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Farmers' Market Return Met with Excitement $1.50 Vol. 59 No. 16 • Friday, July 3, 2020 Farmers’ Market return met with excitement Popular Fort Qu’Appelle event opens after 6-week delay due to COVID-19 pandemic By Alan Hustak Grasslands News Ron Shordee was first in line when the Farmers’ Mar- ket opened in Fort Qu’Appelle on Saturday. He waited about 40 minutes ahead of the anx- ious crowd of shoppers that grew behind him. “I wanted to get here early. I have a lot of things to do,” he said, “I want to get the shopping out of the way first.” Shordee was among a steady stream of customers that flowed in one direction through the stalls when the market opened on Saturday after a six week delay. The market was also open for business again on Canada Day. “It is such a blessing to see the market open again,” said Anne Stutak, a vendor with Kangro Gardening from York- ton. “So many people were just happy to get out in the open again.” Kelvin Koo, an inspector with the Saskatch- ewan Health Authority was impressed with the fenced-in operation and its crowd con- trol. “It’s good, everything is good.” Elroy and Mary Ann Senft drove in from Lemberg for the ALAN HUSTAK | GRASSLANDS NEWS day. “We were out for a drive, Shopping local and stopped,” Mary Ann /DXUD5HGKHDGVKRZVRIIDÀWWLQJPHVVDJHRQKHUEDJDWWKHRSHQLQJRIWKH)DUPHUV·0DUNHWLQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7KH)DUPHU·V said.”This is such an excellent 0DUNHWUHWXUQHGIRUWKHVXPPHUDIWHUDVL[ZHHNGHOD\GXHWRWKH&29,'SDQGHPLF%RWKYHQGRUVDQGSHRSOHDWWHQGLQJWKH layout. We bought lots. Pies RSHQLQJGD\ZHUHKDSS\WRVHHWKHHYHQWUHWXUQ and poppy seed rolls. Elroy loves his sweets.” There were 27 vendors on Saturday. The market was limited to two people per Worrisome water study for local lakes household; no one was al- lowed to bag their own goods. pose a public health risk. This is a warn- Nation which draws its water from the Hat- Although there was some By Alan Hustak ing,” he told the Times in a telephone inter- field Aquifer near Pasqua Lake. “If the lake confusion in some peoples’ Grasslands News view from Ireland where he is in COVID-19 waters are a tributary to the aquifer, then minds about the entrance and isolation. the aquifer would be impacted,” said Pasqua the exit gates, everything was Increasing levels of poisonous algae in Biologist Nicole Hayes, who co-authored First Nation Chief Todd Peigan. “There is a clearly marked; there were Pasqua, Katepwa, Crooked and Round Lakes the study with Leavitt says that the levels more in depth study that has to be done. directional signs on the grass is raising cause for some concern according and everything moved in an to Dr. Peter Leavitt, an environmental re- of toxic contamination now come earlier The Saskatchewan Watershed Author- orderly fashion. search scientist at the University of Regina. and are more intense than before and that ity, which is responsible for managing “We finally opened on a de- Leavitt and his team have been monitor- urban growth and intensive industrial and water supplies, says it hasn’t had time to go cent weather day,” said mar- ing the Qu’Appelle Watershed for the past agricultural activities have contributed to through the report or understand its impli- ket manager Colleen Miller decade and have found that the blue-green the problem. cations yet. who estimated that more than algae that appears as scum on the surface An analysis of samples from 100 lakes “As you can imagine, there is quite a 300 people were present on of the lakes now contains higher levels of in Southern Saskatchewan revealed that at bit to work through,” said Patrick Boyle. opening day. “People don’t get microcystin than before. Unchecked, the least 40 per cent have levels of microcys- “These organisms are typically higher in to wander as much, but every- chemical can pollute drinking water and tin pollution that make drinking the water the summer, and some lakes experience one’s happy.” water used for irrigation. The study did not moderately unsafe and the dirty water in more algae bloom than others. The lakes Linda Kletchko, with her include Echo or Mission Lakes, but Leavitt two per cent of them present a high risk. have been naturally nutrient rich even husband, Greg, who sells St. says the results in those two lakes would Leavitt says that for the moment the before major settlements in Saskatchewan Joseph’s honey said no one follow the same pattern. algae is more dangerous to cattle than to were established.” He says the advanced seemed inconvenienced. “It is “The levels come and go. The algae blows humans, because people don’t normally technology in water treatment plants has such a great