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MCS SADD ChapterThe MCS SADD Chapter is working hard this year at spreading awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving. This will be the 18th year for the program in Melville. Pictured are, back row (l-r): Sharon Roach (Advisor), Annette Callfas (Advisor), Kenneth Cole, Delaney Alspach (Vice-President), Abby Schicker (Vice-President), Jenna Rathgeber, Sukhman Brar (President), Skylar Eisler, Constable Jason Gnanathayalan -ner (Treasurer), Jorryn Kreklewich (Secretary), Sawyer Kitch, Shyla Grant, Raeleigh Keller. Missing from Photo: Jerry Carsience & Mikayla Strand.

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By Emily Jane FulfordGrasslands News

Drinking and driving is an epidemic. Despite all the warn-ings and vigilance by police, the average number of deaths caused by the behaviour con-tinues to outnumber that of homicide in Canada. To take a stand, many groups and causes have been established to spread awareness about the issue in-cluding the Students Against Drinking and Driving Chap-ter which is in its 18th year at Melville Comprehensive School (MCS).

“This year the Chapter is led by President Sukhman Brar and Vice-Presidents Delaney Al-spach and Abby Schicker under the guidance of teacher advisors Ms. Roach and Mrs. Callfas, and RCMP Liaison Officer Constable Jason Gnanathayalan. The MCS SADD Chapter currently has 13

members ranging from Grades 7 - 12. We meet weekly to plan monthly SADD activities that are aimed to reduce distracted and impaired driving in our community,” said MCS teacher Ms. Roach.

The SADD program started in 1981 by an American high school teacher, Robert Anastas, after two hockey players on the team he coached were killed in separate drinking and driving incidents within the same 48 hour span. Inspired to create a system for awareness that teen-agers would relate to, he decided to create one that would actu-ally involve them in the process. The program was a huge suc-cess. The program quickly was adopted by Canadian schools as well and now well over 50,000 schools take part.

“The MCS SADD Chapter is one of the most decorated SADD Chapters in the province,” ex-

plains Ms. Roach. “We have won the Nicole Nakonechny Memo-rial Award for being the most active SADD Chapter in the province nine times (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020). Additionally, we have won the Evan Twins Memorial Award a handful of times. Both

awards come with a monetary value ($1,000 and $500 respec-tively), as well as a plaque.”

This year, the MCS group welcomed a number of new members, including seventh grade student Mason Lechner, who was given the opportunity to share why he wanted to join

SADD this year. “I joined SADD because I

thought it would be cool to join lots of clubs at MCS and driving impaired is not an accident and if you harm or kill somebody, it is your fault,” said Lechner. “I think we need to spread more awareness about that.”

“I think SADD is import-ant to me and the community because driving distracted or impaired affects everyone,” explains Brar. “It doesn’t just affect one person. It affects the entire community and people who get behind the wheel when they are impaired or are dis-tracted when driving don’t re-alize how their decisions affect others. I also believe that since we are in high school, many teenagers may make the wrong decisions and I wanted to help influence them to make the right decisions.”

While it is hard to believe

that a whole year has gone by since last year’s competition, it’s even harder to accept howbig an impact the pandemic re-mains, especially so long after vaccinations were made avail-able. Unfortunately it is still the biggest stumbling block toovercome for most activitiesand groups including this one.

“It is our goal to be able to stay active the entire school year and not to be slowed down (or shut down like last year) byCOVID,” said Ms. Roach. “It isour goal to plan one in-school and one community event eachmonth. In doing so, it is our goal to win the Nicole NakonechnyMemorial Award a 10th time.”

With such an undeniablyimportant cause at hand, hope-fully arrangements can be madeto keep the event going in a waythat is safe but still spreadsawareness about the impact ofdrinking and driving.

MCS SADD aims to combat drinking and driving

Melville has one of province’s most decorated SADD chapters

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The Government of Saskatchewan is pleased to recognize Business De-velopment Bank of Can-ada (BDC) Small Business Week taking place from October 17 to October 23, 2021. This week celebrates the important contribu-tions of small businesses to Saskatchewan’s econ-omy. Small Business Week was launched over 40 years ago to join to-gether entrepreneurs across the country.

Small businesses are classified as having less than 50 employees. They

are a source of quality jobs and account for 99 per cent of the almost 150,000 business enter-prises in the province.

“Saskatchewan has a strong history of en-trepreneurial spirit and small businesses continue to play a vital role in the province,” Trade and Ex-port Development Minis-ter Jeremy Harrison said. “Small businesses are active in virtually every sector of the economy, providing vital jobs, prod-ucts and services, which often turn into the kind of success that grows an economy, and a province. The Government of Sas-

katchewan is proud to recognize this week to celebrate the contribution small businesses make to the growth of our prov-ince’s economy.”

Small businesses pro-vide significant benefits to Saskatchewan’s econ-omy. In 2020, small busi-nesses employed 30 per cent of Saskatchewan’s workers and paid out al-most $6.8 billion in wages and salaries, which was 25 per cent of the prov-ince’s total payroll. Small businesses generated 29 per cent of Saskatch-ewan’s gross domestic product (GDP).

The number of small businesses has grown from 95,066 in 2010 to 146,016 in 2020, a 54 per cent increase. In 2020, there were 124 small businesses for every 1,000 people in Saskatchewan, which is second highest per capita in Canada.

The Government of Saskatchewan continues to invest in initiatives,

services and programs that support small busi-nesses in the province. Some of these include:• The Saskatchewan Tech-nology Start-Up Incentive, which offers a 45 per cent non-refundable tax credit for individual and corpo-rate equity investments in eligible technology start-up businesses;• The Product2Market: Value Added incentive which helps support small- and medium-sized agri-businesses, from product development through to marketing ac-tivities;• The Canada-Saskatch-ewan Job Grant, an em-ployer-driven program which helps employers train new or existing workers to meet their spe-cific workforce needs;• Small Business Corpo-rate Tax Rate of 0 per cent until July 2022 and 1 per cent until July 2023 when it will revert back to 2 per cent. The reduced rate applies to up to $600,000

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By Alan HustakGrasslands News

The museum in Fort Qu’Appelle is getting a copy of a rare ‘Chief’s medal’ which were given to each of the 29 lead-ers who put their names to Treaty Four in 1874 and to the adhesions that fol-lowed. Those who signed received a hat, a coat, a one time payment of $25 and the silver medal which depicts a settler and an indigenous leader shaking hands on one side and a portrait of Queen Vic-toria on the other side. Around the de-sign is the inscription “Indian Treaty

No. 4, 1874. The museum hopes to mount an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the treaty in 2024.

A few of the original medals wound up in private collections. Seven years ago, one of them came up for sale in auction. Zagime Anishinabek council-lor Paula Acoose and her husband Ray McCallum paid $40,000 to acquire a real one - four times more than it was ex-pected to sell for. The medal is so rare no one could recall the last time one was put up for auction.

“My husband urged me to keep on bidding until we got it. We bought it and

brought it back home for everyone. We wanted to share it. We’d do it all again,” Acoose told Grasslands News. “It is spir-itual, it is historic, it is hard to explain, It is also a tangible representation of the nation to nation relationship that exists between First Nations and the Crown.”

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina has custody of the medal, but Acoose and her husband, who is an art-ist, still own it. They decided to have 300 reproduced in a limited and numbered edition by the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg. The Treaty 4 Holding Corpo-

ration paid for the die and the ZagimeFirst Nation paid to have the copiesstruck and sell them to First Nationscommunities, people who understand their significance, and collectors.

Similar medals were distributed when the various treaties were signed but they aren’t the same as the Treaty Four medal which was originally struck in Great Britain. The reproductionsare made of nickel not silver. The onlyother difference from the original is thatthey are not hall marked and the ribbon clasp is different.

Reproduction medalZagime Anishinabek councillor Paula Acoose displays a reproduction of the 1874 Treaty Four Medal.

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Mucha passed away of cancer on May 21, just nine days after attending his final council meeting. He had served for 27 years as councillor, missing only

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Grasslands News

The Rapid Test Kit that is being dis-tributed does not qualify as proof of nega-tivity of COVID-19 for the places that have been regulated to check for proof of vacci-nation or proof of negative testing.

Individuals who do not have proof of vaccination have the option of providing proof of a negative COVID-19 test result from within the previous 72 hours. Grass-lands News contacted the Saskatchewan Health Association (SHA) to obtain clari-fication on proof of negative testing. The SHA referred the questions to the Minis-try of Health as SHA stated this is a re-quirement of the provincial public health order.

Upon investigation through the gov-ernment COVID-19 information web site, it states, “The cost for all proof of negative test results for asymptomatic testing will be the responsibility of the individual. In-dividuals requiring a negative test result have several private options on the mar-ket that will provide a rapid antigen test or a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test

for a fee.” But what is important to note and what

people are missing is that, the Govern-ment of Saskatchewan information site states that a self-administered take-home rapid antigen test will not be accepted as valid proof of negative COVID-19 results.

Also, do not go to a testing site if you have no symptoms (asymptomatic) and just require a proof of negative test for ac-cess to regulated locations. The SHA is no longer supporting testing for asymptom-atic individuals at the public testing sites, preserving resources to test symptomatic and other at-risk populations.

Individuals requiring a negative test result have several private options on the market that will provide a rapid an-tigen test or a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for a fee. A current list of lo-cations and labs offering testing services is on Saskatchewan.ca under Where to Get Tested. This includes approximately 50 sites with centres such as Moosomin, Fort Qu’Appelle, Regina, Grenfell, Wey-burn and Yorkton as sites available in this readership area.

Self-tests are an effective screening tool distributed for the purpose of work-

place or asymptomatic surveillance and are intended for those who do not have COVID-19 related symptoms (asymptom-atic). If you have COVID-19 symptoms or if your self-test is positive, seek a lab PCR test through an SHA testing site or call HealthLine 811 to arrange for a test.

Anyone using the SHA Testing Sites to acquire proof of a negative COVID-19 test will be asked to access private fee for service COVID testing companies within Saskatchewan.

Grasslands News asked the Ministry of Health (Government of Saskatchewan) the following questions: If you have a rapid test that shows negative, you still cannot enter public buildings that are regulated to acquire proof of negative testing? Does this also apply to workers or people man-aging/owners of regulated businesses that require proof of negative testing? What is the solution for the many smaller rural areas that have no location providing testing when people prefer not to be vac-cinated as the vaccinations are not man-dated even though they are encouraged? Are employees within the health services allowed to use the rapid testing kits as proof of negative results prior to going to

their place of employment?Also, when the case numbers decrease,

at what point will the restrictions in placefor proof of negative testing or vaccina-tions be discontinued? Their response wasas follows: “A self-administered take-home rapid antigen test will not be accepted asvalid proof of negative COVID-19 resultsat businesses and venues requiring proof of vaccination or negative tests.

Proof of vaccination is intended toreduce the burden on Saskatchewan’shealth care system, enable essential ser-vices to continue, and to reduce serious illness and overall deaths as a result ofthe COVID-19 pandemic.

A rapid test is intended for asymp-tomatic screening and surveillance.Antigen testing (rapid testing) is just one of several screening tools recom-mended for businesses, agencies or or-ganizations to help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. This is why we expanded delivery of rapid test kits as announced October 15. Measures will remain in place as the Government of Saskatch-ewan continues to monitor COVID-19trends and hospitalizations.

