate return.
And stay tuned. More Rewards will be introduced in the coming months.”
APAS Member Rewards can be found at
http://myrm.ca/apas/myrewards/.
APAS is Saskatchewan’s general farm organization formed to provide farmers and
ranchers with a democratically elected, grassroots, non-partisan, producer organization
based on rural municipal boundaries. As the
united voice of thousands of agricultural producers in Saskatchewan, we strive to represent the views of a wide variety of agricultural
stakeholders in order to form comprehensive
policies that can beneﬁt all sectors of society.
COMMUNITY~ CALENDAR
BLAINE LAKE: Wapiti Library - Books, Movies, Magazines, Children’s Section, Internet, Printing, Study/Meeting Space, Proctor Service, Community Programming. Hours:
Tuesday 1-5, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 1-5, Saturday 1-4. Contact us for more info 306497-3130 www.wapitilibrary.ca.
CANWOOD: branch of Wapiti Regional Library - NEW HOURS - Tues. - 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Thurs. - 10 :00 noon - 4: 00 p.m. STORYTIME - Thurs. 10:30 - 12:00 p.m.
Internet services available at the library.
DEBDEN: Wapiti Library hours: Monday 3 pm - 7 pm. Tuesday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Librarian: Aline Hannon
LEASK: Wapiti Library Hours: Tues. & Fri.: 1 - 5:30 pm & Sat., 1:00 - 5:00 pm.
MARCELIN: Wapiti Library is open Tues. 11 - 4 pm; Thur. 3 - 8 pm. For information
on all your library needs, please contact 306-226-2110.
SHELLBROOK: Shellbrook Branch of the Wapiti Library located at 105 Railway Ave.,
West (Provincial building). Library Hours: Mon., 2-6:30 pm; Tues., 2 - 8 pm; Wed. 2 - 8
pm; Thur., 2 - 6:30 pm; Fri., 10 - 4 pm. Children’s Story Time: Fri. 10:30 am (Oct. - May).
SHELLBROOK: AA Meeting, Alcoholic’s Anonymous meet every Monday - 7:30 p.m.
at the Hospital. You are welcome to attend.
CANWOOD: Attention ALL Canwood & Area Residents submit your history to
Canwood & District ‘Now and Then’ History Book. For more info email: canwoodhistorybook@gmail.com. Barb Benson 306-468-2797; Shelley Andersen 306-468-2051;
Donna Wyatt 306-468-2830; www.canwood.ca; Canwood & District History Book Box
172 Canwood, SK S0J 0K0.
SHELLBROOK: Shellbrook Wildlife Federation Events Notice (see more details on
our website sbrkwildlife.ca). All events Shellbrook Wildlife Federation Clubhouse. Annual Meeting Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 7 pm ; Pistol & Riﬂe Club Annual Meeting,
January 13, 2015 ~ 6:30 p.m. Fun Turkey Shoot, January 24, 2015 ~ 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Proceeds to Ray and Hope Blakeney. Call Ian 306-747-7796 for information on archery
and more shooting events
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Shellbrook Elementary goes green for Christmas
Carnell Olsen plays a summer-loving snowman while singing “In Summer” at the Christmas concert.
Santa (Ben Lafond) and Mrs. Claus (Jade Keyowski) lead the cast in “The Greenhouse Effect” tango at the Christmas concert.
Happy
New Year
Everyone
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Beam Sisters spread generosity during missions abroad
When the Chronicle last
sat down with Beam sisters Anna and Joy, they
had just finished hosting
a bake sale fundraiser in
an effort to raise enough
money to go on missions to
help those in need through
the interdenominational
organization, Teen Missions International.
Joy, who went to Ecuador in 2013, was hoping
to raise $5,000 to travel
to Zambia to assist people
and children living with
HIV, while Anna, who
went to Malawi in 2013,
wanted to raise $5,000 to
go to Italy and Greece and
provide aid to refugees
from the Middle East and
Northern Africa.
