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Dancing in Balgonie
At the Balgonie Dance & Twirl 30 Years of Dance recital, Hunter Reichel performed alongside Musical Theatre 2 for Bohemian Rhapsody. For more information, please see pages two and three. Photo by Robyn Tocker.
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Balgonie Dance & Twirl celebrates 30 yearsRobyn TockerEditor
For 30 years, Balgonie Dance & Twirl has offered a variety of
dance classes to children in the White Butte area. On April 29, the club marked this celebration with a concert highlighting their 124 stu-dents’ talents.
Kendal Oswald’s daughter has been part of the club for seven years. Oswald has been a member of the Balgonie Dance & Twirl board for five years alongside Nicole Dech and Kelly Kessel.
“It’s important to be part of the community. It provides a really good opportunity for all the dancers,” said Oswald. “It’s a good representation of the community and the surrounding communities. It’s a positive, inclu-sive club.”
Children and youth from McLean, Balgonie, White City, Pilot Butte, Indian Head, Edenwold, Lajord and Davin are part of the club.
Although Oswald hasn’t been with the club for 30 years, she does know there have been changes since the club first began in 1987.
“Some things have stayed the same. We have baton and you don’t see a lot of the baton when we go to dance competitions, so it’s a neat, different program that we’re able to offer to the dancers,” she said. “There have been different disciplines added throughout the years, such
as lyrical and musical theatre that wouldn’t have been offered at the very beginning. It’s grown by the different communities that are in-volved now.”
The club participated in three com-petitions this season: the Wolsley Invitational, Inspirations of Dance (held in Wey-burn) and Indi-an Head Invita-tional. Soloists, duets, trios and the larger groups took home a number of awards this season.
“They did very well this year,” said Os-wald.
Oswald said there were no major issues this dance sea-son.
“A lot of our members are willing to help out,” she said. “The only ma-jor fundraiser we do is Mom’s Pantry and we have a lot of great families that are always willing to help out. There are three of us on the board, but lots of the members contribute in different
ways, whether it’s fundraising or helping at the recital with decora-tions and working the door.”
The dancers are able to try out a va-riety of dance styles, from hip hop to jazz to lyrical to baton, because of the club’s affordability.
“We make it that way so parents are able to afford to let their chil-dren par-ticipate in more than one disci-pline,” Os-wald said. “Fees are spread out throughout the year. We try to make it accessible and afford-able for all.”
More boys are partici-pating in dance and getting in-volved in more than one disci-pline.
“We have two teen boys that have been danc-ing with us for quite some time,” she said. “Our numbers with boys keep growing. The first year we saw more
boys coming, we wanted it to be more inclusive. We wanted them to be comfortable to dance in any disci-pline, so we have boys in everything from jazz, tap, musical theatre, lyrical and hip hop. Hip hop’s the biggest one where they’re most comfortable performing in, but we do have boys in numerous disciplines.”
The success of Balgonie Dance & Twirl is credited not only to the dancers and board members but the dance instructors. The teachers include: Jalaine Thibault, Amelia Kessel, Samantha Dech, Phoenix Hodge, Ashley Bourassa, Saman-tha Pilchner, Kiera West, Nicole Entner-McCullough and Tiffany Fa-vreau. The club also has dance assis-tants who offer additional support: Quinne Craigie, Grace Dech, Jillian Weed, Alexis Diamond, Merissa Tomaschefski, Payton Oswald and Elizabeth Kessel.
“All of our teachers are from the community. They may live in Regi-na now, but they all went to Green-all. We’re really proud we support our community and lots of good, lo-cal talent,” Oswald said. “A lot of our dancers are super talented and prob-ably could go to a more competitive club but we appreciate the support and that they’re willing to dance with their friends and stay in the community.”
Registration for the 2017-18 dance season is Sep. 7 at the Balgonie Mul-tiplex.
Musical Theatre 1 performed Wind it Up. Photos by Robyn Tocker
Wolsley InvitationalFIRST PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Irelynn Thom, Kalinna Thom, Scarlett Heisler, Grace Heisler, Kayson Shiplack, Alexis Diamond, Payton Oswald, Brynn Ager, Addison Fischer
SECOND PLACE: solos duets, trios: Grace Heisler, Sarah Felskie, Ashlynn Kardash, Kelly Oancia, Rachel Felskie, Gillian Moses
THIRD PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Grace Dech, Kendall Trytten, Jillian Weed, Quinne Craigie, Reece Kirby
FOURTH PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Elizabeth Kessel, Jordyn Kramer, Hunter Reichel, Lauren Fischer, Kallie Golemba
FIFTH PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Quinne Craigie, Hutton Johnson
AWARDS: Choreography Award: Scarlett and Grace Heisler
I’m Coming Out performed by Combo 3 Jazz.
