PRINTING MADE Upload your design | Design online | FREE design templates EASY! www.grasslandsprinting.ca $150 PER COPY (GST included) www.heraldsun.ca Publications Mail Agreement No. 40006725 -YPKH`(\N\Z[ Serving Whitewood, Grenfell, Broadview and surrounding areas • Publishing since 1893 =VS࠮0ZZ\L Kahkewistahaw vying for beach at Bird’s Point By Elaine Ashfield Grasslands News Kahkewistahaw First Nation is hoping to become owners of the popular recreational spot known as Bird’s Point on Round Lake. The Resort Village of Bird’s Point has maintained this recreational site, located on the north shores of the lake in the eastern part of the Qu’Appelle Valley, from the Government of Canada since its inception as a resort in the early 1900s. That lease is up for re- newal this fall. A search on the website of Tourism Saskatchewan shows the lakefront campground features 33 full hook-up sites, 30 seasonal sites and 11 daily use sites. Campground amenities include boat launch, beauti- ful sandy beach, treed picnic area with shower and washroom facilities, fish cleaning shack, new play- ground and gazebo. It states it’s a great lake for boat- ing, wakeboarding, water-skiing, tubing and fishing. CHRIS ASHFIELD | HERALD SUN A flood in 2014 caused a great deal of damage to the League champions resort area including the recreation site but the res- 7KH:KLWHZRRG)DOFRQVEHDWWKH*UHQIHOO*HPVLQWKH6RXWKHDVW0HQV)DVWEDOO/HDJXHÀQDOWR idents of the village worked hard to return the area win the league championship. The winning team consisted of back row (l-r): Braden Starr, Jared back to a beautiful spot once again. Thompson, Matthew Beutler, Keenan Haight, Riley Stradeski, Scott Paquin, Adam Leepart. Front Letter of concern row: Lance Boutin, Dallas Heikkila, Matt Bahm, Tony Sparvier and Colton MacPherson. Missing was A letter has been drafted for people wishing to ex- Cody Allary, Kevin George, Ryan Stayner. See story and photos on page 7. press their deep concern to the government over the potential sale. The letter states “The Village was in- formed that the village lease of the government prop- erty (encompasses the campsites, beach, playground and boat launch) is due this October. Although the government had initially contacted the Village in the spring to ensure they wanted to renew the lease, and Earthquake strikes Esterhazy area indicated that this would happen, a third party has indicated to the village that they would like to buy By Elaine Ashfield vibrations caused by the earth- sites at the mine. Employees met the recreational area.” Grasslands News quake.” at a muster point to be accounted Concerned people started sending letters to gov- Power was restored about two for, not because of the earthquake ernment officials requesting the park remain in the Residents near the village of and a half hours later. SaskPower itself but because the power went public domain for everyone to use. Tantallon felt their houses shake said the reason for the delay is out, said Mosaic company repre- MLA Kaeding response last Thursday evening (August 15) that the transformers needed to be sentative Sarah Fedorchuk. MLA Warren Kaeding has responded to people from a 4.1 magnitude earthquake, checked over and manually reset. “There were no injuries nor was voicing their concerns citing “The Kahkewistahaw 17 kilometers east of Esterhazy. Tracy Moore stated she was any property damaged.” First Nation has selected Bird’s Point Recreation “Now that was a heck of an playing with her grandchildren The miners returned to work Site under the terms of the Specific Claim Settlement earthquake, the whole house was when her Tantallon-area farm- once power was restored to the Agreement established and controlled by the Federal shaking ... now no power!!” Kyle house started shaking, for about area. Portable generators are avail- Government as part of their Treaty Land Entitlement Brule, who resides in Tantallon re- able underground but they were Framework Agreement. This was signed with Kah- ported on social media that night. not used in this incident kewistahaw FN in 2003. One of the federal require- Power went off in several com- Miners at the scene reported the ments to settle land claims is to acquire Crown Land munities besides Tantallon includ- tremors only lasted about five sec- that the province has in its control. We are obligated ing Esterhazy, Spy Hill, Stockholm, onds. under the Federal agreement to provide a list of po- Whitewood, Wapella, Rocanville Mining can contribute to seis- tentially available Crown land in close proximity to and Moosomin. It also halted pro- mic activity, but University of their reserve.” duction at the Mosaic Esterhazy Saskatchewan geological science Specific Claims are based on assertions that the potash mine for a