“It’s something I always
thought about when I was
a teenager. It just seemed
like the time was right.
I wanted to go to different places, help people,
tell them about God and
see new things,” said Joy
of her reasons for getting
involved with Teen Missions.
The sisters managed to
meet their fundraising requirements, and this past
summer they were shipped
off to Florida for an intensive two-week bootcamp,
aimed at helping them
prepare for the conditions
they might have to live in
while abroad.
The gruelling camp
forced the sisters to live
in swamp-like conditions
and grow accustomed to
the presence of mosquitoes and other nasty critters. It also included training in spiritual growth,
evangelism, Bible, music,
drama and construction.
After that, it was off to
their destinations for the
next four weeks. Joy’s
journey took her to Ndola, Zambia. From there,
she travelled from unit to
unit helping those in need,
and spreading the word of
God.
“In Zambia the project
was giving out eyeglasses,
and helping with basic
first aid treatments. Then
we also did a few construction projects. We poured
concrete in a church floor
and painted a house. I was
one of the leaders on the
team, so I also did a lot of
cooking,” she said.
All told, she says the
group handed out more
than 200 pairs of eyeglasses.
Meanwhile, In Italy,
Anna was a member of a
backpacking team. The
group started in Rome,
and hiked around through
different towns and villages. The team lived out
of backpacks and slept in
campgrounds, and spent
much of their time singing and performing plays
on street corners, as well
as passing out tracts and
talking to people about
God.
After a few weeks in Italy, the group headed off to
Greece.
“We were working with
a ministry there that helps
refugees from the Middle
East by giving them food
and clothes, and helping them find jobs,” said
Anna.
Both sisters say that
their missions have helped
to change their outlooks
on life.
“What stuck out to me
was that the kids were
maybe malnourished or
didn’t get that much to
eat, but they seemed to
have a lot of energy and
they were excited to see us
and wanted to play with
us. It amazed me that they
still had this energy and
were happy,” said Joy.
“It changes your perspective. You come home
and you’re a lot more
thankful for what you
have,” she added.
Look What’s Cookin’!!
Red Lion Restaurant
Grand Re-Opening
Sunday January 4
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Under New Management
Joy and Anna Beam had to endure two gruelling weeks of bootcamp
before heading off on their missions to Zambia and Italy.
Every Sunday
Buffet Brunch - 10 am to 1 pm
Reservations appreciated
Call 306-747-3268
New Menu
Menu expanded to include
Holistic & Canadian Ethnic
Home Grown Cuisine
Weekly Specials
Locally provided meat
Home made - Bread, Soup,
Meat Pies, Shepards pie,
Meatloaf & Maple Syrup Surprise
2 Main Street, Shellbrook
306-747-3268
Joy Beam spend time with children in Zambia during her mission.
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Fitness Instructor’s dedication
recognized by community
Fitness instructor Leeta Harms won the SPRA’s
Fitness Leadership Award, and accepted it at
the SaskFit Conference in Saskatoon.
When she’s not busy with her day job as a business
manager at Frank Dunn Toyota in Prince Albert, Leeta
Harms is a very busy and active woman, indeed. For the
past ten years, the dedicated fitness instructor has been
hosting fitness classes in Shellbrook twice a week, and
in her time here she has amassed an equally dedicated
following.
Recently, however, her dedication was recognized, as
she was nominated by recreation director Jenny Hosie
for the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association’s (SPRA) Fitness Leadership Award. Not only was
she nominated, but she also won the award, which she
received at the SaskFit Conference in Saskatoon in November.
“Leeta always goes the extra mile to inspire her participants and sends them all emails every week to remind
them about class, including little motivational messages
in each one,” said Hosie in her nomination letter.
“Her positive attitude and friendly nature are definitely what inspires participants to keep coming back to
class again and again,” she added.
