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-YPKH`1\UL Serving Whitewood, Grenfell, Broadview and surrounding areas • Publishing since 1893 =VS 0ZZ\L Standing up for Ethan Bear Students and community fight back against racism By Sarah Pacio Edmonton Oilers. He is is using his platform as a Grasslands News well known as a mentor means to promote change. and positive role model, In a public statement, sharing an inspirational Ethan said he is proud of Tiny tots, elders, and message to youth in First his heritage, and called members of all ages from Nations and non-Indige- on people to be kind. Ochapowace First Nation nous communities across “I’m proud to be from gathered in front of Chief western Canada. Ochapowace First Na- Denton George Memorial tion,” he said. “I’m not Multiplex on Monday just doing this for myself; morning to affirm their I’m doing this for all peo- support for NHL player ple of color, I’m doing this Ethan Bear. The crowd “I’m not doing this for for the next generation, to wore orange Oilers jer- help make change; to love seys and carried signs myself, I’m doing this for all one another, to support that said, “Ochapowace people of colour – We all de- one another, to be kind to Proud” as they celebrated serve to be treated fairly.” each other. We all deserve Ethan for his hard work to be treated fairly.” and success. - Ethan Bear The NHL and the Oil- The rally was just one ers team, particularly of many held in com- In spite of this, Ethan the team manager and munities and at schools was the brunt of racism captain, have spoken in throughout the area over last week when individu- support of Bear, agreeing the past week to both als posted racial slurs on that there is no place for condone racism and show social media and blamed racism in hockey or any support to Ethan. him for the Oilers’ loss sector and comments like Ethan, who grew up on against the Winnipeg Jets those directed at Ethan SUBMITTED | GRASSLANDS NEWS are unacceptable. :HVWDQGZLWK(WKDQ Ochapowace First Nation, in the first round of the 6WXGHQWVDW:KLWHZRRG6FKRROKROGXSVLJQVVXSSRUWLQJ(WKDQ%HDUGXULQJD has had an outstanding The general public has Stanley Cup playoffs. UDOO\KHOGRQ0D\2FKDSRZDFH·V(WKDQ%HDUZDVWKHYLFWLPRIUDFLDORQOLQH career as a young hockey Rather than ignore the also responded with an player and is currently hurtful comments, Ethan outpouring of support. “I FRPPHQWVIURPSHRSOHEODPLQJKLPIRUWKH(GPRQWRQ2LOHUV·SOD\RRIIORVV a defenceman for the took a humble stand and stand with Ethan Bear” has been added to many profile pictures across Facebook. Last Friday, staff and students at sev- Cowessess FN to deal with eral local schools wore jerseys or traditional dress to affirm their po- sition against racism and bullying. Rallies have unmarked school graves also been held in Edmon- ton and at Ochapowace By Elaine Ashfield residential school sites across Canada to express solidarity with Grasslands News are ancestors and family members of Ethan as well. First Nations’ people. Along with speeches Chief Delorme says in order for rec- Cowessess First Nation will exam- from several special onciliation to happen, families need to ine, with ground penetrating radar, the guests, the rally at heal and have their loved ones located. cemetery located on their First Nation, Ochapowace included “In the coming years, this is going to where a residential school once oper- cultural elements such as be the heartfelt thing when it comes to ated. The announcement last week of a jingle dance intended reconciliation and this is the truth.” a mass grave at the Kamloops Residen- to bring healing from the Cowessess band leadership is willing tial School containing the bodies of 215 pain of racism. Drum- to help any other community in Sas- children shocked many and Chief of mers also performed a katchewan that wants to undergo the Cowessess First Nation, Cadmus Delo- rousing victory song rep- process. resenting perseverance rme, stated that every community has through hardships. its stories about the horrors that took History of Marieval Residential School Although Bear was place at Canada’s residential schools. This history is from Shattering the unable to attend the gath- This includes Marieval Indian Residen- Silence - The Hidden History of Indian ering due to previous tial School, located on Cowessess First Residential Schools in Saskatchewan. commitments, his par- Nation, north of Broadview, SK. The Marieval (Cowessess, Grayson) ents Geraldine and Lloyd The school operated from 1899 to Indian Residential School, which oper- sat in the front row while 1997. Cowessess First Nation took over ated from 1899 to 1997, was located 24 chiefs and coaches who the school’s gravesite from the Catholic kms north of Broadview, east of Crooked knew Ethan personally or church in the 1970s. Lake in the Qu’Appelle Valley on what by reputation expressed Using ground-penetrating radar to became part of the Cowessess First Na- their support and deter- have loved ones relocated, they are tion Reserve in 1981 (Treaty 4). mination to stand with being supported by the federal govern- The Roman Catholic Church operated him against racism. ment and Sask Polytechnic. the school, first by four Sisters of Notre Ochapowace Chief The project started with an official Dame des Missions de Lyon and from Margaret Bear shared blessing at the Marieval site last Sun- 1901 – 1979 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of that she is proud of the day where two-thirds of the graves in St. Hyacinthe. Previously, a day school young hockey player’s the cemetery are unmarked. had existed at Crooked Lake from 1886 accomplishments. She “Those unmarked graves now have a – 1888, but it closed and Catholic stu- noted that in hockey it is purpose, to be marked, to be respected dents were transported to Qu’Appelle always win or lose, but and to be given their proper name so school until the boarding school opened in relationships it should that we can have a place to go and give in 1899. be a win-win situation our condolences and to help us heal, The Federal Government purchased SARAH PACIO | GRASSLANDS NEWS as people live in balance because those are our relations,” Chief the property for $70,000 in January 1926. (WKDQ·VSDUHQWV with one another. She ac- Delorme stated. He believes there is a “In 1949, citing their rights under 2FKDSRZDFH)LUVW1DWLRQOHDGHUVSUHVHQWHGDVWDU knowledged that Ethan need to find all of those resting at the Treaty 4, the parents at the Cowessess EODQNHWDQGSODTXHWR(WKDQ%HDU·VSDUHQWV*HUDO- was naturally hurt by the sites and band leadership feel the effort Reserve petitioned the government for GLQHDQG/OR\GWRVKRZWKHLUVXSSRUWIRUWKH1+/ comments against him, is important for the community. a non-sectarian day school. ‘We ask for KRFNH\SOD\HUZKRUHFHLYHGUDFLVWFRPPHQWV - SEE ETHAN BEAR, 12 The unmarked graves in the many - SEE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, 13 2 June 4, 2021 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV Grasslands News Remember - Phase 1 is not freedom for Sask.
By Elaine Ashfield Physical distancing continues to and should be worn outside as well if restrictions must be followed. Grasslands News be the main item for all people to re- there are any challenges maintaining Although the public health order re- member when in locations, indoors or two meters of distance between people garding the size of gatherings does not from separate households. apply to businesses and workplaces, Step 1 for Re-Open Saskatchewan, outdoors, where they may become in In Phase 1, changes now allowed in- they are expected to follow the recom- that began on Monday of this week, contact with others who are not part of clude: mended public health measures, includ- appears to be welcomed by many even their family cohort. The ministry says • a maximum of six at a table in restau- ing: though there are still restrictions in masks are still recommended when at- rants and bars. • physical distancing for staff and cli- place. tending an indoor household gathering, • 30 per cent capacity or 150 people ents; (whichever is less) at places of worship. • regular cleaning and disinfection; • Group fitness classes can resume, with • frequent hand washing and sanitizing; three metres between participants. • use of PPE where available and appro- • Limit of 10 people at private indoor, priate; and outdoor and household gatherings. • keeping staff who demonstrate or re- Inside, the guests should come from port COVID-19 symptoms out of the your household and, at most, two other workplace. households. Different households should • Special care and personal care homes have enough space to be able to main- must ensure that each staff member tain physical distancing, even if the works in only one facility. gathering is outside. Stage 2 is hoped to begin June 20th if • Limit 30 people at public indoor gath- 70 per cent of the population, including erings 30 years and older have been vaccinated. • Limit 150 people at public outdoor During this stage there will be no ca- gatherings pacity threshold for retail and personal • Measures for youth and adult outdoor care businesses but physical distancing sports will be lifted. must continue. • All long-term care and personal care Restaurants and bars will not have to home residents may welcome 2 visitors restrict people to six per table but they at a time indoors and 4 visitors at a time must still maintain physical distancing outdoors. or barriers between tables. The government of Saskatchewan 150 people will be the capacity at shows the following recommendations event facilities such as casinos, bingos should remain in place through all five and recreational facilities and a limit of phases: 15 people at private indoor gatherings. • Protective measures for vulnerable All long-term care and personal care populations. home residents can now increase their • Individuals should continue working two visitors at present to four visitors from home if they can do so effectively. at a time indoors and nine visitors at a • Physical distancing must be main- time outdoors. tained, wherever possible. Most remaining restrictions will be • People must stay at home when they lifted during Stage 3. Saskatchewan has are sick. set the vaccination level threshold to re- • Vulnerable individuals, such as se- move all public health measures in the niors and those with underlying health province, including mandatory masking conditions, should continue to exercise and gathering size limits which could caution and minimize high-risk expo- occur as early as July 11. sures, such as public outings. The province said that will occur • Personal hygiene will continue to be a three weeks after 70 per cent of the pop- (0,/<-$1()8/)25'_*5$66/$1'61(:6 key prevention measure. ulation aged 12 and older have received Harley enthusiast • Enhanced cleaning and disinfection their first COVID-19 vaccine dose and Zandon Young gets a Harley-Davidson experience on May 27, 2021 from should take place in workplaces, public there has been 3 weeks since Stage 2 bike owner Jerry Yawney (left) on a heritage Softail bike named “Doro- spaces and recreational facilities. began. thy”. • Current public and private gathering
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All of the equipment required to sector with 300 new CCA positions by 2023! operate the facility will be located inside an equipment shelter at the base of the tower. This new telecommunications facility will improve coverage to the Rural Municipality of Stanley area. Your comments are welcome at 403) 261-6517 Written comments can be faxed to (403) 263-5263, Mailed to Scott Telecom Services Ltd. Suite 900, Bow Valley Square 1 202 – 6th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 2R9 Emailed to [email protected] All comments will be accepted until July 4, 2021 www.grasslandsnews.ca 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV June 4, 2021 3 Gold Willow Award for ‘Sergeant Billy’ book for kids By Sarah Pacio Awards, also known as 4 to 6), and Snow Willow contest was established Mireille Messier, is a pic- in 1914. The soldiers smug- Grasslands News the Saskatchewan Young (Grade 7 and up). Teachers in 2002. One of the books ture book based on the life gled the goat to the front Readers’ Choice Awards, or librarians usually facil- assigned to the Shining of a goat that served hero- lines where his bravery provides youth with an op- itate voting, but children Willow category this year ically in World War I. earned him three medals. Children in Broadview portunity to vote for their can also vote online with featured a character from Sergeant Bill was given After Sergeant Bill’s death, jumped for joy last week favorite book. Each year, assistance from their par- their hometown. Sergeant to the 5th Canadian Bat- he was taxidermied and when a story about a local ten books are selected for ents. Billy: The True Story of the talion when their train is now on display at the goat was announced as one readers in three age cat- Students from Grades Goat Who Went to War, by passed through Broadview Broadview Museum. of the 2020 Willow Award egories: Shining Willow 1-9 at Broadview School “We want to tell the winners. (readers up to Grade 3), have participated in the Saskatchewan Willow The annual Willow Diamond Willow (Grades Willow Awards since the Committee that Broadview School students and staff are absolutely ecstatic that our very own Sergeant Local Colleges join forces for Billy won the Saskatch- ewan Shining Willow Award,” school librarian Wendy Paquin said via international recruitment Facebook. Messier’s Sergeant Billy book also won the gold colleges become more independent in By Emily Jane Fulford medal at this year’s Rocky Grasslands News terms of reliance on external agencies Mountain Book Awards in for student recruitment and efficiencies including, but not limited to, cost sav- Alberta, a similar reader’s Great Plains, Cumberland, and Park- ings. choice program to the Wil- land Colleges have teamed up again and “This is a cost-effective approach low Awards. have now established an International to international recruitment and ad- Harvey Comes Home, Recruitment and Admissions partner- missions for the college system,” said by Colleen Nelson was ship which will be taking effect in the Cumberland and Parkland College’s the 2020 Diamond Willow 2021-22 academic year. The pilot project president and CEO Mark Hoddenbagh. winner and Don’t Tell the will run initially for a two-year period. “One that has the potential to build a Nazis, by Marsha Forchuk That plan is that one individual will re- foundation for further college partner- Skrypuch won the Snow cruit for all three organizations exclu- ships after the pilot period and truly Willow Award. sively on the international file and it benefit our local economies.” will begin this fall, in October of 2021. While the new plan is more cost-ef- “We are very excited to see this part- ficient, international recruitment is nership and pilot project come to fru- nothing new to Great Plains and Cum- Wellness, Beauty and Holistic ition,” exclaimed Great Plains College berland. 