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Melville city council has ap-proved $5.1 million to replace the city’s main lift station, three years ahead of when it was scheduled to be replaced.

Director of public works & planning services, Andrew Fahlman, gave a report to coun-cil on Monday evening where he said Lift Station 1, the City’s primary lift station, which is lo-cated at the north end of Main Street by the football field, is now beyond its useful lifes-pan. A key piece of the city’s infrastructure, Fahlman said all other five pumping stations in the city feed to this station before being pumped out to the lagoon for treatment. Over the

years however, it has had nu-merous failures owing to the building, roof, electrical and the pumps and is now in need of replacement.

The City first began looking at replacing the lift station in 2017 at which time they engaged an engineering firm to designed a facility. That study was fin-ished in 2019 and at that time the station had been placed in the queue to be replaced in 2024. But due to some major failures that happened this past fall, the decision was made to bump it up the list to be replaced be-cause of the higher importance of the facility.

Council had approved $5.7 million in the 2021 budget to build a new station and the project was sent to tender ear-

lier this year. Four bids were received for the project with prices ranging between $4.7 mil-lion to $5.25 million. After a re-view and evaluation of the bids, Westridge Construction Ltd. was awarded the contract over the other three bidders. While Westridge was not the cheapest bid, Fahlman said the cheapest tender scored lower overall and had gaps in it when it came to their subcontractors. As a re-sult, the city felt the best deci-sion was to go with Westridge.

“The City of Melville and its ratepayers are seeing the most value for the dollars spent,” said Fahlman when comment-ing on who the tender was awarded to.

City council agreed with Fahlman and a motion was

passed to approve the Westridge Construction Ltd. contract for a cost of $5,139,300 (including taxes), which is $560,700 under the allocated budget. Several costs still need to be added to the project however, including $200,000 to $250,000 for engi-neering services, $100,000 for project management and 20 per cent for unforeseen costs. De-spite all that, the entire project is expected to remain within budget.

The project will be financed through $2.5 million from the city’s reserves and up to $3.2 million from borrowing.

Work on the new lift station will begin in the near future and includes tearing down of existing lift station, which has asbestos that has to be delt

with. The construction of the building should be completed by fall to allow crews to workinside on components through-out the winter. The expectedcompletion day is July 2022.

City council also approvedon Monday night, repairs tothe much smaller Lift Station 4,which is located on the ServiceRoad and services Kihew Fabco and Future Ford. Council hadpreviously authorized a new lift station at a cost of $155,000,but after further evaluation, it was determined that the exist-ing station can be repaired andfitted with new parts, savingapproximately $120,000 fromoriginally budgeted costs. Therepairs, which were approved, are expected to cost approxi-mately $31,797 plus tax.

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Firefighters battle large grass fire on edge of cityBy Chris Ashfield

Grasslands News

Melville firefighters found themselves stretched thin on Tuesday afternoon when they were dispatched to three dif-ferent wildfires in a matter of hours (mutual aid by York-ton was requested for one). The larger of the fires, located on the west edge of the city, caused a few minutes of panic for some residents who were concerned that the hospital was at risk.

Speaking to the Melville Advance from the scene the following morning, Fire Chief Tyrone Mogenson described the fire as big but said that there was no real threat to the city or the hospital.

“The big thing we were battling was the tall grass, the location and wind. We had a pretty good barrier between where the fire was at and the hospital and stuff, and then when things cooled down a bit at night we did some back burning and took care of some fuel load and stuff to the north of the hospital through the creek bed,” said Mogen-son. “I know there were a few panicky moments there for a few people but there was a big barrier between the actual fire line and the hospital.”

There were 14 members of the fire department that bat-tled the fire but Mogenson said there was probably around 30 people in total who assisted in containing the blaze. He credited everyone who turned out to help including farmers with equipment including water and sprayers, city recre-ation and public works employees who put out barricades, RCMP for helping to keep the public away and various other volunteers who turned up to help out any way they could. By the time the fire was contained, more than 200 acres of land had burned, most of it to the east and north of the hospital and water treatment facility.

Due to the thick smoke and for the safety of emergency responders and the general public, a number of roads around the fire were closed for several hours, including the dam road, the road north of the golf course and the grid road going from Highway 15 north to the dam.

Firefighters were back on scene the next day putting out a few fires that had reignited and cooling other hot spots.

Mogenson said that the ignition source of the fire was still not known as of Wednesday but is being investigated.

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Grasslands News picked up 25 pro-vincial awards of excellence for its three publications earlier this week when the Saskatchewan Weekly News-papers Association (SWNA) held their 2021 Better News-papers Competition (BNC) Awards presentation virtu-ally on Monday, May 17.

The three Grasslands News publications – the Mel-ville Advance, Fort Qu’Ap-pelle Times and Whitewood & Grenfell Herald Sun – picked up nine first place awards, eight second place awards and another eight third place awards in the BNC’s General Excellence and Premier award categories.

The General Excellence Awards are the top honours in the newspaper industry and recognize newspapers of simi-lar circulation for excellence in layout, design and content. The Premier Awards has news-papers of various circulations compete against each other in areas such as writing, ad design and photography. All papers are judged on issues published throughout 2020.

In General Excellence (circulation 1,200 and under), the Fort Times took first place for both Best Front Page and Best All Around Newspaper while winning second place for Best Editorial Page. In the 1,200 to 1,999 circulation category, the Melville Advance won first place for Best All Around News-paper while the Herald Sun placed sec-ond. The Herald Sun also won two third

place awards for Best Front Page and best All Around Newspaper.

In the Premier Awards, both the Her-ald Sun and the Melville Advance won three first place awards. The Advance was awarded for Best Page Design for one of their front page de-

signs while the story “Melville on short list for new industry” written by Chris Ashfield won Best Ag Coverage. Emily Fulford’s article “Community enjoys MCS student project” also placed first for Best Habitat Conservation Story. The Herald Sun’s Elaine Ashfield won first place for her feature story entitled

“Student fights for dangerous offender designation” while Chris Ashfield won two first place photo awards for the Herald Sun for Best Wildlife Photo and Best Hard News Photo. The wildlife photo featured two bald eagles sitting

in a tree while the hard news photo was a photo of a col-lision between a half-ton truck and a parked spray plane.

The Fort Times placed second for Best Page Design (behind the Melville Advance) while the Herald Sun won third in the same category, giving Grasslands News a clean sweep of that category. Fort Times writer Alan Hus-tak also won two second place awards

including Best Arts/Culture Story for a series of articles on a chainsaw art-ist while his story “Worrisome water study for local lakes” placed second inthe Best Habitat Conservation award category.

The Herald Sun placed second for two photoawards which included Best Sports Photo for a steer wrestling photo byChris Ashfield and Best Wildlife Photo for a pic-ture of a fox by Alvin

Nixon. The final secondplace award for Grasslands was for Best Headline writ-ing for story titled “Hey,a’right now, who’s gonnabid for...” that went to production staff Lloyd Schmidt.

The third place finishesclaimed by Grasslands News publications in-cluded awards for photog-raphy, writing and special sections. The 2020 Stayca-tion guide placed third for Best Special Sectionwhile the Celebratingour Veterans guide wasthird in the Salute toVeterans category. Twoother third place awards

went to the Fort Times’ Alan Hustak who was recognized as one ofthe Best Educational Story winners forhis article “Students uncertain about returning” while he also won a thirdplace finish for Best Colour Photo fora front page photo of a toy drive. Thefinal third place award was for BestPeople Photo, which was for a photo by Mandy Beach of a man in a pen-guin suit jumping doing a polar plungeduring Winterfest.

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A young woman from Sakimay First Nation is

on the road to national recognition. Despite fre-

quent migraines caused by a brain tumor, Dannicka

Kequahtooway is striving to live a cheerful and rich

life filled with interesting experiences.

Dannicka will be entering Grade 11 this fall and

lives with her parents, Crystal and Bruce, on a farm

outside of Broadview. At age 6, she was diagnosed

with an inoperable frontal-temporal brain tumor.

Doctors said that this type of tumor typically rup-

tures between the ages of 26 and 30,

so every six months Dannicka un-

dergoes an MRI scan. The tumor

has not grown and seizures have

decreased since the diagnosis, but

she still suffers from severe head-

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In spite of these challenges,

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herself and accept whatever

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event for Miss Teen Universe.

Contestants must be 13 – 17 years

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for southern Saskatchewan. Dannicka is

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but if it is postponed due to COVID-19 concerns, the

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The Fort Qu’Appelle Winter Festival returns in a new format this year on Friday, Feb 28, after last year’s cancellation. The focal point of the festival is the enchanting aurora ice castle built near the river by the old Fort. Organizers are keeping their fingers crossed hoping the weather remains cold enough to keep it

glistening. Admission buttons for the festival went on sale this week at the library, the Husky service station,

the Legion, Pharmasave, the Mane Beard Barber Shop and the Tweed cannabis store. They are $6 for adults, $4 for children, and you need a button to visit the ice castle, and to take part in a number of the weekend activities.