By Sarah PacioGrasslands News

Prairie Valley and other school di-visions across the province are par-ticipating in the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s (SHA) “Test to Protect” campaign, making COVID-19 self-test kits available to families.

Earlier this month, the SHA pro-vided 475,000 self-test kits to elemen-tary schools in Saskatchewan. Each kit includes 25 tests and is intended for households with children under 12,

because those students cannot get the COVID-19 vaccine yet.

Children typically exhibit no symp-toms or mild symptoms of COVID-19. Self-testing is encouraged as a means of early detection, to help guard against individuals unknowingly spreading the virus.

A self-test, or rapid antigen test, for COVID-19 takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. If the results are negative and the individual remains as-ymptomatic, then no further action is necessary. If the self-test result is pos-itive, the individual must call 811 and

arrange a lab test, or polymerase chain reaction test, to confirm the result and receive instruction for self-isolation.

Parents and guardians can acquire a free self-test kit by contacting their child’s school. PVSD stated that its ini-tial shipment included enough tests for only a portion of the division’s eligible families.

“We received a total of 955 kits; the Ministry of Education asked us how many students we had aged 11 and under, and they provided kits for 15 per cent of that number,” PVSD represen-tative Ian Hanna told Grasslands News on Monday morning. “All of the kits went very quickly because there was high demand.”

Schools can request additional kits through an email form to SHA and the provincial government has announced that 720,000 more self-test kits would be available to schools starting this week.

Providing self-test kits for asymp-tomatic individuals enables public test sites to focus on symptomatic cases,close contacts of positive cases, immu-nocompromised residents, and individ-uals transferring between health carefacilities.

Officials note that self-testing is just one “layer” of protection againstCOVID-19. Practicing good hygiene, wearing masks and getting vaccinated are still important measures to protect everyone from the virus.

Sask. Health Authority ‘Test to Protect’ campaign underway

By Elaine AshfieldGrasslands News

The October 13, 2021 monthly meeting of the Prairie Valley School Di-vision (PVSD) Board was summarized in a report from Luc Lerminiaux, Di-rector of Education with the intent to provide the Board with the Director’s perspective regarding various initiatives, activ-ities and results.

Skills & KnowledgeProvincial Education

Plan Implementation Sas-katchewan’s Provincial Education Plan Imple-mentation Team (PEPIT) met on October 5 to con-tinue work on the devel-opment of the long-term provincial education plan to 2030 as well as update members on the progress of the Interim PEP plan.

The group began their meeting with an ethical space discussion that fo-cused on the legacy of res-idential schools and how their understanding of the impact will assist ed-ucation in their collective truth and reconciliation journey.

Updates on the read-ing, the learning response and mental health and well-being Interim Plan priorities were provided to the Team.

The Team then spent most of the afternoon developing potential out-come statements for the long term plan, many with specific timelines, that will be refined and presented in mid-October to the PEPIT. The out-comes will then be pre-sented to the Education Council for their endorse-ment.

Learning LeadershipPart of the vision of

reorganization in Prairie Valley includes extending

the notion of distributed leadership throughout the school division. This involves a decentraliza-tion of both responsibility and accountability and is based on the premise that leadership by many is superior to leadership by only a few.

In September, the Learning Superinten-dents met formally with principals or administra-tive teams at each of their schools. This process was more structured than in previous years and in-cluded an opportunity for all administrators to provide evidence of their leadership using a model that includes observation, conversation and prod-uct. Based on the under-standing that all of the work should be focused on improving outcomes for students, superinten-dents and school-based administrators explored school-level leadership in the following areas:• Learning Leadership• Human Resource and Staff Development Lead-ership • Culture and Climate Leadership (including Students, Parents and Community Engagement)• Managerial Responsibil-ities• Administrator Develop-ment Action Planning

These leadership areas will serve as the basis for additional planning con-versations throughout the year.

Related to this is the establishment of the School-Based Adminis-trator Leadership Team made up of six princi-pals who have agreed to take a leadership role in aligning the work of prin-cipals and vice-principals with the emerging Prai-rie Valley Strategic Plan and the Provincial Educa-tion Plan. Together with

Learning Superintendent staff, these principals will be co-creating agendas for principals’ meetings, sup-porting the development of a new Professional Growth and Evaluation model for Prairie Valley administrators and pro-viding guidance during Administrative Proce-dure renewal activities. With two Kindergarten to Grade 12, two high school and two elemen-tary school principals on the Leadership Team, the goal is to see processes in place that more fully meet the needs of staff and students while con-tinuing to meet the needs of the school division and Ministry of Education.

EdsbyThis year PVSD have

launched Edsby for stu-dents, parents and teach-ers to communicate about achievement, attendance and school work as an en-hancement to MySchool-Sask. Start up has been successful. The parent portal has been opened in 22 schools and have over 1900 parents regis-tered so far. This feature enables parents to moni-tor their child’s achieve-ment, enter and monitor attendance and a feature to communicate directly with teachers. Setting up Report Cards for distribu-tion to parents and stu-dents is currently being worked on.

COVID-19 ResponseSince the beginning

of the school year the

Prairie Valley Return to School Plan has been up-dated nine times as pro-vincial direction related to COVID-19 response has evolved. The current Re-turn to School Plan, dated Oct. 4, 2021, is consistent with the current Provin-cial Health Order dated Sept. 30, 2021. School and division administrative staff are in daily con-tact with Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) personnel who are orga-nizing the contact trac-ing process for positive cases. Each positive case involves SHA notification of a positive test result, principal contact tracing for staff, school division document preparation, principal’s communica-tion with staff and fami-lies and SHA verification of vaccination status of staff. As was the case last year, school-based admin-istrator and Prime Time staff have been generous with their evening and weekend time to support contact tracing work.

At time of writing, Prairie Valley has been notified of 53 positive cases of students or staff where contact tracing was required in one of PVSD schools. 12 cases have involved PreK to Grade 3 students, 24 cases have involved students in Grades 4 to 7, eight cases have involved students in

Grades 8 to 12 and seven cases have involved staff. While PVSD does not have access to vaccina-tion information related to positive cases, it may be noteworthy that 36 of 51 cases (71 per cent) have happened in populations ineligible for vaccination while 15 of 51 cases (29 per cent) have happened in populations eligible for vaccination. In three instances, the SHA has designated classrooms as outbreaks, so a high majority of PVSD cases have not led to an out-break designation. This is evidence that the safety precautions in place at schools continue to be effective. In one case, a classroom was moved to a remote learning model in consultation with the Medical Health Officer in order to facilitate learn-ing and safety for those students.

On October 4, Prairie Valley participated in the initial roll-out of the provincial student rapid testing program, Test to

Protect. This program sees schools as the dis-tribution point for rapidtests that can be used athome by families of stu-dents who are not yet eligible for vaccination.Initial feedback from families has been posi-tive and PVSD hopes tohave access to additionaltests in order to allow a higher level of participa-tion moving forward.

The Director of Edu-cation continues to meet regularly with provincialDirectors of Education to explore challenges and success related to the return to school. Deputy Director Baldwin and Su-perintendent Harkness meet every second week with public health staff from the SaskatchewanHealth Authority includ-ing Regina and Area Med-ical Health Officers, andit’s anticipated that these sessions will continue toprovide the information needed as a school divi-sion to determine COVID-19 response.

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By Murray MandrykPolitical columnist

While we all want COVID-19 to

be over, it’s likely safe to say none in Saskatchewan want it to be over more than Premier Scott Moe.

And, like virtually all of us, he did think it would be over now.

He clearly didn’t think he would now still be dealing with the deep impact of a global pandemic a year ago this week when daily case counts were in the low double dig-its and his Saskatchewan Party had just been given an overwhelming mandate for a fourth-term majority government.

He didn’t anticipate still dealing with COVID-19 nine months when the province was just coming out of what was thought to be the histori-cal peak of daily case counts in the third wave. New miracle vaccines would soon rid us of this plague, he and most everyone else thought.

And he surely didn’t think we would be here three months ago when close to 70 per cent of the el-igible 12-years-and-older population had receive at least a first dose and the decision was made to end all masking and gathering restrictions for the summer.

At that time, it did seem as if we were on the road to recovery — both with COVID-19 and the economy.

At that time, there were about 25,000 more jobs in Saskatchewan than a year early in 2020. The grad-

ual removal of capacity restrictions in bars and restaurants looked like it was paying off.

And Moe bluntly made it known his government no longer had any interest in the restriction business.

“After 485 days of government telling you how to live your life, those restrictions are coming to an end,” Moe said, equating the restric-tions lifted on July 11th to wartime measures.

And the numbers three months ago did look good.

The first week after the July 11th re-opening saw just 197 COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan – half the cases we now get in a single day.

Certainly, there were medical professionals warning him that 70-per-cent, first-dose would not be nearly enough to ward off the com-ing Delta variant in the fourth wave.

And, certainly, Moe was encour-aging people to get vaccinated, even suggesting that a simple prick in the arm was hardly the equivalent of storming the beaches at Normandy.

But with a coming federal elec-tion and the seeming interest in Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada that shunned required vac-cine passports or any other added restrictions, staunch conservatives like Moe really had no interest in going any further with restrictions than they already had.

In short, while Moe encourages vaccination, he had no interest in vaccine passport requirements that have since resulted in the vac-

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“For the cause that needs assistance; for the wrong that needs resistance;

the future in the distance and the good that we can do.”

Moe faces crisis he wasn’t expecting

This week is Small Business Week and in this day and age, we should be stopping to think – and to thank – the businesses that exist today.

It doesn’t matter if you live in a smaller community or in a larger centre, you cannot deny that there are busi-nesses with window coverings drawn or boarded up and no longer operating due to what could be several factors.

Society changes – I agree – but only to the extent that we, as residents or shoppers, allow them to. Businesses, large or small, survive by the dollars that pass through their doors. This in turn determines the amount and va-riety of products that can be available for the shoppers or their clients.

Over the years, many communities have lost some-thing. Some have gained in various ways. It’s always a question of why some lose and some gain? Do the ser-vices available, the population in a community or the trends of the period in time have an impact on what small businesses might be viable in your community?

Take a look back at what businesses you can remem-ber that used to be in your community and are no lon-ger operating and have left a hole of availability to the residents? Why did they close? Have people lost jobs and moved away because of this?

I remember clothing stores, yard goods, furniture, dentists, machinery dealerships, barbers, video shops, jewellers, butchers and grocery stores that once were small businesses in the community. They are now gone.

I’m tired of hearing people say “It’s the same every-where.”

What these people are actually saying is, “Oh well. That’s their problem and not mine.” Unfortunately, it may become a problem for them sooner than they think.

While there may be a variety of reasons why a small business may not survive, there is one main reason – no customers.

That’s right, the guy or gal, that prefers to drive to a larger centre and stock up have just left their money with a stranger and probably with a large business that has its main headquarters in another country.

At this point you are probably thinking, “I’m not read-ing any more. I’ve heard this all before.”

Well, so have the small businesses. They are tired of hearing, “I guess I’ll have to go to the city.” Or, com-ments such as “They never have what I want.”

Let’s stop right now and think why they don’t have every item that every person may want. Could it possibly be that there are millions and billions of various items manufactured today. Did you, as a shopper, ever stop to think that if you were not relying on spur of the moment pick-up, that you could have asked your small business to bring in the item that you just drove 100 miles to pick up.

Did you enter the price of your gas and your valuable time into the equation of cost? As a household shopper, you probably don’t think in those terms but rather you think it’s a getaway for a day as the reason to leave your

money with someone who you know darn well won’t sup-port you if you needed them. As a farmer, it’s a whole different situation as the cost of the gas to drive 100 miles for an item is a drop in the hat compared to that time away from harvest or seeding.