Inspirations of Dance (Weyburn)FIRST PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Elizabeth Kessel, Jordyn Kramer, Scarlett Heisler, Grace Heisler, Payton Oswald, Brynn Ager, Jillian Weed, Grace Dech, Quinne Craigie, Merissa Tomaschefski
SECOND PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Alexis Diamond, Grace Dech, Reece Kirby, Kallie Golemba, Janelle Kirby, Danika McIlwaine
THIRD PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Grace Heisler, Hutton Johnson, Sarah Fels-kie, Gillian Moses, Quinne Craigie, Kendall Trytten
FOURTH PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Irelynn Thom, Kalinna Thom, Hunter Reichel, Ashlynn Kardash, Kelly Oancia, Rachel Felskie, Addison Fischer, Lau-ren Fischer
FIFTH PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Kayson Shiplack
AWARDS: Most Promising Musical Theatre Group: Musical Theatre 1 (A Night to Remember); Most Promising Beginner Hip Hop Large Group: Hip Hop 1 (Get Jiggy With It); High Mark: Baton 2 (Can’t Stop the Feeling); Most Promising Hip Hop Duo/Trio: Grace and Scarlett Heisler; Most Promising Jazz Solo: Merissa Tomaschefski; Most Promising Novice Tap Solo: Payton Oswald
Masquerade – Gillian Moss ballet solo. Photos by Robyn Tocker
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Balgonie Dance & Twirl cont.
Balgonie Dance & Twirl’s jazz group performed River Deep, Mountain High. Photos by Robyn Tocker
At the end of the dance recital, 124 dancers came on stage together to cele-brate their 2016-17 season successes.
Hip Hop duet by Jordynn Kramer (left) and Elizabeth Kessel (right).
Indian Head InvitationalFIRST PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Grace Heisler, Scarlett Heisler, Alexis Dia-mond, Payton Oswald, Grace Dech, Reece Kirby, Kendall Trytten, Jillian Weed, Grace Dech, Quinne Craigie
SECOND PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Elizabeth Kessel, Jordyn Kramer, Irelynn Thom, Kalianna Thom, Sarah Felskie, Ashlynn Kardash, Kelly Oancia, Addison Fischer, Quinne Craigie, Kallie Golemba
THIRD PLACE: solos, duets, trios: Gillian Moses, Janelle Kirby, Danika McIl-waine
COMPETITOR: Irelynn Thom, Hutton Johnson, Kayson Shiplack, Hunter Reichel, Rachel Felskie, Brynn Ager, Lauren Fischer
AWARDS: Highest Mark Jazz Group 8 & Under: Jazz 1 (Set it Off); Honourable Mention Jazz Performance: Jazz (River Deep, Mountain High); Adjudicator’s Choice “Keeping in Character”: Musical Theatre 1 (A Night to Remember); Ad-judicator’s Choice “Most Bubbly”: Baton 1 (Clap Your Hands); Highest Mark Tap Solo 10 & Over: Grace Heisler
Junior Ballet performed The Cello Song.
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Tax incentivesOh good. You paid your taxes.
Just under the wire, like almost everybody else.
Expecting a refund? Great. That’s much easier than the surprise tax bill. Overpay a little for some peace of mind.
Surprise Tax Bill? Great. A little pinch, maybe, but you could keep that money all year and settle up at the end.
Alive, here and now? Words struggle to articulate how insanely great that is.
The safe abundant food, health, edu-cation, roads, shelter, the public good,
the tools we can use, the freedom from persecution and the wealth of op-portunities. There are things you can do now that would have you burned at the stake not so very long ago. All made possible, in part, by taxes.
When you buy a sand-wich, it’s pretty obvious what you get: the sand-wich. But even that might include food inspectors and a system of roads to move ingredients around on.
Consider, if you’re alive at the poverty line today, you’re living better, in absolute terms, than ev-erybody 100 years ago.
Of course we compare ourselves to peers, not our ancestors. Indoor
plumbing and colour TV don’t feel like the otherworldly luxuries they would have been for most of his-tory, let alone light and heat.
If you can recycle enough cans for a library card you can learn any fact almost as fast as you can type it.
Without the public good that comes from paying taxes, you don’t get the infrastructure that makes hot show-ers, electricity, or the internet possible.
Whatever your tax bill, it’s a bar-gain.