“We’re good to go, for sure; we’re running, look-ing back now,” said co-chair Josh Boehme, “Our twelve corps groups have put together a program that we anticipate will be one of the best ever.”This year the official opening ceremonies will be held at the Rexentre, instead of the old Fort, on Friday at 7 p.m. before the puck drops for the Prairie Junior Hockey League game between Fort Knox and Pilot Butte. A fireworks display is scheduled to take place that evening between the first and second periods of the game. They will be set off on the south side of the valley on the hills above the Governance Centre instead of above Echo Lake as in previous years.There will also be a cabaret at the Legion at 9 p.m.Activities on Saturday begin at the old Fort with a pancake breakfast and include horse drawn

sleigh rides, a pet show and outdoor recreation.The annual polar bear plunge this year returns to Echo Lake near the Fort Qu’Appelle camp-ground. At least a dozen have volunteered to take the icy dip. It starts at 1 p.m. Saturday. The program also calls for ATV races, a street hockey tournament, uphill drag races at Mission Ridge Winter Park and a Ukrainian supper at the Le-gion.During the festival weekend there will also be a trade show with 40 vendors at the Anglican and United Church Halls on Saturday and at the Angli-can Church hall on Sunday. On Sunday, there’ll be sled dog races.For a detailed program of what’s happening see the advertisement on page 15 or go to www.fortwinterfestival.com

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Regina’s Matt Dunstone

had two reasons to celebrate

on Sunday in Melville after

his team of third Braeden

Moskowy, second Catlin

Schneider and lead Dustin

Kidby won the SaskTel

Tankard men’s provincial

championship to earn a spot at

the Tim Hortons Brier.

As Dunstone and his team

were defeating 2019 champion

Kirk Muyres in the final at

the Horizon Credit Union

Centre in Melville, Dunstone’s

girlfriend, Erin Pincott, was

curling in the B.C. women’s

championship as the third with

Corryn Brown. The Brown

team won the match 8-7 in an

extra end to clench a berth

in the Scotties Tournament

of Hearts Canadian women’s

curling championship on Feb.

15 to 23 in Moose Jaw.

Dunstone got the news

about his girlfriend’s win at

the fifth-end break of the final

game but said he didn’t let

what was happening with her

distract him from what he was

there to accomplish.

“I was really excited but

I had to take a moment to

realize what the job was at

hand. There has been a focus

all week for our team and

that moment might have

gotten in the way with that.

Obviously I am so pumped for

her and ecstatic and now I can

celebrate it with her. But for

those last five ends, I had to stick

with what we were doing.”

The game between Dunstone

and Muyres’ Saskatoon rink

was a tight match, with

Muyres making a tough draw

in the first to score first. But in

the fourth, Dunstone took a 2-1

lead off a hit for two. Muyres

tied it back up in the sixth with

another difficult draw but

another deuce put Dunstone

up 4-2 in the ninth heading

into the last end. Coming

home, Muyres wasn’t able to

get enough rocks to stay in

the house to force an extra or

a win and the game was done

with Dunstone’s last rock

unthrown.Getting to the final wasn’t

easy for the 2020 SaskTel Tankard

champion team as

they

had to play three consecutive

must-win games leading up to

the final. The skip described

the last few days as an

exhausting experience.

“To be honest, this is the

most sore I have ever been.

We’ve played 50 ends in a

span of about 30 hours. It was

a mental grind. Obviously,

we had a chance to qualify

through A and B (events)

so mentally it was difficult.

It’s just a combination of

everything. I’m happy it’s

over.”Playing in the final against

the Kirk Muyres’ rink also

played an emotional game with

Dunstone, who knew the only

thing standing between him

and the championship was a

team of curlers who he was

friends with both on and off

the ice. But in this sport, that

is all part of the game.

“It’s not fun playing people

you’re buddies with but at

the same time, our two teams

make each other better. Kirk

made us hungry last year and

I guarantee, come a month’s

time it will be go time and

they’re going to want to kick-SEE DUNSTONE, 12

Obviously I am so pumped for

her and ecstatic and now I can

celebrate it with her. But for

those last five ends, I had toad to stick

tied it back up in the sixth with

with Dunstone’s last rock

unthrown.Getting to the final wasn’t

easy for the 2020 SaskTel Tankard

champion team as

they

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Council has been asked to approve the installation of two antique pieces of fire fighting equipment in the green space along the river behind the Fort Qu’Ap-pelle museum.

Communities in Bloom has repurposed the vintage water pumper and hose car-rier.

As part of the work, folk artist Ken Woytiuk has created two metal dog sculp-tures fighting a blaze in a small building. Communities in Bloom would like to see the piece placed in front of the McDon-ald mansion on a raised 55 metre square platform marked with landscape ties and filled with gravel.

Councillor Connie Wowchuk suggested the “living art” installation could become

a tourist attraction and increase the number of people who visit the museum.While the town’s Chief AdministrationOfficer Victor Goodman applauded the initiative, he questioned whether the loca-tion was the best place for the machinery.

“We still don’t have a clear idea of what the landscaping will be. Perhaps it might be better located in front of the museum,” he said. “It is a great creative piece, but we need additional informationso we can find an appropriate location for it.”

No one has formally approached any-one in charge of the museum with such a proposal. Putting the whimsical sculpture in the suggested green space, however, could compromise the integrity of theviewscape and the immediate surround-ings, which are listed by Parks Canada ascontributing factors to the heritage value of the site.

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A Grenfell man is one of two males facing a num-ber of charges in connection with the use of counter-feit currency. This comes after an investigation into two separate, but related, incidents in recent weeks.

On May 10, 2021, the Regina Police Service re-ceived a report from a business in the 8500 block of Dewdney Avenue. The staff reported two incidents where an individual used or attempted to use coun-terfeit $100 bills to pay for purchases. These incidents

are alleged to have occurred on April 17, 2021 and May 3, 2021. Investigation, including security video, led to the identification of two suspects and a suspect vehicle. Officers located the vehicle on May 11th, parked at a residence on Alexandra Street. Warrants were obtained for the residence and the truck. The two suspects were arrested at the time the search warrants were executed, and evidence seized. Further investigation led to several charges.

Thirty-seven year-old Pierre Randolph LaFerte, of Regina, and 32-year-old Tyson S. Knutson, of Grenfell, Saskatchewan, are jointly charged with:• Two charges of Use a Forged Document ($100 bill),

section 368(1)(a) CC.LaFerte is also charged with:• Possession of Stolen Mail, section 356(1)(b) CC;• Possession of Stolen Property under $5,000 (license plate), section 355(b) CC;• Breach of Probation, section 733.1(1) CC; and• Possession of a Scheduled Substance (methamphet-amine), section 4(1) CDSA.

Knutson is also facing a charge of Fail to Complywith Release Order, section 145(5)(a) CC.

Both men made their first court appearances onthese charges before Provincial Court on May 13,2021.

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On Monday, May 24, Victoria Day will be extra special as it falls on Queen Victoria’s actual birthday this year. The reason why that is somewhat unique is that the birthday is actually often cele-brated on different days each year, but not in the same way as leap year birth-days. In this particular case, it is so as to make the celebration into a long weekend. As such, Victoria Day is recog-nized each year on the Monday preced-ing May 25.

Celebrated in Canada since 1845 to honour the ruler of Great Britain and Ire-land from the 20th of June 1837 until her death in January of 1901, Victoria Day often includes a statutory holiday, fireworks, and

other celebrations across the country which was part of the British Common-wealth until 1982. Even after Canada was granted Independence in the 1980s, the country still celebrated the event

as it has since. However, things have not gone as planned for the royal

birthdays since the late Queen’s 200 was celebrated in 2019.

In 2020, festivities planned for Melville as well as most other places were cancelled due to the COVID-19 safety restrictions. The same went for Canada Day where fes-tivities had to remain among members of the same house-hold. The city planned to do a drive-in fireworks display

instead to celebrate every-thing in one big belated blowout, but that also ended up having to be cancelled due to unfore-seen circumstances. It appears that this year

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end for the City of Melville. However, fireworks are planned at nearby Sunset Beach at Crooked Lake for May 23. If weather is forecasted to be inclement, their fireworks will be held on May 22.

After a blazing hot beginning of the week on May 17 and 18, the tempera-tures dropped as the rain was called for the remainder of the week, possibly leaving things with a damper on them for the long weekend. So if you’re plan-ning on doing a camping trip, be sure to check the forecast first as the weather

can change suddenly. On a related note, the walking track

at the Horizon Credit Union Centre (HCUC) in Melville will be closed to thepublic the May 24 weekend and resume its open status on the May 26. Other parts of the HCUC facility are still being used as a COVID-19 vaccine site and that is expected to continue until fall. If you’re staying in town this holidayweekend, be sure to check store hours and other services for alternative open-ing hours to avoid any wasted trips.