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GDWH Grasslands News “We’re looking for two people, someone at the rink :HDVNIRU\RXUFRRSHUDWLRQLQWKHUHJDUGEHFDXVHZHKDYH who can do general duties and someone who can do general duties around town, people who are good at OLPLWHGYROXQWHHUVDQGVSDFH Fort Qu’Appelle’s Public Works department finds multi-tasking,” said Betteridge. :H ZRXOG DOVR OLNH WR WKDQN 0HOYLOOH DQG GLVWULFW FRPPXQL itself short staffed for the summer following the depar- W\IRUGRQDWLRQVDQGVXSSRUWLQJRXUVWRUH$OVRWKDQNV\RX ture of three of its employees. Former Rexentre manager Joel Friesen was let go WRWKHGHGLFDWHGYROXQWHHUVZKRNHHSWKHVWRUHLQH[FHOOHQW The town is looking for a “lead hand,” to replace last fall and two employees with the facility have since FRQGLWLRQ Lyle Keller who has left the department to work for quit. No reasons have been given for any of the de- 3OHDVHFRPHYLVLWXVIRUDQLQWHUHVWLQJVKRSSLQJH[SHULHQFH North Valley Waste Management, the regional landfill partures but the town’s Chief Administration Officer admits that competition for jobs in the workplace at 7KULIW6WRUH([HFXWLYH authority. The job description suggests the successful applicant will “primarily be an assistant to the man- this time of the year will make it difficult to find re- ager of public works” Bruce Betteridge, and will be placements. responsible for “a high standard of maintenance for “Everybody is looking for people,” he said. “It has all recreational facilities.” been hectic. We’ve lost some staff as you know, we’re LANE REALTY It is also looking for a general labourer who will really, really short of people. Its been difficult keeping N(: - CUPAR - DFUHV FXOWDVVHVV look after garbage collection, grass cutting, and re- up with the demands.” EX PRVWO\KRSSHUHG JUDLQVWRUDJH6(RI&XSDUPLOHV1RUWK RI3DVTXD/DNH MELVILLE DFUHV FRPPHUFLDOO\]RQHG·[·VKHGOR Town of Broadview cated adjacent to Melville! RHEIN DFUHV FXOWDVVHVVEX JUDLQVWRUDJHTXRQVHWVKRSQHZHU%XQJDORZ1RUWKRI5KHLQ Projects and improvements in 2021 budget N(: - SERATH DFUHV FXOW UHFHQWDOIDOIDEURPH ROGHUJUDVV DVVHVV(DVWRI6HUDWK WHITEWOOD DFUHV 9DFDQWõ6WRUH\ZHOOSRZHURQ By Sarah Pacio 2021 budget. cluded in last year’s bud- The provincial Municipal +Z\ The total revenue of get to provide for paving Economic Enhancement WHITEWOOD -DFUHV DFUHSDUFHOVRQHZLWKYDFDQW Grasslands News KRPHZHOOSRZHU $1.18 million was compa- on Main Street. Program (MEEP) re- WROXTON DFUHV DOO JUDVV DVVHVV 6WRQ\ rable to last year’s bud- Income from Commu- ceived in 2020 will cover &UHHNEHWZHHQ:UR[WRQ .DPVDFN The Town of Broad- get of $1.17 million. The nity Centre fees was re- $79,338 for these projects. YORKTON DFUHV DUDEOH DVVHVVPLOHVRIISOLD view has approved its budgeted expenditures duced in the 2021 budget Funding from the Invest- +Z\6:RI By Alan Hustak Initially Holy Trinity was served by an Grasslands News Oblate missionary from Kaposvar, Agapit Page, then by Redemptorists from Yorkton, then by several Hungarian speaking mission- Halfway between Melville and Yorkton, aries. It wasn’t until 1936 that a permanent just off Highway #10 is Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church. The building now there is priest was found to minister to the congrega- commonly referred to as the McKim Road tion but he was there for less than a decade. Church. After World War II, priests from Yorkton It was built in 1950 to replace another came out to celebrate Mass. Although there church that had been erected in 1905 to serve were 40 families still registered as parishio- about 50 Hungarian families who arrived to ners in the 1960s, by then most of the pa- take up farming in the area when Saskatche- rishioners found it more convenient to drive wan became a province. The majority of the either to Melville or Yorkton for Mass. Hungarians who settled around Otthon were The church closed in 1964. members of the Protestant Reformed Church A painting by a Hungarian artist of the Step back in time $/$1+867$._*5$66/$1'61(:6 based in Pennsylvania, but Catholics from Holy Trinity that once was above the altar Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church near Otthon, SK stands quietly Hungary also gravitated to the district which was restored and now hangs in St. Gerard’s since it was rebuilt in 1950 after the original was constructed in 1905. they called Sokhalom, (Many Hills). Church in Yorkton. SIGA announces plans for re-opening Saskatchewan casinos SIGA has announced that all seven We’ve worked very hard to ensure our ing the casino. This can be done with at 11 a.m. Going forward, the operating casino properties, including the Painted facilities are safe for all to enjoy. I’m a guest’s Players Club card or by sim- hours for each SIGA casino will be as Hand Casino in Yorkton and the Bear very excited for our team members to ply providing a name and contact num- follows until further notice: Claw Casino on White Bear First Nation, return to what they do best – providing ber. All visitors will undergo a simple Bear Claw Casino & Hotel: 10 a.m. to are set to open to the public on June 20. the best entertainment experience pos- screening process prior to entering the 2 a.m. - Daily During the initial phase of opening, sible for our guests, even if that expe- casino. Living Sky Casino: 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. SIGA will start up in a reduced capac- rience now looks a bit different,” said SIGA’s full Health and Safety Plan - Daily ity with the 150-person maximum and Zane Hansen, SIGA President and CEO. and FAQs are available at SIGA.ca, Painted Hand Casino: 10 a.m. to 3 maintaining the physical distancing re- SIGA operates in a highly regulated which includes all operational changes a.m. - Daily quirements to ensure adherence to the industry and even prior to the pandemic guests should expect and details regard- Gold Eagle Casino: Sunday - Thurs- public health guidelines. SIGA casinos the organizations cleaning and safety ing its entry screening process. SIGA day 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday will offer select gaming and food service, protocols were of the highest standards, regularly reviews data and research 10 am to 3 a.m. and will enhance services as more re- Hansen noted. of industry best practices, safety stan- Gold Horse Casino: Sunday - Thurs- strictions are lifted. SIGA implemented an enhanced dards, and public health guidelines, and day 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday & Saturday “We’re very excited to be able to wel- health and safety program last summer will continue to refine its Health and 11 am to 2 a.m. come back our valued guests with our with increased frequency of cleaning Safety Plan based on evolving advice Dakota Dunes Casino: Sunday - unique brand of First Nation’s hospital- and sanitation throughout its proper- from medical health experts and the Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. ; Friday, Sat- ity to our casinos across the province. ties while managing physical distanc- province. urday and Stat Holidays 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. The health and safety of our team mem- ing practices. SIGA will also continue SIGA casinos will open on Sunday, Northern Lights Casino: Sunday - bers and guests, and that of the broader with its contact tracing process. Guests June 20, at 10 a.m. with the exception of Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 a.m.; Friday, Sat- community remain our top priority. are required to check-in prior to enter- the Gold Horse Casino, which will open urday and Stat Holidays 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. 21063GE0 6 June 4, 2021 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV Grasslands News “For the cause that needs assistance; for the wrong that needs resistance; the future in the distance and the good that we can do.” Past week shows First Nation issues still not resolved Will we ever be able to make things right? often, it is the people who are at fault. Take the racist will never replace the scars and all the pain of the un- The portrayal of serious concerns and possible solu- comments posted against Ethan Bear, the young hockey known created from these happenings done years ago. tions for the problems concerning Indigineous people player in the NHL from Ochapowace First Nation. The There are others lost to their families in more recent seems to be continually running into deeper findings, only hope that racism will ever disappear comes with years as well and the Missing and Murdered Indige- criticism and even disarray. There are more and more education and communication. nous Women and Girls inquiry was to bring support issues being brought to the forefront and answers that Racial comments are not accepted as freely as in and help. The national inquiry released its final report can put these things behind us seem slow in coming. years gone by but people still need to know that when titled Reclaiming Power and Place on June 3, 2019, after Studies and reports, government Bills and promises they portray acts of racism, they will be brought to jus- two years of gathering testimonies from families and have been made but we just seem to still be dealing tice either through public opinion or, as happens some survivors across the country. with situations that are often not only disheartening times, through the law. It is not okay in this world to The federal government has yet to release its nation- but some are also disgusting for any country to be a think you are superior to anyone just because of the al action plan to address violence against Indigenous part of. color of your skin, your nationality, your political women and girls. This week, the Native Women’s As- Over the years, and still continuing are Treaty set- choices or your religion. sociation of Canada (NWAC) released its own action tlements with promises of a better life for communities The finding of the unmarked burial sites of 215 chil- plan. The organization stated it lost confidence in the and their people who are living in less than desirable dren at a residential school site was probably the result government, calling the national action plan process conditions and encountering heart breaking incidents. of acts of racism by government and religious organi- “toxic” and “dysfunctional,” and that NWAC plans to Things such as the government promises made to zations, made against a nationality with a different put “families, not politics, first.” Leaders of the orga- hundreds of people many years ago to ensure they color of skin. We have moved forward over the years nization stated they were “shut out of the major de- had safe drinking water. Between November 2015 and as these residential schools have been closed and many cision-making processes,” were denied a seat on key March 10, 2021, 101 long-term advisories affecting public of the churches and the governments have said “We working groups that provide input on the plan, and its systems on reserves were lifted. But why are 58 adviso- are sorry.” representatives were subjected to lateral violence and ries still in effect in 38 First Nations? COVID-19 could But we also have heard stories for many years about hostility on committees where they were allowed. The be a valid excuse for some things but this promise of the loss of children and their unknown last resting organization stated they could no longer be part of a long-term drinking water is taking a long time to come places but we have not made any effort up to this point process that was so toxic and dysfunctional. to completion. to make things right. Can we make things right? Can This has been a hard week for the First Nations. The I also know that it may not always be the govern- we ever know the identity or find the families of those issues before us show there is much more work to be ment’s fault for many things that take place. Many in the unmarked graves from so many years ago and done. “Time will heal all” is not even close to correct. things cannot be corrected by the governments, as from all across our country? Financial compensation - Elaine Ashfield, Grasslands News Moe’s big push to open up Saskatchewan By Murray Mandryk wearing their masks and we can all Political columnist return to large gatherings like wed- dings or sporting events. In order to make this happen Will that be one dose or two? we will have to meet that 70-per- Well, if you want to freely move cent threshold by June 20th, so about, sit in a full Mosaic Stadium Moe is calling on people to get out to watch a ‘Rider game and get rid and get that first dose as quickly as of those masks once and for all, possible. a lot more of us need one dose of “It’s really up to us, the people COVID-19 vaccine. of Saskatchewan, and how many You need it, you and friends of us make the choice to protect need it and the crazy old guy that ourselves, protect those around us, lives at the edge of town and talks take the time and go out and get to himself needs it. vaccinated,” Moe said. Right now, convincing everyone It is doable. in Saskatchewan they need that As of the day Moe made his lat- first dose remains Premier Scott est announcement, 66 per cent of all Moe’s biggest challenge … although adults and 62 per cent of those 12 it may soon be exceeded by the and older had received at least one challenge not too far down the road dose of vaccine. To meet the new of getting us that second dose. goal, we need 75,000 more people Both these challenges stand in who haven’t been vaccinated to get the way of the Premier’s bold new that first dose. goals he set out last week. Notwithstanding, a slowing At his weekly press conference, down in certain age brackets after However, the U.S. is far ahead of us when higher. Moe updated his re-opening plan the initial rush to get vaccines, we it comes to people getting that second dose That the plan does not have any sec- with some slightly more ambitious are well on our way. As Moe noted, — what everyone, including Moe, insists is ond-dose threshold requirement is also trou- vaccination goals and some very people of all ages have been coming required to be completely safe. bling to many who wonder whether people ambitious re-opening plans so that in for their first vaccinations long “COVID is not going away,” the Premier will see second doses as less of priority once we can “return to normal”. after their age group became eligi- said, noting Saskatoon remains a hotspot. things open up. The slightly tougher goals are an ble to do so. “We’re going to continue to have COVID out- Already, many seniors have become frus- addition to his three-stage plan an- In his big push, Moe further breaks and COVID spread far after we reopen trated by not being able to book appoint- nounced early last month and call noted that his province’s vaccina- this province.” ments for that second dose. on Saskatchewan to have 70 per tion rate has moved ahead of that of This leaves the Premier and the province Further complicating matters is people cent of everyone in this province 12 the United States — at least, when with a bit of a delicate balancing act. getting second doses is less of a priority than years and older get at least one dose it comes to getting a first dose. In It is undoubtedly a priority for more peo- people getting their first dose. of vaccine. the U.S., we are now seeing stadi- ple to get that first dose. There is even legiti- Moe has a bold plan that depends on some- If that goal is met, come July ums and arenas open up for base- mate reason to question whether the re-open thing he can’t fully control — us going out 11, Saskatchewan people can stop ball, basketball and hockey. plan’s 70-per-cent threshold shouldn’t be and getting vaccinated. 