Aaron Holmes
Free GTH land for CP an indicator of bigger problemsSubmittedLetter to the Editor
After a lot of digging, and a nev-er-say-die attitude, the CBC
iTeam have once again uncovered a gold mine – of dirt, that is.
The Wall government fought tooth and nail from letting the contract out that ended up show-ing that the provincial govern-ment actually gifted over 300 acres to CP at no charge, in or-der to seal the deal to make the Global Transportation Hub (GTH) a reality. No wonder they didn’t want that information released, as it is evidence of a much larger problem of this government – the gross sense of entitlement as demonstrated by the shady land dealings involving the GTH and the Regina Bypass.
Long-standing homesteads are being destroyed and expropri-ated by the government to gift to private entities in the hopes that it may spur further economic de-velopment – or at least that’s the story that the Wall government wants us to believe. In reality, all it has done is enabled the rich to get even richer, while leaving long-time, proud Saskatchewan residents on the hook for the mil-lions of tax dollars wasted on massive get-rich-quick schemes, such as the Regina Bypass and the Global Transportation Hub.
To their credit, the Wall gov-ernment has discovered an un-tapped resource – dirt. The only problem is, he’s not playing fair for everyone, and only allowing certain people to make the big bucks off of selling that dirt to the government for these projects.
While century-old homesteads are being forced to accept an av-erage of $5,750 per acre, we are seeing others getting upwards
of $400,000 per acre for the exact same dirt. The government can play games with the excuses of how that dirt is zoned or where it is located, but at the end of the day it’s all the same dirt. The only real difference is who owns that dirt at the time when the govern-ment wants to buy it.
It’s no coincidence that the ones getting $400,000 per acre are also well-connected Saskatch-ewan Party supporters, while the ones forced to accept only $5,750 per acre are average citizens, of-ten seniors, who rightfully put their trust in the government to treat them fairly.
This situation is merely a symptom of a much larger prob-lem, and that is a m a j o r -ity gov-ernment that has been in p o w e r for far too long with un-f e t t e r e d access to the tax d o l l a r s that they h a v e been en-t r u s t e d with.
Unfor-t u n a t e -ly, they h a v e d e m o n -s t r a t e d time and t i m e a g a i n that they
cannot be trusted operating a cash register at a coffee shop, let alone the billions of our tax dol-lars every single year. At least with a minority government, there would be the opportunity to be held to account by the op-position parties, but with a situ-ation as we have currently, they have effectively been given the keys to the Rolls Royce – even though they haven’t learned to ride a bicycle yet.
There has been far too much power granted to a government that wasn’t truthful with voters in order to get elected. And for this, should we be the ones who are held accountable? Of course not. I know if voters were afford-
ed the opportunity, they would fire Brad Wall in a second after this horrendous budget and their catering to corporate interests.
The problem is, there is current-ly no mechanism for us to hold the Wall government account-able, other than the next election, which is another three long years away. Thankfully, there is no way that voters will forget these gross examples of fiscal incompe-tence, and the Wall government will pay dearly for their betrayal of the Saskatchewan voters.
I know I won’t let them forget – how about you?
Donald NeulsCoppersands, SK
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TOWN OF PILOT BUTTEPUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Town of Pilot Butte intends to
review an application for the issuance of a Development Permit for the Discretionary
use of a BodyTalk Therapy Business as per Section 3.8 of the Town of Pilot Butte
Zoning Bylaw No. 10-2007 and Section 55 of The Planning and Development Act, 2007.AFFECTED LANDSThe affected land is legally described as Lot 9, Block 6, Plan 102154441.
REASONThe owner would like to open a Licensed Alternative Healthcare Business known as
Zentuitive Healing Inc. that will serve one patient at a time with each session lasting
approximately an hour, with a maximum of 25-30 sessions per week. A discretionary
use approval must be obtained from the Town. The owner is therefore requesting a
discretionary use permit to operate a BodyTalk Therapy Business – Zoned as
R1 – Residential.
PUBLIC INSPECTIONAny person may inspect the bylaw(s) at the Pilot Butte Town Office between the
hours of 9:00a.m. to Noon and 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding
statutory holidays.
PUBLIC HEARINGCouncil will consider written comment received by May 19, 2017 at the Council
meeting to be held on May 22, 2017. Council will also hold a public hearing on May
22, 2017 at 7:00pm in the Town Council Chambers to hear any person or group that
wants to comment on the proposed development.
Issued at the Town of Pilot Butte this 9th day of May, 2017.
