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A1 443 WALSH TRAIL NEW LISTING MLS® #:SK722989 $359,000 Large family home with a� ached double car garage in the Trail area of Swiſt Cur�ent. This home feat�res a large kitchen with g�anite counter tops. 4 Beds, 3 Baths. ERIN FUCHS Thursday, August 2, 2018 swbooster.com Serving Southwest Saskatchewan 306-741-5160 306-773-7527 royallepage.ca/formula1 Playoff bound 18 STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER The Swift Current 57’s overcame a slow start to the Western Major Baseball League regular season to finish with a 28-20 record after losing eight of their first 11 games. The two -time defending league champions are currently facing the Regina Red Sox in the opening round of the playoffs. 57’s rookie Garrett Hawkins (pictured) finished the season with a 4-0 record and a 3.13 earned run average. He earned the win in the regular season finale on Sunday in a 22-9 victory over the visiting Yorkton Cardinals. A2 SOUTHWEST BOOSTERX THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 A2 COMMUNITY 2 SARCAN and SaskAbilities celebrate THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 a 30-year partnership STEVEN MAH SOUTHWEST BOOSTER It was a festive mood inside SARCAN Recycling in Swift Current on July 27. “This is a very important contact us day and it’s a very important year when we’re celebrating 30 • Phone: 306-773-9321 years of operation of our SAR- • Fax: 306-773-9136 CAN Recycling and what it’s • 30 4th Avenue NW done for the province and what Swift Current, SK, S9H 0T5 it’s done for the community of Swift Current, both in terms of • www.swbooster.com gathering refundable materials, keeping them out of the land- advertising sales ll, and also creating good jobs for people of all abilities,” ex- Kara Stephanson, plained Kimi Duzan, Regional sales manager, Director for SaskAbilities. STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER 306-770-2223 “SaskAbilities and SARCAN, Kimi Duzan (left), Regional Director for SaskAbilities, Roy Whitlock (centre), a 30-year employee at SAR- [email protected] for me, what it means is in- CAN, and Swift Current Mayor Denis Perrault were all on hand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SARCAN. clusiveness,” added Swift Cur- Melissa Richardson, sales, rent Mayor Denis Perrault. “It not just for the folks of Swift tributing. ey contribute as of their teammates are Safe 306-770-2226 means that all of us in our com- Current, but also for the sur- taxpayers, they rent, they own, Places accredited, both at Sas- [email protected] munity can nd that place, that rounding area, farms nearby, it so it changes the whole dynam- kAbilities as well at SARCAN. place of belonging, that place serves quite a large area. We’ve ics and that’s very powerful for It’s something that means a lot, Jerry Butterworth, sales, of self worth, and that place recycled close to eight billion people of all abilities to have started by our former Mayor, a 306-770-2227 [email protected] where we can do good. We can containers province wide since that opportunity.” great initiative, and one that we nd something where we can 1988. e fact that about 11 “I am very proud of all the are continuing on today.” go home every night and know million of those a year come teammates that work there,” The Swift Current location newsroom that we have contributed.” from Swift Current is a really added Perrault. “I am proud, set a record with 11 million Roy Whitlock was recognized impressive amount. So people not just because they have a products recycled in 2017. Scott Anderson, editor, at the ceremony for working 30 in Southwest Saskatchewan place to come, but also they are “SARCAN, province wide, 306-770-2224 [email protected] years at SARCAN and said his are really dedicated to recyc- getting a fair wage for the work had a new initiative and that favorite part of the job has been ling, which makes our jobs a lot they do. ey participate in the was primarily adding milk Steven Mah, sports reporter, working with customers. easier.” pension plan and they partici- products and that really 306-770-2225 “A lot more stu than what e SARCAN location in Swift pate in bene ts. ose are in- topped us up from 10 million [email protected] there used to be 30 years ago,” Current employs 18 people. credible things that SARCAN to 11 million containers,” ex- he said. “We know in our society set out in 1988 and they are plained Duzan. “ e more con- commercial print “I used to bottle pick and I employment is so import- continuing on today 30 years tainers we deal with the more used to nd a lot bottles in the ant for people, for all of us,” later. To have this in Swift is that’s out of the land ll, that is Kara Stephanson, ditches. Not anymore,” added said Duzan. “We meet people very important and I am very in the system. e returns help 306-770-2223, Whitlock. and we say, ‘My name is Kimi proud of all the people that call the economy and that also [email protected] Swift Current was one of the Duzan, what do you do?’ Em- SARCAN home.” creates more jobs for people very rst SARCAN locations in ployment de nes our contri- Duzan also announced at the of all abilities right across the classi eds the province. bution to community, so that’s ceremony that the centre was province. So that’s a really cool Classifi eds “We know that the Swift an opportunity for people of all fully certi ed under the Safe thing.” 1-306-773-9321 Current SARCAN has been an abilities to contribute in a way Places program. Duzan also noted that SAR- Fax: 306-773-9136 incredible partnership with that’s meaningful, that serves, “Kimi and her entire team CAN has recently adopted new the Abilities Council for many again, 50,000 plus customers a have gone above and beyond services where customers can classifi [email protected] many years,” noted Sydney year. It provides a meaningful to support that program,” said drop o recycling and collect Smith, Senior Communications income, a job with good bene- Perrault. “Something that they the proceeds in an account or circulation Officer with SARCAN. “It’s ts, and then people start con- are very proud of is that all donate them to SaskAbilities. 306-773-9321 regional managers Dead Prairies preparing to lm Zombageddon 3 Michael J. Hertz, Senior Vice President & Group Publisher SCOTT ANDERSON fresh new thing.” completing the production of a series of SOUTHWEST BOOSTER And while not wanting to give out too fake movie trailers. many secrets about what to expect, he ad- “We’re doing that again because every- Zombies will again be roaming the mits it does have connections to Part 1 and body likes those. ey’re a lot of fun and Southwest, with Dead Prairies Produc- Part 2. just cheesy, over the top humour.” tions dipping into the zombie genre one “If I’m calling it Zombageddon 3, I might e have lmed a fake movie trailer for Funded by the Government of Canada more time as they prepare to lm Zomba- as well have connections to it. I don’t want e Sloth about a killer sloth, one for e geddon 3. to remake it new, and just use the title as Hearse, one entitled e Rooftop, with the Filming will get underway this month an advantage.” nal trailer entitled Cereal Stripper. for the nale of the Zombageddon trilogy, He also envisions that this will be the Dead Prairies has also began making following up on the original Zombageddon nal Zombageddon story. their movies available to a wider audience from 2012 and Zombageddon 2 from 2016. “ is will probably be the nal one. I’ve by distributing their productions online Devon Oman has completed the script always been that person to think trilogy, via vimeo.com. for Zombageddon 3 and last month nal- and it’s over. I just don’t think there’s any- “Everything is slowly getting away from ized the cast for the upcoming lming. thing after trilogies,” Oman said during an the DVDs and Blu-rays and that, and every- Mail Registration Number: 005950104 “It took a bit longer that usual. I though open audition call at Southside Park on body’s going with Net ix and streaming. it would be quicker for the script, but I ran July 15. So we gured we might as well get with the into some writer’s block. I tried to work “I think that a lot of movie series should times and start branching o into that.” The Southwest Booster is through that.” have stopped after number three.” Dead Prairies movies are now available published by Swift Current “I nally found the connections to how He noted that lming locations have to rent or buy online at https://vimeo. Holdings Ltd. Partnership, an affi liated company to ALTA it all ties in together. Because I don’t want been nalized in both Swift Current and com/deadprairies/vod_pages Newspaper Group LP to leave it open. I don’t want it to be a re- Gull Lake, and he was pleased to be con- “It’s a lot of easier for people out of town. make. I do want connection somehow to nected on social media by new people who ey don’t have to wait for the DVD to be number one, two and three, in some cap- are interested in being involved.