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Meladv Feb5-21 • Motor Licence Issuer • Notary Public • Surety • Home/Auto/Farm/Commercial • Blue Cross • GMS • Hagerty OPEN Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Melville - Springside - Ituna Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Excluding Long Weekends 228 Main St. 306-728-4457 www.melvilleagencies.com @MA1974LTD THE MELVILLE Friday, $1.50 PER COPY GST INCLUDED February 5, 2021 Vol. 95 No. 1 Agreement # 40011922 PROUDLY SERVING MELVILLE AND SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1929 • WWW.GRASSLANDSNEWS.CA • 1-306-728-5448 SPRA recognizes Bruce for outstanding efforts By Emily Jane Fulford extra care and consideration in “Normally, these awards are Horizon Credit Union Centre, Grasslands News maintaining safe and healthy done in person at a Saskatch- I get to see our facilities offer environments throughout ewan Parks and Recreation recreation to members of the 2020 and into the new Conference and AGM. public and actively see how it City of Melville Director of year. Extra sanitation Due to COVID, this improves their quality of life. Community Services, Chris was required by the conference was not This facility has the ability to Bruce was this year’s winner province in order able to take place, bring people from all walks of of the Saskatchewan Parks to keep doors open instead they put life together in one place, sup- and Recreation Association’s and dedicated staff together the short porting common goals, whether (SPRA) Facility Operations members worked film series for all it be exercise or cheering on. Award. around the clock recipients. This The honor is given to those It builds our community’s so- to ensure public made it so I had cial fabric and ensures that a who have achieved long-term safety. a bit of a heads success while working in Sas- healthy, active lifestyle is sup- “COVID has up as I received ported.” katchewan for a minimum of been a constant a formal letter five years and whose work has The team continues to en- challenge this with request for sure the highest sanitation shown a significant achieve- year,” explains filming a couple of standards are met for the rec- ment and exemplary operation Bruce. “Continual months ago. It was reational facilities of the city of a facility within the prov- regulation changes a really neat way for so that they are a safe place for ince. has required us to SPRA to showcase everybody during these chal- “I am very appreciative to change programming the award recipients lenging times. have received this award. It is a and the aligning facility and I commend them great honor to be able to show- rules in short order. The for putting together such “I am thankful for this award case our community and the recreation team in a great program. It but could not accept it without hard work of our recreation de- Melville has done is one that I would acknowledging that none of this SUBMITTED | GRASSLANDS NEWS partment,” said Bruce. “COVID an amazing job con- Bruce selected love to see continue would be possible without our has presented our sector with tinually pulling [au- The Sask. Parks and Rec. Facility Operations Award for even after COVID entire recreation team,” added a lot of challenges resulting in dibles] to find ways 2020 has been selected and the winner is Chris Bruce as it is a fantastic Bruce. “Their continual hard recreation practitioners across to deliver services of the City of Melville for his outstanding work keeping way to showcase the work and professionalism is Saskatchewan coming up with while ensuring the the Horizon Credit Union Centre safe for everyone. hard work that goes what is truly being showcased fantastic ways to keep their safety of our users.” on behind the scenes with this award. Although it community active and engaged. After a challeng- in recreation across has been a tough year, I look To be selected for an award ing season which seemed to go as a surprise and marked a pos- our province every day,” said forward to the future with the when there are so many awe- by fast despite its impact on the itive start to the year ahead. As Bruce. “Recreation is truly an incredible people who work in some recreation practitioners world, the SPRA has been deter- per the “new normal” however, awesome field to work in as you our recreation department, as I in the province is a true honor.” mined to ensure that credit is proceedings went a little dif- get to see your hard work ben- know anything is possible with The pandemic was respon- given where it’s due. For many ferently, to keep safety as the efit your community members such a great team leading the sible for the necessity to show of the recipients, the news came number one priority. every