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Shellbrook Chronicle
The voice of the Parkland for over 100 years
Shellbrook, Saskatchewan Friday, January 30, 2015
VOL. 103 NO. 5 PMR #40007604
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Lawton defeats Englot to claim
second straight provincial title
Left to right: Lead Marliese Kasner, second Sherri Singler, third Sherry Anderson and skip Stefanie Lawton hold up the Viterra Scotties Tournament of Hearts trophy after winning the 2015 provincial title in Assiniobia on Sunday. Photo courtesy Lucas Punkari, Moose Jaw Times
It’s often said that lightning doesn’t strike the same
place twice. But for skip Stefanie Lawton, who defeated
Michelle Englot 6-3 en route
to her second straight Viterra Scotties Tournament of
Hearts win at the provincial
ﬁnals in Assiniboia Sunday,
that old saying holds no water.
Though Lawton’s team –
consisting of third Sherry
Anderson, second Sherri
Singler, and Shellbrook
resident and lead Marliese
Kasner – were defending
champions, the tournament
was in many ways a return
to form for Lawton, who had
only participated in eight
competitive games since
giving birth to her son Eric
on Oct. 10.
Though she put on an
impressive
performance
(going 5-0 in the round
robin to take ﬁrst place in
her pool), the ﬁnals against
team Englot offered Lawton
a chance for redemption, as
a 5-4 loss to Englot in the 1
versus 1 Page Playoff game
on Saturday was the only
blemish on her team’s 7-1
tournament record.
Team Lawton bounced
back from this defeat, beating Regina’s Lana Vey 8-6
in a semi-ﬁnal match to advance to the championship
game.
This time around Englot
wasn’t as sharp, and Lawton took advantage, stealing
a point in the ﬁrst end on a
miss, followed by two more
in the fourth end to give her
team a 3-1 lead.
In the eighth end, Englot
was light on a draw for two
that would have knotted the
game at 4, and instead had
to settle a single point. After
that, Lawton claimed single
points in the ninth and tenth
ends to take the match 6-3.
The victory was Lawton’s
second in Assiniboia (her
ﬁrst provincial title came
there in 2005). The skip has
already represented Saskatchewan at the Scotties
Tournament of Hearts four
times.
Lawton will now advance
to the Canadian women’s
championship, which is set
to take place in Moose Jaw
Feb. 14-22. Lawton has
already had good luck in
Moose Jaw, having won the
Canada Cup of Curling there
in 2012.
The other skips who have
qualiﬁed for the Canadian
championship are Rachel
Homan (Team Canada),
Heather Strong (Newfoundland and Labrador), Lauren
Mann (Quebec), Mary-Anne
Arsenault (Nova Scotia), Julie Hastings (Ontario), Val
Sweeting (Alberta), Patti
Knezevic (British Columbia)
and Jennifer Jones (Manitoba).
At time of publication,
the champions for Prince
Edward Island and New
Brunswick were still to be
decided.
Meanwhile, Tracy Horgan
(Northern Ontario), Kerry
Galusha (Northwest Territories) and Sarah Kulton
(Yukon) have qualiﬁed for
a play-in tournament that
is to be held prior to the Canadian championship. One
of them will ﬁll out the ﬁeld
after the playoff.
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January 30, 2015
Continued cooperation essential in containing beetle
Recently, the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan
announced
that they have reaffirmed
their agreement to allocate
funds to stop the mountain pine beetle. Under the
terms of the agreement,
Saskatchewan will support Alberta’s fight against
the pine beetle with $1.25
million in funds for the
current year. In turn, the
work being done in Alberta helps prevent the
spread of the beetle into
Saskatchewan.
We have learned a lot
about the beetle over the
past 20 years, and many
of our lessons have come
the hard way. The speed
of the beetle’s spread and
its ability to travel long
distances in wind currents
has at times surprised
both government and industry.
In a single night in 2006,
millions of beetles crossed
the border from British
Columbia to Alberta in a
large, wind-aided inflight.
The result – the number
of infested trees in Alberta skyrocketed from less
than 1,000 to tens of thousands in a single year.
The ability of the beetle
Olenchuk appointed to Big River
Housing Authority
Margaret Olenchuk has been appointed
to the Big River Housing Authority Board
of Directors. Other members of the board
of directors are Elaine Seney, Beverly Yobb
and Vera Connolly. Connolly is chairperson.
The Big River Housing Authority is a
community-based organization that provides daily management of 37 housing
units constructed and operated under the
terms of a federal provincial municipal cost
sharing agreement.
Social Services Minister, Donna Harpauer, paid tribute to the volunteers who
manage the social housing projects in
their community. “This local hands-on
approach ensures that the Saskatchewan
Housing Corporation responds effectively
to the needs of each community.”
Saskatchewan has a network of 260 housing authorities and more than 1,400 volunteer members who assist with management
of housing units throughout the province
for seniors, low income families and persons with disabilities.
Persons interested in volunteering to
serve on the board of directors for the Big
River Housing Authority are encouraged
to contact the mayor of Big River. A local
nominating committee recommends board
members.
Applications for accommodation are
available from the manager of the Big River
Housing Authority.
Debden Credit
Union Limited
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Nominating Committee of the
Debden Credit Union
will receive written nominations for the
Office of Director of the Credit Union
to fill two (2) vacancies.
• Nomination forms are available at the Credit Union offices
in Debden and Big River
• Eligibility qualifications are included on the nomination
form
• The Nominating Committee must receive nominations no
later than March 16, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
• Elections will be held April 7 through April 9, 2015
• Elections will take place at the offices of the Credit Union
By participating in Your Credit Union’s
Democratically Controlled Member Financial
Institution, you will be able to help guide our progress
and ensure that the Credit Union is the member’s
financial partner thru all the stages of their life
to travel on wind currents
is so strong that beetles
currently infest Cypress
Hills
Interprovincial
Park, which straddles the
A lber ta-Saskatchewan
border southeast of Medicine Hat. There is approximately 300 kilometres of
open prairie separating
this area from the nearest
forests, those on the eastern slopes of the Rockies
near Pincher Creek. Dealing with a threat that can
spread so far, so quickly,
and in such great numbers
requires a major effort.
Mountain pine beetle
threatens Alberta and Saskatchewan on a number of
fronts. First, large-spread
infestations cause significant environmental degradation.
In British Columbia, 18.1
million hectares of forest
have been affected by the
beetle. That is equivalent
to an area roughly 5 times
the size of Vancouver Island. The infestation of
18.1 million hectares of
forest is a significant blow
to the environment and
represents massive losses
of animal habitat and recreational areas.
Moreover, forests are
integral to our air quality and act as important
filtration mechanisms for
our watersheds. Put it altogether, and you have an
eco-system worth fighting
to save.
The beetle also threatens our communities
through increased risk of
wildfire. When the beetle
sweeps through our for-
ests, it leaves hectares of
dead, standing pine trees.
These trees are an excellent source of fuel for catastrophic forest fires.
In the summer of 2014,
fires ripped through beetle-affected areas in British Columbia’s interior.
Fires in beetle-affected
areas burn hotter, spread
more quickly, and are very
unpredictable. This increases the risk to life and
limb, drives up firefighting costs, and escalates
total damage. Here in Alberta, we know all too well
the kind of damage that
fires can do to communities, having seen the tragic
devastation that affected
Slave Lake in 2011.
Finally, the pine beetle
is a major threat to the
economy in Alberta and
Saskatchewan. There are
50 communities in Alberta
that depend on the forest
industry and dozens more
in Saskatchewan. 13,000
people in Alberta and
3,100 in Saskatchewan
work in the forest industry.
For each direct job, there
are 2 more people working
in sectors that support the
industry. Forestry is a $4
billion industry in Alberta
and a sizable part of Saskatchewan’s economy as
well.
However, the economic
impact of the beetle could
spread far beyond the forest industry. Our tourism
industry relies heavily on
forested wilderness areas
and could see sharp declines in revenue if these
areas are lost to the beetle.
Other industries like oil
and gas and agriculture
that operate on the landbase would also be negatively impacted by widespread degradation.
So what is being done
to stop the beetle? In Alberta, government and
industry have had an effective partnership for the
past decade. For its part,
the Government of Alberta
provides
approximately
$40 million in annual
funding to identify individual trees that have been
affected by the beetle and
remove them before further spread occurs. This
funding also supports research into the beetle and
work to identify older pine
stands that are more susceptible to infestation.
Industry, in turn, has
invested millions to alter harvesting plans and
concentrate on harvesting older pine stands before infestation occurs.
Alberta’s forest industry
has also invested in technology to utilize beetleaffected timber in mill
processes.
Put it all together, and
you have a great partnership that has been successful in preventing the
type of widespread degradation that we have seen in
BC. Having another great
partner, the Government
of Saskatchewan, serves to
strengthen the effort even
more.
Paul Whittaker is the
President and CEO of the
Alberta Forest Products
Association
Red Cross searching for next
Humanitarian Award recipients
The Canadian Red Cross in Saskatchewan
is once again asking the public for nominations for the prestigious Young Humanitarian of the Year Award and the Humanitarian
of the Year Award. These awards will be presented at the Red Cross Power of Humanity
Gala happening in November 2015.
“We are looking for people who not only
demonstrate community spirit, we’re looking for those who go above and beyond the
call of duty to show compassion for others
– people who strive every day to make their
community a better place to live,” said Cindy
Fuchs, Provincial Director of the Red Cross
in Saskatchewan.
Nomination forms can be downloaded
until Feb. 28, or by calling 306-721-1629.
The Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian and
Young Humanitarian of the Year awards will
be presented to two individuals in Saskatchewan who have demonstrated the spirit of
humanity in a local, national or international capacity by:
• Promoting mutual understanding,
friendship, cooperation and lasting peace
among all peoples
• Contributing to the alleviation of human
suffering, protection of life, or the promotion of health
• Educating the public on the meaning and
importance of humanity and human dignity
• Promoting respect for human beings
As the world’s largest humanitarian
movement, the Red Cross/Red Crescent has
close to 100 million volunteers in 187 countries around the world. Canadian Red Cross
volunteers have worked as part of this movement for more than 100 years and continue
to provide community-base services and
assistance while also supporting the larger
international movement through disaster
appeals, and health and development programs.
Volunteer opportunities exist at all levels
of the Canadian Red Cross and suit a variety of interests, availability, skills and experience. From local program delivery to
disaster response, there are a wide range of
volunteer positions that provide a meaningful way for people to help improve the lives
of vulnerable people. For current volunteer
opportunities, visit www.redcross.ca.
January 30, 2015
Saskatchewan people
can be proud of our growing population and quality of life.
They can also take pride
in the fact that, for the
ﬁrst time in a generation,
many of our young people are choosing to stay
in Saskatchewan to start
their careers and raise
their families.
Today, Saskatchewan’s
economy is diversiﬁed and
strong with demonstrated
and growing strength in
areas such as agriculture
and trade, innovation
and manufacturing. If we
want to sustain this in the
long-term – and we do –
we need to ensure tomorrow’s leaders have every
opportunity to receive the
skills and training needed
to succeed in our dynamic
labour market.
Our government places
a high priority on access
to high quality post-secondary education. Building on its authorization to
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Toll Free:
1-855-793-3422
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grant Bachelor of Arts degrees in Humanities, Briercrest College and Seminary is now authorized
to grant Bachelor of Arts
degrees in English and
History.