Small businesses welcome suggestions on what you may like to purchase from your own local store that would be viable for them or their neighbouring business to stock. They want people to come through their doors, to purchase items and find what they need. But, they need to have a cash flow to stock those items.

And speaking of stock, the pandemic has shown us something that should stay in the back of our minds as well – the sight of empty shelves and how safety is pro-vided in our daily hubs.

The availability of items has been challenging and since we can’t predict the future, it may get worse. There may be more variants and shutdowns in the future.

It’s Small Business Week, so appreciate those busi-nesses in your community. Support these businesses so next time you need a pair of socks, a prescription, your smokes or your alcohol, you won’t have to jump in your car, or as a senior ask a neighbor, possibly to drive on icy roads or a snowstorm because the businesses that used to sell these things in your community no longer exists.

It’s the people in the community that determine its destiny. Keep our small businesses viable please.

- Elaine Ashfield, Grasslands News

Every small business closing hurts your community

cine-hesitant getting vaccinated.“We almost certainly don’t have the ability

to demand proof of vaccination for whether or not they attend any large event here in the province,” Moe said in early July in re-sponse to why he wasn’t asking for vaccine passports at large gatherings like Roughrider games like the Manitoba government was for Winnipeg Blue Bomber games.

Unfortunately for Moe and all of us, warn-ings came to fruition. We haven’t been below 197 cases in a single day since mid-August.

And while there were only 53 people in hospital (the lowest total since Dec. 1), today

there are now around 350 people in Saskatch-ewan hospitals with COVID-19 and 84 in ICUs – so many that the government had to start shipping them out-of-province because we cannot no longer properly care for our sick-est people.

Harping on bad COVID-19 numbers does sound like a broken record. My apologies.

But the reality is, we are in a health care crisis right now because we didn’t prepare for the reality that the numbers would rise after the July 11th reopening.

Hoping this would all be over hasn’t been enough.


FacilitiesSince the start of this school year, maintenance Ser-

vice Requests total 911, which compared to the same pre-Covid time period is a 20 per cent increase. This increase is mostly attributable to a shift to pandemic logistical support to schools including an increased frequency of HVAC filter changes and sanitization consumable supply deliveries.

FinanceSeptember is extremely busy with various forms

of reporting due to the Ministry of Education. Fi-nance staff are completing PVSD 2020-2021 financial statements in preparation for the annual audit and Human Resources, Finance, Transportation and IT are coordinating the annual Electronic Educator Profile (EEP), Student Tuition Survey and Transportation data submissions in addition to the annual fall student enrollment information. Much of the fall data with the exception of the EEP, will be used to finalize funding for the school year.

Resignations / Human ResourcesThe start of the school has continued to prove busy

with unexpected employee resignations, leaves of ab-sence and ministry reporting requirements such as Electronic Educator Profile verification and HR re-lated information for the annual report.

HR is also working on establishing a process to centralize the gathering of data related to vaccination status of employees and trustees. To date, 112 absences have been coded as Quarantine Leave since the start of the school year.

Information TechnologySeptember continues to be the busiest month for IT

with 1,645 IT service desk tickets submitted between Aug. 23, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2021. Overall tickets de-creased by 210 over the same period last year. In ad-dition to the service desk tickets, PVSD continues to provide technology to assist students enrolled in the Remote Learning School and students who require technology due to moving online. PVSD continues to get ready the contingency of online learning laptops, Chromebooks and iPads to ensure there is enough sup-ply should the need arise.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, which is an internationally recognized campaign to encour-age and promote cyber security best practices. This month PVSD rolled out mandatory online IT security training to Prairie Valley employees utilizing the KnowBe4’s training and awareness platform. This

will ensure all staff has a base level understanding of cyber security best practices. In addition to training, periodic internal phishing tests will continually be performed to test whether staff can apply the train-ing they received in real-world scenarios and identify users who may benefit from additional training.

TransportationSeptember has been extremely busy with the return

to class under mostly pre-pandemic operations. Since the start of school, 200 students were added to bus routes and scheduled drivers for nearly 100 charter trips!

As part of regular duties, bus drivers will continue to maintain seating plans, take attendance on morning and afternoon bus routes, sanitize buses once per day and wipe down all surfaces once per week to maintain good condition of our bus fleet. Over the next month, students will participate in complete evacuations

drills using both front and rear exits of the bus. While grateful for technology, PVSD will be scheduling inperson meetings with all drivers in each communityto re-connect.

The Ministry of Education has sent out documents for submission of transportation data as of September30. Department staff worked very hard over the lastseveral weeks to ensure all students were placed onbus routes and provide bus drivers with updated ac-curate maps and lists.

PVSD continues to experience challenges with driver shortages specifically in the Indian Head area;two bus routes have not been operating since the start of school resulting in paid parent travel. In addition, PVSD has a limited number of spare bus drivers in many areas. In the event a bus driver becomes ill, theywill be challenged to find coverage. Work continueswith Human Resources and Communications to helpbring visibility to our recruitment efforts.

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The University of Regina announced changes to its Board of Governors recently, including the addition of a new member.

Appointed by the Government of Saskatchewan through an Order in Council, Leanne Bellegarde will join the University’s Board for a three year term. A proud member of the Peepeekisis Cree Nation, Belle-garde is currently CEO of Akawe Technologies, where her inclusion focus and consulting defines and informs the digital transformation intentionally addressing diverse community needs. She was formerly the Di-rector, Strategic Inclusion and Diversity at Nutrien, Director of Diversity and Inclusion and Aboriginal Strategy at Potash Corp, Director of Aboriginal Ini-tiatives in the Edwards School of Business at the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan, and Senior Vice-President Corporate and Legal Affairs at SLGA. Bellegarde holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Saskatche-wan and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2017. She brings extensive board experience and a commitment to inclusion and fostering belonging through robust

governance and inquiry.In addition to a new member, the Board is now led

by an Acting Chair. Former Vice-Chair, Dr. Marlene Smadu has assumed the role of Acting Chair upon the expiration of Roger Brandvold’s term.

“I would like to thank Roger Brandvold for his service to the University of Regina as a member of its Board of Governors and, finally, as Chair of the Board,” said Acting Chair, Dr. Marlene Smadue.“Roger led the Board during a global pandemic - an unprecedented time in our history. His steady leader-ship and commitment to the success of the institution are greatly appreciated.”

David Chow, Cadmus Delorme, Mark Lang, GaryBosgoed, Dr. Art Opseth, Dr. Carlos Londoño Sulkin,as well as ex-officio members Pam Klein (Chancel-lor), Hannah Tait (University of Regina Student’sUnion President) and Dr. Jeff Keshen (President and Vice-Chancellor) retain their positions on the Board.

The Board of Governors oversees the administra-tion and business matters of the University. It has ultimate authority over the raising and spending of University funds, and over the acquisition and man-agement of University property. It also appoints the president of the University.


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With less than two months since the offi-cial ground breaking ceremony for Wiggles & Giggles Childcare Centre Inc., a not-for-profit day-care being constructed at the corner of South Ave-nue and Southesk Street, the building is starting to take shape as contractor JT Carpentry continues working at erecting the walls.

The daycare, located on the south end of town behind the school grounds, was donated the land by Prairie Val-ley School Division and received a space devel-opment capital fund-ing grant for 28 infant, toddler and preschool spaces. The monetary grants allocated will support the build of the facility, as well as help

with future operation’s costs. The Government of Saskatchewan, in par-ticular the Ministry of Education’s Early Learn-ing, awarded $224,000 to go directly towards the capital construction cost, $24,108 for equipment and furnishings, and an additional $5,200 for lit-eracy, active play and exploration. Wiggles and Giggles will also be eligi-ble for the Early Child-hood Services Grant and Childcare subsidies for 35 spaces upon licensing.

The board of direc-tors for the daycare re-port “There have been many unexpected hoops to jump through and ad-ditional costs which un-fortunately delayed our start date and have eaten up a significant amount of our capital.”

The mortgage with Conexus Credit Union was finalized and the dig began on September 26th, 2021.

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tion requires the child’sname, age and date ofbirth, number of hoursneeded, pick-up and drop off times and if any spe-cial accommodations are needed. The age groupsare: Infant - six weeks to 18 months, Toddler -18 months to 30 months, Preschool - 30 months to Grade 1 and School Age is Grade 1 to 12 years.

Applications are beingaccepted as first come, first served.

As the local tradespeo-ple continue to work onthe facilities and keepthe project on budget, the board of directors will continue to work atraising money for neces-sities like landscaping,fencing, parking lot andplayground equipmentthat are not included in the mortgage.

The first fundraising plan for this fall is an online auction in Novem-ber.

The board of directorsare very thankful for allthe support received from companies, individuals, donations from events and the community and are excited to share thehappenings of the buildas it progresses.


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City of Melville long time member and dedicated employee Dwayne Kraft retired this month. The union president, friend and colleague to many, was regarded as a model employee and many city staff, including the Mayor, had kind words to say to wish Kraft well on his retirement.

“On behalf of Melville City Council and myself, Mayor Streelasky, I would like to congratulate Dwayne Kraft on his retirement. Mr. Kraft was a long-time City of Melville employee who worked tirelessly in his various roles in the Public Works department. He completed his tenure with our city in the position of Lead Hand. Throughout the years his work included working in wet trenches, cold temperatures, and responding to after hour and week-end calls. He undertook his responsibilities as Lead Hand with energy and determi-nation and guided his employees with care and concern for their welfare. He took on employee leadership roles serv-ing as President of his co-workers union. Mr. Kraft also served as President of the Melville Millionaires. He was a highly respected and appreciated employee. All the best in the future Mr. Kraft and Thank You!”

No matter what the weather and even during the COVID-19 crisis, Dwayne was always a welcoming and friendly face to the community.

“Dwayne has been a very reliable employee and friend,” said Andrew Fahlman, Director of Public Works & Planning Services. “His work ethic and ded-ication have influenced all those around him to work hard and never give up. He was always one of the first

people to work when there was a water break at 9 p.m. on a Friday or cleaning the snow off City streets at 4 a.m. Dwayne’s commitment to his community has undoubtedly made Melville a better place to live. I am grateful for having nine years to work alongside Dwayne and everything he has taught me.”

The person who took the time to get acquainted with all aspects of city man-agement and staff, Kraft will be a diffi-cult act to follow for anybody taking on his former role. Dedicating his career to becoming familiar with the people and staff who make the city run like clock-work, his commitment to community was what people will remember most about working with Dwayne.

“Dwayne was an incredible wealth of knowledge for the City and we fre-quently relied on him when it came to historical information,” explains Direc-tor of Community Services, Chris Bruce. “Dwayne always was willing to help you out any time you called and was a true team player. He will be greatly missed and I hope he enjoys a well earned re-tirement.”

Kraft even stood out to members of the team that he did not work with directly due to his involvement in so many different projects as well as taking on the responsibilities of union president.

“Dwayne was a pleasure to work with, was very knowledgeable and he cared about the City of Mel-ville,” said Ron McCullough, City Manager. He will be missed and I wish him well in his retirement.”

On behalf of all of us at Grasslands News, we wish Dwayne Kraft all the best in his future endeavours and thank him for his service to the community. Happy Retirement!