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Community-wide garage sales slatedBy Sarah PacioGrasslands News

This summer, local communities are resum-ing their tradition of town-wide garage sales after taking a hiatus last summer due to COVID-19.

As part of its Re-open Saskatchewan Plan, the government announced that residents are per-mitted to host yard sales, provided they follow guidelines outlined on the province’s website. Items must be displayed out-doors, as buyers are pro-hibited from entering the seller’s garage. Multi-fam-ily sales are not allowed and food or beverages cannot be sold. Frequent hand washing or sanitiz-ing is recommended and individuals from differ-ent households should remain two meters apart. Buyers should avoid

picking up items unless necessary and disinfect items after purchasing. Private outdoor gather-ing limits prescribed by public health orders at the time of the sale apply as well.

Following the govern-ment’s announcement, town-wide garage sale days have been sched-uled for June 5 in Gren-fell and Whitewood, and June 5-6 in Melville. All three Town Offices are as-sisting residents by creat-ing maps of participating households.

Melville residents can register online, by vis-iting or calling city hall 306-728-3722. Each regis-trant will receive a free kit with sanitizer and social distance signs. The deadline for registration is June 3, and maps will be available from June 4 on the city’s website and Facebook page. Paper

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By Blaine Coleman - Local Historianfor Grasslands News

Whitewood’s first post-master, Thomas Gamble Lyons, heard the call of the west and joined The York Colonization Com-pany of Toronto, who owned large tracts of land north of the CPR in what was then known as the Northwest Territories now partially absorbed by the province of Sask. His business was to establish settlers on these lands, with his headquarters at Whitewood. He arrived in Whitewood, took posses-sion of lot 14-block 14 and built a six-room house, of which the front was to become Whitewood’s first post office. On July 13, 1883 he was appointed postmaster over his only opponent Benjamin Li-moges. The post office - Whitewood Station, was opened Dec. 1, 1883.

In those days, the rail-way branch lines were only beginning, and the mail had to be dispatched by stagecoach. T.G. Lyons undertook this further responsibility and he es-tablished post offices at Forest Farm, Esterhazy, Kinbrai, Sumner, York-ton and Wallace. The stages ran from White-wood through these places to Wallace, which was the western terminus of the York Colonization Company.

Driving a stagecoach was at time heartbreak-ing work and the risk to men and horses was very real. In the spring of 1889, Lyon lost six horses that simply died of exhaustion from the hardships of the trail. The roads were just trails and often the men had to get down and dig through the drifts be-fore the stage could pass. March 1889 went down in the records as having the worst storms in the history of the country. It raged on for five days and a lot of stock per-ished. Lyons was on an emergency trip in con-

nection with the stage and mail delivery and he and his driving partner Smith disappeared for three weeks. They had got lost in a storm and found shelter in some straw stacks where they took refuge. They were completely lost and to make things worse, they became snow blind. For-tunately for them, each mail stage was compelled to carry emergency supplies, consisting of corned beef, biscuits etc. and barley for the horses. For two weeks Lyons and Smith ex-isted on their emergency ra-tions and the third week they survived on barley, boiled in melted snow. After a three-week ab-sence, their family and friends had pretty well given up on ever seeing the two men alive again. One can’t imagine the joy the citizens of White-wood had when their stagecoach driver and as-sistant appeared after all that time. The town did, however, put on a huge banquet for them and it was said that every cit-izen in Whitewood and surrounding area at-tended.

Unfortunately any research so far has not come up with any in-formation who “Smith” may be. However, it is re-corded that the people in Whitewood always knew when the stage was ap-proaching town because when he neared home, Smith would break into his rendition of “The Red River Valley” or “I’ll Be

All Smiles Tonight.”Although T.G. Lyons

came to Whitewood in 1882, his wife and fam-ily did not arrive until 1886. When his family was on route to their new home their train was side swiped, breaking all the windows and lamps on one side. When they

arrived in Whitewood - in very low spirits and soaked in kerosene from the broken lamps, the first thing that was asked of Lyons as they got off the train was - “Where is the town?” His answer was, “It’s round about.” The total population then was about 100 people.

T.G. Lyons’ family arrived on a Friday eve-ning and on their first Sunday in Whitewood they went to church. The Lyons had been of Anglican faith, however having no Church of En-gland in Whitewood at the time, they went to the Presbyterian service held in the manse. There was no organ and the hymns were started by an old Gaelic gentleman with a tuning fork. It was

pretty terrible to say the least and after the service Lyons said to his oldest daughter Jennie, “I think we can do something for this church” and gave her $25 to write to Win-nipeg’s pioneer music house - Grundy Brothers

for a small par lour

organ. The next week Jennie rode through the settlement and collected enough funds to pay for the organ. In collecting, she even went to the old Gaelic gentleman of the tuning fork and he thought the town had enough of the devil’s in-struments without in-stalling an organ and that he didn’t approve of such gadgets. However, he did end up contributing $10

to this implement of the devil.

Within two weeks the organ was installed and Jennie Lyons played it every Sunday for three years. After this organ was purchased for the church, many well to do families in the district bought organs and Jennie had a thriving business

teaching organ lessons, as far away as Indian Head.

The first sum-mer for the T.G. Lyons’ family in Whitewood, they were in-troduced to

mosquitos at an Orangeman’s Day

picnic at Scissors Creek. They travelled there on a hayrack drawn by a team of oxen. A

distance of eight miles and it took all day to go and

come there. Jennie de-scribes this as her initi-ation to mosquitos of the North West. In her words - “They were lusty-big yellow ones - they didn’t bite - they devoured you”. Everyone at the picnic had to wear mosquito netting and because of the heat and dust it was very uncomfortable. One man even claimed that ten mosquitos picked up a 300-pound calf of his and carried it away. In

struggling to save hiscalf and managing to kill one mosquito, he claimedthat it had CPR stampedin bold letters on its back.

Shortly after Jenniearrived in Whitewood she was sworn in as Deputy Post Mistress - the first woman in theNorth West to hold thattitle. Her father hadtaken out a homesteadNW 32-15-2 in 1885 and established himself as a horse rancher. His stock was mostly native ponies and it was necessary toround them up every morning and night to seethat they got some water at some of the sloughs.Jennie and her father did this chore together andbecause of this, she be-came an excellent rider. The first saddle horseshe had of her own wasa little sorrel pony herfather had bought froma band of Indians fromthe Touchwood Hills. Thepony was known as “The Riel Mare” for when they bought it, all the shoeswere on backwards and it was supposed to be thehorse Louis Riel rode out of the country after the skirmishes and his defeat at Batoche and Cut Knife Creek. The shoes werebackwards so it would appear the rider wascoming into the country instead of leaving.


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By Murray MandrykPolitical columnist

For months now Premier Scott Moe has been telling us we are near the COVID-19 finish line.

It is optimism that’s been appre-ciated — and, often, much needed — in this seemingly endless fight.

Unfortunately, it might have also turned that finish line into a bit of a mirage.

It’s frustrating that we still don’t actually know how far away that finish line is or what we have to do to get there.

So maybe it’s now time for some-one to give us a better idea where that finish line is.

In fairness, neither Moe nor any government in Canada should be blamed for its past inability to provide such specifics during some-thing as unpredictable as a once-in-a-century global pandemic.

The best we can really hope for is that we all follow the good policies our political leadership chooses. That’s how we will all get us through this as quickly as possible.

For this, Moe deserves a bit more credit than some have been willing to give him.

Moe has also long said that it’s vaccines that will lead us to that finish line — a pronouncement met with a fair bit of scepticism.

The Saturday before the long weekend, the Saskatchewan Health

Authority delivered a record 18,568 vaccines. And then on Sunday, we broke that record with another 18,995 vaccinations.

That’s equivalent to three per cent of the entire province in just two days — a rate, Moe proudly noted, was likely the fastest vaccine distribution rate in the world.

We have now doled out more than 600,000 doses and 75 per cent of those over 40 years (and 59 per cent of all adults 18 years and older) have been vaccinated.

Does anyone recall when we en-viously looked south of the border and marvelled at how quickly U.S. President Joe Biden was getting his country’s population vaccinated? Well, Saskatchewan and then the entire nation will soon surpass the U.S. in percentage of the population vaccinated.

Credit goes to Moe – and cer-tainly the SHA and health system including pharmacies — for get-ting shots in the arms of people as quickly as it has.

But maybe even some credit should go to the federal Liberal gov-ernment (yes, a difficult thing to do out here, given our valid frustra-tions with Ottawa) for doing a better job of securing vaccine supply than we thought when Moe and the rest were complaining we didn’t have enough vaccines.

Saskatchewan’s vaccine rollout story is even more remarkably in light of a recent Angus Reid Insti-

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COVID-19 finish line remains unclear

It’s been a tough year for lots of people and businesses but this week, I want to comment on what a good year it has been for Grasslands News.

The newspapers all across the country have been hav-ing their struggles due to challenges such as social media, the lack of government accountability to the public and the unforeseen drop in all the elements needed to fill a community newspaper.