The SPRA’s awards are handed out annually, and
each member of the association has an opportunity to
nominate someone from their community. When she
heard about the fitness leadership award, Uzo Ajogwu,
a Shellbrook resident and participant in Harms’ classes,
said she could think of no one more deserving of the
honour.
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“Having moved [to Shellbrook] from Calgary, I missed
the busyness the big city has to offer. I desperately
needed something that I could look forward to while
trying to fit in, get a job and keep fit, and I found all
that in more in the fitness class run by Leeta,” she said
in her letter of support.
“Seven months down the lines, with excellent fitness
and a good diet plan, I have lost two dress sizes and I
can thank Leeta for getting me motivated,” she added.
Harms’ Tuesday and Thursday sessions include a
range of work outs and activities for her participants,
that help to improve cardio, strength, endurance and
flexibility. Very often, she has more than 20 participants in each class.
She is known for tailoring classes to individuals to ensure they get the most out of them, and for implementing quirky ideas into her classes to keep them fun (such
as using pumpkins for the Halloween session).
“Shellbrook has a lot of year-round physical activity
opportunities for children and youth, including hockey,
ball and swimming. I feel that without Leeta and her
fitness classes, our community would be lacking something very special – the opportunity for adults and
young adults to come together twice a week to exercise
and socialize,” said Mayor George Tomporowski in his
letter of support.
Though Harms’ classes are done for 2014, they will
pick up again in the New Year.
Canadians unhappy with Harper regime, says poll
As 2015 and the next federal election draw ever nearer,
Nanos Research and the Institute for Research on Publicly
Policy have released their latest poll, measuring how Canadians feel about the reigning conservative government and
the direction in which the country is headed.
According to the poll, many Canadians are less than happy with the Harper government as 45 per cent of respondents rated its performance as poor or very poor, while 37
rated it as somewhat good or very good. Similarly, 48 per
cent of Canadians seem to think the country is headed in
the wrong direction, while 37 per cent feel it’s on the right
track.
In addition, half of Canadians feel that Canada’s reputation around the world has suffered over the past year, while
52 per cent gave poor grades to the relationship between
the federal and provincial governments.
Did You
Hear?
Despite this less than stellar report card on the Harper
government’s performance, the numbers show a slight improvement from the same poll in 2013, in which 56 per cent
of respondents gave a poor or very poor grade to the Conservatives and 55 per cent said the country was headed in
the wrong direction.
“What we know empirically is that 2013 was a very bad
year for Stephen Harper and the conservatives,” said Nik
Nanos, chairman of Nanos Research, in the report.
“2014 is a little better, but generally the view of many
Canadians, of the government and its performance and the
direction of the country, is still negative. [The conservatives] are not out of the political woods by any stretch of the
imagination,” he added.
Nanos also noted that the negative numbers have grown
because fewer Canadians are giving the Harper regime av-
erage marks, suggesting that the country has become increasingly polarized by the ruling government.
Nanos Research conducted the poll using telephones
(landline and cellphones) and online methods, surveying
1,000 Canadians between Nov. 15 and 18 as part of a larger
poll. The margin of error is considered to be 3.1 percentage
points, 19 times out of 20.
The results of Nanos’ poll seem to be in line with trends
emerging from other polls that have measured the voting
intentions of Canadians. Three polls released last week by
Leger, EKOS, and ThreeHundredEight.com, all show the
liberal party, led by Justin Trudeau, as the front-runner
heading into the 2015 federal elections, albeit with slightly
varying margins. The Harper conservatives are a close second in all polls, while the NDP, under Jack Layton successor Thomas Mulcair, is now sitting in a distant third place.
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SGI helping kids bundle up
with the
Coats 4 Kids program
SGI is working to keep Saskatchewan
children warm this holiday season
with a $10,000 donation to the Huddle
Up Foundation’s Coats 4 Kids program.
The donation will be used to buy new
coats for kids between the ages of 4 and
18, and to support a number of youth
organizations in need. SGI has also
asked employees across the province to
collect new and gently used coats and
other winter wear which will also be
donated.