couple of hours. department head Samuel Butler government failed to deliver specific obligations The quake happened at around doesn’t think the mine contributed under treaties, other agreements, or the Indian Act. 8:30 p.m. and the U.S. Geological to this quake. He said five kilome- Kaeding continued to say that the response from Survey confirmed it to be a 4.1 mag- tres would be too deep for mining the Provincial Land Claim Committee would be pro- nitude quake about five kilometers to be a factor. vided by September 8, 2019. below the surface near the K2 Mo- three to five seconds, and the power “It’s actually down in what’s The Provincial Land Claim Committee is review- saic potash mine and the commu- went out. Moore said the children called the basement below the salt. ing the Bird’s Point Recreation Site to determine if nity of Gerald. screamed and cried. There probably is an ancient fault – this Crown land can be made available for sale, and “The power outage was caused “The youngest thought she was not very active – but every now and if it were made available, the conditions to transfer by several transformers at the Tan- going to die. It was scary for them,” then you’ll get a small earthquake the land. tallon switching station tripping Moore said. on it,” Butler explained. “It is rare that a request such as this is granted off,” SaskPower reported. There were about 120 employ- Earthquakes are uncommon in however it is not unprecedented,” Kaeding stated. “A piece of transformer equip- ees reported to be underground at Saskatchewan, but small ones can If the transfer was to be allowed, the final part of ment called a gas relay that re- the mine at the time of the tremor, happen. In the Esterhazy area, But- the negotiation is to include compensation for sponds to gas leaks or sudden spread across three sites. ler said mining and underground 6((%,5'·632,17 pressure changes was set off by No one had to go into refuge 6((($57+48$.( NEW THRIFT STORE TOURIST BOOTH NEW STREET NAME COWESSESS POWWOW A second hand thrift store will be Grenfell’s iconic tourist booth A street name has been chosen Sask. Lieutenant Governor opening a location in Whitewood 2 has been closed and removed 3 after a contest in Grenfell 9 attends Cowessess powwow 11 The Herald Sun www.grasslandsnews.ca 2 August 23, 2019 Second Chance Thrift Store opening store in Whitewood By Elaine Ashfield discovered that none of them were ex- Grasslands News empt from the harsh realities of society. Her oldest daughter died in an alcohol One business is closing and another related traffic accident in 2006, and her business will open their doors in the other daughters have both sought help near future in Whitewood. for drug and alcohol abuse. The building known as Candy Cream Shelley saw the need for a non-de- on 3rd Avenue is being transformed to nominational faith-based program to open as a Second Chance Thrift Store. address needs such as these faced by “We are targeting for a September 16 young women in southeast Saskatche- opening date,” Shelley Boyes told the wan, and beyond. She developed Choose Herald Sun. “This will be our fourth Life Ministry and the board received store as we also have stores in Fort non-profit status from the Government Qu’Appelle, Carlyle and Estevan.” of Saskatchewan in 2012. The stores are run by Choose Life The program of Choose Life Ministry Ministry, a registered non-profit organi- is designed to provide hope and healing zation that was started in 2012 by Shel- to young women between the ages of 18 ley Boyes. and 29 battling life-altering challenges. All items are given by donation to Choose Life Ministry seeks to help these the thrift stores that are open Monday women find freedom from depression, to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. anxiety, eating disorders, drug and al- ELAINE ASHFIELD | HERALD SUN “Due to our limitation of space in the cohol abuse, and the effects of abuse or Sidewalk repair Whitewood store, we will start by taking self-harm. Darrell Armstrong (right) and Kevin Williams were leveling concrete donations of men, women and children’s The operation of the stores raises DIWHUSRXULQJQHZVLGHZDONVLQIURQWRIWKHSRVWRIÀFHLQ:KLWHZRRGRQ clothing, footwear and accessories when funds for the past construction and Wednesday. we open,” Boyes commented. All items hopefully soon a new construction proj- donated must be clean and in wearable ect and helps to increase awareness of condition. the Ministry’s mission in Saskatchewan on 160 acres of property near Gainsbor- Boyes also travels to share her mes- “The purpose of these stores is for while providing a service to the commu- ough, SK. that boasts green space as far sage of healing from grief, triumphing support of the women’s residence in nity.