The woman who was arrested after walking out of a Northern California wildfire near the fire line has now been charged with arson. Alexandra Souverneva, 30, insists she was trying to hike to Canada when, she told them, she found a puddle of water to drink but wanted to sterilize it because it had bear urine in it. When straining it through a tea bag didn’t work, she tried to make a fire so she could boil it. The Fawn Fire, which started Sept. 22, burned through more than 8,500 acres be-fore it was contained.

A Turkish man who met up with some friends and later wandered, intoxicated, into a forest, ended up joining a search and rescue effort ... for himself. The man had been reported missing by family, but, when he learned that he was the object of the search, he cleared up the situation.

In 2011, wannabe California Governor Larry Elder defended himself against a complaint of sex-ual harassment with a simple statement. “If you had seen her, you would know that the picture would be a complete defense. I’m just saying.” Almost seems like that would have made the sit-uation worse.

A British teen UK was rushed to hospital after he at-tempted to measure his penis by shoving a USB cable into it. As the news story read, it’s unclear why he didn’t use a trusty ruler since the more modern option was evidently not the best method. The cable, which was already knotted, wound up get-ting caught in his urethra. He needed emergency surgery to remove the cord. Just in case anyone needs reminding, foreign bodies inserted into the urethra can cause serious issues, ranging from urinary tract infections, painful erections, and bladder dysfunction. Most of these incidents typi-cally come down to “sexual curiosity” and “sexual practice after intoxication.”

“When I pulled up behind him and turned my lights on, he took off and refused to stop,” a Ten-nessee highway patrol trooper said. At one point Tyson Gilbert, 39, who led the chase down High-way 70 between Dowelltown and Lebanon, stopped and opened his car door to reveal he was wearing nothing and was “covered in blood,” Trooper Bobby Johnson said. “He then shut his door and kept driving.” After two sets of spike strips failed to stop Gilbert, “We finally were able to box him in and got him stopped.” That’s when Gilbert told Trooper Johnson what happened: voices on his car radio told him to cut off his manhood “in order to save the world.” He did what he was told, throwing it out the car’s window. He was taken to a hospital. Another measurement technique?

Illinois’ first human case of rabies in 67 years ended fatally. Thomas Krob, 87, who awoke in mid-August to find a bat on his neck, has died of the disease after declining medical treatment, even though he knew the bat tested positive for rabies, a virus that attacks the central nervous system and causes the brain to swell. His eventual symptoms included neck pain, headache, speech difficulty, numbness in his fingers, and difficulty controlling his arms. This incident marked the state’s first human case since 1954.

An Italian woman thought she had scored a life-altering lottery win, but it didn’t turn out well. At the shop where she bought the two scratch tickets, the owner’s husband stole the ticket and took off on his scooter. Police are now on the hunt for Gaetano Scutellaro, 57, who ab-sconded with the winning ticket for the 500,000-euro ($748,000) jackpot. The Italian tax office, which manages the country’s lottery scratch cards, froze the block of tickets sold in the shop in re-sponse. Scutellaro was arrested as he tried board a plane headed to the Canary Islands. He says the money is already in a new bank account, but authorities have blocked the ticket and it can’t be cashed in until the case is settled.

In Michigan, Gregory Jarvis, 57, had matched the numbers on a Club Keno ticket that was worth $45,000. He couldn’t cash the ticket be-cause of an issue with his social security card, which is required in the state to claim a prize of more than $600. Jarvis was forced to apply for a new one. However, before it arrived in the mail, he washed up drowned on a private beach with the winning ticket still in his wallet. He had suf-fered a blow to the head before he drowned, but police have ruled it an accident.

I like this one. “They say we can have gather-ings with up to 10 people inside without issues. I don’t even know 10 people without issues.”

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Council Comment With summer behind us, we would like to thank our community’s manyvolunteers. Thanks to Communities in Bloom, Fort Qu’Appelle and DistrictLions, Town of Fort Qu’Appelle Public Works Department, and residents of Fort Qu’Appelle for everyone’s efforts in making our town welcoming to our many summer visitors.

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New ‘Tow Away Zone’ bylaw upsets Mission RidgeBy Alan HustakGrasslands News

A new bylaw in Fort Qu’Appelle, that now autho-rizes vehicles parked along the north side of Sioux Avenue to be towed away and impounded, has upset the operators of Mission Ridge Winter Park.

In late August council passed the bylaw, 06-2021 which created the tow-away zone below the ski hill. But the ski resort’s business manager Anders Svenson said he was “confused as to the motivation” behind the new rules.

Appearing before council last week he complained that the bylaw was passed “with no consultation,” and expressed concern that it “escalated from No Parking to Tow Away zone very quickly.” He suggested the estimated 13,000 new customers who visit the hill each year who may not be familiar with the new regula-tions would not come back to ski if they show up and discover their cars are towed away.

“Towing away vehicles will reflect badly on Mission Ridge, not on the Town of Fort Qu’Appelle,” he said. “People are not going to come back to Fort Qu’Ap-pelle to ski.” He wondered whether some other solu-tion such as ticketing the vehicles instead might be arranged or that the town widen the avenue to allow parking.

Councillor Connie Wowchuk said that the bylaw was passed in response to numerous complaints from the public. “There are times in the winter when vehi-

cles are parked on both the north and south sides of Sioux Avenue making it difficult for emergency vehi-cles to get through,” she said.

Svenson replied that Mission Ridge calls the ambu-lance regularly, and has never encountered any prob-lems. Councillor Darren Carroll, however, said it is “the fire trucks, not the ambulances getting through” that council is especially concerned about. Carroll

added that whether cars are towed away or hefty finesare imposed, offenders will still have the same reac-tion.

Svenson pointed out that Mission Ridge already hasNo Parking Signs in place. But Coun. Ronald Shordee pointed out that the signs “are about as big as a cig-arette pack. The signs should be bigger and thereshould be more of them.”

Church originated in Norquay, now in B-Say-TahThe Protection of the Mother of God Romanian Orthodox Church

By Alan HustakGrasslands News

At first glance you might think that this church has been in its pic-ture-perfect location in the Qu’Appelle Valley for gen-erations. But it was moved 225 km from a field near Norquay to the present location on the B-Say-Tah road 20 years ago. When it was originally built for a Ukrainian Catholic congre-gation in 1936, it was called

Holy Trinity. The interior was painted by Hnat Sych, a well known church dec-orator from Manitoba who specialized in religious art. In 1968 the Ukrainian Cath-olic congregation merged with Sacred Heart in Nor-

quay, and Holy Trinity was sold to Canada’s first Romanian Orthodox dean-ery. It was reconsecrated as The Protection of the Mother of God Romanian Orthodox Church. It was moved to a summer camp

run by the church at thebottom of the Mackay Hill in the Qu’Appelle Valley in2001. Mother Theodora Bal-aban completed the icons needed for the church to conform to the Romanian rite.


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Complainant contacted the RCMP to report a semi is on fire in his yard. Lemberg fire attended the location. The semi was severely damaged and there were no inju-ries as a result of the fire.

RCMP, EMS and Fire attended a farming accident near Duff. The lone male was working on a piece of equipment and was located impaled under the same piece of equip-ment. RCMP continue to investigate.

RCMP were contacted to report that someone was knocking on their back window in Ituna. RCMP continue to investigate.

If you have information related to these incidents please contact your local RCMP Detachment, call 310-RCMP for immediate response, or you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Remembrance Day serviceMelville Legion Poppy Chairman Brian Morris stands in front of the cenotaphat City Hall where a virtual event will be held for Remembrance Day this year. The local legion will continue with their wreath and poppy sales.


Remembrance Day is a time to remember rever-ently the sacrifices made by our Veterans, their families and those affected by all the world wars since 1914 to present day.

As the COVID-19 pan-demic has changed ev-eryone’s lives, it has also brought on changes to the way Remembrance Day services and activities can be held. As such, for 2021, the Melville Legion Branch #61 will hold a virtual Remembrance Day Service beginning at 11 a.m. at the City of Mel-ville cenotaph and it will be posted in real-time on the Legion’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/melvillelegion61).

Legion member and poppy chairman Brian Morris said that the pub-lic is welcome to attend the outdoor service if they choose to but that they must observe the Public Health guidelines. And just like other years, peo-ple will still be able to pay their respects following the ceremony.

“Once the outdoor Ser-

vice is complete, you may place a wreath or Poppy on the cenotaph in re-membrance. You may also place a poppy or wreath at the Cemetery Cenotaph or gravesite of a veteran,” said Morris.

Due to the pandemic, there will also be no Re-membrance Day Ban-quet this year, however, Morris said that the Le-gion Lounge will be open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. with COVID regulations being followed. There will also be no in person Remembrance services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Home and any of the local schools this year.

While ceremonies can’t be held at the schools, Morris said that the Mel-ville Legion Branch will once again be reaching out to the youth in all city schools encouraging them to participate in the poster (black and white), poster (color), essay and poetry contests.

“This contest is a great way to learn about the History of Remembrance Day plus to challenge your ability to create ar-tistically and literally,” said Morris.

of Melville Comprehen-sive High School and is enrolling in Post Second-ary Training.

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Melville Remembrance Day to be virtual event

The Poppy Campaign will take place once again this year and will begin with the pinning of a poppy on the mayor and a flag raising ceremony on Friday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. Due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic, the local cadets will not be able to sell poppies this year but they will be available for purchase through a donation at var-ious businesses through-out the city.

The Wreath Drive will also continue as normal this year with local busi-nesses encouraged to dis-play their wreaths from Oct. 29 to Nov. 11. Letters will be sent out to busi-nesses explaining the de-tails of the Wreath Drive.

When it comes to pur-chasing and displaying poppys and wreaths, Mor-ris says it’s more than just showing your support for veterans and honouring their sacrifices, but it also helps raise funds to sup-port veteran programs.

“The money raised is placed into The Poppy Fund that is for the sup-port of any Veteran and their family who may have come on hardship,” said Morris. “Our Branch supported Veteran Tran-sition Programs such as Paws for Veterans, Leave the Streets Behind, Well-ness Programs, Mental Health First Aid and Dis-cover the Power in Me.”

The Melville Branch also has a $500 Bursary available to any veteran’s son, daughter, nephew, niece (grand or great grand) who is a graduate

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As another harvest season is coming to an end, here are a few pre-cautions you can take to prevent the theft of farm equipment while it is in storage:• Remove all portable items (tools, GPS systems, radios) from inside your machinery as these are very attractive to thieves. If you cannot remove some items, record their serial numbers, mark

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On Friday, Nov. 5, the Kipling and District Arts Council are very pleased to present the story tell-ing singer-songwriter, Martin Kerr.

“Wow, Martin Kerr – what a voice! Pristine, measured, beautiful,” Sarah McLachlan.

“Had me in tears,” Bruce Cockburn.

Martin Kerr might be the only artist in the world to have played 300 live shows during 2020-21. When COVID-19 cancelled all his touring and festival plans for 2020, he launched ‘Stay Home Street Concerts’ instead. As soon as the snow melted (in his ad-opted hometown of Ed-monton, AB) he was out on the streets every day,

bringing music and hope to the masses, one block at a time. From their driveways, balconies and front lawns, every show finished with the whole street singing ‘You’re Amazing’, the uplift-ing, instantly singable hit from Kerr’s latest album. (It’s earned radio play across Canada, the UK and the Netherlands and climbed to #4 on the Spotify Viral Chart.) The street tour was a re-turn to his roots. Martin built his career from the streets, one passer-by at a time, for ten years before his breakout success in 2017. In a matter of weeks he went from busking to selling out the 1,700 seat Winspear Centre, then opening for Sarah Mc-Lachlan at a 20,000 seat stadium, and landing his album in the Canada Top 10. It was an arrival of

sorts for this globe-trot-ting singer-songwriter, having racked up pass-port stamps from 35 countries on his musical travels. On his current tour, Martin is accompa-nied by internationally renowned Scottish cellist and composer Christine Hanson.