“We know all too well, Saskatchewan
winters can be harsh. Thousands of
children last year were better prepared
for the winter because of the Coats 4
Kids program,” said Andrew Cartmell, President and CEO of SGI. “SGI
is proud to help keep kids warm this
winter.”
The Huddle Up Foundation is a team
of professional athletes from across
North America who have committed
to improving the lives of kids by creating their own charitable causes. The
Beverly Nussey
Happy
New Year
Due to a backlog caused by a high volume of letter to the editor submissions, publication of the letter “SaskPower taken to task” was delayed. During this delay, a solution to the problem between the two
parties was reached without the Chronicle’s knowledge. We regret any
confusion the delay in publication may have caused.
PRAISE & WORSHIP
Regular services, Sunday school and special events will be listed at no charge.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Zion - Canwood
Sunday School,
Worship Sunday, 11 a.m.
St. John’s - Shellbrook
Sunday School,
Worship Sunday, 9 a.m.
Parkside, Immanuel
11 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Chris Dean
-----------------------PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Parkside
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship
David Baldock
Shellbrook
Sun., 10:30 a.m. - Worship
Pastor David Bodvarson
306-747-7235
Canwood
10:30 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Glenn Blazosek
OBITUARIES
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Coats 4 kids program was created by
Roughrider alumni Geroy Simon.
“This is a program close to my heart,
so it’s special for me when Saskatchewan companies like SGI reach out with
their generosity,” said Geroy Simon
of the Huddle Up Foundation’s Coats
4 Kids program. “Nobody should go
without a coat in winter, and it’s help
like this that ensures more don’t have
to.”
SGI cares about the communities and
people it does business with. That’s
why each holiday season, SGI contributes to a charitable organization on behalf of its employees.
In 2013, SGI donated $10,000 to Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan.
Clariﬁcation
306-468-2138
Leask Gospel Tabernacle
Sunday 6:30 p.m.
Pastor L. Trafford
306-466-2296
-----------------------EVANGELICAL FREE
Big River
11:00 a.m. - Worship
Bible Classes 9:45 a.m.
Summer: 10:30 a.m. - 12
306-469-2258
Youth Nite: Fridays
Mont Nebo
Bible Study and Prayer
Sun., 11:00 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Bill Klumpenhower
-----------------------CATHOLIC CHURCH
Debden
Sun. Mass - 9:30 a.m.
Fr. Sebastian Kunnath
Big River - Sacred Heart
Sun., 11:30 a.m. - Mass
Whiteﬁsh
Sun., 2:30 p.m. - Mass.
Victoire
Sat., 7:30 p.m. - Mass.
Fr. Sebastin Kunnath
Eucharist Celebrations
Muskeg
Sunday, 3 p.m.
St. Agatha’s - Shellbrook
Sunday, 9 a.m.
St. Henry’s - Leask
Mass Sunday 11 a.m.
St. Joseph’s - Marcelin
Mass Saturday, 7 p.m.
Mistawasis
Sunday, 3 p.m.
Fr. Tru Le
-----------------------PRESBYTERIAN
Mistawasis
Sunday worship
11 a.m.
Rev. Bev Shepansky
December 26, 2014
NUSSEY - Beverly Nussey passed away
peacefully into the arms of Jesus on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the age of 68. She is
lovingly remembered by the staff of Big
River Health Centre.
Bev was predeceased by her parents
James Leslie Nussey and Ivy (Robertson)
Nussey.
Beverly was born on Feb. 4, 1946, in
Saskatoon where she grew up and flourished in the love of her parents.
As a young woman she was involved in
a motor vehicle accident which changed
her life. Her courage and love of live kept
her spirits up and pulled her through the
hard and difficult times. She was quite
witty and could even laugh at herself.
She was loving and generous, loved music, especially the music of the sixties
and sang with a heart full of joy.
