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A1 132 2ND AVENUE SE NEW LISTING MLS® #:SK740439 $179,900 This cute 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house is great for that first time home buyer! Nice sized kitchen with lots of storage, nice bright living room, new windows through main floor and new siding! SHAI ROCKABAR Thursday, July 26, 2018 swbooster.com Serving Southwest Saskatchewan 306-741-4963 royallepage.ca/formula1 Boomtown Cup action SCOTT ANDERSON/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER The fi rst ever Boomtown Cup Lawnmower Races were held on Saturday afternoon behind the Shaunavon Hospital as one of the highlight events of the 2018 Boomtown Days and Stampede. All proceeds from tractor entry fees and a silver collection at the gate supported the Perk Up Our Parks Splash Park fundraiser. A2 SOUTHWEST BOOSTERX THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2018 2 SHAUNAVON 2 Shaunavon Fire Hall renamed Gordon THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2018 Speirs Fire Hall contact us • Phone: 306-773-9321 • Fax: 306-773-9136 • 30 4th Avenue NW Swift Current, SK, S9H 0T5 • www.swbooster.com advertising sales Kara Stephanson, sales manager, 306-770-2223 [email protected] SCOTT ANDERSON/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER Gordon Speirs was assisted by current Fire Chief Merrick Goldstein in cutting the ribbon with the jaws of life to offi cially christen the Shaunavon Melissa Richardson, sales, Fire Hall as the Gordon Speirs Fire Hall. 306-770-2226 [email protected] SCOTT ANDERSON duties. people who volunteered along from 1994 to 1997. He was also SOUTHWEST BOOSTER “A very, very thrilling day with him over the years. Shaunavon’s Citizen of the Jerry Butterworth, sales, really. I had no idea this would “I enjoyed the work. I enjoyed Year in 2006. 306-770-2227 Long-serving Shaunavon ever come about, because everybody I worked with. Current Shaunavon Mayor [email protected] Fire Department member Gor- being a volunteer you don’t ex- I ended up with a group of Grant Greenslade Saturday’s don Speirs was honoured to pect any accolades. But it was friends, forever.” special recognition was im- newsroom participate in a renaming of wonderful.” He re ected that a pair of portant for the community. the Shaunavon Fire Hall to the He recalled his rst ever re fatal res still stand out as trau- “It’s important, not only to Scott Anderson, editor, Gordon Speirs Fire Hall on July call in 1945, when curiosity matic incidents from his years just single somebody out, but 306-770-2224 [email protected] 21. prompted him and a friend to of service, but he was proud it’s more important that we’ve As one of the highlight events respond to a re alarm. of the department’s achieve- singled out the whole First Re- Steven Mah, sports reporter, of Boomtown Days 2018, an of- “ e rst re I went to, my ments over the years. sponder community and we’re 306-770-2225 ficial naming ceremony was friend and I were living across “We were fortunate. We recognizing somebody with a [email protected] held on Saturday to o cially the street and the re whistle had a great group of young great achievement in that com- rename the facility the Gordon went. And we were just out of guys. Very practical thinking munity. I think that’s really the commercial print Speirs Fire Hall. High School…so we thought guys like they have now. ey crux of what we’re doing here,” Speirs joined the Shaunavon ‘lets go and see if we can go worked well together.” Greenslade said. Kara Stephanson, Volunteer Fire Department in with the guys’. What had In addition to serving as Fire “We are very fortunate. We 306-770-2223, 1945, and went on to serve as happened was only two guys Chief from 1949 through to have actually had an increase [email protected] Fire Chief from 1949 to 1991. and the re chief showed up, 1991, Speirs was also a mem- in the number of members “When you volunteer you so we went with them. And ber of Shaunavon’s Town coming out now. We’re up to classi eds don’t know really how long afterwards they said ‘we’d Council for nearly two dec- 20, which I think is the highest it’ll be or how exciting it’ll be,” you like to join’. So we did,” he ades, serving terms as Alder- we’ve ever had. And it is very Classifi eds 1-306-773-9321 Speirs said shortly after receiv- chuckled. man from 1968 to 1974, and important in our community ing the recognition for his 46 During Saturday’s cere- again from 1991 to 1994, before of have First Responders, Fire- Fax: 306-773-9136 years of volunteer re ghting mony he also saluted the many serving as Shaunavon’s Mayor men, ambulance and so on.” classifi [email protected] circulation 306-773-9321 Co-op donates $40,000 for park restoration regional managers SUBMITTED funding will aid the museum in restoring to Manitoba. e program helps create, Michael J. Hertz, Senior Vice Co-op is helping to build a place for the grounds around the 1935 Log