Things such as the immense loss of revenue to busi-nesses forcing them to tighten their belts and that usually means advertising dollars, to the closure of facilities and restrictions causing cancellation of events. These are the things that fill the pages of a newspaper. Grasslands News continued to fill the pages through the immense changes created by a pandemic.

The provincial newspaper association also continued with a tradition of having staff from other province’s news-papers judge the Saskatchewan newspapers and while this not only is an honor if chosen as a winner, they are also awards that honor faithful staff, the people that take all the comments, leads, stories and photos and put them into a collage called your weekly newspaper.

Firstly, this opinion column I am writing today is not meant to brag by any means but is solely written to ac-knowledge those that need to be acknowledged.

You see, as an old newsroom staffer – yes, it is the 50th year since I married into, and even though sadly my editor husband predeceased me, it still means that this will be 50 years in the newspaper business for me with the news-paper family of the Ashfields. This family also published

many editions prior to me getting the ‘feel of the ink in my blood.’

There are not a lot of people that enjoy their job so much they choose to continue to work for half a century but there is also no other job in the world that will keep your interest more than that of an editor, a reporter or the newsroom employee designing the pages for a newspaper.

These dedicated people don’t continue doing this be-cause of all the glory they receive (as not many I imag-ine would even think about what goes into publishing a good story or paper) but, the many people committed to the weekly chore of producing a newspaper seem to be obsessed in a world of continuing to educate themselves about their communities and their areas including the peo-ple, the events. This business is a continual changing scope of interests and responsibilities (to acquire a news scoop).

A lot of newspapers are the longest continuing busi-nesses in their communities, a task not easily accom-plished it seems in this day and age, and that means they also hold the records from hundreds of people whose inter-est in the people and the events were composed on pages that are now history in the archives of the newspaper.

In all the years of my employment through the ink and the metal to now the keyboard and online streaming, I don’t believe there is another business that can say they have seen as many changes. But there is one main staple in the business that has not changed – the people that make the newspaper what it is.

There would not be a newspaper if it were not for you – yes, the people reading this right at this moment. You are

the main staple of the history of your community as you still hold an interest in not only reading and increasing your knowledge of where you live and the areas you have interests in but you are also often the people making the news in the many events that are important to community history. You are the bricks that are building a better com-munity through your donations, your ideas, your spon-sorship and are a very important piece that requires the mortar to build your community and to hold it together for many, many years.

This year has shown us how great the faithful employ-ees are that continue even when times are tough, how determined bosses are to continue on when it seems hope-less at times and how a good team of co-workers can work through all kinds of circumstances.

This weekly newspaper has always known that it is not the horror or the shocking news that is important in any community. It is the special people that are caring for each other, are making community events important. It is our families, communities and neighbors that are important.

This has been a good year for Grasslands News as we have not only been honored by our peer publishers in the awards event, not only honored to have the best group of staff working together through these very different times, but we have received so many compliments and have got-ten to see that the people in our communities still want to continue to read the pages of our newspaper togain knowl-edge, amuse themselves and to see what will be kept in history in our archives forever. Thank you!

- Elaine Ashfield, Grasslands News

Good always seems to come out of the bad

tute poll showing 24 per cent here — the high-est rate in nation — say they are hesitant to get vaccinated.

This is partly driven by the anti-mask, anti-vaxxer crowd, but it’s also being driven by young people not thinking they will catch COVID, older people not trusting certain vac-cines like Astra Zeneca and First Nations people and new Canadians not having easy access to the drive-thru clinics. Moe’s gov-ernment needs to do more to address these issues.

Yet our vaccine success is driving down the COVID-19 numbers. Active cases and hos-pitalizations are now the fewest since March — numbers made even more remarkable by the fact we are sandwiched between Alberta

and Manitoba where case numbers are still increasing.

Vaccines have been a literal shot in the arm, but all this begs questions:

What is the province’s vaccination rate or active daily case count that will allow us to fully open the province?

Moe has been talking about filling Mosaic Stadium sometime after the CFL opens in the August. Well, what do we need to do to get there?

What percentage of first and second doses are needed in Saskatchewan before we can see 30,000 at a ‘Rider game? What daily case count?

Moe and his government need to better de-fine exactly where the finish line is.



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Reporting period:May 12 to May 19

Melville and Ituna de-tachment area had 61 oc-currences over the past week.

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Ituna Fire and RCMP responded to a boat fire north of Ituna. The boat was a complete loss. No injuries as a result of the fire.

A person contacted the RCMP to report that her elderly mother had sent $5,000 to Publisher Clear-

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A pet owner contacted the RCMP to report their purebred brown/tan min-iature Chihuahua with green eyes is missing. RCMP continue to inves-tigate.

RCMP were contacted to report that four tires were stolen off an en-closed trailer in Killaly. RCMP continue to investi-gate and possibly identify a dark blue truck that was seen near the trailer.

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The City of Melville Parks & Recreation Department is now accepting applications for Leaders of the Summer Park Program.Position: Summer Park Program Leader (1)Description: Reporting to the Recreation & Programming Manager, the Park Program Leaders responsibilities involve the following but are not limited to:• Participate in three day training session in Yorkton.• Plan program sessions including games, crafts, sports activities, and other activities.• Obtain supplies under the City of Melville’s purchasing policy. • Promote program and activities.• Co-ordinate instructors, groups and facilities for program activities.• Supervise program delivery.• Maintain discipline• Evaluation and administration duties as required. Qualifi cations: Applicants must be at least 16 years of age and have access/ability to get to the job location. Applicants must have valid First Aid/CPR. Wage: $13.87 per hour (as per the current CUPE Local Agreement No. 456).Term of the position: June 28, 2021 to August 13, 2021 (start date subject to change).Application deadline: 4 p.m. on May 31, 2021

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Dear Editor,I drive school bus in

the city of Melville, and I am writing this to our city councillors to let them know the conditions of the roads on my route leave a lot to be desired. I under-stand that they may not be a priority like the part of Prince William that is pro-posed to be paved.

I have also been told that the ones on my route are not that bad because they have been travelled by various members of the city. Take it from me, that if you were to ask the students on my bus if they are bad you would be sur-prised at their answer.

Therefore I am put-ting out an invitation to each and every councillor to ride my route with me after school hours and judge for yourselves how bad they are. I can only maintain less that 30km/hr in order for the stu-dents to have a safe and comfortable ride. The only way you can appreciate my concern is to take that ride and then imagine having to ride those roads five days a week twice a day.

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Visitors to Sunset Beach Resort, a seasonal campground located at the east end of Crooked Lake about 25 km north of Broadview, will have new recreational opportunities this summer.

Damage from flooding in 2014 and safety con-cerns relating to aging playground structures led the Sunset Beach Recre-ation committee to begin planning for facility re-placement. Many success-ful fundraising events were held over the past few years, from steak din-ners to paint nights, and even lemonade stands. Contributions have come from private, corporate, and municipal sources so that approximately $85,000 has been raised. However, the committee is still ac-cepting donations to cover the cost of a few final items such as picnic ta-bles and crushed rock for pathways at the park.

Not only was financial support generously pro-

vided, but many have also volunteered their time or equipment to assist with the project. For example, the RM of Grayson used its equipment to grade the site, free of charge. Parkland Sport, Culture, and Recreation District covered the cost of pick-leball equipment and two “Learn to Play Pickleball” clinics for the two pickle-ball courts and basketball court that will be com-pleted later this summer.

Groundwork began in September 2020, and volunteers spent last weekend installing the playground equipment. Dustin Ast from CE Maintenance Solutions in Whitewood brought his crew and equipment to work with other volun-teers for three days. “It was amazing! Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to get every-thing all done,” said com-mittee president Randy Durovick. “Everybody that showed up worked so hard to make the dream finally come true for ev-erybody down here; we’ve been waiting years for a

playground here at Sunset Beach.”

The recreation com-mittee is thankful for the opportunity to provide families with a new facil-ity and excited that the playground will be open to the public in time for Victoria Day celebrations. This will include fire-works at Sunset Beach on

May 23, supervised by theBroadview Fire Depart-ment. If the weather is un-favorable, the fireworksshow will take place onMay 22 instead.

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“Working Together... to Grow Melville

Mayor’s CornerThank you to all those commu-

nity members who participated in the city-wide spring clean-up and disposal of waste at our landfill. A total of 20 “Bag it to Win” gift bags were distributed to folks demonstrating their pride in our city by collecting garbage.

Thank you as well to everyone who submitted the Canada Census form. Your participation is crucial in determining long term planning initiatives for our city.

Recently, I had the opportunity to observe con-struction at the new pool at the Regional Park. Timelines of the project appear to be on track as this exciting new configuration of the pool takes shape.

City crews keep busy as part of their sum-mer maintenance program - patching pavement, sweeping streets, and spraying for dandelions and weed control. Just recently eight bright blue City of Melville Tourism Signs have been erected on Highways #10, #15, and #47 identifying spe-cific tourism sites to visit in our city.