You can listen to his music on YouTube or by visiting his web site at: www.martinkerrmusic.com

Come and join us for this special evening. It is on Friday, Nov. 5 at the Kipling Community Cen-tre. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Up to date COVID regu-lations will be followed. Masks must be worn and proof of vaccination, or a negative test result, is required for admission. Please come early as it

will take longer to admit everyone.

Tickets are avail-able at www.ticketpro.ca; advance tickets are also available at Balfour Pharmacy for $25 or at the door for $30. Students (13-18) will be admitted for $10. Children 12 and under are admitted FREE when accompanied by an adult. Kipling and Dis-trict Arts Council season tickets will also be avail-able that evening. For more information call 306-736-2263.

Kerr on tourMartin Kerr will be on stage in Kipling on Friday, Nov. 5, presented by the Kipling and District ArtsCouncil.

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The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is preparing for an election next week.

According to its mission statement, the FSIN represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan for the purpose of “promo-tion, protection, and implementation of the Treaty promises.” The organization’s executive consists of one chief assisted by four vice chiefs; thirteen candidates were announced in late September.

Incumbent Robert (Bobby) Cameron is completing his second term as chief, in addition to a previous term as vice chief. Robert Merasty, his opponent, also served as vice chief for FSIN during a past term.

Morley Watson and David Pratt are vying for the office of 1st Vice Chief. Wat-son held the position during the last term, while Pratt is finishing a term as 2nd Vice Chief.

Edward (Dutch) Lerat from Cowessess First Nation has served multiple terms as

a vice chief for the FSIN, most recently as3rd Vice Chief. This election he is a candi-date for the office 2nd Vice Chief. DustinFiddler, a councilor from Waterhen LakeFirst Nation, is running against Lerat.

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Heather Bear from Ochapowace FirstNation is seeking another term as 4th ViceChief. Pamela Whitehawk, Curtis Stand-ing, and Fenton Favel are hoping to un-seat her.

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The Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel (the Panel) has recommended the pro-vincial government approve a decrease in rates rather than the revenue neutral rate change originally proposed by the Saskatchewan Auto Fund (SAF) in its 2021 rate rebalancing application.

SAF proposed an overall revenue-neu-tral (0%) rate change effective January 21, 2022, which included a 1.7% rate in-

crease, with rate rebalancing for all ve-hicles; and 1.6% decrease to the capital margin for all vehicles. After reviewing the application and public input, and re-ceiving updated financial information, the Panel recommends that the original rate indication calculation of 1.7% should be increased to 2.2%. The Panel also recommended that the capital margin be further reduced from -1.6% to -3.4%. These recommendations will lead to an

overall estimated reduction of -1.3% in rates, although individual customer rates will vary depending on several factors in-cluding vehicle classes.

The Panel also recommended that the proposed 15% cap for base premiums greater than $1,000 be reduced to 10% and that a scaled cap with reductions ranging from $25-$100 be implemented for base premiums up to $1,000. The financial im-pact of rate capping, which is shifted to CLEAR-rated vehicles in this application, is recommended to be offset as a charge to the Rate Stabilization Reserve (RSR).

The Panel also made several other rec-ommendations including: • SAF develop a meaningful, formal en-gagement process with the province’s

taxi community to resolve their indus-try-specific issues.• SAF re-engage the motorcycle review stakeholder committee process with theprovince’s motorcycle community to re-solve their industry-specific issues.• SAF provide the completed business case and project plan for its Corporate Transformation (CT) project in its nextapplication so that the full implicationsof the project on rates is apparent.• SAF undertake an external review of the Integrated Cost Allocation Methodol-ogy (ICAM) and report back at the nextrate application.• SAF consider several enhancements toits filing standards in its next application.

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City council told ice plant replacement on trackBy Councillor Andrew Rondeau

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Melville City Council met on Oct. 4 for its reg-ular council and work-shop meetings.

Prior to the regular meeting, council was pleased to welcome Uni-versity of Regina presi-dent Dr. Jeff Keshen and associate vice-president Lisa Mitchell. The goal of this meet-and-greet was to discuss ways for council to assist the U of

R with better engaging with local high school students.

When it was time for the meeting itself, the primary focus was on the third quarter financial report. Lynsey Swanson, director of finance, laid out the economic posi-tion of the city.

While the pandemic has had considerable im-pact on the expenditures and revenues of the City of Melville, it is the ice storm experienced in May that is having the

Ice storm damage-

ville is still paying dearly for the ice storm disaster that wreaked havoc on the city last spring.

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most drastic effect on the financial picture.

Clean-up from the storm has cost over $1.2 million thus far, with the majority of these expenses coming from the Regional Park and also the golf course. A significant portion of this will be reimbursed by the Provincial Disas-ter Assistance Program (PDAP).

The park and golf course are their own en-tities and separate from the City of Melville so they must submit their expenses individually, but in tandem with the City of Melville.

Once all submissions have been made, PDAP will review the claims and issue a payment. However, until this hap-pens, the city is forced to pay these expenses through various surplus accounts, primarily the Unappropriated Surplus Fund. This account will need to be replenished as soon as possible, but assuming the money is received from PDAP in the interim, this will not have to be done through a one-time increase to municipal taxes.

During the open ques-tions and announce-ments portion of the meeting, Andrew Fahl-

man, director of Pub-lic Works, provided an update regarding the construction occurring on Lift Station No. 1 on Main Street. Though work had to be temporar-ily halted to ensure safe work standards were being met, the project is going at full speed and is close to being back on schedule.

Chris Bruce, director of Recreation and Com-munity Services, pro-vided an update of his own about the replace-ment of the ice plant at the Merv Moore Sports-plex.

At present, all com-ponents have arrived on schedule and work is being done to have the facility operational

by the end of December. This is on track with thetimeframes originallyproposed.

The next meeting isMonday, Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. and is, as always, opento the public. An audio link for the meeting can also be found at the City of Melville website for those wishing to listenlive.


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Shooting arrowsGrenfell Wildlife Federation resumed its drop-in archery program this week. Sessions are held Monday evenings in the Community Hall basement.


Targets were lined up last Monday, Oct 18, and bows and arrows were taken out of storage as the Grenfell Wildlife Federation resumed its archery program.

The drop-in “Shoot & Learn” nights are geared to-ward youth but others are welcome to attend. Partic-ipation is free with the purchase a Grenfell Wildlife Federation membership for 2022 ($20 for an individual, or $35 for a family of four). This membership provides access to other wildlife federation programming as

well.The archery program will run every Monday, 7 to 9

p.m. and sessions are held in the Grenfell Community Hall basement, which is accessible through the north side entrance. Anyone entering the building must wear a facemask as per the current provincial public health order.

Equipment is provided for anyone who needs it and volunteers are available to assist youth.

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The SJHL’s Melville Millionaires played three games over the last week and while they didn’t pick up a victory, they did earn a couple of points.

Melville Millionaires 3 at Flin Flon Bombers 4 (OT, Oct. 16)The Mils kept this contest close for three periods,

but were unable to hold the Bombers down in over-time, as they gave up the game winning goal near the two-minute mark of overtime.

Melville captain Jonny Krahn opened the scoring with his third tally of the season, which stood up as the only goal of the opening frame.

Nic Porterfield earned the lone assist.The Bombers got on the scoreboard early in the

middle stanza, but the Millionaires were quick to reply, as Zach Cain notched his fifth of the campaign 27 seconds later to restore the lead.

The Bombers scored once more in the second period to tie things up at 2-2 and then they went ahead 3-2 near the seven-minute mark of the final period.

Zach McIntyre drew the Mils even once again, with 48 seconds left in the game, before the club bowed out in extra time.

Jake Spak, Rylan Bruns, Jackson Bohan and Cain each recorded a helper for the Mils.

Jared Thompson was solid between the pipes for Melville, making 50 saves on 54 shots as the Mils put 32 pucks on the Bomber goalie.

The Bombers got the gate for four of the game’s five minor infractions.

Melville Millionaires 3 at Flin Flon Bombers 9 (Oct. 15)The Mils started this matchup like a house afire,

going up 3-1 in the opening frame, but the Bombers still had a lot in the tank, scoring four unanswered goals in each of the next two periods for the easy win.

McIntyre scored twice for Melville with Louis-Fred-eric Theberge notching his first goal in the SJHL.

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SJHL hockey

Mils struggle; lose last three

By Bruce PentonSports Columnist

Here are a few things sports fans have learned in the last couple of weeks:

— Winning 107 games during a 162-game season gets you nothing but ex-panded heartbreak when your team is eliminated in the first round of playoffs. Sorry, Giants.

— Emails filled with hate, racism, misogyny, homophobic references and things for which your mother would have washed your mouth out with soap, even 10 years later, can come back to haunt you. Maybe you deserve time on the un-employment line, Jon Gruden.

— Even if you believe not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is your personal right, NBA execs have the final say if you’re a professional basketball player and you’re willing to forego millions of dol-lars to make your point. You da man, Kyrie Irving.

— Generating what might be a faux ‘rivalry’ can turn into millions of dollars for the combat-ants, because sports fans generally love vitriol and possible combustion, per-haps even constant cat-fighting. Good thing the biggest bucks are for char-ity, Brooks and Bryson.

— Fighting in profes-sional hockey is nothing like fighting in pro wres-tling. The on-ice battles, however stupid they may be, are real. Right, Zack Kassian?

— Blue Jays’ boss Ross Atkins is on the hot seat as he tries to figure out how to manage the team budget so that two free

agents, pitcher Robbie Ray and second base-man Marcus Semien, can both be resigned for 2022. Sorry, Robbie, it was nice having you in Canada for one season.

— Even at age 44, a guy can still play quarterback in the NFL at the highest level. You’re amazing, Tom Brady.

— Even without a reli-able placekicker, a team in the Canadian Football League can win games week after week. Another Grey Cup on the horizon, Bombers?

— Mental health is nothing to scoff at, and it’s especially problematic when you’re constantly in the spotlight because you’re a professional ath-lete. Isn’t that right, Carey Price, Naomi Osaka, Sim-one Biles and countless others?

• Music publisher Sam Harrop of England: “The news that Adele has new music coming out next week is roughly equiva-lent to Anthony Kim an-nouncing he’s teeing it up (on the PGA Tour) next week.”

• Patti Dawn Swans-son, on Twitter: “This is National Coming Out Day in various countries. I wish someone with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers would come out as a place-kicker.”

• NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, on ES-PN-TV coverage: “With my tongue in my cheek, I’ve said a number of times that if ESPN is half as good at promoting us as they were at freezing us out when they didn’t have our rights, this is going to be great.”

• Comedy writer Jerry

Perisho, on Twitter, on the controversial check-swing strikeout that ended the Dodgers-Giants series: “It was a horrible call. On the other hand, after that short nap the umpire was certainly feel-ing refreshed.”

• Columnist Norman Chad, on Twitter: “Week 6 NFL pick: Packers (-5) at Bears. Mason Crosby was gifted four game-win-ning field goal attempts last week – if I had been given that many chances, I’d still be married to my first wife.”