Saskatchewan
Polytechnic is authorized
to grant a Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing degree.
Approval of theses degrees is provided under
The Degree Authorization
Act and The Degree Au-
thorization Regulations,
which enables more institutions to offer degree
programs. Prior to The
Degree Authorization Act
and The Degree Authorization Regulations, which
came into effect in 2012,
only the University of
Regina and University of
Saskatchewan had the authority to grant degrees,
other than theological
degrees, within the province.
Another example of
meeting the needs of students and our increasingly diversiﬁed economy, is
the proclamation of The
Saskatchewan Polytechnic Act.
This gives Saskatchewan Polytechnic the
authority to operate as a
polytechnic institution.
More than a name
change, the evolution to
Saskatchewan Polytechnic clariﬁes the institution’s authority to undertake and support applied
research, grant degrees
and fundraise for property. Polytechnics are industry-responsive technical
training enterprises that
support economic growth
through applied learning
and research. The proclamation of this Act and
creation of Saskatchewan
Polytechnic will help to
meet labour market needs
by providing increased
applied training and education opportunities for
post-secondary students
in the province.
Our government is committed to post-secondary
education that is not only
accessible but also affordable. This is why we’ve
introduced the Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship, the Saskatchewan
Advantage Grant for
Education Savings and
the Graduate Retention
Program. Since 2007, we
have provided record support for both students and
post-secondary institu-
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MLA
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Saskatchewan
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tions.
Just as we’re committed to reducing barriers for those choosing to
complete post-secondary
education and skills training, our government is
also committed to reducing the burden associated
with “red tape” by improving and modernizing
Saskatchewan’s regulatory environment. January
19-23, 2015 is Red Tape
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Awareness Week in Saskatchewan.
In 2014, our government maintained our
commitment to reduce
red tape in ministries,
crown corporations and
agencies. Our newly approved Red Tape Reduction Action Plan requires
the thorough analysis of
new regulations and their
direct costs, beneﬁts and
alignment with provincial
priorities. The plan will
also require the review of
all existing business-related regulations with the
same stringent examination every 10 years.
Some of the major regulatory
modernization
achievements in 2014 include changes to Occupational Health and Safety
ﬁling requirements for
all businesses, streamlining of gas and electrical
licensing, and improvements for processing of
ﬁshing and wildlife licenses.
More homegrown physicians practising in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is making progress keeping more
locally-trained
family
medicine graduates in the
province.
The retention rate of
family medicine graduates
trained at the University
of Saskatchewan (U of S)
has jumped by 11 per cent
over the past year. The increase – from 58 per cent
to 69 per cent – means that
more locally-trained medical graduates are deciding
to stay and practice medicine in Saskatchewan.
“Physicians that are newly-trained in Saskatchewan
play a key role in the health
care system,” Rural and
Remote Health Minister
Greg Ottenbreit said. “We
want patients right here in
The Village of Canwood
is looking for someone to ﬁll the duties of
“Relief Water Treatment Plant Operator”
This person would be responsible for the daily operation of the
Water and Sewer works when the regular operator is unable to.
For more information, or to apply for the position, please contact:
Lisa at (306) 468-2016,
email: [email protected] or
Mail: Village of Canwood, Box 172, Canwood, SK S0J 0K0
There is no closing date for application, the position will remain
open until a suitable applicant is found.
Form H
Section 45 of the Act
Village of Canwood By Election
Notice of Call for Nominations
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the office of:
Councillor: Village of Canwood
will be received by the undersigned on the 18th day of February 2015,
From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Village Office,
AND
During the regular business hours on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Village Office.
Nomination forms may be obtained at the following locations:
Village Office
Dated this 19th day of January, 2015.
Lisa Quessy,
Returning Officer
Saskatchewan to benefit
from their expert training
and homegrown leadership. Our government will
continue to look for new
ways to make sure that Saskatchewan is where these
valued health providers
want to practice.”
“Recruiting, and most
importantly,
retaining,
our own medical graduates
continues to be our number one priority,” saskdocs
CEO Dr. Dennis Kendel
said. “We’ve been working hard to engage with
our University of Saskatchewan medical students and
residents, to make sure
they know about the many
opportunities
available
to them right here in Saskatchewan and the positive
work-life balance. I think
our efforts are paying off.”
“The U of S has been
training Family Medicine
residents in Prince Albert
for over ten years, and the
program retains more than
80 per cent of its graduates
in rural areas,” College of
Medicine Dean Dr. Preston
Smith said.
“We know medical students and residents develop an affinity for the communities where they train,
so the College of Medicine
continues to expand learning opportunities across
Saskatchewan. Our training here in Prince Albert
includes the only enhanced
surgical skills program in
Canada.”
The province has seen
increased U of S medical
training seats and medical
residency positions. More
post-graduate medical education opportunities are
now available outside Saskatoon – in Regina, Prince
Albert, Swift Current, La
Ronge, North Battleford
and Moose Jaw. Plans are
being made for additional
QC Measurement
Technician
We have an immediate
opportunity for a Quality Control
Measurement Technician at the
Big River SK log yard.
This liaison position is between
the operation and the log
suppliers. There is flexibility to
shape the program as it evolves.
Key components are audits,
feedback and training. This is a
collaborative role with the
expectation of demonstrated
improvement.
The ideal candidate must be
highly motivated, possess
excellent communications skills,
and appreciate working
independently in the outdoors.
Experience in the sawmill or
forestry industry would be an
asset.
Interested candidates may submit
resumes in confidence to the
Executive Assistant at
[email protected]
Or fax: 250-963-7023
Only candidates selected for
interviews will be contacted.
communities.
The number of physicians in Saskatchewan has
risen 24.3 per cent (by
423 physicians) between
March 2007 and March
2014, while overall physician turnover rates have
decreased. Saskatchewan
offers one of the best physician compensation rates
in Canada.
For more information
about programs and opportunities for physicians,
visit www.saskdocs.ca.
CANWOOD CURLING CLUB ANNUAL BILLY SPIEL
Friday & Saturday, Feb. 6, & 7
$100 entry includes Dance ticket & 6 end games
Steak Supper $15 - Feb 6th 5 to 7 p.m.
Dance $10 - Feb. 7th - Legion Hall
‘Moonlight Music’
Phone or text entries to:
Grant 1-306-893-8085
or Lisa 1-306-747-7764
SASKATCHEWAN LOTTERIES
COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM
Are you a non-proﬁt volunteer organization
located in or around the Town of Shellbrook?
Do you offer access to sport, culture
and/or recreation?
Are you looking for some help funding?
The SaskLotteries Community Grant
Program Applications are now available at the
Shellbrook Town Ofﬁce.
For more information please visit the
Sask. Lotteries website
www.sasklotteries.ca
Application Deadline is March 13, 2015 at 4pm
For any questions please call Jenny Hosie at
the Town Ofﬁce: 306.747.4949
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Shellbrook Chronicle
OPINION
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January 30, 2015
Sask. not growing
strong for students
If you watch TV or read your local paper – or if you have
a pulse – you’ve no doubt become accustomed to seeing our
supreme premier constantly reminding us of how strong
Saskatchewan is (as if simply saying the words will give
them more truth).
Indeed, through his oil-tinted glasses, Mr. Wall sees Saskatchewan as the belle of the international ball, the jurisdiction that everyone should want to do business with. And
why not? Our province’s economy and population continue
to grow, our unemployment is at “all-time lows,” and we
have rich oil, uranium and agricultural sectors.
But as Tywin Lannister famously
said, “Any man who must say ‘I am
the king’ is no true king.” Similarly, a
premier who must constantly remind
the people how great things are, is no
great premier, and a province is only
as strong as the sum of its individual
parts.
After all, what great premier or
political party would sit idly by while
a province’s aging schools threaten
JORDAN
to collapse around (or on) their students, as is the case with schools in
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Aberdeen, Delisle, Hague, Hanley
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and Rosthern?
True, most of these aging strucReporter
tures were built in the 50s and 60s
and have likely met their lifespans.
But any government that can talk
about people being the strength of Saskatchewan then let
schools deteriorate to the point that they’re deemed to be
structurally unsound has no right to claim that the province
is “Growing Strong.”
In Aberdeen Composite School, for instance, the home
economics room is now off limits and eight classrooms
and a seminar room have temporary structural supports
installed. At Delisle Composite school, the gym mezzanine
has been closed off.
Meanwhile Hague Elementary School and the connected High School have a number of rooms that have been
deemed “unstable,” or that are propped up by temporary
supports, and the stories are much the same for Hanley
Composite School and Rosthern High School.
Worse still, according to data from the Saskatchewan
School Boards Association, 75 per cent of school roofs in the
province could fail within the next five years. And with oil
prices below $50 a barrel, Premier Wall has cautioned that
this year’s budget will require the government to tighten its
belt, meaning education is unlikely to see any new spending.
But even if new spending were possible, it’s hard to say
with confidence that it would go to solve the structural
problems of these rural schools. As its own numbers show,
The Ministry of Education’s budget (including a preventative maintenance and renewal fund) has been growing yearover-year, yet our schools are still collapsing.
Moreover, at last count, the ministry of education had a
$1.5 billion backlog of school construction and renovation
needs across Saskatchewan. So it’s unclear when (or if) the
needs of these schools can be addressed. Then, of course,
schools must also meet stringent criteria and get ministry
approval to get capital funding for any large construction or
renovation project.
Meanwhile, the Wall government is content to go ahead
with building its shiny new P3 and joint-use schools to accommodate areas with growing enrolment, even though
it’s unable – or worse, unwilling – to maintain its existing
school infrastructure.
Saskatchewan truly is only as strong as its people. But
with crumbling school infrastructure, the children who will
one day lead Saskatchewan into the future are missing out
on opportunities to acquire the vital skills they need to contribute to the province’s strength.
What we need is not a premier who says Saskatchewan is
strong, but rather a premier who will make it so. Not just for
a select privileged few, but for all of Saskatchewan.
Paul Martin Commentary
How do you deﬁne being well off?
It might be the value of the Canadian dollar or it could just
We hear a lot about the so-called one-percent or
be that we are more interested in seeing our own
the gap between rich and poor. But then we are
country but tourism spending by Canadians who
also told that we are richer than we think.
have opted for domestic travel is rising.
The question of being rich is an interesting one.
At the same time, foreigners are spending more
Just what does it take to arrive at being rich or at
on tourism in Canada as well.
least well off…how do we deﬁne it?
National ﬁgures for tourism expenditures are
That’s not exactly the question posed by TD Cantracked quarterly and all this activity has resulted
ada Trust in a survey of Canadians but it comes
in the tenth consecutive quarterly increase in tourclose. In the spirit of the New Year and the myriad
ism-related jobs as well.
resolutions we like to make, they asked Canadians
Opting to do more domestic travel may well be
PAUL
to deﬁne ﬁnancial ﬁtness.
the result of a declining Canadian dollar which is
The largest percentage of respondents described
making travel abroad, particularly to the US, more
MARTIN
that situation as being debt free. The next biggest
expensive. Conversely it is cheaper for Americans
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group said it meant not having to worry about
to come here which may be a factor in the interﬁnancial affairs on a day-to-day basis. Being on
national visit spend going up in the latter part of
track with savings – for everything from retirement to 2014.
education – was next followed by being able to afford the
However, it is more likely that we’re simply spending more
lifestyle they want and, ﬁnally, having an emergency fund on vacations as 12 of the last 13 quarters saw increases in
equal to three-months salary.
the amount we were laying out for domestic tourism activ***
ity, signiﬁcantly stronger than foreign spending in Canada
One topic we’re not hearing much about these days is Peak which was up only six out of the last ten quarters.