This past week was declared National Nursing Week. On behalf of the entire community, I want to acknowledge and commend our Health Care Workers who continue to serve on the front lines since the start of the pandemic.

Hats off to Lynnette Nordli, a Melville Para-medic, who was chosen to be part of the 2022 Sas-katchewan Firefighters Calendar with proceeds from this calendar directed to the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital.

Did you know that in 1918 Bylaw Number 147 outlined restrictions to prevent the spread of the Spanish Influenza nearly identical to our present day COVID-19 restrictions?

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New playgroundVolunteers spent last weekend installing new play-ground equipment, including a boogie board, at Sunset Beach north of Broadview.

LA police have arrested five people in the shoot-ing of Lady Gaga’s dogwalker and the theft of two of the singer’s French bulldogs. Ryan Fischer was left fighting for his life after he was shot as he tried to fight off thugs. The two dogs were re-turned safely two days later after they were found abandoned on the street. Three known gang mem-bers – James Jackson, 18, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27 – have been charged with attempted murder and armed robbery. They did not know the dogs were owned by a celebrity. Har-old White (the father and fellow gang member of Jaylin White) and Harold’s girlfriend, Jennifer Mc-Bride, 50, were also busted as accessories after the fact. McBride entered the scheme when she tried to return the dogs to claim the $500,000 reward Lady Gaga posted.

At a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chicago, Jon-tae Adams, 28, and his seven-year-old daughter, Jaslyn, were shot as they sat in a vehicle. Shot six times, the first-grader died and her father was seriously injured. I don’t know why Adams was attacked, but two shooters approached the car and left behind 45 spent shell casings. Adams’ mother, Lawanda McMullen believes the shooting stemmed from an argument on social media and was possibly gang-related. Two men, 18 and 21, have been charged. Adams was very upset that he re-ceived more criticism for his parenting than did the murderers. Three people were killed and at least 21 others wounded in shootings across Chicago on this same weekend.

The first pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered, dating back more than 2,000 years. It’s the world’s only known case of an em-balmed pregnant woman with preserved soft tis-sue, with scans revealing the woman was 28 weeks into her pregnancy when she died. The odd part is that the coffin was generally used for male priests, so archaeologists were completely surprised.

John Sheahan, 48, evicted the tenants in his Charleville, County Cork, Ireland, rental house after discovering they had set up a cannabis grow-ing operation in the backyard. He burned the 33 plants the tenants had cultivated as well as 253 grams of prepared pot (worth US$28,000). Sheahan subsequently confessed that after the eviction he had financial troubles, and a man offered him 5,000 euros to restart the operation. After being caught, he will pay a 5,000 euro fine and spend two years in jail.

A Virginia police lieutenant is out of a job over his support of Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of murdering two people at a Black Lives Matter pro-test in Wisconsin last August. Lt. William Kelly III’s name showed up as one of the donors to Rit-tenhouse via the Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo. The online fundraiser for the teen reportedly raked in $586,940 to help fund his legal defense.

The first time someone tossed an empty McDonald’s coffee cup on the lawn of Edward and Cheryl Patton in Lake View, NY must have seemed like a minor annoyance. But the minor nuisance became an almost daily occurrence over the next three years. Edward Patton, 80, set up security cameras and bought binoculars, but he could never get the license plate or a clear view of the driver. Finally, someone caught the license plate and the police set up a stakeout and caught Larry Pope, 76, in the act. It turns out that Cheryl Patton, also 76, used to work with Pope at Fisher Bus Service in Hamburg and described him as a ‘nemesis’ because of issues involving her role as a union officer. Pope has been charged with second-degree harassment and depositing trash on a highway.

When the safety arms came down to block ac-cess to a drawbridge in Daytona Beach, Fla., an impatient driver didn’t want to wait. He plowed his SUV through the arm and successfully jumped the span as the bridge came up, and actually es-caped after breaking through the safety gate on the far end.

I used to like teaching “Mending Mall”, a poem by Robert Frost that included the memorable line, “Good fences make good neighbors.” That is some-times true, but Michigan landowner Wayne Lam-barth says his neighbour has taken it too far. The other man constructed a 250-foot wall out of cow manure after a dispute over the property line. The farmer, who usually spreads the manure on his fields, insists it is not a ‘poop wall’, but rather a ‘compost fence.’

“Wrap your head around this one,” offered Jan-ice Hough. “Thanks to the Former Guy and GOP, millions of Americans are now under the impres-sion that masks are dangerous and guns keep them safer.”

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Swimming pools in many com-munities are being prepared for opening, with some as early as the end of May.

Grenfell Pool is scheduled to open on June 1 and Whitewood’s pool will open around June 20. Construction on Melville’s new swimming pool is continuing and according to director of community works Chris Bruce, things are still on track for the new facility to be open in late June or early July.

For those pools that are opening, the first few weeks of pool opera-tions will have restrictions in place at the pools due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic but the antic-ipated Phase 1 Re-Opening in Sas-katchewan at the end of May and hopefully the Phase 2 Re-opening regulations taking place around the middle or third week in June will result in a fun and safe season at the pools for everyone.

Grenfell has a large outdoor heated pool with a 9-foot deep end and a diving board. There is also a zero beach entry, meaning the water starts at 0” and gradually gets deeper.

Grenfell pool’s opening date is June 1, pending the public health inspection. Public swimming for June will be 4 to 7 p.m. with Lane Swim or Aquasize from 7 - 8 p.m. during week days and weekends are open from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 2:30 - 5 p.m. on weekends.

Of course, the Town of Grenfell will be adhering to all Public Health Orders and Guidelines set out by the Government of Saskatchewan Re-Open plan as they are presented and evolve through the season. As of current, the Town of Grenfell is observing the following restric-tions/guidelines for the GRP swim-ming pool:

- Capacity is 52 people in the pool area

- Children 10 & under must be accompanied by an adult

- Physical distancing must be

maintained in all areas of the pool (deck, washrooms, in line, in water, etc)

- Masks must be worn indoors in the bathroom and shower facilities

- Swimmers must be prepared and come ready to swim; change rooms closed for the season

- No snorkles or flippers- All people who pass through the

pool gates will be paying patrons, even if they chose not to swim (this is because each person contributes to the overall capacity of the facil-ity)

- No toys or inflatables permit-ted

- Absolutely no masks/face cov-erings in the water.

All timelines and restrictions are subject to change as required.

Grenfell Recreational Associa-tion also wants to remind swimmers to “Please keep our age restrictions in mind for independent swimmers this summer. This age restriction is in effort to keep everyone safe and healthy.

“Children under 10 must be ac-companied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18 years old. Maxi-mum two children (under age 6) per each guardian (1:2 ratio).”

Whitewood Pool Manager, Kend-all Junek, provided some guidelines to town council at their meeting on May 17th regarding the initial open-ing and first few weeks with infor-mation from the Lifesaving Society and from the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Many of the procedures will undoubtedly be similar in all the communities with outdoor pools open to the public but swimmers should check with their recreation department or town office for regu-lations prior to heading to the pool.

Public SwimmingPublic swimming is limited to a

maximum of 25 swimmers at White-wood Pool. Upon arrival if you de-clare yourself as a spectator, you are expected to stay on the pool deck. If at any point you decide to go swimming, you are considered a swimmer and must make that deci-sion upon your arrival. Once the 25

swimmer limit has been reached, a sign will be hung on the front doors and will be removed when the swimmer limit has been reduced to well under the swimmer maximum. All swimmers and spectators of public swimming must sign in at the front entrance before proceed-ing to the change rooms and thus the pool deck.

Pool toys will not be handed out to the public and any lifejackets provided to a patron by the pool staff is restricted to use by that one person only. Once that individual is finished using the lifejacket it will be set aside and apart from the other lifejackets for proper disinfec-tion until it can be used by another patron.

The increased frequency of cleaning procedures due to the pan-demic means that the timeslot for public swimming in the pool sched-ule will be somewhat smaller than in previous years to ensure that the pool staff has adequate time to prop-erly clean the facility for public use. Cleaning of high-touch surfaces will be done every 2-4 hours. Complete and thorough cleaning of the entire pool facility will be done once a day during the closing shift procedures.

LessonsSwimming lessons will be offered

in some communities but there are some that will not be offering les-sons this year.

Andrea Nicoll, Director of Rec-reation and Culture in Grenfell informed Grasslands News, “Unfor-tunately due to a staffing shortage of water safety instructors, the Town of Grenfell is not in a position to offer swimming lessons. This is the result of former instructors’ certifi-cations expiring and limited oppor-tunities throughout the province to become certified (due to covid-19).”

The Whitewood pool manager has stated, “The staff of the White-wood Swimming Pool would like to inform the community that swim-ming lessons are a work-in-progress and the community’s patience and cooperation is appreciated.

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New pool constructionConstruction continues on the new Melville swimming pool, which is expected to be completed in late June or early July. While people in Melville will have to wait to take a dip, pools in Grenfell and White-wood are expected to open around June 1 and June 20 respectively.