set-up; there have around in the lakes, so you can have bad drink water from a lake or a dugout. “It’s ensured that tap water is safe to drink. been a lot of people out. We’ve weeks and good weeks. But algae likes warm like smoking a cigarette, one cigarette won’t The Town of Fort Qu’Appelle gets its been very, very busy. Good weather. As the result of climate change, hurt you, but there is a health risk from water from an evaporation lagoon where no weather, good crowds. It’s a warming temperatures have contributed prolonged use.” wastewater is discharged into the Qu’Ap- nice combination.” to levels of toxicity which we now believe The study was welcomed by Pasqua First pelle River. DELIVERY available to Fort Qu’Appelle 2 July 3, 2020 0HOYLOOH$GYDQFH:KLWHZRRG*UHQIHOO+HUDOG6XQ)RUW4X·$SSHOOH7LPHV Grasslands News Melville’s Sean Schofer Storm hunting passion By Wade Walz enough to get my driver’s team’s head mechanic/ Grasslands News license, I’d drive to the engineer. Brooks is re- storms and just sit and sponsible for keeping the Part One of a watch them.” armored vehicle, Domina- Four-Part Series. Now, Schofer and tor 3, in top form and also designed and built many Melville resident Sean his team, travel across of the team’s methods for Schofer has turned a life- Canada and the United getting probes inside tor- long passion into an op- States to fulfill that pas- nadoes. portunity to help people. sion and also to conduct “Thanks to Curtis Schofer began storm scientific research to try we have several highly chasing several years and learn more about tor- technical devices like a ago and is now an inte- nadoes. “There is still so ground probe, TAZ1, roof- gral part of a team which much more to learn about top rocket launchers, and chases summer storms them.” a supersonic air cannon.” 68%0,77('_*5$66/$1'61(:6 throughout North Amer- Celebrity Status Schofer’s team consists Schofer rounds out the ica. 7HDP'RPLQDWRUUHDFKHGQHZKHLJKWVGXULQJDQDSSHDUDQFHRQ-D\/HQR·V of four people, each with team as the navigator and The business owner a unique skill set. Garage. From left, Curtis Brooks, Sean Schofer, Jay Leno. and Reed Timmer. says storms have peaked driver of Dominator 3. Dr. Reed Timmer is his curiosity since he was “My main job, as we the head meteorologist chase, is to navigate and tioned, the team chases to fire rockets with probes of writing a paper on the a young child. storms in the latest ar- into tornadoes to help us data we collected on the “I’ve loved storms and and lead scientist; Mark get us to the proper spot to deploy probes and keep mored vehicle, Domi- with our research.” launch.” everyone safe so we can nator 3. As the number Inside the vehicle He also recounts live another day.” 3 implies, it’s the third there are computers throwing out the first Financial support is version and the newest in which allow the team pitch at major league also a key part of the the fleet. It has the most to study radar to follow baseball game between modern equipment for storm’s movements. The team, as everything costs the KC Royals and Detroit chasing tornadoes and Dominator 3 is also a money. Schofer says they Tigers. surviving the intense self-contained rescue unit are fortunate to have sev- “Curtis and I had the winds and debris kicked complete with various eral sponsors as well as honors of doing that last other avenues of creating up by the storms. rescue tools including the year and it was a blast. revenue for the team. “It’s armored with 16- Jaws of Life. Who would have ever “We sell breaking news gauge steel then covered “If homes are hit by a videos to all the major with Line-X protective tornado we stop the chase thought you’d see two news networks around the coating. The windows are and help with rescue ef- old rag-tag slo-pitch play- world; production compa- polycarbonate to prevent forts. Both Curtis and ers from Melville throw- nies buy our stock footage debris from breaking myself have over 20 years ing out the first pitch at for tv documentaries or through and the vehicle experience each with a major league baseball movies; and we also have has an air bag system firefighting so we’re well league game?” an online store where which allows us to drop it trained with rescue.” The team usually hits Saskatchewan Storm 68%0,77('_*5$66/$1'61(:6 people can purchase our tight to the ground when The group has logged the ground chasing in 7HDP'RPLQDWRU·VODWHVWFKDVHYHKLFOH'RPLQDWRU Team Dominator gear - inside a tornado to pre- thousands of hours chas- April or May in the deep vent wind from getting ing, leading to many ex- 3, “poses” with some threatening clouds near Moo- teamdominator.net.
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