Brandi Morissette
Town Administrator 00065119
SPORTS
Wolves volleyball 16U men take silver in provincialsSubmissionJamie Jones
Another season of club volleyball in Saskatchewan ended with provincials
wrapping up in Saskatoon April 22 and 23. The White Butte Wolves Volleyball Club 16U Men’s team performed very well in securing silver and distinguished them-selves as the second best in the rovince.
Wolves head coach Patrick Winand and assistant coach Brant Bylsma said it was a great result but it was a long road to get here. The team suffered some inju-ries early on in the season, which caused a slow start for the 16U boys and it took a while to overcome them.
“We had some fairly major injuries at the beginning of the season,” said Byls-ma. “One athlete dislocated his kneecap, one had a concussion and one sprained his ankle severely. So we have had some injuries but luckily enough the injuries cleared up enough in time for provincials. I don’t think you really overcome them per se. One athlete also had a meniscus tear he never told us about but you don’t really overcome them – you just compen-sate. Other people stepped up and luckily enough we never had any major injuries to our primary setter or anything like that so it made it easier to move on.”
The Wolves 16U team punches above their weight for the size of the commu-nity that they come from. When asked what makes these athletes top perform-ers in the province, Coach Winand says it has a lot to do with them knowing each other and playing together so often.
“This core group of athletes plus a couple that we have added this year have been together for five consecutive seasons in a row,” said Winand. “Not only that, but its been every month some of these players were involved in the Summer Games, club and school they have pretty much only taken the month of December off. Other-wise they have been on court together and they work hard. Coming from a smaller area we are often seen as the underdogs, so they knew they had to work that much harder to compete with bigger cities like Regina, Prince Albert and Saskatoon.”
Bylsma added that coaching has a large part to do with the team’s success in tandem with their athleticism.
“I think Winand is a very good coach. Wolves Volleyball is lucky to have him. I was happy when I asked him to coach last year and he said yes. These guys are very good athletes. I coached a lot of them for a lot of years in a lot of different sports and I always told whomever was up, be it football or whatever they chose these 2001s (birth year), they will have success wherever they are. They are very good athletes and with good coaching
and all the athleticism they have and the size, we are fairly big team.”
The Wolves ended up in “dogfight” ver-sus the Saskatoon Huskies Green team in the final. Winand mentioned the chal-lenges the team faced to get there.
“During round robin play, we played the number one ranked Hus-kies team as they were in our pool so we knew whoever won that game was going to get first and possibly have an easier crossover into the fi-nal,” said Winand. “It didn’t help us that we had another injury. Our start-ing right side went down so he was out for that game and he was also out for the quarterfinal match as well. We had a deeper bench – we definitely had some athletes that rose to the oc-casion to fill that spot.”
Not everything went as smoothly as the coaches would have liked. The team strug-gled at times with what are traditionally their strengths during the tournament.
“Serve/receive – you know that’s something that in volleyball in this area we pride ourselves on. That’s how we build our game is serving and re-ceiving,” said Bylsma. “Serve/receive wasn’t really there so when you are playing out of system it takes a little bit more rather than having it drop to the dime to the setter where he can run whatever he wants. That was a chal-lenge. Serving was a challenge. We missed a lot of serves. The two aspects that we feel are our strengths ended up not being as strong as we wanted.”
Coach Winand was confident this team would be bringing home a med-al from provincials.
“We definitely expected a medal. Our goal as a team was to achieve a medal just because we have been working so hard in the last month and a half,” said Winand. “I assumed we would get some sort of a medal if we played our best. Going into the tournament, there were top three or top four teams where it could go either way. I think that the teams who wanted it the most came out and fought their hardest. Once we got rid of our mental roadblocks that we had against some of the bigger teams, we were able to take them down.”
After playing well and earning the sil-ver in provincials, the team begins train-ing for nationals, which will be held in Calgary starting on May 19.
“Keeping with the drills that work well with us, not adding too much new stuff but just practicing what you know at this point and especially getting used to the new ball we will be using at the Volley-ball Canada competition,” said Winand when asked about maintaining a high level of player readiness to carry them into nationals. The new ball is a Tachika-
ra ball designed to be lighter and will in-crease the speed of the game.
Coach Winand hasn’t set a team goal for nationals yet but he anticipates his team will maintain playing at a high level.
“We haven’t set a team goal. We are just
trying to come off the high of provincials in placing second in the province. Our goal will definitely be to stay in the top tiers of competition. I think we definitely can,” said Winand.