127,&( 7KHYLHZVDQGRSLQLRQVH[SUHVVHGZLWKLQWKHFRQWHQWRIHGLWRULDOVRUFROXPQVSXEOLVKHGLQWKLVSXEOLFDWLRQDUHVROHO\WKHDXWKRU·VDQGGRQRWUHÁHFWWKHRSLQLRQVDQGEHOLHIVRI*UDVVODQGV1HZV SUBSCRIPTION RATES: All subscription expire Dec. 31. Pick-Up Boxes: Prices shown are based on one full year. $37.80 per year Subsciptions will be pro-rated. Mailed in Saskatchewan: Melville Advance, Whitewood Grenfell Herald Sun, Fort Qu’Appelle Times Chris Ashfi eld Tammy Oryschak Michelle Walz Lloyd Schmidt Pat Gattinger Prices include GST. 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Re-Opening updates plans for mask-less summer Provincial News “Our path back to normal continues to be through of Saskatchewan who have chosen to keep themselves Grasslands News our vaccinations and I want to thank all the residents and their friends, families and communities safe,” Moe said. “And to everyone who hasn’t been vaccinated yet, now is the time. Let’s get this done, Saskatchewan. The Government of Saskatchewan has updated the We have had public health orders in place now for Re-Opening Roadmap to include a vaccination thresh- 445 days. They could all be removed in a little over a old for the removal of all remaining public health re- month from now, if enough of us get vaccinated.” strictions, including mandatory masking and limits on The expected time-lines for lifting restrictions are gathering sizes. being provided well in advance to allow for the plan- The threshold for the removal of those public health ning of larger public events and family gatherings like orders will occur three weeks after 70 per cent of peo- ple age 12 and above have received their first dose of weddings. While all public health restrictions may be COVID-19 vaccine, with at least three weeks having removed as early as July 11, everyone will have their passed since the beginning of Step Two. This means own level of comfort with these changes. that all restrictions could be lifted as early as July 11, Masking if that threshold is reached by June 20. Although masking requirements will no longer be “It’s really up to Saskatchewan people and how required under the public health order, some people many of us make the choice to protect ourselves and may still wish to wear masks based on their own risk those around us and get vaccinated,” Premier Scott assessment and comfort level depending on the cir- Moe said. “Because that’s really what this is all about. cumstances. Masking requirements may also still be The goal isn’t just to meet some target number we in effect in certain workplaces at the discretion of have set. The goal is to protect Saskatchewan people, owners or operators. so we can re-open safely.” The original Step Three threshold of the Re-Open- Gatherings/Events ing Roadmap remains in effect. After 70 per cent of If you are organizing a larger gathering or event people 18 and older have received their first dose of for later in the summer, there are some guidelines to vaccine and three weeks since the beginning of Step assist in planning. Two, most of the remaining public health restrictions Although physical distancing will no longer be re- will be lifted, such as those on restaurants, sports and quired, consider spacing and separation for those at- recreation. Mandatory masking and gathering size tending through messaging or crowd control barriers. limits would remain in effect until 70 per cent of peo- All washrooms and commonly touched surfaces should ple ages 12 and above have received their first dose. continue to receive enhanced cleaning and disinfec- Currently, 66 per cent of those over the age of 18 tion. Employees and volunteers should be aware of have received their first dose, while 62 per cent of peo- public health prevention practices, such as proper san- ple 12+ in Saskatchewan have received their first dose itization, guest interaction etiquette and emergency re- of COVID-19 vaccine. sponse protocol. Letter to the Editor - Why do I have to safety my truck? HAVE A STORY IDEA? If you have a story idea or see worthwhile news Dear Editor, families and pay taxes The vehicle that allows us Do you think society happening, give us a call. We’re frustrated. Last because we offer gainful to have an occupation so doesn’t want us to work? Toll free: 1-844-GNG-NEWS fall I was pulled over with employment. Workers gen- we can be productive mem- Employ people, contrib- my old trusty rusty truck erally stay out of trouble bers of the community and ute to the local commerce? and given an ultimatum and off the welfare lines, pay for all these public Buy fuel, groceries, mate- to pass an SGI inspec- specifically, because they services. rial, insurance, support Joyce’s Acupuncture Clinic tion in a couple weeks or got jobs. The neighbor bought the local arts and service my registration would be No, we don’t have new his truck new in 2000, groups? We are putting '*'?3£3+@T!99!+'{$<6<2$;<8' yanked. My old faithful taxpayer bought vehicles paid for it and has had it out for the society and bu- 722 Desmond St., Grenfell, SK that had served me well, like government employ- registered every year since reaucracy is punishing us in my self-employment in ee’s drive. We are only without a claim. SGI has for it? both summer and winter common folk we have to be hauled in more money These two rusty trucks for years. My little, eco- frugal so we can pay those from that truck in regis- still run well, are road nomical, 4-cylinder, cli- taxes that pay those bu- tration than what it cost worthy and capable of mate conscious jeep that reaucrats. Our taxes pay to buy it. He registers at continuing to grow com- I had just tuned up for the government employees least two other vehicles merce and the GDP like 3@$',!93='8@'!89'?6'8-'2$' winter and bought snow good wages and benefits. as do I to get through my they always have. -2,-2'9''&-$-2'!2&-9(<££@£-$'29'&(38 tires for would have cost We retire the SGI inspec- work year. Dept. of High- So, I ask again, is this me way more than it was tor, the highways depart- ways pours salt on the a pattern dreamed up by !$<6<2$;<8'-2!90!;$,'>!2!2&!2!&!W worth to pass an SGI in- ment people and the cops highways at every possi- some comfortable, disen- spection. Those inspectors after 20 years and were ble opportunity rusting gaged bureaucrat that ?6'8-'2$';,''2');93($<6<2$;<8' Use the science of acupuncture to successfully treat are sticklers. still working into our 70s out all vehicles, causing has no sense of reality !=!8-';@3($32&-ধ329W Now I find they have paying for our own dental this rust syndrome in the about what it takes to 2('8ধ£-;@• Depression • Anxiety • Insomnia • Allergy done the same thing to my work, glasses and medical first place. Maybe they run a small business and !9;83-2;'9ধ2!£-938&'89• Respiratory Problems • Headaches neighbor who is engaged expenses? And then you should buy us new trucks couldn’t care less? 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To build upon his knowl- ences, such as collecting environmental, legal and taytan Askiy (KA) Cer- governance in place will After graduation, Bear edge to help First Na- economic aspects of land tificate to help with his allow our communities to soil samples for his ecol- tions, he enrolled in the will support Ochapowace and resource manage- role as a consultant sup- grow and create sustain- ogy class taught by Dr. KA program with funding Melissa Arcand (PhD). First Nation and sur- ment in Indigenous com- porting First Nations to able practices for future from Indigenous Services “The course load was rounding First Nations munities. Students learn improve environmental generations.” Canada. well blended,” Bear said. in land management and about Indigenous rights, issues and support eco- As a consultant, Bear “My studies at USask “My experience with the share the knowledge strategic planning, land nomic development. has participated in solid have developed my College of Agriculture gained from the KA pro- use planning, traditional “I realized there is waste feasibility studies knowledge base, skills and Bioresources and knowledge, resource a need to build capac- with several First Nation gram. and leadership,” said USask was very positive.” management, intellectual ity within First Nations communities. Working “I encourage all First Bear. “I now have an en- Bear is following in property law and project Nations to participate communities on land with Indigenous Services hanced understanding of his family footsteps by at- in educational programs government and legisla- tending USask. such as Kanawayihetay- tion as it relates to First “I have been honored Nations, how the imple- to have my two eldest tan Askiy and USask as mentation of a land code children attend USask well as other capacity de- supports self-governance, and while supporting my velopment initiatives to and proper research children in chasing their improve our communities and business plan tech- dreams, I realized that for future generations.” niques.” “During my classes, it became quite clear that First United Church, Melville - 5th and King St. no matter what region Order by Father’s Day Pre-order your First Nation commu- June 16 nity is located, there are so many similarities with Barbecue by June 16 respect to Aboriginal title Curbside Pickup June 20 from 3 - 4 p.m. and striving for self-gov- (south side of the church) ernance and improving *DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR SHUT-INS ONLY* the quality of life.” Email: [email protected] or call 306-760-1429 with order OR Due to the pandemic Email: fi [email protected] or call 306-728-5057 and remote learning, COST: $10 - order from menu Bear was able to com- Beef Burger with tomato sauce or Gluten Free Burger, onion, cheese slice, mustard, relish One of the following: #1 Coleslaw OR #2 Macaroni Salad OR #3 Doritos - plus dainties plete the one-year KA Contractors and Home Directory J&V ELECTRIC Soil samples for learning 68%0,77('_*5$66/$1'61(:6 Graduating College of Agriculture and Bioresources student Robby Bear col- Jamie Sebastian lects soil samples for his ecology class. 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We ate in the kitchen, sepa- system left her always feeling “locked Evenings were always the hardest. them in a bedroom to keep them safe rate from them.” Their foster family’s up.” What she really wanted was to “be Karyn (not her real name) spent her eve- while she scoured for empty pop bottles children were older and had already left free.” And even though her foster par- nings swinging on the outdoor swings to turn in to buy milk. Her father, with home except for one – a son. This was ents never drank, fought or argued and near the boarding school she had been whom she was very close, tried hard to someone who she couldn’t protect her she had a good home life, she still wanted taken to, wishing and praying that her keep the family together, working and younger brother from. It was a long six to ‘be free.’ At 15, Karyn left home. It was parents would miraculously drive up and trying to care for the children. He would years there. “Though I learned lots about the late 70’s and Karyn fell into alcohol, take her and her siblings home. Karyn always assure them that everything the farm there, I constantly wondered partying and theft. When she was caught kept on wishing but it would be a long would be okay. why I had been taken from my family.” stealing, she was sent back to her foster time before her mom came for her. But his assurance was short-lived and “When I was 12, I realized I needed family. But everything had changed. She As loneliness and questions about Karyn’s last memory of her dad is an ex- to get my younger siblings out of there,” had seen the darker side of life and her what was happening overtook her, her traordinarily sad one. Her parents were Karyn said. “I packed warm clothes for mom told her she had a choice to make. only solace was that four of her siblings arguing and her mother left the house. my brother and sister and myself and That’s when Karyn decided it was time were in the same place – a residential Karyn’s dad made her promise not to ran away – three times. When Social to see her biological family. Social Ser- school not far from the only home she follow him to another room, but eventu- Services spoke to my foster family, all I vices took her to the city to the home had ever known, that of her First Na- ally she did, only to find him sitting in heard them say was that I was nothing of her older sister. Finally she was back tions family – a family of 14 ripped apart a closet, totally unresponsive. His eyes but a trouble maker. Even my pleas to with her real family. by a system that left them broken, iso- were closed and his feet weren’t touching the social workers went unheard. They Being back with her real family lated from family, and unsure of what the ground, Karyn recalled. Her screams didn’t believe me and oh, the fear I felt though, was not all sunshine and roses. was happening to them and most of all, brought her brothers to the room. Her when I told them. I knew I would get it There were no rules and the house was why it was happening. father had hung himself. after.” often full of people drinking and party- There was little solace in having her “When Dad died, all hell broke loose. On Karyn’s third attempt, she and her ing. Karyn went to school but there was siblings nearby however, because for the It was just chaos,” Karyn said. “When I younger siblings were picked up by a po- no one offering her guidance. Often there most part they could seldom offer each was younger, Mom was loving and affec- lice officer. She begged him not to take was little food. other comfort in times of distress as tionate. After Dad died, she drank more them back to their foster home but he “I would phone Mom and Dad,” Karyn they were often kept apart. There were and more. There was no physical or sex- began to drive in the direction of their said of her foster parents. “They wanted times they could be together though, and ual abuse in our home, but nothing was foster home. me to go to school, to college, but no one Karyn remembers how her older sister right. I went to school, but irregularly,” “I was heartbroken as he headed in was going to tell me what to do because and her tried very hard to stay close – she said of her early school years in Re- that direction,” Karyn said as she re- I was free now.” Karyn got her first job often swinging together during those gina. called that day. “Suddenly he spun the as a dishwasher at 16. Her biological lonely evenings. She describes feeling so mother was often drunk or hungover. lost during this time in her life. They didn’t really know each other at It was during the 60’s that Karyn and all. Eventually, Karyn got her own apart- her siblings were picked up from their ment. home on a Qu’Appelle Valley area re- “I met my first husband when I was serve in southeastern Saskatchewan 16; he was 25,” Karyn said. “By the time by a man and two women, presumably I was 22, we had had three children. We from Social Services Karyn believes, and were on social assistance and he was taken to a boarding school. They went drinking a lot. I tried to keep him sober with just the clothes on their back. No for five years but then I began to feel bag. No suitcase. No sentimental items helpless and that feeling of having no to hang on to. freedom hit me again. I left him.” Karyn “What is happening?” Karyn asked was just 26 at this time and, still on so- herself. “Why is this happening?” she cial assistance, began to steal clothes for wondered. Karyn, now 53, had no idea her children. “I couldn’t afford the things what was going on or why she had been I wanted for them.” A downward spiral taken from her family. She was about began. Karyn was caught stealing but five years old at the time, she thinks. wouldn’t make her court appearances. “We were so afraid of what would She started drinking and at the same happen,” Karyn said of the fears she time as she felt free and able to do her and her sister had. “Everything was own thing, she also felt lost. But what- very regimental (at the boarding school). ever freedom she thought she had was We had to get up early, the nuns would gone – she was sentenced to six months force us to take pills. Maybe they were in jail. While in jail she tried to escape, vitamisn, I don’t know,” she said. “If we took a guard hostage, and started a riot. cried or didn’t take the pills, we would A survivor '211$%(87/(5_*5$66/$1'61(:6 “Shackled, handcuffed and padlocked, be disciplined,” she said of her time at $VSDUWRIWKHKHDOLQJSURFHVVIRU.DU\QDUHVLGHQWLDOVFKRROVXUYLYRUDQG·V6FRRS I was flown from airport to airport until the residential school (approximately VXUYLYRUVKHHQMR\VVSHQGLQJWLPHZLWKKHUKRUVH,W·VEHHQDORQJMRXUQH\IRU.DU\Q I reached Ontario and was placed in the two or three years). “We had to put our EXWZLWKKHUORYHIRUKRUVHVKHUIDLWKDQGWKHVXSSRUWRIKHUKXVEDQGDQGIDPLO\.DU\Q Prison for Women in Kingston,” Karen aprons on and we were marched down to LVKHDOLQJDQGLVJLYLQJEDFNWRRWKHUVZKRQHHGWKHVXSSRUWRIVRPHRQHZKRXQGHU- said, recalling walking through the air- a common room. There were no chairs; VWDQGVZKDWLW·VOLNHWRJRWKURXJK¶GDUN·WLPHV ports shackled. “My husband had our we just had to stand there until breakfast children but they were taken away from was called. We weren’t allowed to talk to him and placed in foster care. Even others; we just had to sit there and eat.” If life after her father’s death was car around and took us to a safe house though I felt so defeated, I didn’t get into Tears overwhelmed Karyn as she re- hell, soon life would get even crazier for in Regina. I was so thankful he believed prison stuff like drugs and drinking. I called a day at the boarding school when Karyn and her family. In what is known us. The people at the safe house were so prayed that God wouldn’t let anything she was not feeling well. She tried to tell today as the ‘60’s Scoop,’ Karyn and an happy to see us. Kids there were happy bad happen to my children. And then I the nuns she was sick and her brother older sister and her younger brother and and smiling. They bathed us and gave us got a lawyer to get my children out of came over to her and tried to comfort sister were taken from their family to a clean clothes. I thought to myself, ‘this is foster care and into the care of a social her. foster home. Their photos were put in a new beginning.’” worker friend of mine.” Once released “They grabbed him,” she said as she the paper. They were being put up by So- Karyn and her two siblings were at the from prison, her social worker friend told the story. “The look in his eyes was cial Services for adoption. safe house for a few days before Karyn told her she needed to sober up. It was one of helplessness.” She was taken to “That first foster home was hell. If we was placed with a new foster family. By 1990 and Karyn went to a Saskatchewan her room where she spent the next cou- didn’t comply with ‘the rules,’ we were that time, Karyn, just 12, was an angry detox centre, got her kids back and met ple of days. “You couldn’t do anything,” beaten. Our foster dad was sexually abu- child. Her new foster parents, however, her second husband. she said of her brother’s attempted in- sive; our foster mother was physically were very loving and caring and her new “Things were good. My husband, the tervention. “I got used to the physical, abusive,” Karyn said of her life in fos- foster mom would always encourage and first native man I ever dated, was going the yelling,” Karyn added, “but not the ter care. “What bothered me was if my support her. to university. He had his own apartment, emotional.” siblings were getting beaten, I couldn’t “We went to church every Sunday,” his own car, his own food,” Karen said. One day, after being at the boarding help them. My older sister tried to shield Karyn said of life with her new foster She went back to school and was so school for about two or three years, her and protect us and she took the brunt parents. “I always prayed and I knew happy to have her children back. “The mom arrived. She recalls a priest being of the sexual abuse. When she left at 16, there was a God. I was the only First Na- values Mom and Dad (her second foster there that day. My mom told us kids we she made me promise not to let him (fos- tions kid in my school and there were parents) taught me were what I taught were going with her. ter dad) touch the younger ones. I knew racist kids there. I wanted to run away. my children. When my husband and I “I was ecstatic,” Karyn recalls. Fi- what she meant. But once she (older sis- But I stayed, excelling in lots of sports.” started having problems, I felt such emp- nally, she was going home. But all was ter) left, I took the sexual abuse.” Karyn’s foster parents are now gone; tiness. I hated evenings. I felt so lonely in not well on the home front either. When “Many nights we didn’t sleep,” Karyn her mom having passed away just this the evenings, just like the evenings when Karyn and her siblings arrived home, said of those dark and terrifying nights. spring, but one thing was certain, they I used to sit on the swing at the boarding one of her older sisters was sitting at “We wrapped ourselves up like cabbage always encouraged her and supported school. I couldn’t sleep in darkness and the table, crying. Their father and one rolls in our blankets,” praying that that her all through her life. still to this day I sometimes can’t sleep in of their brothers had been injured in a would keep them safe from the sexual Karyn was ecstatic to have her darkness. I remembered the sexual abuse stabbing incident. This was a pivotal mo- abuse. It didn’t. Their life on the dairy younger brother and sister come to live from the boarding school and wondered, ment in the family’s life – they locked up farm they lived on meant working hard at her new foster home but it didn’t last. ‘where is my freedom?’” their house and moved to Regina. but thankfully it also meant being well Her foster mom could see that Karyn Karyn was, in her own words, stub- Life in the city was a troubling fed and having free time to roam the wouldn’t allow her to be a mother to her born. No man was going to tell her what time for Karyn and her family. Karyn’s fields and make tree houses and do the siblings and soon her siblings were sent do to. She simply didn’t want to worry mother began drinking and their home things children love to do. At the same to other foster homes. Karyn also had about a man. Her drinking started again life became chaotic ¬with fights and peo- time, they were ‘kept in their place’ and foster siblings and to this day, her four - SEE KARYN, 11 www.grasslandsnews.ca 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV June 4, 2021 11 Botched sex-change operation in Fort basis for new book By Alan Hustak study, a grim reflection formed by a dairy farmer Grasslands News of what goes on in the named Al. The book is fictional town of Sal- not journalism; it’s not tus, on the banks of the about what actually hap- It has been 20 years Nistowin River. Saltus pened in Fort Qu’Appelle since an amateur sex is the stand in for Fort in 2001 but a story rooted change operation per- Qu’Appelle, a place with in Gereux’s imagination. formed in a Fort Qu’Ap- “shops that have been “I Love the Fort so pelle motel room ended in a botched castration. closed and locked up for much. It was my home- The sordid case in- awhile. Years even.” Its town. I grew up there, volved a 57-year-old residents have little or went to school there, and farmer who drove from no understanding of sex- I spent a lot of time in Alberta for the surgery ual diversity, people who that motel,” she said in at the hands of someone cannot grasp the concept an interview. “People I from the Fort he met on of gender reassignment. knew worked there at the the internet who billed As one police constable time that it happened. himself as ‘cutter Can- investigating the incident When I heard about it I ada.’ The farmer almost asks at one point, “You was stunned by the har- bled to death from the don’t believe that people rowing act of desperation botched surgery but re- are born with the wrong and fixated on everyone fused to press charges. body parts? What’s next who was involved.” The shabby events in this world. Someone is Now a Saskatchewan $/,/$85(1&5($7,9(6(59,&(6_*5$66/$1'61(:6 have inspired former Fort a rabbit born in a human civil servant, Gereux A transgender tale Qu’Appelle resident, Tara body?” was living in British Co- $XWKRU7DUD*HUHX[ZURWHDERRNWKDWLVQRWMRXUQDOLVP LW·VQRWDERXWZKDW Gereaux, to write Saltus, In Gereux’s telling, lumbia at the time of the DFWXDOO\KDSSHQHGLQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOHLQEXWDVWRU\URRWHGLQ*HUHX[·V Aaron, the protagnist of incident. What set her (Nightwood editions, 296 imagination. pp. $24.95) an uneven but the story, is a 15-year-old story in motion was that emotionally intense novel who is born with “the her former boyfriend was ties such as Bruce Jen- people. they want to be, for the that explores the subject wrong body parts” and questioning his own sex- ner who is now Caitlyn “From a personal per- people they are born to of gender diversity and arrives with his mother uality. The experience at Jenner or the Canadian sexual reassignment. at the Harvest Gold Motel the centre of the novel re- spective I hope every be, for the people they actress who was born It is not a sensational for the operation, “one mains an even more per- person can be the people are.” Ellen Page and is now, nor a gratuitous recap that he needs,” to become tinent issue today given a male, Elliot Page. Sal- of events. Her book is Erin. the recent exposure of tus may open the door to Hon. Warren Kaeding PAg. primarily a character The surgery is per- transgendered celebri- some understanding of a MLA for Melville-Saltcoats sexual reassignment pro- Minister of Environment cess that Page told Time Karyn’s story – a residential school survivor Magazine was “not only Phone: 306-728-3881 [email protected] - continued from page 10 life-changing but lifesav- ing” OFFICE HOURS after seven years of sobriety. 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Even GUY WALL or point in their lives – a marriage based on in my dreams and my nightmares, I al- ELI TREMBLAY ways was able to call on God. I may have love and trust. “He told me to ‘take the for more been angry and very hurt, but I have a chance on love’ and finally I did.” CALL/TEXT: 1-306-435-3313 details big heart,” she said. “I will never be able to fix the world,” GUY WALL ELI TREMBLAY In 2010, Karyn went to court to get Karyn concluded, “but I am learning TOLL FREE: 1-800-880-4533 her residential school settlement. Of this how to help.” And the best part of it all, MORE AMAZING INVENTORY AT experience, she says wished she hadn’t she says, is that “I have finally found my MOOSOMIN, SK www.celebrationford.com gone to court. freedom.” 