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“There will be no June swimming lesson ses-sion. My reasoning for this decision includes the idea that we may get more participation from neighboring communities if families do not have to worry about making a lesson time directly after school. Also, in lieu of COVID-19, many les-son-age students are in school and thus in contact with many other people. It may be in the Whitewood swimming pool’s best in-terest if the lesson partic-ipants were not actively in school during the les-son session. Lessons will be one lesson per day for two weeks. Therefore, the proposed session dates are as follows: Session 1 dates: June 28-July 2, July 5-July 9; Session 2 dates: July 19-July 23, July 26-July 30; Session 3 dates: August 2-August 6, August 9-Au-gust 13.”

The waivers and reg-istration forms will be

available for download from the Town of White-wood website. Registra-tion for a session must be completed, at the lat-est, one week before the beginning of the lesson session, or before the participant maximum is fulfilled. Swimming les-son registration will be completed on a first-come, first-served basis. Partici-pants will be restricted to registering for only one lesson session during the summer to allow more people to register. Once the participant maximum is fulfilled that particular lesson class will be closed for registration. Partici-pants will be notified ei-ther by email or phone if they have successfully been registered in the de-sired session before the class was full.

At this time, lesson reg-istration has a maximum of 8 participants, that is 4 students and 4 parents/guardians. To adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines, the instructor cannot be within 2m of the students. Therefore, to maintain the proper teaching en-vironment a parent or guardian must attend the lesson and depending on the lesson level either be in the water with their child for the lesson dura-tion or be prepared to be in the water with their child for the lesson dura-tion. To prevent gathering in the facility, under no circumstances are there spectators allowed in the facility during the swim-ming lesson times. The only people permitted are the students and their respective parent/guard-

ian, the pool staff sched-uled, and the instructor. Therefore, unfortunately, if a family has more than one child participating in swimming lessons, the child or children not ac-tively participating in the lesson cannot be in the fa-cility during the timeslot that their lesson is not scheduled.

All COVID-19 guide-lines must be followed.

• Using provided hand sanitizer when entering the facility and leaving the pool deck.

• Physical distancing: at least 2m while on deck, in the change rooms, and during low intensity phys-ical activity during the lessons; 3m while doing high intensity physical activity.

• Mask/face-covering wearing at all times up until entering the water for the lesson.

• Signing in at the front entrance of both student and the participating par-ent/guardian.

• If the participant(s) be-come ill or show COVID-19 symptoms, or a member of the participant(s) house-hold becomes ill or shows COVID-19 symptoms, or the participant(s)/mem-ber of the participant(s) household comes into contact with someone that they know of who is ill or shows COVID-19 symp-toms to not attend the scheduled swimming les-son and notify the swim-ming lesson instructor as soon as possible.

Whitewood Pool, as well as other pools, will be providing refunds to participants with COVID related cancellations.

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Sidewalk improvementsMelville Public works crews remove old sections of sidewalks to install accessibility ramps at the corner of Queen Street and 9th Ave. The city is making a number of sidewalks more accessible this year including those along Queen Street from 7th Ave. to 12th Ave., as well as sections along 7th Ave. and other high access areas downtown such as near the


By Emily Jane FulfordGrasslands News

Anybody up late in Melville at the end of the weekend might have seen something pretty spectac-ular if they looked up at around 2:15 a.m., on May 17. A line of satel-lites moved across the clear starry sky over the Melville Regional Park and the fact that what appeared to be a meteor was visible from Regional Park on Saturday night was no coincidence. The spectacular and bizarre sights were thanks to the company SpaceX whose fifth Falcon 9 launch within a four-week pe-riod sent packing another 52 satellites. The blast-off

took place from the Ken-nedy Space Center in Florida on the evening of the May 15th. The week-end’s mission was the 28th launch of Falcon 9 and is part of the plans for Elon Musk’s company to provide worldwide wifi via 12,000 satellites.

While such a mas-sive endeavour may not be taking place close to home, it’s not to say that Saskatchewan does not have plans to take part in the realm of outer space. A group of students from the University of Sas-katchewan (USask) has been developing the prov-ince’s first cube satellite, also known as the RAD-SAT-SK. Recently the team completed a major design review which in

turn is getting them sub-stantially closer to get-ting their project, quite literally, into orbit. The project includes the con-struction of the first sat-ellite-grade clean room in the USask College of Engineering building.

“The COVID-19 pan-demic has presented our team with many challenges,” said Dustin Preece, a second-year engineering physics stu-dent. “Despite this, the RADSAT-SK team rose to the occasion and made the transition to online collaboration to achieve our goals. I feel really proud of our team for getting the go-ahead on our design, and I am very honoured to be counted amongst their ranks.”

Over 100 USask under-graduate and graduate students over the past three years have been taking part in the proj-ect’s design, build, and launch. While the RAD-SAT-SK may be one small satellite, it is a giant leap for this student team, having designed and built it from the ground up with very little over-sight from the faculty.

“It’s thrilling to think that the cube-satellite is going to be tested and constructed at the uni-versity,” said Atharva

Kulkarni, a first-year en-gineering student. “Get-ting to be a part of the testing of a real satellite that will go into space is riveting.”

If all goes as plans, the RADSAT-SK is set to launch in late 2022. This would make the cube sat-ellite the first of its kind in Saskatchewan. During the one year spent in orbit, the RADSAT-SK’s mission is to validate a new kind of radiation sensor as well as test an experimental radia-

tion blocking compound, both of which are other projects developed by re-searchers at the univer-sity.

So far, the students have also managed to raise an additional $100,000 for RADSAT-SK, to complement the $200,000 grant they re-ceived from the Canadian Space Agency.

While there is wide-spread concern among astronomers that the in-creased number of satel-lites being launched will

interrupt the night sky and make stargazing dif-ficult, it is progress not likely to go away any time soon. USask, Space X as well as a number of other organizations across the world have plans in full force to launch satellites to assist the progress of humanity in every way from the in-ternet to weather survey-ing. However, the reality is, the night sky might look quite a bit different to the next generation of stargazers.

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Resulting from the province’s absolute de-termination to achieve full vaccination before fall, Parkland College and Cumberland College are setting their sights on a return to normality and getting to work develop-ing plans for a safe return to face-to-face learning for Fall 2021 programs.

Since the new year, over half a million people across the province have received, at least, their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. As a result of the success of the administra-tion of the vaccines, the Ministry of Health and the Chief Medical Health Officer are supporting the Saskatchewan post-sec-ondary sector’s plans which focus on giving stu-dents the option to return to the classrooms for more in-person instruction. The institutions, however, are fully prepared to adjust their plans and timelines if necessary, at any point as the pandemic evolves. This is a reality that has already been met by the public school sector on numerous occasions over the course of 2020 and into 2021 as reopen plans clashed with spikes in cases.

The Parkland-Cumber-land Coalition was able to deliver their classes in the 2020-2021 year through a method they refer to as Blended Learn-ing, which is essentially a combination of online, face-to-face, and alterna-

tive programming strate-gies. Where it was most important to implement in-person learning was when the course required hands-on lab work or shop time. During these situations, the classes were conducted in accor-dance with the health and safety precautions set out by the government.

“We learned a lot this year, and we admire our students and staff for being resilient and achieving their goals in these challenging times,” said President & CEO Dr. Mark Hoddenbagh. “While our plan is to get back to on-campus instruction, Blended Learning will continue to be a key part of our institutions, providing flexibility and fostering innovation as we serve learners across our re-gion.”

As always, the health and safety of students and

faculty is the top priority while the colleges develop their plans for the fall programs. Parkland and Cumberland have stated that they will continue to follow public health or-ders, as well as work with the Ministry of Advanced Education and the Minis-try of Health on this front as a means of ensuring that all necessary protec-tions are in place to keep everybody safe.

Details regarding the 2021-2022 program goals will be sent to students prior to the beginning of term, however, stu-dents and teachers are also being encouraged to monitor the colleges’ web-sites for any pertinent de-tails about their specific program and classes or changes to upcoming schedules. For more in-formation, please visit cumberlandcollege.sk.ca or parklandcollege.sk.ca

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Tucked away in the woods with its crenelated Norman tower visible from a grid road south of Edgeley, SK – St. Thomas Anglican Church (Vernon) was consecrated for worship on Sept. 29, 1899.

The church owes its existence to the initiative of one William Cooper, a well-connected farmer from England, who came in the 1890’s to work on a co-operative farm established by a British Earl, Lord Thomas Brassey, just east of Qu’Appelle.

One of Cooper’s cousins in Liver-pool, Sir William Vernon, also hap-pened to be the nephew of the first Anglican bishop of Qu’Appelle, Adel-bert Anson.

Half of the money needed to build

the church was raised in England. Patterned after a 12th century church in Yorkshire, England, it was built by stonemason Ludvig Monson of Fort Qu’Appelle and a carpenter from Qu’Appelle, J. B. Robinson.