Oil.
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It was a concept, largely advanced by the eco lobby that
The biggest change in the provincial housing market in
said we would soon or had already hit a day when oil pro- 2014 was seen in North Battleford, more particularly in the
duction would begin to decline, simply because we were multi-family unit segment of that city’s residential market.
producing too much of a ﬁnite resource. That tipping point
While virtually every city in the province saw an increase
was the so-called peak.
in the number of housing starts last year – especially on the
In the face of the price of oil now having dropped by half multi-family side as builders were looking to offer up some
because there’s too much of it, the notion of peak oil seems lower cost options to buyers – the jump in North Battleford
to have missed the point. Fears that we’d run out of petro- was unmatched.
leum-based fuels before alternative energy sources had
Back in 2013, the city saw four multi-family units started.
been embraced are, today, groundless as economics appears Last year that number increased to 80, a jump of 40-times.
to be the greater force at play.
Now, it was still on the lower end of the scale in terms of
The cost of alternatives, simply put, is still too high and new multi-family starts, ahead of only Weyburn and Yorpetroleum is not only now inexpensive, we’re awash in it. kton, but it was a signiﬁcant change. The perennially hot
New technology, sparked by the high prices of the past few market in Estevan maintained its momentum last year as it
years, has enabled industry to increase production and the saw more new single homes started than Moose Jaw which
only threat to that trend is low prices…reaching a point has more than double the population.
where some companies or ﬁelds will stop producing in the
Actually only Prince Albert, Lloydminster and the two
face of big losses.
major cities – Regina and Saskatoon – had more single fam***
ily starts than Estevan last year.
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January 30, 2015
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Shellbrook Chronicle
Maybe some good economic news
By now you’ve likely had it with the bad
news and may be in the mood for some
good news.
After all, it’s been a typical Saskatchewan winter where the warm spells don’t
last long enough and the cold snaps seem
to go on and on.
There is still lots to grumble about on
coffee row over a crop that took forever to
get off and just as long to get to market.
Heck, the railways have hardly gotten the
2013 crop – the bumper crop that should
have sold for solid prices – to market.
And now there is all this talk about
lay-offs in the oil patch because of crude
falling below $50 US a barrel. Certainly,
a provincial government scrambling for
cash is looking at every way to make up
for lost revenue. Besides less for roads,
schools and hospitals, there are even rumours that the government might be considering ending the sales tax exemptions
on fertilizers, seed and farm equipment.
Well, how about the good news that this
economic downturn might not be so bad
or so long.
Or so says Saskatchewan’s leading
statistician who has
gotten pretty good at
seeing trends before
the rest of us do.
“2015 is not going to be the crunch
year,” said Dough ElMURRAY
liott, author of Sask
Trends Monitor and
MANDRYK
a guy who has been
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watching the numbers closely for 35
years now. “It (the economic crunch) will
be 2016.
“I think it takes about a year for it (oil
prices) to trickle into the economy. It’s almost immediate for government revenue,
but it takes a longer time for the provincial
economy to be effected.”
If you work for government, this is not
great news. Nor is it exactly great news for
the rest of us that occasionally rely on the
TB REACH
underfunded
On Dec 2013, Ebola claimed 3 victims. By October 2014,
that number had ballooned over a thousand-fold, and people worldwide were panicking at the prospect of this killer
disease ending up on their shores. Massive budget shortfalls
at the WHO played a critical role in the failure to stop Ebola,
showing the frightening consequence of short-sighted health
funding.
Unfortunately, the Federal Conservative government is
poised to repeat the world’s mistake in West Africa. Five
years ago this same government, once a great supporter of
tuberculosis eradication, launched TB REACH, a fund that
seeks out the hardest to reach TB sufferers. TB Reach has
been proven enormously successful, greatly reducing the
number of infected individuals in areas where TB is difﬁcult
to detect and treat.
TB has enormous impact in the developing world, and the
consequence of sporadic funding and treatment is the evolution of new and deadly TB strains resistant to drug treatment. And like Ebola, TB travels worldwide.
Despite the great success of TB REACH, Minister Paradis
is prepared to halt funding of this successful, cost-effective
program, a fateful decision that will allow TB to spread,
evolve and threaten the globe. In the face of the Ebola catastrophe, it’s staggering to witness such short-sighted budgeting by the Conservatives.
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roads, schools and hospitals government
builds and maintain. Avoiding the budget
hit will be difficult and Elliott notes that
the value public building permits already
fell 44 per-cent decline to $210 million
2014 from $378 million in 2013.
But while in the past one might have expected this to send Saskatchewan into an
economic tailspin accompanied by job and
population loss and “have not” status, the
new Saskatchewan seems far more capable of weather there downturns.
Just consider the last 10 years since this
economic boom/upswing started.
Elliott said Saskatchewan really started
to take off in about 2005-06 when it was
clear that oil and potash numbers were
turning around the economy from its dependence on even more unpredictable agriculture.
In fact, since 2005, Saskatchewan has
produced 92,000 more jobs – about 9,200
or 1.8-per-cent more a year.
And that job grown has been pretty consistent. Just look at the yearly percentage
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Victoria, BC
The incredible people and
places in Canada’s North
Dear editor:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper likes to portray the
showcase Canada’s North as a big empty place that we
need to protect, but this place is ﬁlled with people who
lived here for millennia — and whose voices are not
being heard in Ottawa.
To connect with Northerners, this winter I traveled
to the Northwest Territories and Nunavut with my eldest son Xavier, like my father did with me thirty years
ago. I wanted to experience the very real challenges
Northerners face on a day-to-day basis and see for
myself the tremendous opportunities for sustainable
economic growth.
Achieving that potential depends on federal willingness to work collaboratively with the North. In the only
part of the country where legislatures work by consensus, people here know better than most that problems
aren’t solved by pointing ﬁngers and highlighting differences. They are solved by people working together.
The North needs a partner in Ottawa to invest in
their people, infrastructure and research in order to
ensure this growth is realized. Indigenous peoples and
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increase in the number of working people
in Saskatchewan: 2006, 1.8 per cent; 2007,
2.4 per cent; 2008, 1.7 per cent; 2009, 1.3
per cent; 2010, .9 per cent; 2011, .3 per
cent; 2012, 2.1 per cent, 2013, 2.4 per cent,
and; 2014, 1.9 per cent.
But Elliott says we should pay special
attention to the 2010-11 when job growth
slipped to .9- and .3-per-cent after the
market meltdown in October 2008 and
slide in 2009. After that, it nicely recovered in 2012, ‘13 and ‘14.
If this is any indication, it may mean the
overall impact of this oil slide may not really hit until 2016. And by that point, it’s
quite possible that oil prices will have recovered.
Admittedly, some in the oil patch already facing layoffs will find little comfort
in this. No doubt, some rural communities
area already feeling the crunch.
But Elliott believes Saskatchewan will
ride out this storm much more easily.
If so, it would be a welcomed bit of good
news.
all Northerners support responsible development, but
also know that it needs to be done right — and that’s
where most Canadians are too. Unlike the past, we all
now recognize that major developments need social license and environmental responsibility. Consultation
and partnership, particularly with Indigenous people,
must be at the centre of any plans.
In the North, the cost of many basic goods is staggering, compared to the South. I had honest conversations with folks at the Qayuqtuvik Society soup
kitchen in Iqaluit about the reality facing many Northerners who cannot access basic necessities. The failure
of the federal government’s Nutrition North Program
to make nutritional food more accessible in these communities is simply unacceptable. It must be rebuilt.
As a Southerner, the ﬁrst time you come to the
North you’re impressed with the weather, the land
and the sheer scale. But more than that, you will be
impressed by the people: their warmth, their strength
and their resilience. That spirit was embodied in the
Inuvik Sunrise Festival that Xav and I attended, which
celebrates the return of sunrise after 30 days of midwinter darkness.
Sovereignty in the North doesn’t just come from
defence spending and coast guard ships, it comes
through the Canadians who live here, and who have
always been here.
Yours sincerely,
Justin Trudeau
Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
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Seniors’ home residents celebrate the season
Despite the fact that January hasn’t been the most
wintry month, residents of
the seniors’ home at Parkland Integrated Health
Centre gathered together
to celebrate the season
with their annual Winter
Festival.
The afternoon of fun and
activities began with residents warming up with a
cup of hot cocoa and some
bannock and jam.
From there, it was time
to crown the king and
queen of the festival, who
would lead residents in the
many planned events.
After tallying all the
nominations,
Dorothy
Haroldson was named
queen, while Clarence
Christianson was crowned
the king.
“There are so many others who should have had
it,” said Christianson
through tear-filled eyes.
“These are tears of joy. I
love every one of you,” he
added.
With the king and queen
crowned, it was time
for the residents to have
some fun, as the activities
Residents Clarence Christianson and Dorothy Haroldson were crowned king and queen of the
Winter Festival at the hospital.
Olaf Olsen Participates in a nail pounding contest at the Winter Festival.
kicked off.
The first event was log
sawing, followed by an opportunity for residents to
show off their nail pounding skills. There was also a
hockey shoot, a “snowball”
toss and a game of pin the
nose on Frosty.
Christianson was eager
to thank hospital staff and
volunteers for their hard
work and dedication.
“When the workers and
doctors come around you
can just feel the love that
radiates from them,” he
said.
Nellie Baun takes her best shot while participating in the hockey shoot event at the Winter Festival. The hockey shoot was one of the more popular
events at this year’s festival.
Hazel Canaday attempts to pin the nose on Frosty at the Winter Festival.
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Taiwan a huge potential market for agricultural products
It’s always interesting to read about reports which
are being released in the area of agriculture.
Sometimes they bring to light some intriguing information.
At other times you are left wondering why it took a
report to unveil the obvious.
Onthe
Agriculture
In some respects it’s a combination of
above with
‘Finding the Hidden Dragon: Why Taiwan Matters to
Canada’s Economic Future’.
To start with it should not come as a surprise that
Taiwan is a huge potential market for agricultural
products.
A person could create a list of markets simply by doing an Internet search of countries with large populations, and overlaying that with countries with high
population densities based on land mass. Where countries have both mass populations, and limited land
areas, you have a market for food. That only stands
to reason. Limited land means limited ability to grow
your own food.
If a population is massive, then it stands to reason
there will be a need to import food.
Now Taiwan does produce agricultural products,
f lowers, and horticultural products, but they also
Calvin
Daniels
import some $14 billion in agricultural products, based on 2012
numbers.
A recent Western Producer article noted, “Canada exported more
than $210 million in agri-food
products to Taiwan in 2013. Leading Canadian agricultural exports
are typically meat products, animal hides, cereals and oilseeds.”
CALVIN
The issue is not so much deterDANIELS
mining where markets are, but how
to effectively access them.