12 June 4, 2021 Whitewood Grenfell Herald Sun Grasslands News We support Ethan SARAH PACIO | GRASSLANDS NEWS Street hockey SUBMITTED | GRASSLANDS NEWS Little children wearing orange shirts held a banner with the words “We Sup- Students and staff of Whitewood School held a street hockey game on May 25 port Ethan Bear” during a rally at Ochapowace First Nation. during a rally of support for Ethan Bear. Communities hold Ethan Bear rallies to speak out against racism - continued from front page but so grateful for the has facilitated hockey Bear admonished the to support Indigenous Ochapowace’s Kakisiwew on a staff vs students out- support shown by many training camps on the young people in the youth to pursue their School, which Whitewood door street hockey game others. reserve in collaboration crowd. “There’s people dreams. He is also calling School has a working to honour Ethan,” said “As resilient people, with Ethan. He spoke not standing in your corner; leaders to provide youth partnership with, which Doud. “It was a great way we bounce back, we rise, only of Ethan’s profes- don’t let the fear of facing with assistance they need. asked Whitewood to do to support him, have fun we forgive; we love those sional success but also racism deter you from “He has now passed something to show sup- with our students, and that hurt us, we show his personal character. your dream because you the torch on to everyone port for Ethan and take show the art work the them our compassion and He challenged those at- can overcome that.” else; now it’s our turn a stand against racism students had created for know that there is a dif- tending the rally to not Near the conclusion to speak up, be kind and basically. Doud said staff this event.” ferent way that we need only make statements of of the program, Ethan’s love one another,” Geral- met and came up with Doud said teachers to treat one another,” support for Ethan on so- mother shared a few dine said. “It doesn’t end the dress up day (Oiler’s also talked with their Chief Bear said. “Today cial media, but to actually words. She acknowledged here, we all have work to jersey, blue/orange, tradi- classes about the incident is a day of rallying speak up when they hear that the experience was do.” tional clothing) and they and racism in general. against racism! Today is someone say something painful for her son, but School Rallies decided to go a little fur- The students had var- about bringing awareness unkind or racist. The commended him for turn- ther with the idea. ied reactions to the inci- of what racism does and coach also encouraged ing it into something pos- Schools throughout “After such a hard dent, saying some were how it hurts us. Today youth to follow Ethan’s itive. Not only have there the province also held year on everyone, where outraged and some saw we will stand and support example and work to- been many positive state- events to condone racism we can’t mix cohorts the silliness of getting so one of our members.” wards their goals. ments on social media and show their support and meet in assemblies, worked up over a hockey Courage Bear, who “If you have a dream, in response to the initial for Ethan, many wearing or have extra curricular game. She referred to coaches the Warman go get it; put your head negativity but the experi- NHL jerseys for the day. events, we thought we one poster from a grade Wildcats, is originally down and work and you ence has motivated Ethan In Whitewood, which could all really use some- 1 which said “Losing a from Ochapowace and can achieve it,” Coach to establish a foundation neighbours Ochapowace thing fun in our school game is a little deal; rac- First Nation, a rally of lives too. So we decided ism is a big deal!” support was held for Ethan on May 28. The rally of support included people being encouraged to wear NHL jerseys or Rodeo cancelled 21061SS0 orange clothing as well as 21063SS0 a friendly game of street The Whitewood/Cha- hockey between students By Elaine Ashfield Grasslands News cachas Night Rodeo was and staff being played on to be the first rodeo held 5th Ave in front of the since the onset of COVID- school. Whitewood’s first rodeo 19 and, while the com- Principal Brenda Doud in a long time to be held mittee knows that many said the idea for the rally on June 19th has been can- participants and fans came as a request from celled. were looking forward to a bit of normal once again, the fact that the High School Rodeo Finals 21062DA0 were slated for the same weekend and no other dates that would work at this time, a decision was made to cancel the event. The High School Rodeo Finals now being the same weekend, will take away many of the entries expected for the White- wood/Chacachas Rodeo, as well as a couple of the committee families. The committee is hop- ing to try again next year for their annual Night Rodeo. Help keep your community’s history alive. SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER! www.grasslandsnews.ca Whitewood Grenfell Herald Sun June 4, 2021 13 Hometown and Borderland merger vote is June 7 and 8 By Chris Ashfield meeting is being restricted to we continue to focus on being bers who would be able to use sional board of directors con- Grasslands News 30 people with others being a strong and stable rural Co- one Co-op number at any of the sisting of 11 people (six from able to tune in virtually. All op,” said Jason Schenn, CEO of locations. The Co-op will em- Borderland and five from members attending and want- Borderland and GM of Home- ploy over 300 people at 19 store Hometown) will exist until the The memberships of Bor- ing to vote on the merger had town. locations in Grenfell, Broad- end of the first full year of the derland and Hometown Co-op to be pre-registered. view, Whitewood, new organization, which will will cast a ballot next week The two Co-ops have Kipling, Sintaluta, be approximately 16-months. on whether to merge the two been working together Moosomin, Rocan- The interim board has been co-operatives into one when since March of 2020 ville and Maryfield selected from the current 17 each Co-op holds a merger vote when Hometown and which include six board members of the two during their annual general Borderland began Cardlocks, five Gas Co-ops. Lawrence Swanson of meeting (AGM). providing manage- Bar/C-Stores, one Hometown Co-op will serve The AGM and merger vote ment services to Car Wash, six Food as president of the new board will be held during two sepa- Hometown. In April, Stores, five Home of directors while Borderland rate meetings next week with it was announced the Centers, one Agro director Chris Ashfield will Hometown Co-op holding their intention to merge the Center, three Liquor serve as vice-president. Secre- meeting on June 7 in Broad- two Co-ops. Stores and four Bulk Pe- tary of the board will be Astrid view and Borderland Co-op’s “We are looking forward to troleum trucks that service a Van‘t Westeinde of Hometown. holding their AGM on June 8 the meetings to hopefully get trading area of nearly 200 kilo- The intern board will remain in Moosomin. Both meetings approval from the member- meters along the Trans-Canada in effect until the first AGM at will begin at 6:30 p.m. ship to complete the amalga- If approved, the new Co-op Highway and approximately which time the board will be If passed, the new Co-op will mation. Overall feedback has – which would operate as Bor- 50 kilometers to the North and reduced to nine directors with officially take affect on Oct. 10. been quite positive from both derland Co-op – will have a South. three positions up for election Due to COVID-19 restriction, memberships. Our two Co- combined annual sales of $110 Announced in April, if the each year. Each position will in-person attendance for either op’s will be better together as million and serve 13,000 mem- merger is approved, a provi- be for a three-year term. Residential schools for First Nations are a dark stain on Canadian history - continued from front page a higher standard of education so as Cowessess previously showed support katchewan. Services Minister Marc Miller resulted our children will grow up in the spirit “We know that thousands of First in an agreement to conduct the searches This is not the first time that Cowes- of self reliance.’” This petition was dis- Nations children did not make it home at all residential schools in the province. sess First Nation has offered support to missed, at that time. and were buried without any markers Cameron called on families with in- its fellow First Nations. The Government assumed responsi- or outcry from the public,” said FSIN formation about ancestors lost to resi- The Cowessess First Nation hosted bility for the residential school in 1968 Chief Bobby Cameron in a news release. dential schools to come forward, saying the gathering to help residential school and in 1970 proposed the closure of the “We will not allow Government to they’re already in the process of secur- survivors who were applying for their residences. This proposal was protested continue to ignore these lost children. ing ground-radar experts and equipment Common Experience Payments under by David Ahenakew because it was “not We must reconcile and reclaim the mass to conduct the searches. the government-approved settlement the wish of the Indian people affected.” grave sites of our children from across A National Indian Residential School when negotiations were initiated (May The residence’s existence continued Saskatchewan, within our Treaty Ter- Crisis Line has been set up to provide 30, 2005). to be precarious and there were argu- ritories, in order to mourn and move support for former students and those The first day of the provincial heal- ments made for its existence into 1978. forward.” affected. Emotional and crisis referral ing gathering was greeted with mixed The Cowessess Band took over opera- Chief Bobby Cameron reported on services can be accessed by calling the emotions by those in attendance, many tions in 1981. Tuesday that conversations with Pre- 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866 925- of whom revisited old memories. The school closed in 1997 and was mier Scott Moe and federal Indigenous 4419. The Common Experience Payment controversially demolished in 1999 and (CEP) was a lump-sum payment that finally (50 years after the petition) re- recognized the experience of living at placed with a day school. “The church, an Indian Residential School(s) and its rectory, and cemetery remain.” impacts. All former students who re- sided at a recognized Indian Residential School(s) and were alive on May 30, 2005 Fall back in love with your were eligible for the CEP. There were a total of 139 residential schools eligible under the Settlement Agreement at that time and Canada was the trustee for $1.9 billion set aside for the payment. Reaction to Kamloops discovery The announcement of the 215 un- marked graves in Kamloops, BC resulted in many gatherings and memorials Һ¥Һ Һ When you - Melville Advance across the country. Shoes, moccasins - Fort Qu’Appelle Times and toys were placed at various sites to need your business - Whitewood Grenfell ;3+';23ধ$'&T Herald Sun commemorate the 215 children. Premier Scott Moe called for flags Soon! across Saskatchewan to be lowered in g WE’RE HERE! honour of the 215 children and Chief De- Openin lorme felt that this, while a small step, Like a spotlight is a step in the right direction. 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It was a great learn- up a match-up with the ing experience and not the The COVID-19 pan- first place Carolina Hur- way we wanted it to end demic has had a negative ricanes. but lots to take away as effect on everyone. It has The series began in experience.” been devastating to most Carolina and home ice Jeannot, who was un- businesses as well. The was an advantage for the drafted into the WHL, pandemic has been so dev- Hurricanes in game 1. Car- undrafted into the NHL astating in the sporting olina knocked off Nash- is a remarkable story and world in fact that some ville 5-2 to take a 1-0 series proof that nothing is out Canadian NHL markets lead. Jeannot had 9:27 of of reach if you have the still are not allowing fans ice time. The next game right attitude and a ded- at playoff games. How- Jeannot played 11:27 but icated work ethic. This ever, with great tragedy the Predators fell 3-0. The was just the beginning comes great success; the Hurricanes lead the series of Jeannot’s NHL career, positives are heightened 2-0 heading to Nashville. only time will tell just 68%0,77('_*5$66/$1'61(:6 even more when every- In game three, it did how special it will be. One Reason to celebrate thing else is negative. One not take long for the thing is for sure, he has a Tanner Jeannot saw a lot of ice time with the Nashville Predators during the positive South East Sas- Predators, or Jeannot, to very bright future in the ÀUVWURXQGRISOD\RIIVDJDLQVWWKH&DUROLQD+XUULFDQHV7KH3UHGDWRUVZHUH katchewan can be proud find the scoresheet. Four NHL. HYHQWXDOO\HOLPLQDWHGLQJDPHVL[GXULQJRYHUWLPH of is the play of Oxbow’s minutes 35 seconds into Tanner Jeannot of the the first period Nashville Nashville Predators. made it 1-0 and Jeannot Annual General Meeting Jeannot, who sports picked up an assist on many relatives from the the play. The contest was Whitewood area, began a back and forth affair playing hockey at a young which ultimately needed Stevenson named President of Mils age with Oxbow Minor double overtime. Nash- Hockey. When he got older ville won 5-4 and now he went on to play higher trailed the series 2-1. Jean- The SJHL’s Melville Millionaires held their 2021 an- at a later date. levels of hockey in Es- not did not play in game nual general meeting May 27, via Zoom. Financially, the final audit report for the 2020/2021 tevan. When Jeannot was four but Nashville won At the meeting, Tammy Stevenson was acclaimed as year end was not available yet as of meeting time but 16, he played midget AAA 4-3, once again in double President of the organization. Stevenson said with the gracious grant from the pro- in Yorkton. At the age of overtime. The series was “My first year as President was in the middle of a vincial government and some other fundraising proj- 17, he went to the Moose tied at two. pandemic, so that was pretty different but we were ects they’ve had, they are in not bad shape. Jaw of the WHL. He spent Jeannot returned to able to work through that different situation as a “The grant money definitely did help with the full four years in Moose Jaw action in game five and group and now I’m excited for the fresh season here season we didn’t have and the lack of attendance and before signing as an un- logged 14:26 of ice time. in the fall.” I wouldn’t say we are in a bad position but we need drafted free agent with the The Predators would fall Four others will remain on the board with Renee to make sure we continue with our fundraising and Nashville Predators of the 3-2 in overtime and they Waldbauer & Steven Sutton remaining as 1st and 2nd make sure we continue to work with our community National Hockey League. now were facing elimina- Vice-Presidents’ respectively, Dawn Melnychuk stay- and sponsors with their support and make sure that Jeannot started off his tion. In game six, Jeannot ing on as Governor, and Tara Badduke as Secretary. remains strong.” rookie season on the Pred- played 13:10 and the game Mils’ alumni Len Wassill will step into a newly-cre- Stevenson adds they hope all Mils’ fan, sponsors, ators’ taxi squad but it once again went to over- ated role as Alumni & Education Liaison. players and other organization members have a great did not take him long to time. Unfortunately for “Len is a Mils’ alumni, and he is passionate of the and safe summer and hopes to see all this fall for an- make his NHL debut and Jeannot and the rest of hockey club and I think with this new position he will other exciting season of Millionaires’ hockey. later on score his first ca- the Predators, Sebastian excel and help take this organization to the next level.” The 2021/22 Melville Millionaires’ Board of Direc- reer goal. Jeannot would Aho would score for the Long-time Treasurer Charlotte Poier stepped down tors (as of May 28th) are President: Tammy Stevenson, play in 15 regular season Hurricanes and eliminate from her position, and the Mils’ board decided they’ll Governor: Dawn Melnychuk, 1st Vice-President: Renee games, scoring five goals Nashville 4-2 be using an outside company “Options’ Accounting Waldbauer, 2nd Vice-President: Steve Sutton, Secre- and adding two assists. “I thought it was an Solutions” to handle the books going forward. tary: Tara Badduke, Alumni & Education Liaison: He played mostly along- amazing experience and There will be three more members’ at large posi- Len Wassill and Kevin Kirkwood. There are still three side (Yakov) Trenin and great to have the fans tions to fill out the Mils’ board, and those will be filled Members at Large that will be named at a later date. 