day. Working from the charge.” More than $178,000 in property tax arrears owed to city By Chris Ashfield amount of taxes owed to the city is ceed half of the previous year’s tax levy. administrative steps, including regis- Grasslands News $178,362.59, which is approximately 3.68 Council typically makes the resolution tering of liens. In order to save the tax per cent of taxes in arrears. When ex- to exclude these properties as they are payer from this process and potential The City of Melville is working to cluding property in arrears that owes more likely to be collected within 2021 fees being added to the property, admin- collect more than $178,000 in property less than one-half of last year’s taxes, as these balances are minimal,” said istration typically recommends to coun- tax arrears that are still owed for the Swanson said the value goes down to Swanson. cil to exclude these properties,” said 2020 year. $167,004.12. “The tax enforcement process typ- Swanson. According to Director of Finance “Council has the option to not in- ically takes a year and a half to two The city will be publishing a list of Lynsey Swanson, the outstanding clude taxes in arrears that do not ex- years to complete and there are many tax arrears in next week’s Advance. ΖPDJLQHLIWKHQHZVZDVQȇWWKHUH Google and Facebook use their monopoly power to pocket 80% of online advertising revenues. 7KHVHFRUSRUDWHJLDQWVEHQHȴWIURPWKHQHZVFRQWHQWSURGXFHGE\&DQDGLDQMRXUQDOLVWVDQGG publishers – without paying for it. Ottawa needs to act now to protect the future of your local news. Learn more at: OHYHOOLQJWKHGLJLWDOSOD\LQJȴHOGFD 2 February 5, 2021 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV Grasslands News Sask. struggles Generator helps business remain open Robo Sales and Service in Fort Qu’Appelle continue with By Alan Hustak Grasslands News The Robo Sales & Service sta- tion at the junction of Highways coronavirus 36 and 56 on the outskirts of Fort Qu’Appelle was of the few places By Elaine Ashfield with a power generator that was Grasslands News open for business during last month’s 17 hour power failure. The owners of the convenience Things are not playing out exactly how people store and gas station, Rodney thought they might in the fight against eliminating and Lindsey Olvild and their the COVID-19 virus. staff, served more than 500 cups In Saskatchewan, January has been an especially of hot beverages and sandwiches disappointing month with the most deaths reported during the Jan. 14 blackout when due to the coronavirus. As of Jan. 31, there have been businesses in the rest of the town 151 deaths reported since Jan. 1 — almost half of all were shut down. of the province’s 304 total pandemic deaths. Cars were lined up for fuel In the past month, Saskatchewan has recorded the at the pumps from 7 a.m. in the highest rate of people per capita with the coronavi- morning until 9 p.m. in the eve- rus. ning. “We’ve had an emergency February 1 brought a report of only 147 new daily generator since the previous cases, compared to the seven-day average of daily owner installed one in 1974. We’ve new cases at 228. This daily decrease resulted in the offered emergency service ever lowest active case count since Nov. 20, 2020, when since,” Rodney Olvild said. “Peo- there were 2,145. ple drove around all day when $/$1+867$._*5$66/$1'61(:6 Health officials have said the spread of COVID- the electricity went off. They had Ready to serve 19 in Saskatchewan appears to be improving, albeit no heat in their homes, so they Rodney and Lindsey Olvild served hot beverages to customers slowly, and they expect to see fewer people dying kept warmed up in their cars.” from the virus. during the recent power failure on Jan. 17. This will all depend on the spread of the new vari- ants of the coronavirus now being diagnosed in Can- ada. To date, reports state that very few samples are being tested in Saskatchewan for the new variants with 2 cases reported in Regina. AN URGENT LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA Also, at the beginning of the week, Health Min- ister Paul Merriman told a federal committee that vaccine delays have placed the plan to start mass im- munization in April in ‘jeopardy.’ A total of 35,239 doses were injected as of Sunday, We have very a serious situation in this country. Jan. 31 but only 4,637 people have received their sec- ond dose. Google and Facebook, two of the richest companies in history, There are about 190,000 people in high-risk prior- control the onramp to the internet highway in Canada. They ity populations scheduled for vaccines as part of the first phase of the rollout in Saskatchewan, Merriman decide what we as a sovereign nation see and don’t see in said.
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