Mu- protect and improve projects dedicated to everyone in Maple Creek, with a donation seum back to a shaded public greenspace environmental conservation, recreation President & Group Publisher of funding for the Southwestern Saskatch- within our community’s downtown core. and urban agriculture. ewan Old-timers’ Museum. Constructed to be emblematical of the is year, 24 organizations will receive a e Co-op Community Spaces Program log buildings erected here in the Cypress total $2 million for their community pro- is providing $40,000 to help restore the Hills during the 19th century by the Métis, jects. Since 2015, Co-op Community Spaces public park around the 1935 log museum. NWMP and early ranchers; the 1935 Log has donated $6.5 million to 88 projects. Funded by the Government of Canada e designated heritage property collects Museum is now believed to be the oldest e giving program is administered by and conserves artifacts and archival ma- purpose-built museum building in Sas- Federated Co-operatives Limited on be- terial from the Maple Creek and Cypress katchewan. e greenspace around the half of more than 180 independent retail Hills area, particularly the 1870 to 1920 museum is just as iconic to the Maple co-operatives across Western Canada that period. Creek Heritage District as the log structure forms the Co-operative Retailing System. “Co-op Community Spaces is an excel- itself. e museum grounds are now the For more information about the Co-op lent program that provides Co-op another last surviving example of greenspace and Community Spaces program, please visit opportunity to give back and invest in gardens that once existed in the commun- www.communityspaces.ca. local projects across Western Canada and ity’s downtown core. anks to the Co-op Pioneer Co-op is a retail co-operative right here in our own communities. By Community Spaces program, this import- that has proudly served Southwest Sas- Mail Registration Number: 005950104 supporting projects like this, we’re help- ant aspect of the property’s heritage value katchewan for more than 82 years. Today, ing to build and support a vibrant and will be restored back to its former glory Pioneer Co-op serves more than 29,000 The Southwest Booster is healthy community where people can for the bene t of this and future genera- members — and many more customers — published by Swift Current come together,” said Stuart Dyrland, Gen- tions of Maple Creek residents,” said S.W. in 18 communities where it operates 30 Re- Holdings Ltd. Partnership, an affi liated company to ALTA eral Manager of Pioneer Co-op. Old-Timers’ Museum & Archive Historian tail locations. In the last ve years Pioneer Newspaper Group LP “ e Southwestern Saskatchewan Old- Royce E. W. Pettyjohn. Co-op has returned more than $59,000,000 timers’ Museum is thrilled to be partici- Co-op Community Spaces is investing to its members in cash back and equity, pating in the Co-op Community Spaces in community projects across Western while contributing over $800,000 to com- program. Over the next two years, the Canada, from Vancouver Island through munity organizations and initiatives. A3 SOUTHWEST BOOSTERX THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2018 3 Great Plains College recruits international iSplash students from India and the Philippines An expansion of their international program will result in a delegation of over- seas students registering at Great Plains College this fall. International students will now have the option to enrol in the Administrative Assistant or Business Diploma programs in Swift Current. Overseas students can also take their Power Engineering (Fourth and ird Class) courses in Kindersley. e college is anticipating between 18 to 30 international students will enrol at their two campuses this fall. “Welcoming more international students to our campuses provides tremendous growth opportunities for the college, new classroom learning opportunities for our domestic students and more vibrancy to our communities,” explained Kristy Sletten, manager of admissions and international at Great Plains College. “We’re looking forward to seeing many new faces around our Great Plains College com- munities this fall, and watching the positive impact they are sure to bring.” eir recruitment of international students occurred this past spring when an international recruitment trip was taken in partnership with M Square Media, an agent management company that acts as a liaison between recruiting agents and post-secondary institutions. “We spent two weeks in India and the Philippines meeting with recruiting agents SCOTT ANDERSON/SOUTHWEST BOOOSTER and promoting the college...it was amazing to see the interest that was shown in The annual iSplash event hosted by the City of Swift Current Community Services our institution and in our Kindersley and Swift Current communities,” added and sponsored by Innovation Credit Union was held at Riverside Park on Friday, July Sletten.