• Chad again: “Week 6 NFL pick: Jaguars (+3.5) vs. Dolphins, in London. More than 245 years after the revolution, we are still punishing the Brits by sending them bad NFL games.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “The NFL is still in shock over the res-ignation of Jon Gruden due to his offensive emails. Some NFL players were so shocked they did not abuse drugs, steroids, cause any domestic vio-lence or drive drunk.”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on his dislike of bye weeks in the NFL. “The worst idea since sliced bread, sliced the long way.”

• RJ Currie of sports-deke.com: “Canada’s

most decorated Olym-pian, swimmer PennyOleksiak, is sister to ex-NCAA rower, Hayley, andKraken blueliner Jamie.No wonder she’s so ath-letic in the water, swim-ming in that gene pool.”

• Headline at theonion.com: “Urban Meyer StillAdjusting To Speed Of NFL Cover-Ups”

• fark.com headline: “Australian cricket playersuffers 10the concussion, says he’s ready to try out for the NHL.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Bengalsquarterback Joe Burrowwas on “voice rest” fol-lowing a throat injury against the Packers but isn’t expected to miss any playing time. ‘Can we get one of those for Dick Vi-tale?’ piped up more than one basketball fan.”

• Charles Barkley, on TNT, on Wayne Gretzky not known for his defence: “He’s the Charles Barkleyof hockey.”

• Tim Hunter of Ever-ett’s KRKO Radio, on the Mariners buying Pyramid Brewery across the streetfrom their ballpark: “Ifyou’re a longtime Mar-iners fan, you’ll under-stand why.”

• Steve Simmons of Sun Media, on rapper Drake, unofficial hanger-on with Toronto Raptors, on nowclinging closely to Cana-da’s national soccer team after its recent success:“Drake has become the Forrest Gump of sports: When anything important is happening, he is there, ready to switch his alle-giance and ballcap at a moment’s notice.”

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Is anyone else tired of all the technology that’s seeped into the sporting world?

It seems like every game has at least one in-stance where the announce crew will say, “I think they’re going to take another look at that play.”

Like it or not, it’s who we’ve become.When you can enter just about any public

building and see people sitting and staring at their phones, should we be surprised when base-ball, hockey, football, basketball – every sport has instant replay rules.

Of course, the powers that be for each sport, have deemed certain plays as review-able and oth-ers where they can’t or won’t take a second look.

In baseball, for instance, the replay official can go over the heads of the umpires to change a call made on the field, if the evidence suggests that the call should be altered in some manner.

Usually, you’ll see the umpires gather with the headsets on when a player is called safe or out at a base, or whether a hit baseball went fair or foul.

My question is, in these days of technology, where it takes literally no time to go over a play, why not have every play be review-able?

Anyone who watched the National League play-offs knows exactly what I’m talking about.

Wilmer Flores of the San Francisco Giants is at the plate. The ball is pitched, and Flores makes an offering of a swing, but obviously doesn’t go around, yet when the appeal goes to the first-base umpire, he rings Flores up and that’s it – Dodgers win.

The season is over and the Giants have no re-course, because the play isn’t one of the type that will get looked at a second time by a different set of eyes.

Ironically, in July, after Dodgers’ closer Kenley Jansen ran the count full on Darin Ruf and on the payoff pitch, it looked an awful lot like Ruf went around, but the umpire that night saw it differ-ently and the game continued, with the Giants get-ting the win and Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts getting an early shower for the tongue-lashing he gave the crew after blowing the call.

Sure, it happened in July, but had the Dodgers won, the Giants would have had to go to St. Louis for a one-game showdown with the St. Louis Car-dinals.

Really, Major League Baseball, if you can call a guy out at first when he makes it by an inch, what’s stopping you from reviewing a checked-swing call that ended a team’s season?

Hockey and football are no better.Now hockey referees will be given the opportu-

nity to review their own calls, when deciding if a major penalty was required or if the call should be reduced to the garden variety two-minutes minor.

I would think that the only thing worse than of-ficials having to go to the ‘Situation Room’ in To-ronto to get the calls, it would be to have to admit that a call was blown and it has to be changed.

Doesn’t ‘Situation Room’ sound like a place where children who don’t listen will have to spend a portion of their time?

And why is it in Toronto? Why not have it in a city that doesn’t have professional hockey, instead of a place that’s anointed itself the Mecca of the sport, despite the fact that the last Stanley Cup victory parade was in black and white?

It seems like more homer-ism than is neces-sary.

In the NFL, coaches aren’t quite as quick to challenge a call, but that doesn’t mean they’ll get it right when called upon.

To add further insult to injury, some games have a retired NFL official as part of the broad-cast team, in case having millions of television viewers watching the officials screw-ups wasn’t enough.

Now you have the technology, and some older dude who used to have the same job, telling them how they’ve blown the call.

The solution?Put it back in the hands of the umpires and ref-

erees, at least for the most part, and quit babysit-ting the referees because they could be proven wrong by the instant replay, or, just go ahead and make every facet of the games review-able.

Whatever it’s going to take to get it right, is what must happen.

Nobody wants a game to end because of a bad call or a no call.

When it ends a season, I think it’s past time to fix it.

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helpers going to Alex Liskowich, Porterfield, Krahn and Bohan.

Alexis Giroux got the start in goal and allowed eight goals on 29 shots before being lifted in favour of Kea-ton French who gave up a single marker in just more than 11 minutes of work in the Melville cage.

Millionaires’ skaters managed to get 31 shots on the Flin Flon net.

The Mils were handed six of eight minor penalties in the contest, with each team getting a fighting major and a misconduct.

Weyburn Red Wings 3 at Melville Millionaires 2 (OT, Oct. 12)

The Millionaires held two leads in this game, but didn’t hold one at the end of regulation and it cost them a point to their Viterra Division rivals.

Melville led 1-0 after the first period and 2-1 after 40 minutes.

Krahn and Cain took care of the Millionaires’ of-fence with Nicholas Andrusiak, Braden Larochelle, Bohan and Porterfield picking up the helpers.

Jared Thompson got the start for Melville and made 39 saves as the Red Wings outshot the Millionaires 42-33.

The teams split six minor infractions.It doesn’t get any easier for the Millionaires as the

Battlefords North Stars visit the HCUC on Oct. 22 and the Mils welcome the Estevan Bruins for an Oct. 23 tilt on home ice.

Game time is 7 p.m.

Melville Mils lose last three games- continued from page 16

By Travis LongmanGrasslands News

The Big Six Hockey League has some big news for its fans. The league has a new mem-ber, a new president and a new lease on life after not being able to crown a champion the last two seasons.

The last completed season took place back in 2018-2019. That season, the Yellow Grass Wheat

Kings captured their first championship in fran-chise history. Nine teams will make up the league this year. The Moosomin Rangers, Oxbow Huskies, Bienfait Coalers, Carlyle Cougars, Carnduff Red Devils, Midale Mustangs, Redvers Rockets and the Wawota Flyers all look to knock off the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings for the league title. Due to a lack of players able to commit for this season,

the Kipling/Windthorst Oil Kings have taken a year leave of absence from the league.

Opening weekend is scheduled for Nov. 19, 20 and 21. On the 19th, the Midale Mustangs cruise into Moosomin for an 8 p.m. contest. The Red-vers Rockets look to blast off in the win column against the always tough Bienfait Coalers. Also on the 19th, Carlyle trav-els to Oxbow to take on

the Huskies and you can never count the dogs out in any game, especially on home ice.

The league under-went a change in man-agement this off-season. After seven seasons at the helm, Rae Wright is no longer league presi-dent. Wright will still be involved in the league; he will be the manager of the Oxbow Huskies. Dustin Toms from Redvers steps into the presidential role.

The regular season starts Nov. 19, 2021 and is scheduled to wrap up Feb. 6, 2022. Exciting times are ahead for the league and fans can look forward to being back at the rink cheering on their hometown team all season long.

Big Six League resumes without a Kipling team

Ace winnerCarla Saleski (left) won the jackpot when the Ace of Spades was drawn in Grenfell on October 14. Grenfell & District Lions Club member Gib Heinemann (right) pre-sented Saleski with a check for $4,742. Draws for the

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After two years of not having a senior hockey team in Whitewood, the Whitewood Orioles will return to the ice and play their first league game on Nov. 12 against the Ro-canville Tigers.

The Whitewood senior team, which had folded after the 2018/2019 sea-son, announced in Sep-tember that they were returning this year with

a new team and new ex-ecutive. The team also left the Qu’Appelle Val-ley Hockey League and joined the newly formed Southeast Hockey League (SEHL) along with teams from Rocanville, Ituna, Canora, Langenburg, and Theodore.

Both Esterhazy and Bredenbury had hoped to play in the upcoming sea-son but announced last month that they would not be icing a team this year. Moosomin declined

to be a part of the SEHL for 2021/22 and instead joined the Big Six League. And on Oct. 19, Hudson Bay announced they too would not be icing a team, leaving just six teams in the league for 2021/2022.

The upcoming season will consist of 12 games with six played at home and six on the road. The Orioles’ first regular sea-son game will be a home game on Nov. 12 against the Rocanville Tigers. The team will then head to Canora on Nov. 27 and Rocanville on Dec. 4 be-fore returning to White-wood for home games against Ituna on Dec. 11 and Rocanville on Dec. 17.

The league will take a Christmas break and will return to the ice on the first weekend in January. For the Orioles, their first game in 2022 will once again be against the Ti-gers in Rocanville on Jan. 7 with Langenburg visit-ing Whitewood for a game on Jan. 8 (minor hockey day). Remaining games for the regular season will be Jan. 15 (at Theo-dore), Jan. 21 (vs Canora), Jan. 22 (at Ituna), Jan. 29 (vs Theodore) and Feb. 4 (at Langenburg).

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Close to 20 golfers took part in the Miles Deno-ra-Labreque Memorial Golf Tournament…which was held on Saturday, October 9th at the Windthorst Golf and Country Club.

Kimberly Doell (one of those helping to organize the tournament) says:

“The tournament went really well. It turned out to be a great day. Along with the money raised from the tournament tickets…Flatland Plumbing and the Windthorst Golf Course each donated $200. Vanders-tad is also matching everything that we made. So, our total came to $1900.”

Miles Denora-Labreque died of injuries sustained in an ATV accident in October 2017.

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Hunting has always been a way of life for Bos-ton Bear.

“My parents say that I’m a ‘Professional Hunter,’” says Bear. “They run Yellow Wing Outfit-ters. So, I’ve been around it since I was little. And I’ve been in the hunting community since I was 5-years-old.”

But now, the 19-year old from Ochapowace First Nation is using his pas-

sion for and knowledge of hunting, to create a new opportunity for those cop-ing with various mental health challenges.

“I had the idea about four years ago, of doing a hunt for youth that are struggling with things like depression, anxiety, sui-cide, problems in school or family issues.

The idea basically came from my personal experi-ence. I’ve grown up strug-gling with things like that. But hunting has always been a way for me to get rid of anxiety and depres-

sion. Being outside helps me cope, it clears my mind.

I also have buddies that I hunt with who struggle with things like this, and hunting helps them cope too.

So, I had the idea that hunting might help others cope as well.”

Last week, Bear’s idea became reality, as a group of hunters came to Moose Mountain Provincial Park to take part in the first Youth Mental Health Hunt.

“The Hunt went from October 10 – 16 and we had 30 youth, ranging in age from 15 – 35 taking part” Bear explains.