~
Canada is not the only country
selling beef or pork, or wheat, and
other exporting countries, Australia, Argentina and
others, can have advantages in terms of shipping and
even coast of production, which means Canada can
be a step behind in marketing before knocking on the
door seeking a sale.
And markets today are often about give and take.
You might swing a deal to sell product ‘A’, but it
comes with an understanding you’ll increase access
for their product ‘B’.
That on the surface is a great way for things to work,
but in terms of food security no country wants to harm
a domestic sector by creating import competition,
and perhaps it shouldn’t even think about it given the
world we live in.
We like the idea of free markets, and we have long
lived in a world where trade has generally moved safely.
But in a world where the United States and Russia
are once more posturing in opposition to one another, terrorism seems to be a growing issue, racial tensions tighten stateside, and the world watches disease
events such as ebola unfold, the free f low of food could
be impacted all too easily.
The need to maintain as much ability to grow one’s
own food in country is as important to Canada as any
other country, and that has to be remembered.
So while creating a list of markets is easy enough,
balancing things and building market access is not.
Of course Canada needs to find customers since we
produce almost everything for export, and that is why
we need to not just identify markets, but work to build
sales connections while still keeping our countries
farmers doing what they do best, producing food.
Governments invest $6.9 million into crop research
Federal
Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz and
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced nearly
$6.9 million for crop-related research through
the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development
Fund (ADF). The funding is being awarded to
42 projects.
“Our government is
proud to continue making investments in croprelated research that will
increase the proﬁtability
and competitiveness of
Saskatchewan farmers
and ranchers,” said Ritz.
“These projects will have
a range of beneﬁts for
farmers, from improved
varieties to increased
disease and weather resistance.”
“Investments in research have long-term
beneﬁts for the agriculture industry, leading to
the increased competitiveness of our industry
in the global marketplace
and better returns for
our producers,” Stewart
said. “I look forward to
the new tools, knowledge
and technology that will
result from this year's
ADF projects.”
This funding is part of
the $26.7 million Government of Saskatchewan agriculture research
budget for 2014-15. Projects to receive funding
this year include studies
to improve lentil varieties, enhance wheat midge
resistance in wheat, decrease oil losses from
canola dehulling, and reduce the risk of pathogen
contamination on fresh
fruits and vegetables.
Third party funding
is a key component of
many ADF projects. A
large number of industry
partner
organizations
contributed $3.4 million
in additional funding to
the crops-related projects announced today.
Almost two-thirds of
this funding is being provided by Western Grains
Research
Foundation
(WGRF) although there
are many other partners
as well, including the
Saskatchewan
Wheat
Development Commission, the Saskatchewan
Canola
Development
Commission and the
Saskatchewan
Pulse
Growers.
“Producers are committed to agricultural re-
search because we know
the knowledge and tools
it provides, which are
vital for our continued
success,” WGRF Board
Chair Dave Sefton said.
“We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate
with the federal and provincial governments in
order to maximize the
beneﬁt of producer research investments.”
Funding for ADF projects is provided under
Growing Forward 2, a
federal-provincial-territorial initiative. A complete list of funded projects is available at www.
agr iculture.gov.sk.ca/
ADF.
Brandt Tractor Ltd. donates $100,000 to KidSport
Shaun Semple, President and Gavin Semple, Chairman, both of the Brandt Group of Companies, presented KidSport with a $100,000 donation at an on
ice ceremony during the 1st intermission of "Hockey
Night in Regina sponsored by Brandt" on Friday
evening. The donation will be used to help cover fees
for kids facing financial obstacles who want to play
hockey in Regina and Southern Saskatchewan.
"KidSport would like to extend its sincerest thanks
to Shaun and Gavin Semple and the Brandt Group
of Companies for this outstanding and generous donation," said Dorothy Josephson, Chair of KidSport
Saskatchewan. "KidSport is very excited about this
new partnership and is looking forward to working
with Brandt. Thank you for once again giving back to
our communities and for helping to get kids off the
sidelines and into hockey rinks."
"It's very important to us to express our gratitude
to the communities in which our employees and customers live and work", added Shaun Semple. "We
recognize the wonderful work done by KidSport Regina and this is our way of saying thank you".
KidSport is a registered children's charity that provides grants worth up to $750 to help children and
youth from families facing financial obstacles participate in sport, So ALL Kids Can Play.
For more information about KidSport Saskatchewan, visit www.kidsport.ca/sk or contact Kendall
Longtin, Provincial Coordinator at (306) 780-9345
or [email protected].
About Brandt Group of Companies
The Brandt Group of Companies – headquartered
in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – is comprised
of Brandt Agricultural Products Ltd., Brandt Engineered Products Ltd., Brandt Equipment Solutions
Ltd., Brandt Road Rail Corporation, and Brandt
Tractor Ltd. Brandt Tractor Ltd. is the world's largest privately held John Deere construction and forestry equipment dealer. Brandt has 30 locations
across Canada and the United States and exports
their products to North America, Europe, Australia,
and Asia. Brandt is one of Canada's largest privately
owned companies and is among an elite group of
Platinum Members of Canada's 50 Best Managed
Companies. For additional information or to arrange
an interview, contact Paula Welke, Brandt Communications Specialist, at 306-337-4032 or visit www.
brandt.ca
Seasonal Employment Opportunity
The Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 is accepting
applications for a full time seasonal maintenance position.
Qualifications:
• Class 1A License
• Be capable of accepting instruction and working with
minimal supervision
• Heavy equipment experience is an asset
Duties include:
• To keep records of daily work performed in the manner
prescribed by the R.M. administration
• To perform assigned work which may include: fencing;
shop, machinery & yard maintenance; traﬃc sign
placement & repair; cleaning and repairing of culverts
and/or bridges, truck and mower operation.
Please submit resume by February 16, 2015 stating work
experience and references to:
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 306-466-2091
Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464
Box 190, Leask, SK S0J 1M0
The R.M. wishes to thank all who apply, however, only
those individuals to be interviewed will be contacted.
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Comedy night at Shellbrook Hotel a real laugh riot
Sterling Scott headlined comedy night at the Shellbrook Hotel bar, which was
raising money for Rhythm Works Dance Studio.
Ryan Short was the opening act for the night, and he helped to get the crowd
warmed up.
Highlights of Shellbrook’s town council meeting
The town council met
on Jan. 26 at the council
chambers of the municipal office in Shellbrook.
Present at the meeting
were mayor George Tomporowski and councillors
Amund Otterson, Bruce
Clements, David Knight,
Lois Freeman and Kathleen Nording, as well as
the town’s administrator
Kelly Hoare. Absent was
councillor Lyle Banda.
The meeting began with
a quarterly report from
RCMP staff Sgt. Rob Lutzko, who provided coun-
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cil with an update on
criminal activity in Shellbrook over the last fiscal
quarter. According to Lutzko, there were 966 calls
to the RCMP, with 284 of
them coming from Shellbrook. A large percentage of the calls for service were non-criminal in
nature, while 25 per cent
were criminal in nature.
Lutzko reported that
the majority of these were
property crimes, referencing a string of breakand-enters that occurred
late in 2014. He also said
that traffic enforcement
is still a focus for Shellbrook, and the RCMP are
continuing to monitor
drug trafficking activity.
With the RCMP’s annual performance plan
approaching, Lutzko said
he was open to recommendations from council
with regards to what officers should focus on. He
added that he expects the
RCMP to maintain its two
main objectives of contributing to a safer community and respect in the
workplace.
He explained that, under the community crime
reduction plan, the RCMP
will focus on five initiatives: impaired driving,
traffic enforcement, monitoring prolific offenders,
school visitations and
community relations, and
drug enforcement.
Council and Lutzko
discussed the Shellbrook
RCMP detachment’s upcoming move to Ahtahkakoop. As it currently
stands, construction is
scheduled to be complete
by the 2016-2017 fiscal
year, with the RCMP relocating in the summer of
2017.
The RCMP will maintain a storefront in Shellbrook, with someone
available from Monday to
Friday to take calls and
complaints. Lutzko said
the RCMP is still seeking
a location for the storefront building.
In the hospital and clinics report, councillor Otterson informed council
that the doctor recruitment memorandum of
understanding
(MOU)
is reaching its end date.
Later on, council discussed and passed a motion to review and sign a
three-year MOU extension. Otterson added that
the community is seeking
ideas for community retention and appreciation
activities for doctors and
the community.
Having reviewed many
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of the town’s existing bylaws, town council gave
three readings to bylaw
2015-02, a bylaw to repeal
bylaws, allowing them to
officially repeal bylaws
which were deemed to
be irrelevant and out-ofdate.
Town council’s next
meetings are scheduled
for Feb. 9 and 23.
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OBITUARIES
~
Raymond Mitchell
MITCHELL - Raymond
Raymond was born in
North Battleford on February 2, 1932, spending
his early years in Quill
Lake, and then moving
to Big River area where
he grew up.
He
married
Doris
Johnson in 1954, his
loving wife of 55 years,
and they had five children: Steven, Laurie,
Christine, Carol, and
Julie. Raymond was involved in lumber and
wood working industry
throughout his life, including working in bush
camps as a youth. He
was an excellent lumber
grader and during his
career became a lumber
grading supervisor for
a brief period, travelling throughout western
Canada and the United
States.
He also ran two successful small businesses:
built fish boxes for his
customer Waites Fisheries, and started Sask-Can
Wood Specialties making lumber yard building
supplies. He developed
carpentry skills that he
used throughout his life
transforming small “fixer-uppers” into large,
creative,
comfortable
houses.
He had a knack for
seeing the value in what
others threw away, restoring various itemsinto beautiful, functional
products. Many discarded pieces of furniture
found renewed purpose
in his hands. Raymond
considered it an accomplishment that at age 50
he became the top tree
planter in his first year
of tree planting, inspiring younger planters to
PRAISE & WORSHIP
Regular services, Sunday school and special events will be listed at no charge.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Zion - Canwood
Sunday School,
Worship Sunday, 11 a.m.
St. John’s - Shellbrook
Sunday School,
Worship Sunday, 9 a.m.
Parkside, Immanuel
11 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Chris Dean
-----------------------PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Parkside
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship
David Baldock
Shellbrook
Sun., 10:30 a.m. - Worship
Pastor David Bodvarson
306-747-7235
Canwood
10:30 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Glenn Blazosek
306-468-2138
Leask Gospel Tabernacle
Sunday 6:30 p.m.
Pastor L. Trafford
306-466-2296
-----------------------EVANGELICAL FREE
Big River
11:00 a.m. - Worship
Bible Classes 9:45 a.m.
Summer: 10:30 a.m. - 12
306-469-2258
Youth Nite: Fridays
Mont Nebo
Bible Study and Prayer
Sun., 11:00 a.m. - Worship
Pastor Bill Klumpenhower
-----------------------CATHOLIC CHURCH
Debden
Sun. Mass - 9:30 a.m.
Fr. Sebastian Kunnath
Big River - Sacred Heart
Sun., 11:30 a.m. - Mass
Whiteﬁsh
Sun., 2:30 p.m. - Mass.
Victoire
Sat., 7:30 p.m. - Mass.
Fr. Sebastin Kunnath
Eucharist Celebrations
Muskeg
Sunday, 3 p.m.