The vestry and chancel were added in 1903, but the proposed spire and church tower were never completed. The pulpit and chandelier came from the Anglican cathedral in Qu’Appelle.

The church is open for occasional services during the summer and for a candlelight service at Christmas thanks to the efforts of a retired school-teacher and organist Bruce Farrer, Cooper’s great grandson.

There is also a wreath laying ser-vice each year to commemorate those pioneers who are buried in the ceme-tery.

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“Our beautiful little golf course in Neudorf is nes-tled in the woods,” club member Rebecca Maurer told Grasslands News. “I was on the course yesterday and it was just incredible, it’s so beautiful there. I can’t rave about it enough!”

The nine-hole course is located at the south end of Main Street, near the school and nature trails. It features sand greens with primarily par-3 and par-4 holes, and golfers are asked to rake the greens after they putt. A loading dock is provided for golf carts.

“It used to be a cattle pasture; in 1960-1961 volun-teers started to clear some of the bush in the former community cattle pasture for the intention of a golf course,” Maurer explained. “There’s the natural woods all the way through and it’s very scenic.”

The course provided an excellent place for one man from Lemberg to begin developing a love for the sport. Duncan Acton is now 95-years-old, but fondly recalls his early experiences at the course in Neu-dorf.

“When I was around 20-years-old we used to go out on a Sunday once in a while, I was always inter-ested in sports so I enjoyed golfing,” Acton said. “I was a member for probably 10 years before I started going to the grass greens. It was a good place to get started.”

He added that the course was tranquil and the price was reasonable. Eventually, Acton explored other golf courses, spending time with his wife and their friends on the greens at Last Oak, Melville, and Yorkton golf courses. In recent years he trans-ferred his membership to Katepwa since he prefers the grass greens and appreciates the cart rentals. He still golfs there twice a week and attributes this to a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise.

Although the Neudorf golf course does not provide golf cart rentals, there are other amenities. There is a clubhouse with picnic tables, and washroom facilities are located at hole 1 and hole 5. A box is positioned at the start of the course for patrons to insert the $10 daily green fee or $70 season membership payment. Memberships are discounted for families, $125, and seniors, $60. Tee times do not need to be pre-booked, visitors are simply asked to be respectful of physical distancing guidelines if others are in front of them.

The club has also arranged for semi pro golfer Mitch Matichuk to come from Melville for two days in June and provide private lessons. This is the fourth year that the clinic has run. It is scheduled for June 5 and 6, with options for one-hour sessions on either one day ($35 members, $40 non-members) or both days ($60 members, $75 non-members). Anyone interested in participating can pre-register by calling Rebecca at 306-335-7597 or Janice 306-730-0548.

95-year old golfer still loves the game

An ageless sportDuncan Acton, a 95-year-old golfer from Lemberg, developed a life-long love for the sport when hestarted playing at Neudorf Golf Course.

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The NHL regular season has re-cently concluded and now the play-offs have begun. Four Canadian teams have qualified for the post-season but unfortunately for those hoping the cup returns to Canada for the first time since the Montreal Canadiens did way back in 1993, two Canadian teams will be eliminated after the first round. There is some good news however, a Canadian team is guaranteed to be in the final four, one series win away from com-peting for a Stanley Cup.

The Canadian first round match-ups see a couple of historic rivalries renewed; the Edmonton Oilers will battle the Winnipeg Jets and the To-ronto Maple Leafs collide with the Montreal Canadiens. The Ottawa Senators, Calgary Flames and the

Vancouver Canucks did not qualify for the postseason.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won the North Division. They finished the season with 77 points, five points ahead of second place Edmonton and 18 points ahead of their first round opponent, the fourth place Montreal Canadiens. The two clubs are long time rivals despite not meeting in the playoffs since 1979. The habs have swept the last two playoff se-ries, the 1979 quarterfinals and the 1978 semi-finals. The last time To-ronto beat Montreal in the playoffs was in 1967, which happens to be the last time they won the Stanley Cup.

This season the Leafs went 7-2-1 against Montreal giving the Leafs a significant advantage heading into the series but anything can happen in the playoffs. Toronto has not ad-vanced past the first round since 2003. The pressure is all on Toronto this series and Montreal wouldn’t

have it any other way. Last season,in a similar situation, Montrealknocked off Pittsburg in the quali-fying round while the Leafs were eliminated in the qualifying round by the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The other North division show-down sees the Edmonton Oilers tan-gle with the Winnipeg Jets. Similar to their playoff battles back in the1980s, Edmonton once again has the games best player. Connor McDa-vid lead the NHL with 105 points in 56 games. The Oilers finished nine points up on the Jets. Winnipeg willneed to have goaltender Connor Hel-lebuyck play his best or it could be a short series.

The Jets and Oilers begin theirseries on Wednesday, May 18. To-ronto and Montreal start a night ear-lier. Both series are best of sevens.The winning teams face off againsteach other in round two.

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The Indian Head Rock-ets have been selected for induction to the Sas-katchewan Baseball Hall of Fame next year. Teams are selected one year prior to induction.

The Rockets were an all-black baseball team that played in tourna-ments across the prairies in the 1950s. Jim Robin-

son, who was mayor of Indian Head at the time, bought the Jacksonville Eagles, a Negro League franchise from promoter Syd Pollock. After the team moved to Saskatch-ewan, their name was changed to Rockets.

They played four sea-sons and were very pop-ular, with thousands of spectators attending games. Eventually the town could no longer af-ford to compete with sal-

aries that players were offered in the U.S. when teams south of the border became fully integrated.

Among those who got their start with the Rock-ets were Tom Alston, then 23, who went on to play for the St. Louis Car-dinals in 1954 and switch hitter Elijah “Pumpsie” Green, who was the first African American to be signed by the Boston Red Sox in 1959. He was just 17 when he came to play in Indian Head.

Not only will the Rock-ets be honored under the Team Category at the an-

nual induction ceremony in Battleford in 2022, a local exhibit is also in the works. The Indian Head Museum recently began designing an exhibit to highlight the Rocket’s role in the fight for racial equality. The board initi-ated the project while the museum was closed last year.

“When COVID hit, we decided to take the op-portunity to re-imagine the main floor of our mu-seum,” president Robyn Jensen explained. “We thought the Rockets are an important part of not

only Indian Head’s his-tory, but of Black history and Canadian history.”

Volunteers have been working diligently on renovations and creating the Rockets exhibit. Items that will be displayed include a baseball auto-graphed by all the mem-bers of the Rockets team, as well as photographs, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia.

Dean Renwick Design Studio from Regina is also creating a replica uniform for the exhibit. “As we have no actual uniform to work with,

Dean is relying solely on historical photographs and written accounts, looking at the style of uniforms at the time,” Jensen said. “Dean had previous experience with a project like this when he was asked to re-create Mary Baker’s uniform for the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.”

The Indian Head Mu-seum will remain closed this summer to continue these efforts, with the goal of completing work in time to coordinate with the team’s 2022 induction to the Hall of Fame.

Hall of FamersThe Indian Head Rockets have been selected for induction to the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Famein 2022.

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During the Wake-A-Thon, cadets and officers will attempt to stay up for 24 hours (or have a blast trying), while doing hourly check-ins and challenges with a nautical flair. Skills will be pushed to the limits while staying safe and having fun.

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The Wolseley Sea Cadets have some catching up to do, though, as the fundraising score is $1,320 to $345,with Fort Qu’Appelle in a comfortable lead. Funds raised will be used to support current cadet outreach activities and fall programming. Making a donation from the comfort of your home has never been eas-ier! Simply visit the online Pledge form at: forms.gle/U42Mzj4sbat5q4sg8

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A recent story on the NHL.com website debated the merits of four candi-dates for this year’s Most Valuable Player award. It should have been filed under ‘NHL humour’.

It’s funny, because there’s about as much debate about this year’s Hart Trophy winner as there is over which hori-zon the sun will rise to-morrow morning. To say there will be a compe-tition for the Hart is hi-larious, because Connor McDavid of the Edmon-ton Oilers ended the de-bate about two months ago, and has added to his resume in the final month of the season.

Undoubtedly the NHL’s best player, McDavid will win the scoring title by a massive total — a near-Gretzkyan 20 points or more. Auston Mat-thews of Toronto finished nearly 45 points behind. Take the man known in Edmonton as Connor McJesus out of the Oilers’ lineup and coach Dave Tippett is steering a ship that might not even be a playoff team. But with McDavid in the lineup, the Oilers are a Stanley Cup contender.

Hometown favourit-ism will give Matthews a few Hart votes, but those voters shouldn’t be able to sleep at night, because they’ll know in their Hart of Harts that the vote should be unanimous. Matthews is the league’s leading goal-scorer, with 41, but when it comes to dominating games, and being ‘most valuable’ to his team, this competition is lopsidedly in favour of McDavid and should be as one-sided as Jus-tin Trudeau running for most popular politician in Alberta.