Front row (left to right): Cameron Jones, Ethan Armstrong, AJ Bylsma, Aus-tin Russell, Jaxon Henry; back row )left to right): Head Coach Patrick Winand, Carter Thurman, Foster Hilchey, Mason Dusyk, Chris Francis, Rylan Kuffner, Assistant Coach Brant Bylsma. Photo provided by Jamie Jones
MAY 20174-7 Home Hardware Emerald Park Grand Opening
5-7 White City Garage Sale Weekend, maps @ Town Offi ce
6 High School Rodeo, Pilot Butte Rodeo Grounds, 10 a.m.
7 High School Rodeo, Pilot Butte Rodeo Grounds, 9 a.m.
10 “Growing Better Vegetable Gardens,” WC Garden Club, Ramada 7 p.m.
13 Pilot Butte-ful Art Exhibition, PB Town Hall, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
WC Garden Club, Container Basics @ École White City School, begins 9 a.m.
WCGC - Kids Sunfl ower Growing Celebration
14 Pilot Butte-ful Art Exhibition, PB Town Hall, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
27 Vet to Pet Clinic, Pilot Butte Fire Hall, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
JUNE 20173 Summer Solstice Festival, 5 South Plains Road, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
10 White City Canada 150 celebrations, all day around town
JULY 20171 Balgonie Canada Day/Canada 150 celebrations, all day around town
3-27 White City Summer Play Program, call Carla Ferstl @ 306-781-2355 ext. 226
8 “Love Me As I Am” Garden Tour, White City Garden Club
What’s Happening?To add your event please call 306-352-3393 or fax 306-352-3394 10 words for free. $40 for 40 words for six weeks.
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RCMP Academy donates $100,000 to familySTAR staffSubmission
A deserving Regina family will have a new place to call home after a gener-
ous donation from the RCMP Academy.The RCMP Academy, depot division,
has donated $100,000 to Habitat for Hu-manity Regina to build an affordable home for a family in the community. The home is affectionately called Moun-tie House.
Commanding Officer of Depot Div-ision, Assistant Commissioner Brenda Lucki, presented a cheque to recipient
Dustyhorn-Wirll family, and Habitat for Humanity fund development manager Chelsey Lemke, during a small cere-mony April 20.
“Our new home is a place where our family can make new memories, we will forever be grateful,” said Alexander Dustyhorn during the ceremony.
The family is expected to be in their new home in time for Christmas.
Funds for the home were raised by officers, employees and cadets of the RCMP academy.
It is the fourth home the academy has helped to build through fundraising.
RCMP Commanding Officer of Depot Division, Assistant Commissioner Bren-da Lucki (left), presents a large cheque to the Dustyhorn-Wirll family, and Habitat for Humanity fund development manager Chelsey Lemke (right).Photo contributed by RCMP Depot Division.
with White City LibrarianLori-Lee Harris
New Adult Fiction
A Fine Imitation by Amber BrockThe Little Red Chairs by Edna O’BrienI See You by Claire MacKintoshThe Break by Katherena VermetteThe Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Book review by Gail
The Trophy Child by Paula Daly
“How far would a mother go to achieve perfection?”Karen Bloom believes in raising her children for success. She expects them and her husband to perform at 200 per cent, no
to rebel against her. When tragedy strikes the Blooms, Karen’s perfect world starts to crumble. No one, however, could predict how this story would end.
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Health expo shines light on alternative medicineRobyn TockerEditor
The Balgonie Health and Healing Expo isn’t an average tradeshow.
“We’re not a tradeshow. We’re not about selling something. It’s more about allow-ing the public to come in and find differ-ent ways other than the western medi-cine suggestions for health and healing,” explained organizer Char Louttit.
“Not everything that we suffer from as in physical pain is actually a disease. It’s often an emotion. We offer different ways of getting in touch with that emo-tion so it can release and the people can move forward,” she said.
Louttit said it can be challenging to find a starting point when a person people wants to eat healthier and be more active.
“They can be lost in how they find that information,” she said. “It can be over-whelming standing in your box store and they’re looking at all their vitamins and trying to decide what it is you really need. With the expo, we offer them more natural products that don’t have a lot of chemicals in them or additives. We offer them ways to get in touch with them-selves internally and find out what it is that they’re looking for.”
On April 28 and 29, in addition to the 33 booths set up at the Balgonie Multi-plex, there were six workshops.
“We had practitioners that offer health coaching,” Louttit said. “They’re certified in practicing different modalities.”
Some of these workshops included hypnotherapy and soul coaching.
“There were rave reviews from every-one who came out of the workshops,” she said.
Louttit wanted to bring this expo to the community because there wasn’t any-thing like it in the area three years ago.
“I attended an expo as a vendor a few years back and I was really inspired that we on the east side of Regina needed to have something like this,” she said. “It’s taken three years for me to see more of the local community come. Prior to this year, it had mostly been from surround-ing areas, but mostly Regina. This year, I saw a lot of people from Balgonie.”
