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Provincial License Number 3119916 00065988 -03&/t3*-&:t%"--"4t%"/t+":t30/ 2 Th eSTAR | Serving White City, Emerald Park, Pilot Butte, Balgonie & surrounding areas | Friday, May 19, 2017 Q BUSINESS MLA acknowledges tough budget at business meeting Robyn Tocker Editor tough. We could have done things a onie to Highway 33. There’s work being Highway 1 to Highway 1 eastbound little better. There’s no question about done on every part of the bypass,” he via Balgonie,” Doyle said. it.” said. “We’re starting to get stuff finished The White City bridge should be open ask. Party MLA Christine Tell came RBDB update on service roads off ... This summer is about paving and in late July. Sto the White City/Emerald Park Busi- Garrett Doyle, Area 3 manger for the getting roads open.” For the walkway across Highway 1 at ness Association meeting May 10. She Regina Bypass Design Builders (RBDB), The on ramp and off ramp for the Bal- the White City bridge, the fence will be encouraged members to contact her going up in the next six weeks. with their concerns and assured them The right in/right out for Emerald she was listening. Park wasn’t closed the beginning of “My job is to take your concerns and last week. It was closed May 15 and your questions and get some answers will remain closed for a few days to for you. That doesn’t necessarily equate finish the asphalt application. By mid- to liking the answer, but it’s my job to summer, the permanent lighting will do that job for you,” she said. be installed and the right in/right out Minister Tell acknowledged the 2017- will be complete. 18 provincial budget was a tough one. Work will begin on Great Plains In- “It is our first budget where the news dustrial Drive in the next eight weeks. wasn’t all that great,” she said. “Some Traffic will be switched from High- of the questions that come are, ‘why way 1 westbound to Highway 1 east- didn’t you roll out the cost-cutting bound by the first week in July. Doyle initiatives or money-increasing initia- said the work is on track. tives?’ The short answer is: we needed “Tower Road will close at the end of the money.” this month on the south side,” he said. It She said the government is meeting is a permanent closure. “If you’re com- with various groups and discussing ing from Regina, you will no longer be other options. able to go from Highway 1 to Highway “Perhaps there’s a better way to get 33 via Tower Road. The City of Regina is to where we need to get to, but we going to assign an alternative route via need to get to the financial point that RM of Edenwold Councillor Wayne Joyce informed members of the White Quance Gate for people coming out of we need to get to if we want to balance City/Emerald Park Business Association that speeds on certain roads were the city. Coming into the city access to the budget in three years,” she said. decreasing. Photo by Robyn Tocker Highway 33 will be via Gravel Pit Road “We believe that the best thing we can or Great Plains.” do for the province is to live with a said the early spring is boding well for gonie bridge is ready for pavement. The The south service road in front of balanced budget. Yes, this is tough. We construction. north service road at the Flying J should Home Hardware should be paved by certainly didn’t do it knowing it wasn’t “We’re now in full swing from Balg- be completed in the next month. the week of May 16. Work will then “We should start on the north service road by CTV. have traffic by the Coun. Joyce updates businesses end of July across on OCP PUBLIC NOTICE Highway 1 on Councillor Wayne Joyce from the RM R.M. of Edenwold No. 158 the new bridge, of Edenwold thanked members for at- Notice of Discretionary Use Application which will allow tending the Official Community Plan us to finish the (OCP) engagement meetings, but the Pursuant to Section 55 of the Planning and Development Act 2007, the Council of the R.M. of Edenwold No. 158 gives two ramps on the RM would like to see more business in- notice that a discretionary application has been received and the details are as follows: interchange for put. Discretionary Use Permit: Recreational opening in Octo- “We are in the process of hiring a stu- Vehicles Storage Parcel B, SE ¼ 06-18-18 ber,” said Doyle. dent. To further the OCP process, that W2M (Red on Map) White City has student will be going door to door in Intended Discretionary Use: a similar sched- the business community,” said Coun. To store recreational vehicles outdoor ule to Balgonie. Joyce. “We would like to have all our surrounded by a fence. On ramps and businesses show up as a place on our Public Hearing: Council will hold a off ramps will website so (people) can get information public hearing to receive submissions on the pro- be paved in the on you in a hurry.” posed discretionary use application at 1:30p.m. next three to four Coun. Joyce said work on the OCP (local time) on Tuesday, June 13th ,2017 in the Council Chambers on the R.M. of Edenwold No. weeks, with atten- wouldn’t be complete until 2018. 158, 100 Queen Street, tion on the north Speed limits are being reduced on Balgonie, Saskatchewan. For further service road to get certain roads in the RM to reduce dust. information please call Paige Phillips, Planner at it opened. “The dust, as of late, has really been 771-2034 or the administration ofﬁce at 771-2522 “This will cre- a major issue,” he said. “On those roads, ate a link for all our Community Safety Officers (CSOs) Dated at the Town of Balgonie, in the Province of Saskatchewan, this 10th day of May, 2017. the businesses on are diligent about going out and moni- Kim McIvor, Administrator 00065997 the north side of toring the speeds.” Finance Recall Have a high interest rate vehicle? Credit troubles in the past? WE CAN HELP Let us lower your rates, upgrade your ride and keep your payments the same. Regina Motor Products Albert St. South @ Hwy 1 & 6, Regina, SK S4P 3A8 (866) 273-5778 | Service: (866) 448-3053 00064635 Th eSTAR | Serving White City, Emerald Park, Pilot Butte, Balgonie & surrounding areas | Friday, May 19, 2017 3 Q COMMUNITY OCP engagement meetings gather useful information Robyn Tocker Editor ratepayers, such as dust proofing roads. even had the bypass on the agenda,” the concerns. Now the main focus is on “The RM is so diverse and that was Jedlic said. a new high school in the White City/ echoed through the results of these Overcrowding of schools was anoth- Emerald Park area. he RM of Edenwold planners fin- meetings and this survey,” Jedlic said. er concern that did not arise in 2017. The entire summary of the meetings Tished compiling the information Jedlic and RM Planner Paige Philips With another elementary school in and surveys are online at the RM of they received from the Official Com- will base policies off the meetings and White City, that has alleviated some of Edenwold’s website. munity Plan (OCP) engagement meetings and community surveys. Present- ed to council at the May 8 meeting, the planners are moving forward with this new information. “We got a lot of information to work from,” said RM Planner Jana Jedlic. The five engagement meetings hap- pened in March 2017. The planners and other RM representatives attended the meetings. The rural residential and agricultural sector met one day, as did the Emerald Park residential community, residential subdivisions outside of Emerald Park, the Emerald Park/Great Plains and Prairie View Business Dis- trict and the business sector including the north side of Highway 1 and rural sector. “The key emerging themes are en- sure compatible land uses; protect and maintain the character of residential subdivisions in Emerald Park and acre- age developments; encourage and support the development of recreational amenities; protect prime agricultural lands; improve signage for roadways The RM of Edenwold planners finished compiling the results from the March 2017 OCP engagement meetings and and business districts; and address surveys. Photo by Robyn Tocker drainage issues in some areas,” said Jedlic. survey results and bring them to coun- Over 65 people attended the meet- cil.

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