A Memorial Service will be held at the
Big River Health Centre on February 4th,
2015 at 11:00am with Pastor Kevin Roberts officiating.
Her burial will take place at a later date
in the Summer of 2015 in the Woodlawn
Cemetery in Saskatoon.
Private email condolences to www.
beaulacfuneralhome.com will be forwarded to Bev’s loving Caregivers.
Donations in memory of Bev will be
graciously accepted by the Big River
Health Centre Activities.
Arrangements entrusted to Ed Beaulac and Lori Saam of Beau “Lac” Funeral
Home, Spiritwood, SK.
Leo McHanson
McHANSON - Memorial service for the
late Leo McHanson, 2:00 PM, Dec. 20,
Leask Community Hall, Leask, SK
In lieu of tributes, donations may be to
-----------------------SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST
407-2nd Ave E, Shellbrook
Sat., 9:45 a.m. Sabbath School
Sat., 11:00 am -Worship
Broadcast on
VOAR 92.1 FM
Pastor Dan Guiboche
306-930-3377
-----------------------SOVEREIGN GRACE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Currently meeting in homes
on
Sunday morning
and Wednesday evenings
Parkside 306-747-2309
Leask 306-466-4498
Marcelin 306-226-4615
-----------------------ANGLICAN CHURCH
Leask - All Saint’s
Sunday, 9:00 a.m.
- Service
St. Andrew’s - Shellbrook
Sunday, 11 a.m. Service
Kidney Foundation of Canada
Arrangements entrusted to Beau “Lac”
Funeral Home.
Canwood - Christ Church
Sunday, 11 a.m. Service
Mont Nebo - St. Luke’s
Sunday, 2 p.m. -Service
-----------------------UNITED CHURCH
Big River
1st & 2nd Sundays
1 p.m. - Worship
at Anglican Church
All Other Sundays - 10 a.m.
Shellbrook - Knox
Sun., 10 am - Worship
Pastor Dave Whalley
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SPORTS
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The best from 2014 - January to June
The best quips, quotes and
anecdotes from 2014 (January to June edition):
• Redskins coach Mike Shanahan, to reporters, after listing his reasons for benching
QB Robert Grifﬁn III: “I’m
trying to be as honest as I can,
and I don’t normally do that.”
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.
com: “The arena crew at a
Florida Panthers game replaced the glass behind the
net but didn’t take the backing off, blocking the view
from the stands. ‘Good idea,’
said Sabres fans.”
• Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free Press on Twitter:
“I’m not saying Peyton Manning is having a good season,
but I think the Broncos just
released their punter.”
• Another Twitter crack
from Turner, on Zdeno Chara,
the Boston Bruins’ 6-foot-9
defenceman: “Chara talking
to a referee looks like a giraffe
talking to a zebra.”
• Greg Cote of the Miami
Herald: “It has come to my
attention there is an LPGA
player named Sandra Gal. I
wonder if she ever met punter
Ray Guy?”
• Tom Ruprecht@truprecht on Twitter: “Just saw car
with ‘NYC JETS’ plates drive
the wrong way down one-
way street. It’s like
modations have
God’s making ‘Daiobviously
never
ly News’ cartoons
stayed at the Racome to life.”
mada Inn in Prince
• RJ Currie
Albert in Decemagain:
“Accordber.”
ing to a new study,
• Norman again:
ﬁts of laughter can
“Pete Carroll problead to fatal asthably pumps his ﬁst
ma attacks, heart
when the trafﬁc
ruptures and seisignal changes.”
BRUCE
zures. More bad
• Scott Ostler of
PENTON
news for Maple
the San Francisco
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Leafs fans.”
Chronicle: “In an• Greg Cote of
swer to the questhe Miami Herald:
tion of many read“Marlins radio broadcasts ers: Yes! When the Dodgers
switch from 790 The Ticket and Diamondbacks open the
to WINZ940 next year. Fans season in Australia, runners
who listen to Marlins games will run the bases clockwise.”
on radio are split. One said
• TC Chong, on curvy Kevin
he liked the change, the other Stadler winning the Waste
isn’t sure.”