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JUNE Texas Scramble Country Club 8'+<£!ধ329 Brandy West-McMaster named Female Coach of the Year By Connie Schwalm asked about. I’ve heard some fe- However, West-McMaster West-McMaster was offered the ing young female athletes suc- Grasslands News male players share some really notes that it would eventually be- chance to return to Regina and ceed, West-McMaster was named horrible stories. In my case, it come evident that she would have join the Faculty of Kinesiology the 2021 BFL Female Coach of wasn’t as hard as it might have to consider ending her career as and Health Studies as an In- the Year for Saskatchewan in the Brandy West-McMaster has been for others…because this a player. structor and Assistant Coach for High-Performance category. The become a role model that she was a small-town team. The guys “It was costly to play, and the Cougars at the University of award recognizes the impact that never had. on my team were the same boys there was a lot of travel involved. Regina. In 2015, she also began female hockey coaches have on Moreover, her desire to help that I went to school with. We Many of the players were just coaching with the Regina Rebels young athletes, both on and off young female hockey players suc- were used to being together. The starting professional careers and/ in Hockey Regina, something that the ice. ceed, led her to develop methods friendships were already there. or having to pay back student she finds extremely satisfying. “I’m honored to have been to enable and encourage other And I wasn’t the only girl play- loans. I had young children by “As a coach, I always tell the chosen, particularly since this women to become mentors as ing. That made a big difference that time too. So, I realized that I girls to ‘Be the best that you can is only the second year that the well. too. One of the reasons I wanted had to make some life decisions.” be’. I focus on encouraging them award has been given. The award As a kid growing up on a farm to play was that my best friend, Yet by that time, West-McMas- to develop their own individual is significant because it brings at- near Kennedy, Saskatchewan, Colleen Sostorics, was playing ter explains that she had found skills, instead of comparing them- tention to the importance of hav- West-McMaster remembers being already. So, it was a ‘power of another way to remain in the selves to someone else. Practices ing more female coaches working a regular spectator at the hockey two’ type of thing. We encour- game, by taking on the role of are actually my favorite thing with these young athletes. games held in the local rink. aged each other. For me, having coach. about coaching. That’s when you When I was growing up, what “Hockey was a ‘family event’ another girl there made a big dif- “Even while I was in univer- have the chance to spend time I saw of females in leadership for us. We would go into town for ference.” sity, I was into coaching. I was teaching and interacting with the roles was not the same as it is the Kennedy Wranglers’ games, West-McMaster adds that her also thinking about ways that I kids. now. Now, we have the PWHPA and I would watch my uncle coaches also took steps to make could provide opportunities for I find it extremely rewarding. (Professional Women’s Hockey play. Dad would be running the things less difficult. the next generation of athletes It’s neat to see that smile on their Players Association) along with penalty box. And my grandpa and “I’ve heard a number of fe- coming up. A person I knew faces, after they’ve completed initiatives designed to get more grandma would be up there in male players in my age range from back home, Murray Gurski, something that you’ve been female coaches on the ice. I had the left-hand corner of the lobby talk about having to get changed had daughters who were playing teaching them.” to leave Kennedy to see a female – cheering.” in the furnace room and that sort hockey. He asked me if I’d be In 2017, West-McMaster hockey coach. Now, young girls It soon became evident that a of thing. Our coaches always willing to help out with coach- founded the West Female Hockey should be able to see their moms young West-McMaster wanted to made sure that we were able to ing their bantam team, so I did. I Academy. She says that her goals or sisters in this role, no matter be a part of the game. get dressed in the dressing room. also coached a midget team when are to further assist young female where they live.” “I started out in figure skat- They put in rules to make sure I was right out of university. hockey players and to benefit her Moreover, West-McMaster ing. But I was drawn to hockey. that everyone felt comfortable.” After I graduated from U of R, current ‘hometown’. stresses the importance of en- I always appreciated the competi- After high school, West-Mc- I had the chance to coach at Wil- “Regina is my home, so I want couraging other female players tiveness and creativity of hockey. Master attended the University of fred Laurier University. While I to make a difference here. With to see coaching as an extremely It was something I wanted to Regina, and began playing with was there, I coached the Laurier the West Female Hockey Acad- rewarding way to remain con- practice. I liked being on the ice the Regina Cougars Women’s Golden Hawks Women’s Hockey emy, the focus is to create a good nected to the game that they love. and skating fast. And I liked try- Hockey Team. Team. environment for young girls to “There is no reason for women ing out the different ‘moves’ that “I began playing with the Cou- From there, I went on to Notre grow up in and provide opportu- to feel that they need to be ‘done’ I’d seen.” gars under Coach Sarah Hodges. Dame, where I had the chance to nities for them here. They don’t with hockey when they decide At that time, joining the local I was in the prime of my time as use my education degree. I taught only learn hockey skills here. it’s time to end their career as a boys’ team was the only option a hockey player. When I gradu- Grade 9/10 math and science, They learn life skills and develop player. And as a coach, you have for a girl who wanted to play ated from university, I was only and worked with Janice Rumple their confidence. Even if they the opportunity to interact with hockey, something that West-Mc- 24 and wasn’t ready to be done coaching the Notre Dame Wom- don’t continue in hockey, the these girls for 4-5 years. You get Master says was not as difficult playing. A few of us Alumni from en’s Hockey Team. That team skills they learn here will help to watch them grow and progress for her as it might have been. both U of R and U of S created went on to win the Nationals them to succeed, no matter what as players and as strong young “Yes, I played hockey with a team and joined the Western while I was there.” they do.” women. That is something really, the guys. It’s something I’m often Women’s Hockey League.” After teaching at Notre Dame, For her commitment to help- really special.” Home - Kitchen - Bath Contractors and Home Everything for your home under one roof. • HARDWOOD • CARPET • LAMINATE • LUXURY VINYL • TILE • AREA RUGS & MORE Directory 110 - 3rd Ave. W., Melville, SK | 306.725-5432 | 1.877.728.5432 carpet1melville.com 12 Livingstone St., Yorkton, SK | 306.782.6556 | 1.888.782.6556 carpet1yorkton.com Photos for illustrative purposes only. ©2017 Carpet One Floor & Home. All Rights Reserved. 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With the best player sion (35-19-2), a solid nine divorce from Green Bay? Ask all the Toronto Maple Leafs fans what in the world in their points better than the Or Deshaun Watson legal they thought was going to happen once the Leafs lineup, and perhaps the Jets. But the better-bal- mess in Houston? Close took a 3-1 ‘stranglehold’ over their bitter rivals, second-best player in the anced Winnipeg team got call.” the Montreal Canadiens. NHL skating beside him, exceptional goaltending son, on Twitter: “In the • Ron Green Jr., of Well, perhaps I should think about that one the Oilers were not ex- from Connor Hellebuyck end, the Winnipeg Jets Global Golf Post, on a little bit, because real Leafs’ fans know that pected to be swept out of and used overtime magic out-Connored the Edmon- Phil Mickelson’s tenu- they’re not on to the next round until they’ve the Stanley Cup playoffs (the last three wins were ton Oilers. Goaltender ous lead going into the won four games. Casual fans thought it was going by the Winnipeg Jets in in OT) to send McDavid Connor Hellebuyck was final round of the PGA: to be a walk in the park for Toronto. the first round. The Jets and Co. scurrying to the the deciding factor in the “Mickelson started the Someone should have mentioned that to Carey are a quality team, and GolfNow website. playoff sweep, and Kyle final round one stroke Price, because he went totally off script and the Oilers were certainly General manager Ken Connor scored the win- ahead of Brooks Koepka slammed the door shut on the Leafs for the most not assured of victory, Holland has a busy sum- ning goal in triple OT and two ahead of Louis part, and when Carey Price is Carey Price, the but to lose four in a row mer ahead of him as he in Game 4, after Connor Oosthuizen, the equiva- Habs win a lot of games. was not showing up in attempts to fill in some of McDavid coughed up the lent of being tailgated at In other words, anything can happen. anyone’s crystal ball. the holes on the roster. puck.” 150 mph.” Prior to the Leafs being sent to book their tee So now Connor Mc- He will have salary cap • Headline on fark. • Swansson again, times, the mighty Edmonton Oilers, with Connor David, closing in on his space on his side, and he com: “Ha-Ha Clinton Dix on TNT signing Wayne McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and Darnell Nurse, prime, has been shunted knows what he’s doing, as is trying out for the Tex- Gretzky to a $3 million et al, were knocked off by the Winnipeg Jets, to the playoff sidelines evidenced by his Stanley ans, and that’s no laugh- contract to serve as an except the Oil were unceremoniously dumped in in Round 1 four con- Cup history in Detroit. ing matter.” analyst next year: “Memo four straight contests. secutive years. Edmon- The Wings won two Stan- • RJ Currie of sports- to TNT: Gretzky is known To this scribe, the really bothersome thing tonians have had the ley Cups in the late 1990s, deke.com: “New Detroit as The Great One, not about this series wasn’t the lack of production Great Gretzky and now after three or four “dis- Lions bench boss, Dan The Glib One.” from Edmonton’s top guns, nor was it the play of McDavid leading their appointments,” said Hol- Campbell, told team own- • Mike Bianchi of netminder Mike Smith. NHL franchise, and today land, and he told Terry ership he wants a pet lion the Orlando Sentinel, It was the reaction of so-called fans piling on they’re wondering why Jones of the Edmonton roaming at practice to on Twitter, after a fan Ethan Bear from Ochapowace First Nation, using McDavid can’t produce Journal that those disap- motivate the team. An- dumped popcorn on racial slurs to get their point across in what can Stanley Cups as 99 did pointments in Detroit are other statement from the Washington’s Russell only be characterized as ignorance and ugliness. back in the 1980s. For similar to what the Oilers coach to give us paws.” Westbrook: “The fan has As fans, if that’s the kind of things you need one thing, Gretzky’s sup- have been going through • Headline in theonion. been identified as Orville to say to a fine young man to make yourself feel porting cast was far supe- lately. com: “‘We’re So Screwed,’ Redenbacher.” better about losing, the only point you have is the rior to the one currently Meanwhile, the Jets Says Detroit Lions Fan • Comedy writer Alex one on the top of your head. aiding McDavid and his are currently playing in After Seeing They Got Kaseberg: “In a TMZ I’ve had the good fortune to interview a num- superstar sidekick, Leon the Canadian division Matched Up Against video, Aaron Rodgers is ber of players in different sports, from 11 year old Draisaitl. If Gretzky was championship and the Other Teams Again” in Hawaii wearing a man- tennis phenoms to long distance runners in their resting on the bench, the managerial wheels are • Omaha comedy bun and singing and play- 60s, and I count my time speaking with Ethan likes of Mark Messier, turning in Edmonton, writer Brad Dickson, via ing guitar to movie stars. Bear – on a couple of occasions – as time well Jari Kurri, Glenn Ander- determined to find a tal- Twitter, after miracu- Somewhere the ghost of spent. son and Paul Coffey could ented supporting cast for lously no one was hurt Johnny Unitas just shed Perhaps he’s not the top defenceman in the take over, and dominate. McDavid and turn those when two small planes a single, broken-hearted NHL, or maybe even the Oilers for that matter, Today’s Oilers have Mc- great expectations into collided over Denver: tear.” but to comment on his race, to drop down that David, Draisaitl and a positive results. “Meanwhile, every year • RJ Currie again: low because you didn’t like the result of the Oil- plethora of ‘pretty goods” • Patti Dawn Swans- at least one major-league “LeBron James was once ers’ series is absolutely vile and disgusting. fined $5,000 for flopping When you talk to Ethan, it’s never all about against the Pacers. That him. was one minute, seven This humble young man reiterates every day seconds pay he never got that he wants youngsters from Ochapowace to Automotive and Service back.” grow up with positive role models and he wants From fark.com: “Twins things to be better for them than it was for people third baseman Josh Don- of his generation. 