St. Agatha’s - Shellbrook
Sunday, 11 a.m.
St. Henry’s - Leask
Mass Saturday 7 p.m.
St. Joseph’s - Marcelin
Mass Sunday, 9 a.m.
Mistawasis
Sunday, 3 p.m.
Fr. Tru Le
-----------------------PRESBYTERIAN
Mistawasis
Sunday worship
11 a.m.
Rev. Bev Shepansky
-----------------------SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST
407-2nd Ave E, Shellbrook
Sat., 9:45 a.m. Sabbath School
Sat., 11:00 am -Worship
Broadcast on
VOAR 92.1 FM
Pastor Dan Guiboche
306-930-3377
-----------------------SOVEREIGN GRACE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Currently meeting in homes on
Sunday morning
and Wednesday evenings
Parkside 306-747-2309
Leask 306-466-4498
Marcelin 306-226-4615
-----------------------ANGLICAN CHURCH
Leask - All Saint’s
Sunday, 9:00 a.m.
- Service
St. Andrew’s - Shellbrook
Sunday, 11 a.m. Service
Canwood - Christ Church
Sunday, 11 a.m. Service
Mont Nebo - St. Luke’s
Sunday, 2 p.m. -Service
-----------------------UNITED CHURCH
Big River
1st & 2nd Sundays
1 p.m. - Worship
at Anglican Church
All Other Sundays - 10 a.m.
Shellbrook - Knox
Sun., 10 am - Worship
Pastor Dave Whalley
increase their output.
Raymond was a creative
individual with interests
in photography, painting, wood carving, and
wood crafts. He wrote
poetry most of his adult
life and recently he began to write and sing
songs, surprising his
family with a new creative endeavour.
Raymond was a remarkable man who was
supportive of his family,
and will be missed dearly by his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, other family
members, and friends.
Ray leaves to mourn
his passing: His children: Steven (Yvonne)
Mitchell of Caronport,
SK and family: Aimee
Orton (Chris) and daughter, Emma; Yvette Mitchell; Stephanie Mitchell:
Laurie (Mark) Oldfield
of Big River, SK and family: Gavin (Samaya) Millikin, Lyndsey (Cassie)
Millikin:
Christine
Mitchell of Saskatoon,
SK and family: Jason
(Terri) Bell and children, Danika &Gabriael, Melissa Bell, Caleb
Mitchell: Carol Mitchell of Meadow Lake, SK
and her daughter: Leila
Mitchell: Julie Mitchell
of Regina, SK, His brother-in-law, Alan (Lynne)
Johnson of Napean, ON,
His sister-in-law, Mary
Johnson of Big River,
SK, numerous nephews
and nieces and friends.
Raymond is predeceased by: His loving
wife, Doris Mitchell—
June 26, 2010, His parents, Bertram and Elizabeth “Annie” Mitchell,
His brothers, Kenneth,
Les, Gordon and Robert,
His sisters, Lillian Galbraith, Gertrude Anderson and Dorothy “Dot”
Wingerter.
The Memorial Service
for Raymond was held
on Saturday, the 24th
of January, 2015 at the
Evangelical Free Church
in Big River, SK.
Memorial Donations
may be directed to the
Saskatoon
Children’s
Hospital in Raymond’s
Memory.
Family and friends
wishing to send private
online condolences are
welcome to visit www.
beaulacf uneralhome.
com
Family has entrusted arrangements to Ed
Beaulac and Lori Saam
of Beau “Lac” Funeral
Home, Big River, SK.
January 23, 2015
Elmer Collins
COLLINS – Mr. Elmer
“Joseph” 1931 – 2015
On January 7, 2015 Elmer
“Joseph” Collins, late of
Whispering Pine Place Care
Home, formerly of Debden,
passed away peacefully
with his family at his side at
the age of 83 years.
Joe is lovingly survived
by his children, Pat (Sharon) Collins of Regina, SK,
and their children, Alex
and Breanne; Dan (Lystra)
Collins of Sylvan Lake, AB;
Tom (Marla) Collins of Saskatoon, SK, and their children, Chantelle and Sterling; Sandra (Tim) Burgess
of Shaunovan, SK, and their
children, Greg, Shasta,
Chris, Conner and Angelina; Dean (Jerilee) Collins
of LaRonge, SK, and their
children, Nienna and Kayode; His siblings, Bob (Phyllis) Collins of Saskatoon,
SK; Jack Collins of Debden,
SK; Dorothy (Ray) Laroque
of Saskatoon, SK; his sisterin law, Madeline Collins of
Debden, SK; as well as numerous nieces, nephews,
cousins and other relatives.
Joseph was predeceased
by, his parents, Tom and
Ester Collins; his son, Brian
Collins; his brothers, Lawrence, Billy and Buddy; his
sister in-law, Leona Collins.
The Memorial Mass for
Joseph was held on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at
2:00 p.m from the Notre
Dame desVictoires Roman
Catholic Church in Victoire,
SK. Father Sebastian Kunnath was the Celebrant. Interment will take place at a
later date in the Woodlawn
Cemetery in Saskatoon.
Joe was a good man to
a great number of people
and those who knew him
couldn’t imagine a world
without him. He was so
many things to so many
people. A jack of all trades,
he always took pride in
his work and was always
willing to help others out
whenever he could. Joe enjoyed listening to music; he
especially loved when his
brother Bob would play his
harmonica. Even though
Joe was paralyzed on his
left side, somehow his foot
would be tapping to the
music that his brother Bob
would play. Joe was quite a
dancer and he loved to jive
with the ladies! He enjoyed
sitting back and listening
to old time music, especially ﬁddle music. Joe also
wouldn’t say no to playing a
game of Kaiser.
No matter how challenging life would get Joe always had a smile and laughter was a part of who he
was. He was never a real serious man, and his gift was
to always back up the negative with a positive and he
would tell a joke that would
make light of any situation
and bring smiles and laughter to those around him.
A life well lived indeed…
Elmer Joseph Collins.
In lieu of tributes, memorial donations may be made
in memory of Joe to the
Whispering Pine Place Care
Home in Canwood.
Family and friends wishing to send online condolences are welcome to visit
www.beaulacfuneralhome.
com
Arrangements were entrusted to the care of Beau
“Lac” Funeral Home, Tammy Smart – Funeral Director (Shellbrook)
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The All-America selections organization
picks a peck of perfect peppers
- Erl Svendsen Most years, I grow four
or ﬁve pepper cultivars, a
few hot and the rest sweet.
I have my tried-and-true,
dependable standbys. But
I like to try a few new introductions to add variety
to my garden and, frankly,
to have something no one
else in the community garden has. I start by scanning
seed catalogues through
their ‘what’s new’ section,
usually in the front. And
I may try a few of those if
their descriptions tweak
my interest. But I have little
idea how they’ll perform.
For unbiased evaluation of
new varieties of bedding
plants and vegetables, I
look to All-America Selections (AAS). This year, as
luck would have it, AAS has
given ﬁve new pepper cultivars of both persuasions the
thumbs up [Note: For other
2015 and past winning introductions, check out AAS’
website – www.all-americaselections.org].
First up is ‘Emerald Fire
F1’ jalapeno. It is at the low
end of ﬁery at 2500 Scoville
heat units (habanero and
scotch bonnet are rated at
100 000 – 350 000 Scoville heat units). The fruit
is extra large (3.5 in. long
x 1.5 in. thick) with thick
walls, ideal for roasting,
stufﬁng, pickling or used in
salsas. The fruit is resistant
to cracking, even when allowed to ripen to red. The
plant can reach over 2 feet
in height and produce up to
25 – 30 peppers. Ready to
harvest after 90 days.
‘Flaming Flare F1’ fresno
pepper is another mildly
hot pepper (rated slightly
higher on the Scoville heat
scale), gaining in heat as
it ripens. The sweet, spicy
ﬂavour notes are an excellent addition to chili sauces.
Fresno peppers are slightly
longer (3.75 in.) and more
tapered than jalapenos.
Plants grow to over 2 feet
tall and produce 15 or more
peppers. This is an early
variety – ready for harvest
after 75.
‘Hot Sunset F1’ is a hot
wax pepper, but mild in
comparison to jalapeno or
fresno types, rated at only
650 Scoville heat units. The
judges noted that the large
(7.5 in. long), thick-walled
fruit had exceptional ﬂavour unlike some hot peppers that are all heat. Great
fresh, pickled or roasted.
The peppers ripen to red on
2-foot tall plants; ready to
harvest after 85 days.
One to the winning sweet
peppers, ‘Pretty N Sweet F1’
is a proliﬁc multipurpose
cultivar, producing over
100 peppers on mediumsized plants (18 in. tall). As
the season progresses, the
multitudes of small, conical upright-held peppers
will be in various states of
ripeness, ranging in colour
from yellow to orange to
fully ripe red. Is it an ornamental pepper or an edible
pepper? It’s actually both,
with a sweet delicate ﬂavour. Great fresh in salads
or added to stir-frys and
other pepper dishes. Ready
to harvest after 60 days.
Rounding out the winning ﬁve is ‘Sweet Sunset
F1’ sweet banana pepper.
Expect 15 – 20 large (7.5 in.
long), tapered peppers per
tall (2 feet plus) but bushy
plants. Immature peppers
are light yellow, ripening
to a bright red. As with the
other varieties, this one
also had winning ﬂavour.
Ready to harvest after 85 –
90 days.
These ﬁve peppers should
be started indoors by midMarch and transplanted
after all chance of frost is
passed in late May/early
June. They need full sun
and moderate moisture.
These sturdy plants do not
require staking and will do
Emerald Fire
Flaming Flare
Pretty n’ Sweet
Sweet Sunset
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Hot Sunset
well in the garden as well as
in containers.
The AAS organization
has trial gardens in Canada
and the USA across many
geographic and climatic
regions. In addition to the
network of trial sites, there
are display gardens where
home gardeners can view
some of the recent AAS top
picks. For several years,
an AAS display garden has
been planted on the north
11
side of the Agriculture
Building on the University
of Saskatchewan campus.
This column is provided
courtesy of the Saskatchewan Perennial Society
(w w w.sask perennia l.c a;
hor t scene@ya hoo.com).
Check out our Bulletin
Board or Calendar for upcoming garden information
sessions: January 28-Developing the Gardens at
Tierra del Sol.
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Elks drop weekend game to T-Birds
While the Shellbook Silvertips have found their
mojo again, the Shellbrook
Elks seem to have hit another slump, as they dropped
their second straight game
in a road loss to the Bruno
T-Birds over the weekend.
Penalties proved to be
costly yet again for the Elks,
who lead the Fort Carlton
Hockey League in penalty
minutes, as the T-Birds
went an impressive 4 for 6
on the power play.
The penalty trouble started early for Shellbrook, as
Craig Valette received a
penalty and a game misconduct for a check from
behind, allowing Bruno to
take an early lead on their
ﬁrst power play goal. Another penalty late in the
period would cost the Elks
yet again, as Bruno scored
to take a two goal lead into
the second.
After a slow start to the
period, it was the Elks who
capitalized on a power play,
as Carter Berg scored a goal
from Shane Callaughan and
Stephan Lachappelle to
help Shellbrook get back in
the game.
But penalty woes would
strike the Elks again, as two
penalties resulted in two
more T-Birds goals.