Management Open in Phoe• Norman Chad of the nix: “Shouldn’t it have been
Washington Post: “Let’s take named the Waist Mismana moment out to consider agement Open?”
Richard Sherman. I can’t
• Randy Turner again durﬁgure out the guy — smart ing the Finland-U.S. bronze
and well-spoken off the ﬁeld, medal hockey game: “Teemu
breast-beating and trash- scores. Goes back to bench,
talking on the ﬁeld. He’s like drinks from water bottle laWinston Churchill moon- belled “Fountain of Youth’.
lighting as a pro wrestler.”
Looks into stands, winks at
• Mike Fraser, former Bran- Ponce De Leon.”
don sportswriter and now
• Another one from RJ Curan Edmonton-based hockey rie, after Molly Schuyler, a
scout, on Facebook: “All these 5-foot-7, 125-pound mother of
journalists in Sochi com- four, ate a record 363 chicken
plaining about their accom- wings in 30 minutes at Wing
Bowl 22: “Witnesses say she
was poultry in motion.”
• Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald: “MLB’s
Playing Rules Committee
voted to ban home-plate collisions, starting in 2014. At the
current rate, by 2022, players
will be hitting the ball off a
tee and everyone will win a
trophy.”
• Spotted on a Chicago billboard, before the U.S.-Canada men’s hockey semiﬁnal:
“Loser keeps Bieber.”
• Snipped from Ian Hamilton’s column in the LeaderPost: “The Russian government gave a new Mercedes
SUV to each of the country’s
44 Winter Olympic medallists. Added Tonight Show
host Jimmy Fallon: “When
asked what happened to the
athletes who didn’t medal,
(president Vladimir) Putin
said, ‘Do not open trunk.’”
• Gary Van Sickle of SI.com,
on Bubba Watson’s withdrawal from the Arnold Palmer
Invitational after shooting a
ﬁrst-round 83, blaming allergies: “Bubba is allergic to
scores in the 80s.”
• Cote again: “Evander
Holyﬁeld was in trouble for
comparing homosexuality
to a disability and calling it
‘treatable.’ Having had part
of an ear bitten off, I guess he
couldn’t hear how dumb that
sounded.”
• Former major leaguer Ken
Singleton: “A man once told
me to walk with the Lord. I’d
rather walk with the bases
loaded.”
• Currie again: “North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim
Jong-un, reportedly decreed
young men must sport hairdos like his. ‘Hey!’ said the
Calgary Flames. ‘Don’t give
Brian Burke ideas.’”
• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “SF 49ers
hoping sexual assault charges
will not be ﬁled against Colin
Kaepernick. Still, once again
this illustrates the danger of
having openly heterosexual
men play football.”
• Times reader Bill Littlejohn, after an angler found
a 101-year-old message in a
bottle in the Baltic Sea: “It
was a Cubs fan saying, ‘Wait
’til next year.’ ”
• RJ Currie again: “ExBrier champs Kevin Koe, Jeff
Stoughton and Glenn Howard
will each have up to three new
players next year. Curling will
see more guys crossed out
and pencilled in than Taylor
Swift’s date book.”
• Another one from Norman Chad: “I love the Raptors
as much as the next guy, but
if their starting ﬁve — Kyle
Lowry, Terrence Ross, Amir
Johnson, DeMar DeRozan
and Jonas Valanciunas —
walked into my home, I’d ﬁgure they were there to check
my sump pump.”
• Comedy writer Jim
Barach: “The NBA has suspended Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life. Sterling’s
supporters are arguing that
he has owned the Clippers
since 1981. Hasn’t he suffered
enough?”
• Brad Dickson again: “A
restaurant in San Antonio
has come out with a Charles
Barkley sandwich. I’m guessing it’s 80 per cent bologna
and 20 per cent keen insight.”