“People are looking for other forms of wellness,” she said. “We need to work with our medical doctors, but there are
also other forms of helping ourselves to become better. This encourages us to do that.”
Louttit didn’t just organize the expo. Her booth highlighted her life coach business.
“I am a life coach, body talk and reiki practitioner and I also have some little gift items for people to feel better when they receive. Say you’re in the hos-pital – it’s that little something to keep you bright on a day where it’s dark.”
Louttit said this year’s expo was “a complete success.”
“Anyone who needed to come and seek healing for him or herself did so,” she said.
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EDUCATION
Students “walk and chalk” to stay active Robyn TockerEditor
Walk to School Week kicked off in the White Butte area May 1 to 5.
During that time, students from the Vil-lage of Edenwold and the Towns of Pilot Butte, Balgonie and White City walked or biked to school. At École White City School, students and staff kicked off the week with an assembly.
“We know that being physically ac-tive is important in our life and in this community in particular, that is very important,” said Principal Laurie-Ann Martin at the assembly. “I’m sure that as you walk around Emerald Park and White City, you see the paths that have been created by the Town and that’s so we can get around and walk around and not rely on our vehicles.”
For Walk to School Week, buses dropped students off further away from the school so the students could walk every day.
“For the past two years, there has been a committee – the School Travel Planning Committee – and in conjunc-tion with Saskatchewan in Motion, we have been working together with the Town and with some school representa-tives,” said Martin. “There are a number of people who have been working to see how we can be more active in our com-munity.”
In addition to having students walk or bike to school, École also had a Walk and Chalk event. Every day of the school week, classrooms walked around the community and marked their path with chalk. This was to celebrate the hard work the School Travel Planning Com-mittee has put in to making sure there are ways for the students to be active.
“You will walk along on the sidewalk and celebrate being active, celebrate our school and celebrate Walk to School Week,” said Martin. “The intention is that by the end of the week, every sin-gle piece along the pathway with have a little bit of École White City School and Emerald Ridge Elementary School along the pathway.”
Saskatchewan in Motion representa-tive Victoria Millette congratulated the school on their participation in Walk to School Week and their travel commit-tee.
“We at Saskatchewan in Motion al-ways say that we need more kids more active more often,” Millette said. “We also like to say we can usually get the required 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity by doing 30 minutes at home, 30 minutes at school and 30 minutes in the community. School travel planning brings that all together. We can leave our homes on our bike or walking, walk through our community and get to school. It ties all of these together.”
“School travel planning supports you and everyone in the school to take the active route by providing bike rodeos, having crosswalks and bike lanes paint-ed and by hosting great events like this,” said Millette. “Congratulations to ev-eryone who has participated in making school travel planning a great success here at École White City School.”
Also in attendance at the assembly was White City Councillor Hal Zorn, a White Butte detachment RCMP officer, Prairie Valley School Division trustee Judie Bradley and Mayor Bruce Evans.
“Without the support of our White City council, we wouldn’t be able to do this. They need to be able to support these kinds of initiatives,” said Martin.
Mayor Evans said he was glad the students were participating in Walk to School Week.
“I feel terrific that our kids are par-ticipating in this program. I’d like to see them walking every week, not just one. Obviously that’s a process,” he said. “There’s no question that physical activ-ity is critical and we do have a commu-nity that is very focused on community involvement in recreation.”
Mayor Evans was at the assembly not only to congratulate the students, but also to inform them about White City’s Warm-up Run on June 10. He did the same at Emerald Ridge Elementary School. The hope is for the children to
encourage their parents to sign up for the run and to do the event as a family.
“This is the perfect opportunity to build on this one week,” he said. “We are raising funds from the Warm-up Run to build a new skating and hockey rink in the community. It’s all for a good cause for recreation.”
Victoria Millette from Saskatch-ewan in Motion gave École White City School a banner to remind their students to keep being active after Walk to School Week ended. Photo by Robyn Tocker
SPORTS
Wolves volleyball 14U Men snag tier 2 silver medalSubmissionJamie Jones
The Wolves Volleyball Club Men’s 14U team came home with the provincial
silver medal in tier 2 after taking part in the SaskVolleyball Provincial tourna-ment in Saskatoon the April 22 weekend.
They played in the tier 2 gold medal final match versus the Saskatoon JCVC Black team. The final was very close and the momentum swings were plentiful before finally losing out in an exciting third set to JCVC.