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Who The pressure to be- safely. ple are killed on average quences of our actions do have that outcome. has bloodshot eyes? Those come part of what others MADD Canada works and many more injured not come back to bite us The Bible makes it who linger over wine who are doing isn’t limited to to focus public awareness in drug-related crashes. immediately. There is the clear that doing what go to sample bowls of the partaking of tobacco with educational pro- For anyone drinking pleasure of fitting in and is popular always car- mixed wine. Do not gaze or alcohol. Many also grams in schools to help alcohol or doing drugs, being part of what others ries with it some reper- at wine when it is red, use drugs and become prevent impaired driving. be sure they can ruin are doing. cussions. Proverbs 20:1 when it sparkles in the impaired through them. 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Harvey was born on March 5, 1954, at St. Peter’s Hospi- tal in Melville, SK. He was the John Fred Harrison Isabel Kate Klotz third of six children and grew Obituary Dec. 15, 1929 - May 3, 2021 Obituary May 20, 1934 - May 23, 2021 up on the family farm with his parents, Stanley and Adeline The family of John Fred Har- Isabel Kate Klotz (nee Ksha- (Dratwa) Mucha, godfather rison of Weyburn, SK are deep- nowski) was born on May 20, Uncle John Mucha and his four sisters. Harvey farmed with ly saddened to announce the 1934 to Kate (Sklaruk) and Al- his dad, later taking over and completing the 111-year-old passing of their beloved brother ben Kshanowski on the family legacy of the family farm with his son, Derek. Harvey received his elementary education at Wymer and uncle on May 3, 2021 at the farm in the Donwell District, SK. 6FKRROIROORZHGE\.LOODO\6FKRRODQGZDVLQWKH¿UVWJUDG age of 91. She was one of four sisters. uating class of the Melville Comprehensive School in 1972. John Frederick Harrison was Isabel was dedicated to her He met his wife, Donna Erbach, at a farm auction sale. They born on Dec. 15, 1929 at the husband and family. She was were married Aug. 2, 1975, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Whitewood Hospital. After the always there for her family to in Melville, SK, and went on to raise three children, Bran- death of his father, John Harri- lend a helping hand, especially di, Traci and Derek. Harvey enjoyed attending their sport- son, in 1937, his mother Agnes making pierogies. Her grand- ing events, as well as music festivals, etc,. and eventually (Lowe) moved the family from children and great-grandchil- watching them grow into young adults with families of their the farm to Whitewood. Fred, dren were the apple of her eye. own. along with his older brother and She loved playing cards, While farming, Harvey also worked at Gulf Servico in sister, twins, James and Irene, gardening, sewing, knitting and Melville, starting as a gas attendant in high school and later and younger sister Lovella attended the Whitewood School. going for long walks. DVWKHDFFRXQWDQW+HODWHUDFTXLUHGKLV&ODVV$OLFHQFH Even as a child, he was always willing to work and make a Isabel was predeceased by her son Miles; parents, Kate and drove semi to the US on a part-time basis. In 1982 Har- dollar. He was a paper carrier of the Winnipeg Tribune for and Alben Kshanowski; and sisters, Alvina Kozmech and vey achieved his goal of becoming Division 6 Councillor for several years and also hired out to local farmers in the sum- Adeline Romaniuk. She is survived by her sister, Victoria the RM of Grayson 184. He held this position for 27 years, mer holidays. After his schooling, he worked for the Depart- Clifton; and lovingly remembered by her husband Eldon; missing only one meeting in that time. Later Harvey was ment of Highways on the No. 1 and 9 highways from 1947 and her children: Deborah, Loretta, Ricky, Gary (Donna), elected as Reeve, holding that position for four and a half to 1950. He and his brother Jim worked in northern Ontario Greg, Barry (Brenda) and Roxanne (Stewart); as well as 18 \HDUV KHDWWHQGHGKLV¿QDOPHHWLQJRQ0D\+H at a bush camp for Ontario Hydro in the winter of 1950-51. grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. enjoyed working with the councillors, administrators and staff towards the betterment of the RM, and it was a major In the spring and summer of 1952, he drove a long-haul $QLQWHUPHQWZLOOWDNHSODFHDWDODWHUGDWH,QOLHXRIÀRZ accomplishment in his life. transport truck route from Saskatoon through Detroit, Chi- ers, donations can be made in memory of her to: The Souls In his very early years, Harvey was somewhat of an cago, Windsor and Toronto. Harbour Rescue Mission, P.O. Box 3356 Stn Main, Regina, amateur musician, playing his accordion on CKOS’s Pro- At the beginning of the oil boom in Saskatchewan, Fred SK S4P 3H1 (www.shrmsk.com). Online condolences may ¿OHZKLFKKHVDLGZDVQRWE\FKRLFH+RZHYHUKLVWDVWHLQ left the highway department to work for the Independent Oil be made at www.tubmanfh.com music changed, and he became an avid country and west- Exploration Company on the seismograph crew, eventually ern fan, attending many concerts over the years, as well as working in Rimbey, AB. In 1954, he went back to southeast- the Dauphin and Craven music festivals, where he made ern Saskatchewan. At this time, a new industry, Western many new friends. Harvey also enjoyed being a member Wire and Cable Company was starting up in Weyburn, and of the Wallacetown Royals ball team and later curled for Fred was hired. In 1960 the company became Canada Wire many years. He curled in the men’s league, in the mixed and Cable. Fred was the treasurer for their local United league with his wife, Donna, and attended many bonspiels. Steel Workers Union for 23 years. He retired from Canada He also skipped the RM curling team to a provincial victory Wire and Cable after 35 years of service. Arleigh Jerry Sikora LQ 2WKHULQWHUHVWVLQFOXGHGLFH¿VKLQJZLWKKLVEXGG\ Rudy Duczek, camping, many family trips to Minot, as well In 1958, Fred married Joan Johnson, the only child of Obituary Sept. 30, 1959 – May 18, 2021 Charles and Winnifred Johnson. Charles farmed in the Sil- as hot holidays to various countries such as Cuba, where he became a successful bull rider’. Socializing and playing verwood District and Winnie taught school there for many Arleigh Jerry Sikora years. Fred and Joan made their home in Weyburn where cards with friends, family and neighbours was one of his fa- passed away peacefully on vourite pastimes. Harvey always looked forward to helping Joan worked at Waddell’s Drugstore among other retailers. Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at Joan died in 1969 after a brief illness at the age of 32. De- with harvest at Craig and Debbie Sawchuk’s farm, as well as the Regina General Hospital coffee at Tim Horton’s and celebrating birthdays, weddings voted to her memory, Fred never remarried. with family by his side. Arleigh After his retirement, Fred chose to stay at his home in and other happy occasions. His favourite food was pero- was born on Sept. 30, 1959 gies, and he even helped make them. Watching curling, the :H\EXUQ +H RXW¿WWHG KLV JDUDJH WXUQLQJ LW LQWR D VKRS in Melville, Sask. to Elsie and Maple Leafs and Minnesota Vikings on television was very There he would work on his many projects such as rewiring John Sikora. Arleigh received LPSRUWDQWDOWKRXJKKHIUHTXHQWO\PDQDJHGWR¿QGWLPHIRU DQGUHSDLULQJPRWRUVDQG¿[LQJREVROHWHHTXLSPHQWZHOG his education at Birmingham, a nap while still securely holding on to the remote control. ing and machining the necessary replacement parts. Melville Central School, Mel- But Harvey’s main love in life was his family; the grand- Predeceased by his wife, Joan in 1969; and his brother, ville Junior High and complet- NLGVFDPH¿UVWZLWKHYHU\WKLQJ+HZDVQHYHUWRREXV\WR James Harrison of Whitewood; sister, Irene Towill of White- ed his education at Melville watch television, especially cartoons, with them. He was wood and their spouses, Marian Harrison and Frederick Comprehensive School. While often found holding not one but usually two grandchildren. Towill; as well as brother-in-law, Rudolph Jarvi. attending school he helped his He never missed a baptism or birthday, and watching them Fred leaves to mourn his sister, Lovella Jarvi of Esterha- parents on the farm and con- learn how to skate and play ball or hockey always took pri- zy; eight nieces and one nephew and their families includ- tinued to farm until purchasing ority. Even when he was not feeling well, Harvey sat in his ing: Susan and Jim Davis of Livelong, Mary Lou Harrison his home in Melville in 2000. He also helped work on Stan- truck and honked the horn when they hit the ball. They al- and Pat Kleisinger of Regina, Gwen Mills of Regina, Gaye ley Sikora’s farm. ways looked forward to having a ride on his tractor or com- +DUULVRQRI:KLWHZRRG-DFTXHOLQH+DUULVRQRI6DVNDWRRQ He had many occupations throughout his life, driving bine, and they are all going to miss him in so many ways. Ruth Towill of Whitewood, Hugh Towill of Seoul, South Ko- school bus where he reconnected with this childhood friend Harvey was predeceased by his parents, Stanley and rea, Charlotte and Tim Raine of Langenburg and Caroline 'DYH+HKDGDSDVVLRQIRUKXQWLQJ¿VKLQJFRRNLQJKLV Adeline; his brother, Morris, in infancy; and his in-laws, Har- and Mark MacMurchy of Melville and their daughter, Joce- specialty was making deer jerky and most of all he loved old and Phyllis Erbach. He leaves to mourn and cherish the lyn. gardening. He enjoyed his geraniums, growing his fresh short life he had: his wife, Donna; their children, Brandi Mu- cha (Jason Schaeffer), Peyton and Liam; Traci (Colan) Trail, A funeral service for John Frederick Harrison was held on produce of tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes to consume Friday, May 21, 2021 at St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church Paisley and Greysen; Derek (Amanda) Mucha, Madison during the summer and winter months. and Makena; as well as many relatives and friends. ZLWKWKH9HQHUDEOH:LOPD:RRGVRI¿FLDWLQJ,QWHUPHQWIRO As a child growing up on the farm, Arleigh loved to ride Harvey’s funeral service was held Thursday, May 27, lowed at the Whitewood Cemetery. Funeral arrangements his motorcycle; hunting rabbits and gophers; he took up 2021, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Melville, with the Rev. were entrusted to Fletcher Funeral Chapel of Weyburn. the art of wood crafting making mirrors, enjoyed going to .LP6KHUZLQRI¿FLDWLQJ7KHRUJDQLVW*D\OHQH0DWWKHZV The family wishes to thank St. Mary’s for opening the baseball and hockey games, he was an integral part of the led in the hymns, “How Great Thou Art”, “Softly and Tender- church to the family, the Venerable Wilma Woods and the “ShowStoppers” group and the Wildlife Federation. ly” and “Amazing Grace”. Lorna Tressel shared family mem- Reverend Brian Woods, Weyburn Emergency Services and Arleigh is predeceased by this parents, Elsie and John ories, which were followed by a tribute slide presentation. the caring and attentive staff at Fletcher’s. Sikora; brother-in-law Alan. He will be dearly missed by his Honorary pallbearers were Paisley Trail, Peyton Schaeffer, Condolences may be left at: best friend Dave; his sisters, Valerie and Lynda (Brian); Greysen Trail, Madison Mucha, Liam Schaeffer and Makena ZZZÀHWFKHUIXQHUDOFKDSHOFRP Raymond (Jayla), Amanda (Jon), Katelyn (Jordan); and Mucha. Interment took place in the Melville City Cemetery Arrangements entrusted to great-niece and nephews; as well as his aunts, uncles, with Rudy Duczek, Craig Sawchuk, Jason Schaeffer, Colan Fletcher Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services cousins and friends. Trail, Doug Sastaunik and Ross Tressel acting as pallbear- Weyburn, Saskatchewan A graveside service was held on Thursday, May 27, HUV$VD¿QDOWULEXWHWKHIXQHUDOSURFHVVLRQZDVOHGWRWKH 306-842-5432 2021 at the Melville Municipal Cemetery with Rev. Brian cemetery by Harvey’s tractor, driven by Tyler Sawchuk. 0HH2I¿FLDWLQJ Arrangements were entrusted to Matthews Funeral Arrangements were by Bailey’s Funeral and Cremation Home, Melville. Care, Melville. Visit us online at grasslandsnews.ca 306-728-5448 www.baileysfuneralhome.com CLASSIFIED RATES 1 week: $12.00 • 2 weeks: $18.00 • 3 weeks: $24.00 • 4 weeks: $28.00 1-844-GNG-NEWS (based on 25 words or less) Additional weeks: $7.00 • Deadline: Tuesdays at 12 noon Email: [email protected] 20 June 4, 2021 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV Grasslands News in Saskatchewan. If we missed anyone, we apologize, as we Linda Carol Sens cannot crack Mom’s laptop password. I know we must have Garage Sale Happy 70th Anniversary Obituary March 2, 1947 - May 24, 2021 missed someone. 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From her time 6HUYLQJ 6RXWKHDVW 6DVNDWFKHZDQ /HWXVKHOS\RXVHOO\RXULWHPVJHW- 7KHIDPLO\RI working at the Orange Home in Indian Head, to a SaskTel WLQJ\RXWKHEHVWSRVVLEOHSULFHLQ William and Evelyn Boehme long distance operator, to farm wife and mother, to Special WKHOHDVWDPRXQWRIWLPH,WHPVZLOO ZRXOGOLNHWRZLVKWKHPDYHU\ Harvey Leonard Schofer JHW&DQDGDZLGHFRYHUDJHZLWKRXU VSHFLDOFRQJUDWXODWLRQVRQWKHLU &DUH$LGHDW*UHQIHOO3LRQHHU+RPHDQG¿QDOO\DVJUDQG Obituary Aug. 29, 1950 – May 24, 2021 Online auction. 70th Wedding Anniversary mother. 6SHFLDOL]LQJ LQ DQWLTXHV YLQWDJH on June 9, 2021 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of It is with great sadness that DQGFROOHFWLEOHLWHPVRIDOONLQGV :HORYH\RXDQGDUHYHU\SURXGRI death I fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your &HUWLILHGSHUVRQDOSURSHUW\DS- VXFKDJUHDWDFFRPSOLVKPHQW we say goodbye to our father, SUDLVHU'RQ·WWKURZDQ\WKLQJDZD\ staff, they comfort me. 