Though Callaughan netted a goal from Lachappelle
and captain Chris Thompson late in the third period,
that was as close as the Elks
would get, as they fell 4-2.
With such a tight race in
the standings, the single
loss dropped the Elks to
ﬁfth from third place.
On tap for the Elks is their
ﬁnal game of the season,
which they will play at home
against the Dalmeny Fury
on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. They
also faced off against the
Tisdale Ramblers Wednesday evening, but the score
was unavailable before time
of publication.
A loose puck causes pandemonium in front of the T-Birds’ net in action from earlier in the regular season.
CAA scholarships available to high school graduates
Graduating Saskatchewan high school students who require ﬁnancial assistance to help them continue their edu-
Shellbrook Elks Hockey Schedule
Saturday, Jan. 31 - 8 p.m.
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cation are invited to learn more about CAA Saskatchewan’s
scholarship program.
Three annual entrance scholarships of $2,500 each are offered to students attending the province’s major postsecondary educational facilities: University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina and Saskatchewan Polytechnic.
Applicants must be either a CAA Saskatchewan member
or child of a member, and be a resident of Saskatchewan.
The ofﬁcial name is the CAA Saskatchewan Centennial Merit
Scholarship.
Applicants are evaluated on academic excellence, economic needs and other factors, including participation in
extra-curricular activities or community involvement. The
successful candidates are determined by the educational institution.
Application forms are available from each institution. Fur-
ther information and applicable deadlines are listed below:
• University of Saskatchewan: March 1.
• University of Regina: Based on semester.
• Saskatchewan Polytechnic: Depends on program start
date.
The CAA Saskatchewan Scholarship Program was established in 2006 as part of CAA’s commitment to the progress
and success of the province. CAA Saskatchewan also awards
one scholarship to a CAA Saskatchewan employee or child of
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Shellbrook Chronicle
www.shellbrookchronicle.com
January 30, 2015
ADVANCED
St. Thomas More College
(STM) provides students
with an intimate scholarly
setting within the larger U
of S campus. Smaller class
sizes, award-winning faculty, social activities, additional scholarship and
The best of both worlds
bursary opportunities, an
in-house chef for food offerings – all supporting an environment for students that
is the best of both worlds.
STM is academically integrated with the University of
Saskatchewan, and in part-
nership with the College of
Arts and Science, students
can select from over 220
credit classes in the humanities and social sciences –
many unique to the campus.
Any U of S student may take
STM courses as part of their
U of S degrees.
A new 20,000 sq. ft. addition to the College was
completed in 2013 providing additional classroom
space incorporating the latest technology; dedicated
student study space; faculty
research space and a large
natural light Atrium. STM
is also recognized for its
Community Service learning and International travel
opportunities, successful
drama and glee club, youth
groups, a student governing
body within the College and
access to student advising
and College ministry support.
For more information
please contact one of our
student advisors – 306966-8900
5 secrets for winning a post-secondary scholarship
Each year, thousands of Canadian students earn scholarships
that help them offset their education costs. Surprisingly, over $15
million of the $70 million available each year in scholarship dollars goes unclaimed, according to
industry estimates.
“Scholarships are a good source
of education funding – one that
you don’t have to pay back,” advises Melissa Jarman, director
of student banking at RBC Royal
Bank. “Don’t write yourself off
as an unqualified candidate. In
addition to funding school with
your savings, a part-time job,
or a student loan, you could receive an unexpected top-up. Even
smaller scholarships will help out
with your expenses.”
Scholarships are available
throughout the year, so here are
five tips to help you explore your
options:
1. Research: Check your college or university’s financial aid
department. If you are in high
school, check to see what scholarships are available to graduating students. Take advantage of
online resources such as studen-
tawards.com and scholarshipscanada.com that match you to
Discover More
with St. Thomas More College
available scholarships.
2. Be optimistic: If you’re not a
Over 220 Arts & Science
class options open to all
U of S students !
- Award-winning faculty
- Additional scholarship
& bursary opportunities.
“I appreciate STM’s community
atmosphere and the smaller class
sizes that provide students with an
engaging learning environment.”
Gabriela, STM student
- New 20,000 sq. ft.
addition incorporating
advanced classroom
technology.
- Community Service
Learning options &
International travel.
- Drama & Glee club.
stmcollege.ca
straight-A student, be aware that
not all scholarships are based on
academic standing. Some of them
reward civic engagement, leadership experience, your heritage,
affiliations, or a particular skill.
3. Tap your network: You may
find scholarships are offered by
your employer, sports league or
your bank. Ask your parents if
their employers offer funding to
children of employees.
4. Plan ahead and start early:
Be prepared to devote time towards fulfilling scholarship criteria. There are often essays,
questionnaires and school transcripts to submit, so allot your
time wisely for maximum impact.
5. Be conscientious: Proofread
your application and ensure you
followed all the instructions. Ask
friends and family to review your
application before you send it.
Jarman says that RBC provides
over $550,000 in annual scholarships, including the Students
Leading Change Scholarships,
the Aboriginal Student Awards
Program and Scholarship Program for the Children of RBC
Employees. More information is
available online at scholarships.
rbc.com.
January 30, 2015
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Saskatchewan School of Nursing
The College of Nursing
undergraduate Bachelor
of Science in Nursing
(BSN) program is for
students with strong academic backgrounds, attitudes of curiosity and
inquiry, as well as a genuine interest in caring
for diverse people of all
ages. Our graduates play
a vital role in the healthcare system in Saskatchewan and beyond.
The BSN program
consists of a pre-professional year followed
by three years of nursing education. The preprofessional year builds
the foundation of the
nursing program and includes courses in the hu-
manities, natural, social
and health sciences.
Once admitted to the
College of Nursing, students are given the opportunity to engage in
interprofessional learning experiences with
students from medicine,
dentistry,
pharmacy,
nutrition, kinesiology,
physical therapy, clinical psychology and veterinary medicine in Saskatchewan and around
the world.
In years two through
four, students develop
critical thinking skills to
prepare them to meet the
diverse competencies required when becoming a
Registered Nurse (RN).
Part-time study in the
BSN program is an option; however, all courses must be completed
within six years of entering the College of Nursing.
To become eligible for
licensure with the Saskatchewan
Registered
Nurses’
Association
(SRNA), graduates must
pass a national licensure
examination administered by the SRNA and
pay the required licensure fees.
Locations:
The pre-professional
year may be completed
at a variety of institutions and regional colleges. Learn more about
pre-professional year locations here.
Years two through
four may be completed
at College of Nursing
campuses in Saskatoon,
Regina, Prince Albert
or through distributed
learning at sites in Ile-aLa-Cross, La Ronge and
Yorkton.
Benefits of the U of
S College of Nursing
BSN Program:
For more:
• Once admitted to the
College of Nursing in
year two, study full or
part time; students have
six years to complete the
program.
• The College of Nursing has a Global Health
Initiative and gives students
The opportunity for
international
clinical
experience in Australia,
Finland, Tanzania and
the Philippines. Our curriculum focuses on helping students link their
understanding of local
health issues to a global
context.
• Study at one of Canada’s top 15 research intensive universities.
• Work with engaged
faculty and staff who are
interested in creating an
innovative and creative
student education experience.
• Study with expert
nursing professors, the
majority of whom have
PhDs.
• Study at a University
that’s been delivering
degree level nursing education since 1938.
• The College of Nursing has a long history of
Aboriginal student success and is recognized
as having the highest
number of Aboriginal
nursing students in the
country. The Native Access Program to Nursing (NAPN) recruits
and supports Aboriginal students enrolled in
our nursing programs.
16.6 per cent of seats in
the BSN program are
reserved for Aboriginal
students.
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www.shellbrookchronicle.com
January 30, 2015
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Education savings deliver unexpected benefits
(NC) Be sure to save
for your child’s postsecondary education,
no matter whether
university is in the
picture or not. A Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) for
example, will give you
valuable government
grant money and taxfree savings.
Not every dream career requires a degree,
but most require some
form of certification
or training. Electricians, police officers,
plumbers, they all require different types
of formal training. And
RESP money can be put
towards most of them.
The reality is that
an RESP has very few
limitations and can
be used for most postsecondary education
that results in a degree, diploma or occupational skill, be it a
college, trade school,
arts school or other approved institution of
higher learning.
“It is a very common
misconception that an
RESP can only be applied to a traditional
university education,”
says Andrew Haid, the
president and CEO of
the innovative RESP
provider, giraffe &
friends. “Educational
savings plans such as
our no-fee, worry-free
RESP can be applied to
a wide variety of educational opportunities.
If a child’s chosen career has formal training at an approved institution, an RESP can
be used to pursue it.”
Parents and students
will welcome this f lexibility. Canada is increasingly in need of
skilled tradespeople,
from iron workers and
machinists to plumbers and hair stylists.
Students who choose
careers such as these
will have many opportunities for rewarding employment upon
graduation.
More information is
available online at giraffeandfriends.com.
University grads more likely to get jobs, earn more
The deadline for university applications is
fast approaching, and
anyone helping teenagers decide what to do
after high school should
consider this: university
graduates have the highest employment and
highest incomes of any
level of education.
A new report showcasing survey data of Ontario undergraduates and
released by the Council
of Ontario Universities
(COU), shows that more
than 87 per cent of recent university grads
had jobs six months after graduation, with 93
per cent employed within two years.
Six months after leaving school, the average
salary for university undergraduates is $42,636
and that rises to $49,398
just two years after
graduation.
The survey of 2011
graduates conducted for
Ontario’s Ministry of
Training, Colleges and
Universities also shows
that university grads
say they are using the
skills gained at university on the job. Almost
83 per cent of graduates
employed full-time considered their work to
be closely or somewhat
related to the skills developed at university.
That rose to almost 89
per cent two years after
graduation.
“A university education is still the best path
to a successful career
and well-paying job,”
says Bonnie M. Patterson, COU President and
CEO. “It’s well worth the
investment and gradu-
ates can rest assured
they will leave university with the skills they
need to move from career to career as the job
market changes.”
Erin Kang graduated
in 2011 from University of Toronto’s Urban
Studies Program for
which she completed a
placement at the Centre
for Social Innovation
(CSI). Just a few months
before graduation, Kang
landed a permanent job
at CSI.
“My academic focus
was community development and neighbourhood resilience,” Kang
says. “Now, I’m working in that very field and
loving it.”
More
information
about the survey is
available online at cou.
on.ca.
How college students can eat healthy
If asked to reflect on their
college years, many graduates likely would not recall healthy eating habits.
College students are often
pressed for time and short
on funds, so a nutritious
diet is often sacrificed for
the sake of convenience and
cost.
But a healthy diet can
help college students handle the stresses of college
life more effectively. The
following are a handful of
easy ways college students
can improve their diets’
nutritional value without
breaking the bank.
• Eat breakfast. College
students tend to stay up late
and sleep in, but sleeping in
at the expense of a healthy
breakfast can impact performance in the classroom
and make students more
likely to overeat later in the
day. A bowl of cereal with
some fresh fruit is not an
especially expensive break-
fast, but it can help college
students start their day off
on an energetic and healthy
note.