This was the first season for the 14U boys to play together under the Wolves banner. Coach Bill Krzysik was encour-aged at the beginning of the season at the interest in Wolves Volleyball.
“In terms of a team with our club just starting out, when you look back at the beginning, I was really impressed with the number of kids that we had come out. That’s nice to see from the area and hope that it will only grow from there,” said Krzysik.
The Wolves athletes have improved a lot since the first practice. Not every athlete had played Club volleyball previ-ously.
“We had a huge improvement in a number of our athletes,” said Krzysik. “Some hadn’t played club before, there were huge improvements. Just ramping up to the more competitive game – some of our athletes came with quite a bit of skill already but improvements were
seen right across our whole bench. We improved from just getting the ball over the net on an overhand serve consistent-ly and combine that with players trying to run a bit of a system. By the end of the year there was a big difference in those starting to end points.”
The team was seeded in tier 2 for pro-vincials but could not cross over into tier 1 the way the tournament was format-ted. Seeding is based on a team’s results
from both SaskCups in the regular sea-son. The Wolves could not attend the first SaskCup as it was unfortunately on the Family Day weekend and scheduling didn’t work for some of the athletes. This hurt their placement.
During regular season tournaments
in Balgonie and Rouleau, the Wolves played solid and consistently beat one of the teams who ended up in the gold final in Tier one. The Wolves wished the seed-
ing were done a bit differently as they felt they could have been a tier 1 contender.
“We were a little bit disappointed in where we were seeded for the provincial tournament,” said Krzysik. “Having said that, I told the team this was something that was out of our control. We wanted to ensure we controlled what we could control and we were able to do that very effectively. We didn’t lose a single game until the final gold medal match! It clear-ly shows we were more than competi-tive in that division. I think the tourna-ment went very well.”
Success also came from having assis-tant Coach Elizabeth Ingram volunteer her time and expertise in volleyball.
“I want to make mention of the help and dedication our assistant coach Eliza-beth provided for the team. With her not having an athlete on the team, she made a great commitment to us but also she brought a youthful energy, which was clearly evident. The kids enjoyed joking around with her. She had a great personal-ity and the athletes really connected with her and enjoyed learning from her as well. She did a great job for us,” Krzysik said.
This 14U Men’s team will transition into the 15U age group for next season. Based on the number of athletes of this age in the province competing in vol-leyball, there will likely be a standalone 15U division. The athletes are looking forward to the next level of competition and heightened game play that comes with the new age group.
Front row (left to right): Jacob Marcotte, Brady Pekrul, Sam Chittenden, Josh Kondra, Tyson Thurman; back row (left to right): Head Coach Bill Krzysik, Jaxon Jones, Caleb Hoffarth, Jaxon Klapak, Kyle Krzysik, Assistant Coach Elizabeth Ingram. Photo provided by Jamie Jones
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ENVIRONMENT
Hummingbird research to answer questions in southern Sask.Robyn TockerEditor
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are among the smallest – and fastest –
birds in the world and one local farmer is answering questions about the spe-cies in southern Saskatchewan.
Jared Clarke is a biologist by trade but teaches in Regina. He decided to conduct his hummingbird research in the Edenwold, Balgonie and Fort Qu’Appelle area because of a lack of in-formation.
“No one has ever really banded hum-mingbirds in southern Saskatchewan before,” he said. “There are a lot of ques-tions about how many there are, where they go for the winter and how many come back and do they come back to the same yards or do they come back to the same area?”
“Birds have always been a big part of my life and I’m very passionate about conservation and ensuring we under-stand what’s going on in our environ-ment,” Clarke said. “If there’s a good spe-cies close by that we can collect a lot of data on and answer some unique ques-tions, that makes sense to me.”
With the help of residents with active hummingbird feeders, Clarke plans to capture as many hummingbirds as pos-sible and band one of their legs.
“With banding, we’ll be able to an-swer quite a few of those questions,” Clarke said. “My goal is to be banding in the same yards for a couple of years at least. We go back to the same sites and we see if we catch the same birds that we banded the year before.”
“At a hummingbird feeder, a male will take control of that territory around the feeder and he’ll defend the feeder. Fe-males will come in to drink at the feed-er,” he said. “Then they’ll mate with the male who is defending that feeder and they’ll go off and make their own nest and lay the eggs and raise the chicks on their own without any help from the male. Multiple females will come into the yard and feed at the feeder and mate with the male … People often see one female or one male at their feeder, but it’s probably a different female coming in most times.”
This is Clarke’s first year being autho-rized to band hummingbirds.