• Sportsnet magazine columnist Scott Feschuk, on
Twitter: “Sometimes the
HNIC analysts say stuff that
is so stupid that I worry there
may be a gas leak in the studio.”
• One more from Currie,
on Rory McIlroy winning his
ﬁrst tournament since calling
off his wedding to Caroline
Wozniaki: “It’s nice he had a
hot hand to go with his cold
feet.”
Care to comment? Email
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Guide your kids so they succeed in sports
Kids who participate in hockey and
other youth sports are learning just as
much from the frustrations as they are
from the fun. This may be hard for parents to witness however.
Looking at sports through the lens
of a protective parent – from all the
bumps, bruises and scrapes, to getting
benched by the coach – is not the way
an enthusiastic child sees this chance
to participate.
So encourage your children to play
the sports they love and remember that
bumps and bruises are some of the best
learning moments of all.
A lot of it will be out of your control,
but what you can do is lay the groundwork for your child to succeed in any
and all of their athletic interests, starting with this:
• Knowing right versus wrong
Fostering good habits at home
will help your children develop into
healthy, productive and well-balanced
adults. Teaching right versus wrong
gives them a sense of moral judgment
in sports, but also in the daily choices
they make. That means not succumbing to peer pressure to smoke or drink
alcohol.
• Eating healthfully
Providing proper nutrition not only
fuels young bodies and minds, but also
allows for the muscles and brain to
recover quickly from stress, injury, or
fatigue. Make sure your children are
getting enough essential vitamins and
nutrients. Stock your fridge with precut fresh fruits and veggies and sneak
extra vegetables into their favourite
foods, like spaghetti.
To help ﬁll in potential nutritional
gaps, provide a multivitamin and mineral supplement that includes vita-
Shellbrook Elks Hockey Schedule
Saturday, Jan. 3
min D and calcium to help them develop physically — and the omega-3
fatty acid DHA, which has been shown
to have neuroprotective beneﬁts for the
brain.
“If you include DHA in a healthy
diet during a young athlete’s grade
school and high school years, it can
aid in proper brain development and
functioning,” says Dr. Majid Fotuhi,
founder and chief medical ofﬁcer of the
NeurExpand Brain Center.
• Participating in activities off the ice
Engagement in other activities beyond sports is important for young
athletes. Recent research looked at a
possible connection between an extracurricular activity and school performance.
The overwhelming conclusion: those
who participate in a club, sport, or arts
program have better attendance, better
PRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS
HOCKEY SCHEDULE
8:00 p.m.
Sat., December 27 ~ 7 p.m
Tisdale
P.A. VS Saskatoon
Saturday, Jan. 10
Come for the Game, Stay for the Party!
Hague
P.A. VS Everett
8:00 p.m.
Fri., January 2 ~ 7 p.m
grades and have a greater desire to continue on to college.
• Valuing diversity
As in their future professional life,
working alongside many different
people (and personalities) helps young
athletes work toward a common goal.
They learn to treat teammates, classmates and friends with a common respect, and learn to listen to and respect
their coaches, teachers, or the adults
in charge. During the unlucky bounces
and bad calls, they learn the importance of rallying together to overcome
adversity.
These are experiences your children will not have if you keep them in
a bubble, or in front of the television.
Do what you can as a parent and watch
your children grow in ways that will
beneﬁt them long after they hang up
their skates.
Silver Tips Hockey Schedule
Friday, January 16
8:30 pm
Silver Tips
vs
Maymont Settlers
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Shellbrook Elementary spreads Christmas cheer in town
Shellbrook
Elementary
School students of all
grades brought Christmas to town a little early
this year, as they spent
Dec. 15 traveling all over
town to spread cheer by
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Above: Residents of the
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Boettcher’s Grade 4/5 students sing Christmas carols.
Left: Grade 4 and Grade
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