“People were camp-ing through the week, in tents and tipis and some in campers. We also had cabins for the elders and our facilitators to stay in.”

He goes on to say that each day’s hunt provided an opportunity for mento-ring relationships to form.

“We had some expe-rienced hunters in the group. For others, this was their first-time hunting. Each day, people would basically go out with who-ever they wanted to. But we made sure that non-ex-perienced hunters were going with others who were experienced.

The idea was that the experienced hunters could teach hunting skills to those who didn’t have ex-

perience. But at the same time, they were mentoring them and showing them how to cope with different issues.”

Along with facilitators and counsellors, Bear says he had help from a num-ber of people who sup-ported his idea.

“I had a staff of about 20 people helping me. And I did have a private sponsor. But it was mostly friends and family who came out to help. There were a lot of people who came out to help make this happen.

He goes on to say that plans are already being

made for next year’s hunt.“We’re planning on

making this an annual event that will happen around this same time in October. We’re having dis-cussions about making it bigger next year. We’d also like to have it for youth from 10 – 35.”

Bear says that he is hopeful that the Youth Mental Health Hunt will have a positive and lasting impact on those who come to take part.

“I’m really over-whelmed and excited by how well things went. The mentoring that happened

is really important. A lotof young people don’t have an older person who canspeak into their life aboutthese things. I think that’s something that young peo-ple really need.

Being able to be out-doors should be part of every young person’s life. And hunting teaches youth how to provide for their family and gets themthinking about themselves as someone who can pro-vide for their family. If they can learn to see them-selves that way, it’s going to help them cope with the issues they have.

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22Neighbourly Advice According to Ed - Ray Maher

Do you believe you are more important than others?I told Ed, my old neigh-

bor in Saskatchewan, that our curling season begins next week. We are hoping to be able to have an en-tire season of curling. All in our league must show proof that they are fully vaccinated.

I told Ed that my curl-ing is one more way of keeping me humble. My endeavors to shine at the game can be more like a blown-out light bulb than a bright spotlight.

I would say that Ed has a healthy pride in him-self as a farmer, golfer, curler and fisherman. Ed will share the achieve-ments of his children and grandchildren compared to others. Ed says that sometimes he is the best or better than others in his farming, golfing, curl-ing and fishing.

Ed respects himself and feels that he deserves to be respected. Such pride can be healthy but also very dangerous.

Pride quickly becomes like eating junk food. Such food is hard to stop eating once you start, and it is full of ingredients that are bad for you and addictive to your taste buds.

Pride is also called self-esteem, and people do overdose on self-esteem. Too much self-esteem means you begin believ-ing that you are more important or better or su-perior to others and grad-ually move on to thinking

you are better than other people.

The disciples of Jesus argued about who among them was the greatest. Jesus used a small child to teach his disciples who were flawed with pride. The disciples were blind and stuck in their su-perior feelings towards children. They dismissed children as inferior to themselves because of their age.

Jesus understood that his disciples had a feel-ing of being better than each other as his disci-ples. They focused on how they were different rather than how they were all equal before Him.

It is easy to look at oth-ers and compare who is better than and less than, in our opinion. The disci-ples did not see their own faults and flaws as if they did not have any or very many.

Pride was a fault that was not easily corrected in Jesus’ disciples, who were focused on them-selves.

Nevertheless, Jesus said regarding the child before them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, re-ceives not me but him who sent me.” Mark 9:37

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Jesus came from God not to be served but to serve and give his life as

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Obituary Herbert Edward CooperSept. 13, 1952 – Oct. 13, 2021

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Herbert Edward Cooper of Regina, Sask., who passed away peacefully with his fam-ily by his side on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, at the age of 69 years.

Herb was born to Doreen and Edward on Sept. 13, 1952, in Flin Flon, Man. He grew up in Flin Flon until his father passed away, and then his family moved to the Cooper family farm near Waldron, Sask.

In 1968, Herb met Leona (nee Grainger), they were married in 1973. Herb and Leona enjoyed 48 years together raising two sons, Dallas and Ryan. Herb especially loved spending his time with his four grandchildren. He loved teaching them how to play (cheat) at cards, how to catch the

Stones and Marty Robbins.Herb enjoyed watching Nascar and NFL football. He

drive a Ford vehicle! He also enjoyed well-earned vaca-tions. But most of all, he enjoyed spending time with family and friends. Herb and Leona enjoyed 20 years at Crooked Lake, especially the last six years full-time living as retirees before making a recent move back to Regina.

Herb was predeceased by his father, Edward Cooper; father-in law, Lorne Grainger; two brother-in laws, Gene Council and Erwin Hahn. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Leona; two sons, Dallas (Laurie) and Ryan (Carla) and grandchildren, Rhys, Dayne, Everett and Abilene; mother (Doreen) and Willie; siblings (Linda, Wendy and Gary) and their extended families; mother-in-law (Kathy Grainger); as well as many, many friends.

A celebration of Herb’s life will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. in the Melville Community Works hall, 800 Prince Edward St, Melville, SK S0A 2P0.

accepted to the Regina Food Bank, 425-445 Winnipeg St., Regina SK, S4R 8P2 or to the Rail City Industries, 150 2nd Ave. W., Melville, SK S0A 2P0.

Rose Farkas of Wawota and formerly of Whitewood, passed away peacefully on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021 at the age of 94 years. Rose Marie was born on Jan. 16, 1927, on the family farm north of Burrows (17-16-1-2) to Au-gust and Elizabeth (nee Dorocki) Domoslai. She had three sisters and seven brothers.

Rose worked at several restaurants around Whitewood. She also worked for her brother-in-law at the Cecil Café in Kenora, Ont. She mar-ried the love of her life, Laddie Farkas, on June 21, 1949. They lived all their married life of 59 years in Whitewood. Rose worked at Truman’s Locker Plant, Red & White Store and Solo Store.

Laddie had a serious stroke in 1990. Rose took care of him for seven years at home. In 1999, Laddie went to the Whitewood nursing home. Rose went to see him every day, where she was known for her amazing smile.

Lodge in 2015, where she lived until her passing. She loved that her family and the nursing home family were close. Rose’s pride and joy were her children, then her grandchil-dren and then great-grandchildren.

Rose was predeceased by her parents, August and Elizabeth (nee Dorocki) Domoslai; Laddie Farkas, her loving husband of 59 years; three sisters, Alice (Roland) Kershaw, Erma (Ham) Wong and Gladys (Wilfred) Stromgren; four brothers, Frank (Irma), Gus (Anne), Laddie and Tony and sister-in-law Eva Domoslai; daughter-in-law Elaine; and niece Darlene Malaryk. She leaves to cherish

(Don) Steinke of Wawota, Nancy McFadyen of Calgary and

dren, Trent (Tracy), Kristen (Shawn), Kyle, Madison and

Chesney, Ashley and Hailey. Three brothers also mourn her loss, Andy, Emile and Albert, as well as many nieces, neph-ews and other relatives.

What we learned from Rose was to always SMILE and be a ray of sunshine to everyone. Thanks a Million!

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Rose on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Whitewood, with the Rev. Fr. Tomy Mandapathil celebrating. The music was provided by Dianne and Ernie

Nancy McFadyen, and Sierra Murray led the intercessions. The offertory gifts were presented by Sierra, Rowan and Chesney Murray, and Trent Steinke delivered the eulogy. Interment followed in the Whitewood Cemetery with Ron Farkas, Trent Steinke, Kristen Murray, Sierra Murray, Jacob Farkas and Joe Domoslai acting as pallbearers. To leave a message of condolence or to make a memorial donation, please visit matthewsfuneralhome.ca

Arrangements were entrusted to Matthews Funeral Home, Whitewood and Melville.

Obituary Rose FarkasJan. 16, 1927 - Oct. 4, 2021 Obituary Gerald Benjamin Pengilly

1949 – Oct. 15, 2021

Gerald Benjamin Pengilly (Ben) headed off to manage the Big Pasture in the Sky on Friday, October 15th after a year’s journey through brain cancer. Ben lived on his beloved ranch near Melville, Saskatchewan since

amazing experiences of trav-el, motorcycling, grandkids, ranching, environmentalism and making people feel slight-ly less cool when he rolled up in his GTO.

Ben was born in 1949 in Lethbridge, Alberta. He grew up on the Pengilly Farm on the North Hill later taking over that farm and raising his kids there and then going on the Great Saskatchewan Adventure with his wife, Lee, to create the Melville Ranch.

Ben’s fan club includes his partner, Patricia Ewing, his kids, Carrie Pengilly (Jared Franklin) and Daniel Pengilly (Katie) and his extremely adored grandkids, Cooper Franklin and Tallulah and Brewer Pengilly. His big sister, Dianne Reed (Ian) and his little brothers, Gordon Pengilly (Connie Zerger) and Douglas Pengilly (Elaine Unger-Pengilly) and his mother-in-law, Doreen Reinhardt and his nieces and nephews Kristin, Karen, Kurtis, Kent, Nick, Skyler, Zachary and Katie. Like his siblings are Bob and Sue Menzies. Like his kids are Erin, Danny, Avery and Stephen McGlenn. Like his grandkids are Ross McGlenn and Amelie and George Racine.

Ben is predeceased by his wife, Lee Pengilly, his par-ents, Dan and Eva Pengilly and his brother Richard Pengilly.

Ben had many stories that would suddenly be told that would catch his family and friends off guard. He would en-joy their reactions and sometimes shock, sometimes horror and occasionally disbelief. Stories of getting caught in a

and living on the beach in Morocco, coaching his softball girls in Stirling, winter camping with his best friend and the random painting he found in the McNally school and the awesome heroic events from the basketball court at the University of Alberta to the many random people he helped over the years. And many more stories that were still be-ing told within memories shared of Cypress Hills camping,

Friends were drawn to Ben all throughout his life. And Ben made friends quickly – whether the paramedics who transported him after he was taken down by two bulls or the many baseball teammates from elementary school right through to his senior ball team.

Ben’s heart was connected to the land and he trained in Holistic Management and consulted for the Assiniboine Watershed as well as mentored many farmers and ranch-ers over the years. He believed in humanity working closely with nature to create harmony.

He loved good blues, good Scotch and good company. He was extremely grateful for all of the outstanding people in his life. The Big Sky pasture has been given the greatest of Herd Managers.

Ben and his family are grateful to the team at the Melville hospital and thank them for all the love, kindness and guidance.

A Celebration of Life will be held in Lethbridge, Alber-ta on Saturday, October 23rd at the Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge in Anton’s Ballroom at 2:00 pm. Proof of

tal organization of your choice.

Bill Scott passed away on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in the Whitewood Community Health Centre, Whitewood, SK, at the age of 93 years.

David William (Bill) was the third of nine children born to Clarence and Elsie (Johnson) Scott on Aug. 10, 1928, in the Silverwood dis-trict.

Bill lived and breathed the farming life along with his brother, Gordon, on the family farm. He retired and moved to Whitewood in 1978 with his mom and sister Alice. Bill enjoyed playing guitar and cards, family gatherings and get-ting in his car to travel the countryside. He was an avid vol-unteer for the Whitewood Curling Club and the Whitewood Golf and Country Club for many years.

Bill was predeceased by his parents, Clarence and Elsie; brother Gordon (Edna); sisters Alice Scott, Margaret (George) Cummins, Mildred (Ken) MacPherson and Dora Delmage; and brother-in-law Jim McMann. He is survived by his sisters, Doreen McMann, Doris (Wayne) Howard and Rosalyn (Bill) Astle; brother-in-law Al Delmage; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and neigh-bours.