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She was our rock, our solid foun- You would often see Harvey cruising around Melville with 1HZVSDSHU $VVRFLDWLRQ DQG PHP- dation. The hands of time wait for no one. We accept our own EHUVKLS GR QRW PDNH DQ\ ZDUUDQW\ his dog, Bogie. Even after Bogie died, we found out that DV WR WKH DFFXUDF\ FRPSOHWHQHVV mortality - you are born, you live, and you will die. There is no Harvey was still cruising with Bogie, as we recently found WUXWKIXOQHVV RU UHOLDELOLW\ RI VXFK escaping it. Everyone has a personal game clock however, Bogie’s urn in his vehicle. One of Harvey’s fondest memo- DGYHUWLVHPHQWV )RU JUHDWHU LQIRU- the amount of time remaining does not show. There is no ref- ries, and one that he often talked about, was rubbing elbows PDWLRQ RQ DGYHUWLVLQJ FRQGLWLRQV eree whistle to warn of only two minutes left, so take your re- SOHDVH FRQVXOW WKH $VVRFLDWLRQ·V with royalty. He was the chosen car man who was asked to %ODQNHW $GYHUWLVLQJ &RQGLWLRQV RQ maining time, swallow your pride and actually say “I love you” service the personal train for the Queen and Prince Phillip RXUZHEVLWHDWZZZVZQDFRP to those close to you. Hold their hand and embrace them, for when they came to Melville. 3529,1&(:,'( &/$66,),('6 you never know when the game clock is about to reach zero. Most recently, Harvey and Pat made the decision to 5HDFKRYHUUHDGHUVZHHNO\ Just like the hands of time, the sands of time also don’t &DOO WKLV QHZVSDSHU 12: RU move to Regina to start their next chapter together. It was IRUGHWDLOV wait for anyone. Every passing day another grain of sand there that Harvey got dubbed the nickname “foreman”, as settles beside that rock. Before you know it that rock is cov- he always knew what was going on with the construction in ered with sand. This is the progression of life. We, the next in their condo community. line, are rooted and standing on that solid foundation. Mom, A special thank you goes to Pat King for all the love, FARMLAND thank you for the way you decided to raise us. Thank you support and medical guidance which was given to Harvey WANTED IRUVKRZLQJXVKRZWREHVHOIVXI¿FLHQW KRZWR¿OOWKUHHELJ over the years. freezers and know where it all came from. Thank you for As per Harvey’s wishes, there will not be a funeral. A CERTIFIED SEED showing us how to be fearless, speak our mind, stand our I am currenlty graveside service was held for immediate family at the WHEAT ground and think for ourselves. We promise to keep the tra- PURCHASING single 0HOYLOOH&LW\&HPHWHU\RQ0RQGD\0D\ AAC GOODWIN, dition of Sunday roast chicken with everyone at the table. I to large blocks of Arrangements were entrusted to Matthews Funeral AC ANDREW, SADASH, land. will quote my late Father “the bank account might be low, but Home, Melville. GO EARLY, PINTAIL. damn we eat like kings!” We promise to feed your grandchil- OATS NO FEES OR dren right. You have no idea how much you will be missed. AC JUNIPER, AC MORGAN, COMMISISONS AC MUSTANG, DERBY, Birthdays and Christmases will be hollow without you. We SO1 SUPER OAT. are going to miss your text bombing, and especially the one Saskatchewan born BARLEY LQFDSLWDOOHWWHUV³+(//2$0,,19,6,%/(´ and raised, I know CDC AUSTENSON, Mom, you are so much adored and loved there are no land, farming and CDC MAVERICK, farmland and can CERVEZA, SUNDRE. words to express it. Remember, Mom, you are an angel now. help you every step PEAS Just like all those ornaments throughout your house. Spread of the way. AAC PEACE RIVER your wings and, like your favorite song says, “Go rest high on (VERY EARLY YELLOW), that mountain.” The family would like to thank Kendra Morin, Obituary and Classified Doug Rue, CDC HORIZON (FORAGE), for further information POLISH CANOLA, Adreen Nunnelly, Kim Berger, Pastor Wicks and the Apos- Advertising Deadline Tuesdays 12 Noon 306-716-2671 SPRING TRITICALE tolic Prayer Group for your tireless efforts. Thank you for all [email protected] mastinseeds.com the wishes and prayers from California to British Columbia, www.sellyourfarm 403-556-2609 Montana to Alberta, Ontario to the Maritimes, and everyone 306-728-5448 land.com www.grasslandsnews.ca 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV June 4, 2021 21 Swimming opens up at Grenfell’s park pool By Sarah Pacio munity for people to visit where there are limita- physical distancing must Grasslands News and escape to on our hot tions on what we can do be maintained. summer days. “ and where we can go, it Snorkels, flippers, in- Public swim times reminds us the impor- flatables and other toys Unseasonably warm have been scheduled tance of community rec- are not permitted in the weather during the first for weekday afternoons reation and our fortune pool at this time. week of June was ideal throughout the month as residents of Grenfell Daily entrance fees ($4 for anyone eager to make of June, as well as all a splash at the Grenfell to be able to enjoy swim for ages five and under; Recreational Park Pool. day Saturday and Sun- programs in our own $6 for everyone else) can The outdoor heated pool day. Aquasize and Lane backyard,” she said be paid at the Mini Store opened for the season on Swims will take place in Pool patrons should be just inside the gate. A va- Tuesday and features a the evenings. aware of important health riety of multi-day passes beach entry that gradu- Red Cross swim les- and safety rules. Children can be purchased at the ally gets deeper to a nine- sons that are typically of- age 10 or under must be pool or town office. These foot deep end with a slide fered during the summer accompanied by an adult. range from $19 for a five- and diving board. have been cancelled this A ratio of one guardian day preschool pass to $225 “We’re ecstatic that year due to staffing short- per two children under for a family season pass. we can offer daily public ages. age six must also be fol- Additional information Pool opens ),/(3+272_*5$66/$1'61(:6 Nicholl anticipates the lowed. about schedules and fees swim and fitness swim The outdoor pool at the Grenfell Recreational this season,” director of facility will remain open Change rooms will for the pool can be found Recreation & Culture An- until the end of August be closed but swimmers on the town’s website Park opened on June 1. Swimming lessons are drea Nicholl told Grass- and schedules for upcom- must still shower before www.townofgrenfell.com not being offered this year, but there will be pub- lands News. ing months will be re- entering the pool. Capac- under the “Recreation” lic swim times, aquasize and lane swim sessions “We are fortunate to leased in a few weeks. ity in the pool area is tab, or by calling the throughout the season. have the pool in our com- “During these times limited to 52 people and town office at 306-697-2815. Is your bike missing? Contact Fort RCMP 1-800-222-TIPS By Sabrina Bailey being alcohol related. A while the three other are Bikes warrant was also exe- charged with possession Fort Qu’Appelle Detachment Bicycles left on private cuted, and tickets were of stolen property. property are being turned issued for children not If you found a laptop Reporting period: into the RCMP. If you are being properly restrained. under the bridge in Fort May 25 to May 31 missing your bike please Qu’Appelle, please turn Fort Qu’Appelle de- Mischief attend the detachment; it in to the detachment tachment dealt with 133 if we have matching de- Police are investi- so it can be returned to occurrences over the past scriptors it will be re- BOILER TENDER gating a call of a group the student who was on a week. turned to you. Unclaimed RM of Cana No. 214 following an individual school canoeing trip. bicycles may be donated. Traffic while waving around a Police are investigat- The Rural Municipality of Cana No. 214 is accepting ten- A 39-year-old male was machete and bear spray. ing an assault that oc- ders to reroute the existing boiler system to provide zone arrested for driving while The group bear sprayed curred. The complainant control throughout the municipal office located at 110 – 5th impaired by drugs. The the individual’s vehicle does not remember what Ave. E. Melville, SK. Works must be completed by August 31, 2021. drug in blood concentra- while in a drive-thru. happened before she Tenders to be submitted to the RM of Cana No. 214, P.O. tion is pending lab results Crimes Against the woke up in the hospital. Box 550, Melville, SK S0A 2P0, Email: [email protected] but early examination re- An intoxicated male or Fax: 306-728-3807. Tender closes July 8, 2021 at 4 p.m. veals it is over the zero Person/Property was charged for assault- For more information or to arrange an inspection of the tolerance limit. A youth reported miss- ing a restaurant em- building, please contact the RM Office at 1-306-728-5645. Traffic efforts resulted ing was located in a stolen ployee. He was released in seven drivers being vehicle with three other on conditions for court at suspended for various youth. 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Riverbend Crossing Yorkton Crossing Memory Care Community Retirement Community 2235 Heseltine Rd, Regina 348 Morrison Dr, Yorkton 306-347-7773 306-782-0005 EspritLifestyle.com Independent Living Assisted Living | Memory Care Photo taken prior to COVID-19. 24 June 4, 2021 Whitewood Grenfell Herald Sun Grasslands News Algae levels in valley lakes keep increasing By Elaine Ashfield ting outdoor showers drain into the lake, said the province is currently review- fertilizers - Manitoba has several legisla- Grasslands News Leavitt said. ing its agricultural water management tive acts directed at crops and livestock, We need to have discussions about policy, the first time in three-and-a-half so there are plenty of examples, Lake season is finally here and this unapproved drainage works not just in decades and is focused on getting it right b) Reduce inputs from lakeside. In year, more people than ever are looking the farming industry, but also with the for Saskatchewan. many cases, the density of buildings is forward to enjoying the summer months department of highways, cottage country In February, the Municipalities of too high, so the density of septic fields at the Qu’Appelle River lakes, as well and new developments in our growing Saskatchewan advocacy organization is too high. as many other lakes located in their cities. passed a resolution to lobby the prov- c) Introduce legislation to ban waste- own back yards. Unfortunately though, But Leavitt says even with a recent ince, and its Water Security Agency, water lagoon dumping into the Qu’Ap- the welcomed increase in temperatures $175-million upgrade to Regina’s waste- to develop and adopt a wetland policy pelle, as well as some to provide tax often brings an increase in something water plant, levels of phosphorus and similar to those in place in Alberta and credits for smaller towns that want to else – algae in the lakes. nitrates being released into the river Manitoba. upgrade to better wastewater treatment These algae blooms are becoming system can still be reduced. The recent Matthew T. Peigan, chief of the systems. more intense and are lasting longer in upgrades to the wastewater treatment Pasqua First Nation — which reaches d) Keep livestock out of the water, the Qu’Appelle Valley lakes, a biologist plant at Regina reduced the nutrients the shores of Pasqua Lake — has com- lakesides or streamside. from the U of Regina has confirmed. being released into the Qu’Appelle river missioned a study to see how much e) Tighten the regulations on total First Nations leaders and community system by between 50 to 80 per cent, the water quality has improved since the nitrogen and phosphorus released from activists are also becoming increasingly City of Regina states. upgrades to Regina’s wastewater plant. cities. Rather than regulating concentra- concerned about the water levels. “The public needs to apply pressure if tion, regulate total waste load (to account Peter Leavitt, a biologist from the U they want the city to do a better job, be- What Needs to be done? for population growth in the future). of R, published a paper last year stating cause right now they’re doing it to code Grasslands News contacted biologist f) ban lakeside use of deleterious toxins that were found present in the and there’s no reason for them to do bet- Peter Leavitt, asking him what he pro- chemicals, such as pesticides. Qu’Appelle Lakes were present during ter than code.” pose needs to be done? “There are a bunch more - this is a more days of the summer than 15 years Leavitt’s response is, “The main thing well studied topic - the issue is mainly earlier. Toxin levels in the lakes, at Support increasing that needs to be done is reduce the input political and public will (or, specifically, times, were above recreational advisory “We’re going to get hit with some of nutrients into the lakes (to allow the the lack there of). levels, his paper said. wicked blue-green-purple algae if we natural cleansing mechanisms enough The reduction of levels of toxins and “We’re now seeing those toxins don’t start building policies and pro- time to clear the water of existing algae a return to continual clear water in the across about half of the lakes in south- tecting our fresh water,” said Aura Lee and nutrients). There are many ways to lakes is not going to happen overnight ern Saskatchewan,” Leavitt said. Large MacPherson, chair of the Calling Lakes do this; says Leavitt but he says it is necessary algae blooms and even those occurring Ecomuseum, an advocacy group that a) more formally regulate use of farm to work towards reducing the toxins. at unexpected times of the year are also works to protect the Lower Qu’Appelle being reported. River watershed, in southeastern Sas- Leavitt is researching the effects of katchewan. climate and nitrogen on lakes, in partic- MacPherson says she was pushed into Shift into ◊ † ular, using Pasqua Lake which is part water quality advocacy in 2014, when the Lease or finance from of the lower Qu’Appelle River water- City of Regina released untreated sew- drive shed that also includes Echo, Mission, age into the Qu’Appelle River system sales event 0 % Katepwa, Crooked and Round Lakes. that forced resort communities down- on select models Leavitt cites atmospheric warming as stream of Regina to close beaches, and a leading cause. 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