“I’ve been banding birds since 2006 and have banded over 12,000 individual
birds of over 100 species,” he said. “I went down to southern Illinois – a heartland of ruby-throated hummingbird breed-ing – and spent three days with a bander who does hummingbirds in southern Il-linois. In three days, I banded 167 hum-mingbirds.”
Banding hummingbirds is different than banding an average-sized bird.
“You have to have a hirer dexter-ity with (hummingbirds) because they
only weigh 3.5 to 4.5 grams and they’re really only as long as my thumb. To be able to manoeuvre the bird around, to get all the measurements, you re-ally have to be careful … It’s a lot more fine-tuned than working with a Canada Goose, which I’ve done lots of.”
Clarke plans to be out banding in ear-ly July until early to mid-September.
“I’ll go to that location twice or three times over the summer and see what we can catch during a couple hour period.”
Clarke selected the three locations to conduct his research because he lives nearby on a farm northwest of the Vil-lage of Edenwold.
“If there are people outside of that area where they’re getting a lot of hum-mingbirds and it makes sense to include that in the study area, then I’m open to that,” he said.
Inside a hummingbird feeder, Clarke said not to use red food dye in the sugar water. To make a healthy snack for the birds, use four cups of water to one cup of white granulated sugar.
“It’s the best thing for the birds,” he said.
To participate in Clarke’s research, please contact him at 306-552-6587.
Jared Clarke hopes to answer some questions regarding ruby-throated hummingbirds in southern Saskatch-ewan. Photo provided by Jared Clarke
BUDGET
Libraries relieved with restored funding Sarah MacMillanWCS Contributor
Library members within the province are feeling a sense of relief after the
Saskatchewan government announced it will restore $4.8 million in funding for the province’s public libraries.
Funding for regional libraries was slashed by 58 per cent in last month’s provincial budget. The budget also elim-inated provincial funding for public li-braries in Regina and Saskatoon.
But the provincial government said it has seen the error of its ways.
“Premier Wall has always said that we would be the kind of government that would admit its mistakes and then fix those mistakes,” Education Minis-ter Don Morgan said in a news release. “There were many necessary, difficult
decisions taken in this budget, however the reductions in library funding with-out giving libraries the tools to meet the new challenge was a mistake.”
The announcement comes after weeks of public outcry, thousands of Saskatch-ewan residents gathering for read-ins, writing letters to politicians, and peti-tioning the cuts.
Restored funding means the prov-ince will be providing $4.8 million in addition to the $3.5 million announced on budget day March 22. The amount matches last year’s funding levels.
James Richards, regional branch manager for the Southeast Regional Library, said the announcement brought a feeling of relief.
“It means we have a future again, a secure future,” he said.
Without restored funding, Richards explained the regional library had an estimated nine to 12 months with addi-tional funding, the money contributed by municipalities. He noted other re-gional libraries were not as lucky.
“Really we were just living off of bor-rowed time,” he said.
The funding cuts forced libraries to stop inter-regional loans. Restored fund-ing means libraries could reinstate “one card, one library” services. The system allows anyone with a valid Saskatch-ewan public library card to place holds on public library materials for free from anywhere within the province.
The manager estimated the earliest the inter-provincial holds service could be restored is this week.
Richards credits Saskatchewan residents with bringing about the funding change.
“It was the people of Saskatchewan who saved the library system,” he said.
“They’re the ones who really saved the public library system by speaking up.”
As a library worker himself, Richards noted the public support has been vali-dating for the regional system.
He also credited the provincial gov-ernment for having the courage to re-
verse their decision. The provincial government is plan-
ning a consultative review with the province’s libraries and municipalities to determine a long term strategy that benefits library users and communities while also being financially responsible.
More than 50 people read outside the Lumsden Library April 7 in silent protest against provincial library funding cuts. Protests were held across the province. The provincial government has announced it will restore $4.8 mil-lion in funding for the province’s public libraries. Photo by Sarah MacMillan.
“Thank you!” - White City Fire Dept.
Volunteer Fire Chief Randy Schulz would like to thank the corporate sponsors of the recent Fire School. The Saskatchewan Volunteer Fire Fighters Association and White City Volunteer Fire Fighters Association hosted 301 par-ticipants at the spring fire school on April 7 to 9. It is estimated that the school brought in $85,000 to $100,000 to the local economy. Thank you to the com-munity and all corporate sponsors including: Trans Canada Pipe, South Country, Bayer Crop Science, Regina Bypass, Ramada, Enbridge, AECOM (Carson’s), Global Grains, Redhead Equipment, Direct West, GFL Environment, SaskTel and the Town of White City. Photo provided by Laurie Schulz
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