• Snack healthy. Many
students find snacks are an
integral part of hours-long
study sessions. But trips
to the vending machine for
candy bars or potato chips
won’t add much nutritional
value to your diet. Instead
of being at the mercy of
vending machines, bring
healthy snacks along during study sessions. Fresh
fruit, raw vegetables, Greek
yogurt, and whole wheat
crackers are just a few
snacks that pack a more
nutritious punch than traditional vending machine
fare. Healthy snacks also
tend to provide more energy, making it easier to
endure late-night study sessions.
• Make pizza healthier.
Pizza is a staple of many college students’ diets, so it’s
likely unrealistic for them
to quit pizza cold turkey,
especially since there are
ways to make pizza healthier. When ordering a pizza,
college students can request
their pizza be prepared with
whole wheat dough, which
is healthier than traditional
pizza dough. In addition,
ask for less cheese and
more tomato sauce. Such
alterations are simple and
healthy without sacrificing
taste.
• Scale back on sugar.
Sugar can cause weight gain
without providing much in
the way of nutrition. College students can cut back
on their sugar intake by
avoiding sugary beverages,
including soda and drinks
like sweetened iced tea or
lemonade. College is also
when many young men and
women first start drinking coffee, which some
people prefer to take with
sugar. But students looking
to keep weight off and reduce their sugar intake can
choose to drink their coffee black or with just light
cream or fat-free milk to
ensure their morning cup of
joe is not contributing to a
bigger waistline.
• Drink more water. The
symptoms of dehydration
mimic those of hunger, and
college students might turn
to snacks when all they really need is a glass of water.
If you find yourself snacking shortly after eating a
meal, then you might just
need to drink more water.
Few college students prioritize healthy eating habits. But there are some inexpensive ways for on-the-go
students to enjoy healthy
diets.
Learning is not attained
by chance, it must
be sought for with
ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
January 30, 2015
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Career services with North West Regional College
CAREER services
Access conﬁdential career services by making an
appointment with a career
coach. NWRC has current
resources and assessment
tools to help you determine
your career goals. Interests, values, abilities, and
personality are analyzed.
Learn how to examine job
proﬁ les and labour market trends to make an informed career decision.
Information and support
on the job search, resume
writing and interview and
hiring procedures are also
available.
Unanticipated troubles,
such as a family illness,
may interfere with school.
When experiences like
these negatively impact
your ability to be academically successful and to
live well, you may want to
consider additional help.
Sometimes you may just
need support from counsellors to explore your options,
connect with resources,
and develop a perspective
that will help you to cope.
Student counselling is here
for you and referrals can be
made to counselling agencies for additional support.
Whether you are just out
of school, in the workforce,
between jobs, or wanting a
career change, we can as-
sist you with your career
decisions and training
plan, provide information
on educational programs
and funding sources and
help you achieve your
goals. This is a free service
available to high school
students, the general public and current NWRC
students. The College has
a wealth of information,
resources and assessment
tools to help you determine
your goals. Our supportive
staff can assist you with:
•One-on-One conﬁdential career planning
•Academic planning
•Researching post-secondary institutions
•Financial Assistance options
•Scholarships
•Recognition of prior
learning
•Resume writing
•Interview skills
•Portfolio development
•Job shadowing
•Informative interviews
Contact Information
Battlefords Campus
Shelley Miller
Student Services Coordinator
PH: 306-937-5126
Meadow Lake Campus
Hilda Rose-Kadler
Student Services Coordinator
PH: 306-234-5107
Trades
A career in one of the
trades is a fantastic choice.
Following your initial College program, you gain
hands-on training in the
feild. Working your way
to journey person status,
you will have excellent job
opportunities, including
owning your own business.
Currently there is a shortage of trades people in our
area and a great deal of opportunity. If your looking
for job security and opportunities galore the trades is
a perfect ﬁt for you.
Academic Upgrading
Our academic upgrading provides individual-
ized programs to help you
achieve your educational
and employment goals. Instructors and support staff
will assist in designing an
individualized
program
just for you. Programs
range from Basic Education Readiness to Adult 10
and Adult 12.
Academic upgrading is
available to everyone. To
enter into an upgrading
program, testing is required to determine your
level of entry. Interested individuals should contact a
counsellor at a North West
Regional College to arrange
for testing. Please contact a
College location near you.
Not sure what you
want to do?
We offer:
- Degrees
- Diplomas
- Certificates
- Apprenticeship Training
Areas of Study:
- Business & Information Technology
- Trades & Industrial
- Health & Community Services
- Adult Basic Education
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1.855.793.3422
1.888.763.0615
1-877-234-6669
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Sask Rivers
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www.scott-moe.com
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- University
Campus Locations:
- The Battlefords
- Meadow Lake
www.nwrc.sk.ca
Your Children,
Their Education,
Everyone’s Responsibility!
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Shellbrook Chronicle
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January 30, 2015
ADVANCED
New degree programs for Briercrest College
Recently
Advanced
Education
Minister
Kevin
Doherty
announced that Briercrest
College and Seminary
has received authorization to grant Bachelor of
Arts degrees in English
and History.
“I’m pleased that Briercrest will now deliver
two new programs to its
students,” Doherty said.
“Our government places
a high priority on providing
Saskatchewan
students access to high
quality post-secondary
education.”
The
Saskatchewan
Higher Education Quality Assurance Board
conducts a rigorous re-
view of applications for
new degree granting
programs before they
are considered for approval.
“We’re thrilled to add
degrees in History and
English to the 80 years
Briercrest has provided
Canada with premium
Christian education,”
Briercrest College and
Seminary President Michael Pawelke said. “We
applaud the Ministry of
Advanced Education’s
work in moving Saskatchewan forward and
recognizing Briercrest’s
important contribution
in providing excellent
options alongside our
universities.”
Approval of theses degrees is provided under
The Degree Authorization Act and The Degree
Authorization Regulations, which came into
effect in 2012. Prior to
this, only the University
of Saskatchewan and
the University of Regina had the authority
to grant degrees, other
than theological degrees, in the province.
In 2013, the government of Saskatchewan
granted the college authorization to provide a
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, the first time
authorization had been
given to an institution
outside of the province’s
“A higher
education
leads to
a brighter
future and
greater career
opportunities.
Find out more from your
local colleges and universities!”
Rob Clarke, MP
Desnethé Missinippi
Churchhill River
1 866-400-2334
[email protected]
two universities. Briercrest will be able to provide a Bachelor of Arts
in English and a Bachelor of Arts in History
effective July 1, 2015.
The authorization will
be reviewed formally in
five years.
Briercrest College and
Seminary is located in
the town of Caronport
25 kilometres west of
the City of Moose Jaw.
Newspapers make a wonderful
educational tool
Many of today’s classrooms are filled with
all types of emerging technologies, which
educators use to enhance their students’
educational experiences. However, the
humble newspaper has long been a staple
in the classroom and at home and remains
one of the best tools for learning. Newspapers can be used to further children’s academic abilities in a variety of ways.
Improve reading fluency
Fluency, comprehension and inference
of text are lessons that begin as soon as a
child begins learning how to read. Children
need access to a variety of reading materials so they can expand their knowledge and
vocabulary base, and it’s never too early to
introduce youngsters to the newspaper as
not only a source of local and national information, but also as a reading tool.
Parents can go through the newspaper with their children and select articles
that may be of interest. A section devoted
to local events or a particular theme, such
as sports or fitness, may be good starting
points.
Children can have fun matching headlines
with photos and following the sequence of
the stories that continue on another page.
They’re also bound to be exposed to a number of new words and phrases as they read
newspaper articles, which helps improve
their vocabulary.
Strengthen writing skills
Newspaper articles are written differently than books. Exposing children to a
journalistic style of writing can help them
with their own writing assignments. Teachers often stress that narratives and other
writing assignments should follow a certain format so students learn to express
themselves clearly. Students are urged to
validate statements with proof and to have
a logical flow to their work.
By reading articles in newspapers, students can gain an understanding of how to
introduce a subject, expand on facts and
summarize a point. Students who tend to be
more pragmatic writers may connect with
the journalistic style of writing more so
than students who excel at creative prose.
Children can practice reporting on different events in and around their communities, emulating the style of writing presented in newspapers. They also can learn the
differences between editorial and opinion
pieces.
Make current events accessible
Newspapers are an inexpensive connection to culture and information from
around the world. Through newspaper articles, students can better understand political, financial and entertainment issues
spanning the globe. Staying abreast of the
latest news from around the world can help
students become more well-rounded and
learned. Students who may have read about
events in a history book can compare those
accounts to current information on what is
happening in the world today.
Develop an Eye for Photography
Stunning, award-winning photographs
are published in newspapers nearly every
day. A picture is worth a thousand words,
and newspaper photography helps readers
interpret stories and bring the words to life
through imagery. Access to newspaper photography can open up an entirely new world
for children. It also may inspire their own
creative works.
Students may be inundated with technological resources both at school and home.
But perhaps no classroom resource can
match the array of benefits provided by
newspapers.
Next in importance to freedom and justice
is popular education, without which neither
freedom nor justice can be permanently
maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
January 30, 2015
www.shellbrookchronicle.com
Town hosts public
information session
for ratepayers
While snow fell outside, a
larger than expected crowd
assembled in the Community
Hall on Tuesday evening for
a public ratepayer meeting
hosted by Shellbrook’s mayor and town council.
Aside from providing residents with information about
the happenings in the town
over the last year and its
plans going forward in 2015
and beyond, the public meeting was also a forum for residents to pose questions and
air their grievances.
Indeed, the grievances
were plenty, as some questioned the town’s need for a
bylaw officer, while others
expressed concern over such
items as the municipal tax
rate and road work that was
done in the past year.
Prior to the question and
answer period, however, attendees of the meeting received information from
SAMA’s Chandra McGuire
about property assessment.
She explained to the boisterous crowd how and why
they’re done, and also provided information on how
property assessments can be
appealed.
More information on the
assessment process is available at http://sama.sk.ca/
sama/
Following this information session, it was Mayor
Tomporowski’s turn to provide residents in attendance
with an update on the town’s
plans when it comes to maintaining its assets, such as water, waste water, roads and
sidewalks, and buildings.
Tomporowski told the audience that the town entered
into an asset manage program about three years ago
so it would have more detailed information on which
to base its decisions with
regards to the town’s infrastructure. With all things
considered, he said the total
asset replacement cost for
the town is just under $60
million.
He also provided attendees
with a summary of the major asset replacement projects that the town took on
in 2014, including pavement
patching and sealing, the
Town of spiritwood
equipment For sale by Tender
2007 Sterling Acterra w/Heil Formula 4000
Rear Loading Garbage Packer with 446,700 kms
&
145 – Used Three Yard Garbage Bins
All of the above items will be sold in their “as-is” condition.
Tenders may be submitted for the Garbage Truck and the
Bins or as separate items.
These items may be viewed during business hours. Tender
forms are available at the Town Office, and if you would like
to view these items please call (306) 883-2161.
Further to this, the municipality reserves the right to reject
and refuse any or all tenders.
Please submit tender to:
Town of Spiritwood
Invitation to Tender
Box 460, Spiritwood, SK S0J 2M0
Ph#: (306) 883-2161 • E-mail: [email protected]
On or before 4:00 pm on February 20th, 2015.