A graveside service was held at the Whitewood Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, with the Rev. John Houtman

ing and read the obituary. Ron Astle, Dan Howard, Gary Cummins, Glenn Cummins, Floyd McMann and Allan Hayhurst were the pallbearers.

The family would like to thank the staff of the Whitewood Community Health Centre for all their care of Bill during his

wood Community Health Centre. Arrangements were entrusted to Matthews Funeral

Home, Whitewood and Melville.

Obituary David William (Bill) ScottAug. 10, 1928 - Oct. 10, 2021

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PUBLIC NOTICERM of Cana No. 214

Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the RM of Cana No. 214 intends to adopt Bylaw Z5-2021 under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. Z2-2016, known as the Zoning Bylaw.INTENTThe proposed Bylaw Z5-2021 will add two residences as a permitted use in the (A) Agricultural District on a parcel less than 80 acres that is created by subdivision for yard sites with two residences established prior to adoption of Zoning Bylaw No. Z2-2016.AFFECTED LANDThe affected lands will be all those included in the (A) Agri-cultural District.REASONThe reason for the amendment is to accommodate yard sites with two residences established prior to the adoption of Zon-ing Bylaw No. Z2-2016 wishing to subdivide.PUBLIC INSPECTIONAny person may inspect Bylaw Z5-2021 at the municipal office in Melville, Saskatchewan during regular office hours between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Cop-ies are available at cost.PUBLIC HEARINGCouncil will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021 at 9 a.m. at the RM Office at 110-5th Avenue East, Melville, Saskatchewan, to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed Bylaw Z5-2021. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing, or de-livered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing.To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 the Council for the RM of Cana No. 214 will conduct the Hearing by elec-tronic means.To further protect the general public and municipal employ-ees, the public will be prohibited from attending in person. Members of the public may access the Hearing electronical-ly as follows:

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1. During normal office hours from October 14, 2021 until 4 p.m. on October 27, 2021 at 113 Landsdowne Street in Cupar, SK;2. On the 27th day of October, 2021, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m at 113 Landsdowne Street in Cupar, SK;3. Nomination forms may be obtained at the following location: • 113 Landsdowne Street in Cupar, SK.Dated at Cupar, SK, this 14th day of October, 2021. Nikki Czemeres Returning Officer

ObituaryVernon “Vern” Phil

SawchukNov. 1, 1966 – Oct. 4, 2021

It is with a sense of great sadness that we announce the passing of Vern Sawchuk on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Melville, Sask., at the age of 54 years.

Vern was born on Nov. 1, 1966, in Balcarres, Sask., son of Walter and Jean (nee Martin) Sawchuk. He was the baby in the family. He grew up on the family farm at Itu-na and attended Ituna School and Melville Comprehensive School. Vern began his working career at the Deer Park Bus Garage in Melville. Yearning to be more involved in farming, he left the garage after 15 years and began work-ing for local farmer and friend Morris Feduk. It was here that he became known as “Pickr2”, as he spent many hours and years picking stones, so many hours that Mr. Feduk had a personalized license plate made for Vern!

Vern worked alongside “Pickr1”, the late Steve Matechuk, for many years. He and Steve became very good friends. They enjoyed each other’s company so much that

started working for his brother Cameron on both the farm-ing and construction side. It was also here that he worked alongside his brother and best friend Keith, which he very much enjoyed. Due to declining health, in July 2020, Vern moved to St. Paul Lutheran Home in Melville and enjoyed his new extended family.

Vern was a member of Melville ShowStopper’s, the Passion Play and the Western Development Museum in Yorkton. It was through his friendship with the late Steve Matechuk that Vern became involved with the Yorkton Threshermen’s Club. He truly enjoyed the grounds buzz-ing with excitement, the smell of fresh-baked bread, fresh-drawn lumber and turned sod. Vern also enjoyed snowmo-biling, grass drags and a good game of crib! He was a very sociable individual, often seen interacting with patrons and staff at Western Pizza and Tim Horton’s. Vern also enjoyed stopping for coffee with friends and family on a regular ba-sis. He liked to refer to himself as the best looking man in Melville’!! Vern took special interest in attending family func-tions and attending his nieces’ and nephews’ events when he could.

Vern was predeceased by his parents, Walter and Jean, and infant brother Herman. He leaves to cherish his mem-ory: his brothers, Cameron (Robilyn), Barry (Glenda), Craig (Debbie), Rodney and Keith, and sister Patty (Ray); twelve nieces and nephews; thirteen great-nieces and nephews; aunts, cousins and friends.

A time of public visitation and remembrance was held for Vern on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Matthews Funeral Home, Melville. A private graveside service followed on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, in the Ituna and District Cemetery. Vern’s family and friends were considered honorary pallbearers, and the active pallbearers were Keith Sawchuk, Travis Saw-chuk, Tyler Sawchuk, Drew Sawchuk, Taylor Bohay, Cody Sawchuk, Wyatt Sawchuk and Levi Sawchuk. To leave a message of condolence or to make a memorial donation, please visit matthewsfuneralhome.ca

Arrangements were entrusted to Matthews Funeral Home, Melville.

Vern was a special person to all who knew and loved him. Vern made many friends who have helped and sup-ported him during his life. Your kindness is truly appreciated.

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The importance of education is commonly recog-nized but it can be difficult for children to benefit from learning opportunities when their stomachs are empty. Schools in Grenfell have started a new initiative to make sure students have the food they need.

Approximately 300 children and youth attend Gren-fell Elementary and Grenfell High Community Schools. Funding enables the schools to offer breakfast and snack programs but sometimes students and their fam-ilies need additional support. Staff is able to direct fam-ilies to the community food bank, which has been a valuable resource. However, families often prefer not to involve outside support. The local food bank is also unable to offer fresh produce, meat or milk products.

School leaders recognized the students’ need for easy access to nutritious food and so they developed a solution. They have established a food bank within the school and dubbed the initiative “Free”dge, a creative play on the word “fridge.” They posted a request on social media for a gently used refrigerator and began collecting supplies last week.

Earlier this week students from the high school spent Period 2 canvasing the neighborhood for non-perishable items and cash donations for fresh produce and dairy. Details were still being finalized as of press time, but a local business had contacted the school with a commit-ment to provide funding for a brand new refrigerator.

The school will continue to accept contributions to support the students and their families. Organizers hope to keep the food bank stocked throughout the year with items that have a long expiry date. Surplus pro-duce from gardens is also appreciated and monetary donations will be used to provide families with fresh food items as needed.

Anyone interested in donating to the “Free”dge can contact the high school office at 306-697-2744.

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our Ag Center located on the Co-op property on Railway Avenue in Kipling. The office and chemical shed are al-ready there and will be opening in April 2022. We are excited to have an Ag presence for Kipling and surrounding area to serve the needs of our members”

He notes that the new Ag Center will be an in-tegral part of Borderland Co-op’s plan to offer a comprehensive range of goods and services to cus-tomers in the area utiliz-ing the site and delivery.

“We’ll continue to deliver fertilizer to farms or customers can pick up from our facil-ity in Broadview or get it shipped direct from FCL’s plant in Brandon. And bulk fuel will still be handled out of Moosomin with our second base in Broadview.

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As well, Ottenbreit says that Borderland intends to offer special-ized services to farmers through the new facility.

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The RCMP was also involved with “Operation Impact.” During this proj-ect, the local RCMP De-tachment, in conjunction with the Traffic Services Unit, stopped approxi-mately one hundred vehi-cles, both randomly and in one check stop. This resulted in seven tickets, one roadside suspension, and two suspended driv-

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COVID relief for Namibia


When Simone Ester-huyse heard about the dire impact of COVID-19 on Namibia’s capital city of Keetmanshoop, she wanted to help the doc-tors and their patients so she started a GoFundMe page to raise money for medical supplies.

Before Simone and her husband Andre began farming near Grenfell in 2009, they and their chil-dren lived near Keetman-shoop.

Agriculture is the pri-mary industry for the rural region around the capital and residents rely on clinics in the city for medical treatment.

In July, an acquain-tance forwarded a letter to Simone from the Pat-mos Medical Centre in Keetmanshoop, describ-ing the need for medi-cine and supplies as staff tried to treat 10 times the normal number of admis-sions.

“We are in the middle of a COVID-19 infection crisis. Our Medical Cen-tre is urgently in need of support. Any donation will be welcome,” the di-rectors wrote.

Simone’s mother is in

her late 70s and still re-sides in Namibia. Due to the surge in COVID cases, Simone arranged for her mom to stay with her sis-ter in Botswana for three weeks. She felt it was all she could do to protect her mom from the virus. Her mother remains healthy, but the family lost at least four friends due to COVID.

Although case counts have decreased some-what in recent weeks, the situation is still not good. Namibia has a population of just over 2.5 million people.

According to the World Health Organi-zation, there were over 128,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 3,500 COVID-related deaths in Namibia between Janu-ary 2020 and October 2021.

“They really suffered with COVID; it’s really rural so there’s not a lot of government support,” Simone explained.

“They don’t have oxy-gen, they don’t have the right antibiotics, and they don’t have beds.”

She added that at one point, physicians were paying out of their own pockets to provide care for patients and some phar-macies were even closed

because they couldn’t pay their accounts. Access to vaccines is also a chal-lenge.

Simone is planning a trip to Namibia with Andre to visit her mother at the end of this month. She has received $500 Ca-nadian dollars (approx-imately equivalent to $5,000 Namibian dollars) so far through the Go-FundMe page. She plans to hand the funds directly to staff at the clinic and would welcome addi-tional donations to help purchase more ventila-tors and antibiotics.

“Every $5 that buys a cup of coffee here means you can save somebody’s life over there,” Simone stated.

Donations can be submitted online to www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-community-in-na-mibia-fighting-covid19

GoFundMe raises fundsSimone Esterhuyse of Grenfell started a GoFundMe page to raise money for ventilators and antibiotics at the Patmos Medical Clinic in Namibia, where shipping containers have been set up to create additional rooms and sand bags are stacked as inexpensive walls between patients.

28 Melville Advance Grasslands NewsOctober 22, 2021

Lisa KirkwoodResidential Specialist

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Shawn PryhitkaAgriculture Specialist

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Blue Chip RealtySERVING MELVILLE AND AREA

269A Hamilton Road, Yorkton, SKPhone: 306-783-6666

www.remaxbluechip.ca

$80,000

436 - 4th Ave. E.3-BDM, 2-BATH, 1,174 SQ.FT.

MLS®SK871593

$300,000

Land 60.24 AcresYork Lake

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RM of Orkney

Melville Listings$62,500

367 - 8th Ave. W.2-BDM, 1-BATH, 908 SQ.FT.

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Rural - Recreation - Ag Listings

$179,000

143 - 6th Ave. W.3-BDM, 2-BATH, 1,608 SQ.FT.

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$225,000

352 - 1st Ave. W.5-BDM, 3-BATH, 1,089 SQ.FT.

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$189,000

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Duff

$42,000

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$123,700


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$184,000

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$184,900

154 - 2nd. Ave. W,3-BDM, 2-BATH, 1,216 SQ.FT.

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$39,000

379 - 2nd Ave. W.1-BDM, 1-BATH, 600 SQ.FT.

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$190,000


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NEW LISTING$199,000

#414 - 680 - 7th Ave. E.2-BDM, 1-BATH, 886 SQ.FT.

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