Shellbrook Chronicle
Scotiabank pays it forward with
donation to Wild Rose School
updating of the town’s water and sewer valves (which
will allow the town to fix issues without having to disrupt water service to most of
the town), and relining the
town’s sewer lines and fixing
a failure in the system.
This year, he said, the town
will likely do more patching and sealing of the town’s
roads, and also complete
work on 2nd Avenue West
to widen the road to the hospital, and potentially add
traffic lights in the future. In
response to questions about
the future of Main Street,
Tomporowski said that surfacing is “on the horizon,”
but that the cost to resurface
the whole street is about $1.5
million, meaning it’s “not doable all at once.”
Other plans for this year
include replacing more water
valves on Main Street, and
installing an auto-shutoff for
the town’s sewer plant. He
said the original design was
flawed because when a power outage occurs, the effluent
continues to flow.
The meeting wrapped up
with an update on the rink,
as well as other recreational
facilities, from councillor
Bruce Clements. Clements
told attendees that the rink is
in “pretty rough shape.” He
said that the volunteer recreation board is attempting
to raise funds, but has also
turned to the town for funding.
Lastly, he revealed that
recreation director Jenny
Hosie is undertaking an assessment of the town’s buildings to determine what they
need, when they need it and
how much it will cost the
town. Clements said that
town council hopes to have a
complete assessment in time
for the town’s budget near
the end of March, so it can
make a presentation to the
town about what can be done
about the rink.
Wild rose principal Graham McGregor (right) and Marlene Schutte (left) receive a $5,000 cheque from Scotiabank’s Dianne Ethier and Sharri Mortensen.
The cheque is a matching donation for money raised during the school’s annual Walkathon.
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ShELLBrOOK: Shellbrook Branch of the Wapiti Library located at 105 Railway Ave.,
West (Provincial building). Library Hours: Mon., 2-6:30 pm; Tues., 2 - 8 pm; Wed. 2 - 8
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ShELLBrOOK: AA Meeting, Alcoholic’s Anonymous meet every Monday - 7:30 p.m.
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MArCELIN: Marcelin & District Community Club Events. Marcelin Community Hall
Beer & Wing Night & Silent Auction on Saturday, March 14, 2015, Doors Open 7 p.m.
Pancake Breakfast & Ham and Turkey Bingo on Sunday, March 29, 2015. Breakfast 10
a.m. to 12 p.m. Bingo 1 p.m.
CANWOOD: Canwood Curling Club Annual Billy Spiel on Friday & Saturday, Feb. 6,
& 7 . $100 entry includes Dance ticket & 6 end games. Steak Supper $15 - Feb 6th 5 to
7 p.m. Dance $10 - Feb. 7th - Legion Hall ‘Moonlight Music’ Phone or text entries to:
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PArKSIDE: Valentine Soup, Sandwich & Dessert on Saturday, Feb. 14 from 11 am to 2
pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Parkside.
ShELLBrOOK: Shellbrook Movie Matinee: Saturday, January 31st, BIG HERO 6;
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We are looking to fill the following positions for the 2015 season:
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• Lifeguards (Full Time & Part Time)
• Playground Coordinators (Full Time)
• Parks and Tourism Attendant (Full Time)
• Tourism and Heritage Attendant (Part Time)
• Office Assistant (Full Time)
• Public Works Assistant (Full Time)
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Record crowds expected to see Woods at Phoenix
Sports fans’ eyeballs will
be focusing on Phoenix this
weekend, and not just because of the Super Bowl.
The Valley of the Sun is
always nuts when the Super Bowl comes to town,
but when Tiger Woods announced two weeks ago that
he would be making the
Waste Management Phoenix
Open — coinciding with Super Bowl weekend — his ﬁrst
start of the 2015 season, the
expected boom has become
almost guaranteed bedlam.
The Phoenix Open always
attracts the PGA Tour’s largest crowds, but Woods, arguably the most famous athlete
in the world, hasn’t graced
the tournament with his
presence since 2001. That he
will be making a PGA start
for the ﬁrst time since leaving the tour last August to
ﬁnally get healthy will bring
the masses to TPC Scottsdale, a course built to handle
thousands of spectators.
But will it be able to handle
all the people who want to
see Tiger’s return
all-time
leader
to action? Last
Jack Nicklaus and,
year, more than
at the age of 39, his
560,000 people
best years are deﬁwent through the
nitely behind him.
gates — a one-day
Still, few people
record 193,000
are counting him
on Saturday. This
out, least of all
year, organizers
Nicklaus.
are guessing that
“Tiger has had a
one-day
numgreat career, and
BRUCE
ber may exceed
I don’t think his
PENTON
200,000,
and
career is over,”
~
the four-day total
Nicklaus told golfwill smash the
channel.com. “He’s
600,000 mark.
had a little lull in
If Woods shoots 63 on the his career, and we’ll see
ﬁrst day and is contention what happens from here. I
throughout, there’s no tell- had lulls in my career, too.
ing what kind of crowds may I had several periods where
jam into the course. At some I had three and four years
point, tournament ofﬁcials that I didn’t win anything
say, crowd safety becomes an of a major championship,
issue. They never before have and I came back from that,
even considered limiting the and I think Tiger may do the
number of fans, but they may same.”
have to this year.
• Snipped from Dwight
Meanwhile, Woods is re- Perry’s Sideline Chatter in
portedly healthy, eager to re- the Seattle Times: “Among
sume competition, and has the things Randy Johnson
his game in shape. He’s still said when he learned he’d
four major victories behind made the Baseball Hall of
Fame, as he disclosed on
CBS’s ‘Late Night With David
Letterman’:
— “One step closer to becoming People Magazine’s
‘Sexiest Man Alive.’
— “I feel like an even Bigger Unit.
— “Guess they forgot about
me killing that bird.”
• Jason Sobel of golfchannel.com, on Tiger Woods
deciding to take part in this
year’s Phoenix Open, which
traditionally draws the largest crowds on tour: “This
won’t be a keg party anymore. It’ll be Woodstock.”
• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Celebrating his
74th birthday on Sunday: pro
rassler Abdullah the Butcher.
Just a guess here, but no one
gets in his way when he goes
to cut the cake.”
• Bob Molinaro of the
Hampton Virginian-Pilot:
“Jon Gruden is signed on
for Monday Night Football
through 2021. This will allow more time for someone
to publish the much-needed
Gruden-to-English dictionary, but please hurry.”
• Molinaro again, looking back at the big stories of
2014: “Oddly enough, Ray
Rice punched his then-ﬁance, but the blow left Roger
Goodell with a black eye.”
• Greg Cote of the Miami
Herald:”Howard Schnellenberger referred to the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl as
‘larger than life.’ Rarely has
life been more insulted.”
• Brad Dickson of the
Omaha World-Herald: “A
man in Memphis is charged
with stealing 7,500 pairs of
new LeBron James Nikes
that have a value of about
$1.5 million. After this guy
is tried, we need to arrest
whoever decided it was OK
to charge $200 for LeBron
James shoes.”
• Comedy writer Alan Ray,
on the pending induction of
the late “Macho Man” Randy
Savage into the WWE Hall
of Fame: “The place will be
standing-room only. For
some reason, all the chairs
are broken.”
• Seattle Times columnist
Larry Stone, via Twitter, after the Mariners acquired
lefty pitcher Mike Kickham:
“I’d suspect their plan is to
use Kickham when they’re
down.”
• Another one from Dickson: “A Siena College basketball player missed a game
so he could give a class presentation. What a refreshing
change in a world where student athletes sometimes skip
ﬁnal exams to be ﬁtted for a
new chin strap.”
• Jerry Perisho on Twitter: “Hillary Clinton says
“Washington Redskins” is
embarrassing and tasteless.
She prefers “DC Redskins” or
“Nation’s Capital Redskins.”
• Seattle Times columnist
Larry Stone, via Twitter, after the Mariners acquired
lefty pitcher Mike Kickham:
“I’d suspect their plan is to
use Kickham when they’re
down.”
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Silvertips rack up two more wins, extend streak to four
After two victories in their
last two outings, it seemed the
Shellbrook Silvertips had put a
rough road stint behind them
and returned to the form that
had put them at the top of the
SPHL standings early in the
season.
But their Friday match up
against the red-hot Meota
Combines, who had racked up
11 straight wins coming into
the game, put them in an unenviable position, even on home
ice. Despite having fallen to the
Combines earlier in the season,
the Silvertips were more than
up to the task, as they came out
ﬁring on all cylinders.
Silvertips vs. Combines
Shellbrook wasted no time
exacting their revenge on
Meota in this rematch, as they
scored three goals within the
ﬁrst seven minutes of the game
to chase Combines goaltender
Chris Honig from the net. But
Meota would get back into the
game and cut the Silvertips’
lead to two before the end of
the period.
In the second frame, Meota
showed the Silvertips just
how they claimed top spot in
the league, by capitalizing on
some defensive errors to tie the
game up at three. The Silvertips
would reclaim the lead, only to
give it up again and head into
the ﬁnal period with a 4-4 tie.
At ﬁrst glance, it seemed like
Shellbrook had secured a win
as the team netted two goals
early in the third to claim a
6-4 lead. But just as they had
shown why they were once
top dogs in the league, the Silvertips also demonstrated why
they had fallen on bad luck as
of late, allowing the Combines
to score two goals in the ﬁnal
minutes to send the game to
overtime.
Despite this, the SIlvertips
would reclaim the momentum
and emerge victorious.
Devon Dicus was back in top
form, scoring two goals and
Silver Tips Hockey Schedule
Friday, Jan. 30
- 8:30 pm
Silver Tips vs
Battleford
adding two assists, while Dylan
Smith also had another strong
outing with two goals and a
helper. Meanwhile Josh Elliot and Nick Martin both had
a goal and an assist, and Brett
Mason rounded out the goal
scoring.
For the Combines, Brett
Miller was the top scorer,
with two goals and a helper.
Brody Tatchell had two goals,
while Kyle Gregoire and Tyson
Knight each had a goal.
Silvertips @ Timberwolves
There are few positive words
one can use to describe the
season the Spiritwood Timberwolves have had this year,
given that they’ve only put together one win.
When the Silvertips last met
the Timberwolves, the result
was a brutal 11-0 beatdown.
While this game was much
closer, it was still the Silvertips
who came out on top, claiming
the W 5-2.
Brendon Canaday, Josh Elliot, Brett Mason, Jason McComas and Mitch Wourms all
had single goals for the Silvertips. Devon Dicus and Brennan
Thomporowski added the only
two assists of the night.
Nelson Peters was the top
scorer for the Timberwolves,
with a goal and an assist, while
Shane Gopher netted the
team’s other goal. Shay Ducette
and Patrick Robinson rounded
Devon Dicus dekes around the Combines’ goalie before netting one of his two
goals.
out the scoring with an assist
each.
With the wins, Shellbrook
now ﬁnds itself in fourth place.
The Silvertips are slated to
take on the Battleford Beaver
Blues at home on Friday, Jan.
30 at 8:30, then they’ll hit the
road for their ﬁnal game of the
regular season against as they
face off against the Radisson
Wheatkings Jan. 31.
PRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS
HOCKEY SCHEDULE
Fri., February 6 ~ 7 p.m
P.A. VS Swift Current
Come for the Game, Stay for the Party!
Sat., February 7 ~ 7 p.m
P.A. VS Calgary
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January 30, 2015
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