The NHL.com story also mentioned cen-tre Mark Stone of the Vegas Golden Knights and goalie Andrei Va-silevskiy of Tampa Bay as other contenders, but there are always three fi-nalists for the award and … well, the story had to be filled out.

It doesn’t take a hockey genius to recog-nize McDavid’s talent. He is the fastest skater in the league and can do magi-cal things with the puck at that break-neck speed. He has made more than a few defensemen in the league a) look foolish; b) have McDavid-related nightmares; and c) con-sider early retirement.

Matthews has a strong team around him, and the Leafs are favoured to win the North Division of the NHL this year, but as far as individual achieve-ment and ‘most valuable’ is concerned, the compe-tition has been long over.

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “White Sox fans consume the most beers among their MLB counterparts — 4.2 per nine innings, at a cost of $46 — according to the re-sults of a NJOnlineGam-bling.com survey of 2,631 fans, with Braves fans (4.0) coming in second. Phillies fans consume the fewest (2.4), further proof it’s tough to swig a beer and utter an insult at the same time.”

• Patti Dawn Swansson on Twitter: “Tim Tebow was a washout as an NFL

QB, he was a washout at baseball, now he wants to reinvent himself as a washout tight end with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Little wonder he has a squeaky-clean image.”

• RJ Currie again: “The owners of Stone-henge were seeking a general manager, one experienced in working with ancient artifacts. They asked permission to speak to Yankees GM Brian Cashman.”

• Jack Finarelli of SportsCurmudgeon.com, on proposals to allow even more instant-replay reviews in college bas-ketball: “We need this as much as Olympic swim-ming events need life-guards.”

• Steve Simmons of Sunmedia: “How often has this been true? There are three Canadian men in the Top 20 of the ATP tour — Denis Shapovalov, Milos Raonic and Felix Auger-Aliassime — and no Americans in the Top 30.”

• Patti Dawn Swansson again, on Twitter: “The main difference between Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit and trainer

Bob Baffert? The horse has the good sense to shut the hell up.”

• Comedy writer Eric Stangel, on Twitter: “Starting to think if I trained with Bob Baffert I’d have a decent shot to win the Kentucky Derby.”

• Toronto Blue Jays twitter feed, featuring a video of Vladimir Guer-rero, Jr., belting a home run: “VLADIOS!”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on Colin Kaepernick still unable to find employ-ment in the NFL: “Good lord. Spouse-beaters, se-rial druggies, team can-cers, dog killers — all are welcome in the NFL! But if you quietly take a knee, God will wreak ven-geance on your team!”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “A video shows a San Diego Padres fan knocking out a Colorado Rockies fan with one punch. The Rockies fan tried to defend himself, but as the Rockies are 13-24, he swung three times and missed.”

• Dwight Perry again “Waiting for your win-ning Derby horse’s postrace drug results: The Most Gruelling Eight Days in Sports.”

• Blogger Chad Picas-ner, after Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer complained his new team isn’t win-ning enough: “You’d think that $34 million a year he makes would ease some of the pain.”

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We’re well into the month of May and while it would be nice to say that winter and snow and all that other horrible stuff is finished for the season, a Saskatchewan winter always seems to have a way to claw its way back into the picture a time or two.

This weekend – or as it has been known forever in this area – May long, has come with little fan-fare and it’ll probably leave the same way.

It wasn’t always like that, however.May long was always the unofficial start of sum-

mer, of camping, of bonfires and nights spent at the lake.

It was the weekend when most golfers teed it up for the first time of the season and slo-pitch players would get together and work out the kinks from a long, cold winter.

It was also the first weekend of the sports day circuit, and if you were from Melville and enjoyed watching or playing fastball, you were planning your Sunday around what was going on in Killaly.

The teams that used to play at the Killaly sports day were legendary and they’d have to be able to survive some pretty nasty weather at times.

It was commonplace to show up at the diamond there and be greeted by a few inches of snow on the ground, or a flake or two wafting their way to earth from the heavens.

There was always a good chance that you’d start the day huddled in someone’s vehicle, covered by a parka or a blanket prior to the first games of the day and by 3 p.m., you were searching desperately for some shade because the weather had changed so drastically.

In our day, you’d see some of the most enter-taining ball that’d be played all summer on that first weekend.

There were serious squads such as the Melville Comets, the Duff Dodgers, the Rhein Rockets, the Ochapowace Thunder and a home team that I be-lieve was called the Killaly Athletics.

The players back in the day were colourful and talented and since it was the beginning of the year, you’d see a few upsets along the way.

If you showed up at the right time, you could see the Halyk brothers, Jerry and Don, a couple of guys who could really spin a ball when they toed the rubber and they could hit too.

In later years, you might see Matty Stelmak or Garth ‘Spaceman’ Erbach of the Melville Sharks, Grant ‘Yogi’ Walchuk and Morley ‘Mort’ Schick of the Melville Skyhawks and Brian ‘Cana’ Hoffman of the Waldron Comets or Doug ‘Mad Dog’ Matti-son of the Melville Pickers playing.

If you think the names are funny, you should have seen some of the antics that would go on during these contests.

If the games didn’t hold that much interest for you, there was always an area roped off where you could sit with some friends, have a few laughs and down one or two wobbly pops and enjoy the burgers and hotdogs that only taste the way they do when they come off the well-seasoned grill at a sports day.

Onions were free but I think it might have set you back a quarter if you wanted a slice of cheese.

I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that the population of Killaly quadrupled that weekend as young and old ventured out for the first sports day of the spring.

Sometimes the umpires were as interesting as the players and since everyone knew each other, there were always a few humorous exchanges in-volving Vern Schick, Brian ‘Squeak’ Waldbauer or Lloyd Stoll.

It seemed that if you needed to see any of these three guys for any reason, you could always find them on a Sunday at a sports day, either calling the game from behind the plate or working a base.

Sure, they missed a call once in awhile, but they’d have no trouble reminding you that you made a few mistakes in your day too.

When I think back, it all seems so long ago now.There’s still the odd sports day – Grayson’s still

has the best pie and sausage – but it’s not like it used to be.

In a regular summer you could either play or watch at Duff, Banner Hall, Lemberg, Neudorf or Sturgis, if you wanted to be a little more adventur-ous.

I’m certainly glad that I grew up where I did and when I did, because what happens today in regards to sports days serves as a tiny reminder of a bygone era, where everyone packed up the car, the kids and the sunflower seeds and headed out to watch the games, enjoy the outdoors and each other.

There may even have been a cooler or two.I miss those days, but at least I got to live them.

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With support from sev-eral local sponsors and sufficient staff in place, the Little Greens Mini Putt is set to open at the GRP in mid-June.

The 18-hole mini golf course previously oper-ated in Grenfell until the 1980s, after which it fell into disrepair. Earlier this year, the Department of Recreation and Culture proposed that the facility be re-opened to provide

residents and visitors with a safe, outdoor rec-reational opportunity.

The Town of Grenfell conducted a naming com-petition for its revitalized mini golf course, accept-ing suggestions from February to April. Com-munity voting took place from April 9 to 25, with the majority favoring the name “Little Greens.”

Financial support has been provided by the Lions Club, TD Bank, Spitfires Hockey, Patter-son Grain, and Remax Blue Chip Realty. Other businesses, including Deboys Equipment, Wolfe Industries, Seren-ity Gardens, and DigDug Excavating, donated ob-structions for the course. The town’s Public Works employees have also cre-ated structures for the project.

Over the next few weeks, assembly and in-stallation will take place at the existing facility

behind the Grenfell Golf Course clubhouse. Five youth are being hired to operate the facility and opening day has been set for June 16.

“I’m really looking for-ward to seeing it all come together,” commented Andrea Nicholl, Gren-fell’s Director of Recre-ation and Culture. “It’s a really good date night option, or for a family af-ternoon, or for the youth in the community.”

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There is plenty of local talent on display in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. A number of players from Saskatchewan as well as Manitoba will be battling it out for Lord Stanley’s mug. The Saskatchewan players include Brayden McNabb from Davidson, Ethan Bear from Ochapowace and Tan-ner Jeannot of Oxbow.

Brayden McNabb is 30 years old, from Davidson and plays defence for the Vegas Golden Knights. This season he played 41 games scoring two goals while adding eight assists. McNabb has been with the Golden Knights since they came into the league back in the 2017-2018 season. They are currently taking on the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the play-offs.

Ethan Bear is in his second full season with the Edmonton Oilers. The 23-year-old Ochapowace

product had two goals and eight assists this season and he should be a key part in the Oilers quest for the Cup. The Oilers play the Jets in the first round of the playoffs.

Tanner Jeanot of Oxbow is in his first season in the NHL and the Nashville Predators forward has en-joyed some success on the ice this year. He scored five goals while adding two as-sists in 15 games this sea-son. “It was a crazy year, but some of the best mo-ments were obviously get-ting my NHL debut then on my second call up getting my first goal and continu-ing to have success,” Jean-not says. “It’s been a lot of fun and playoffs are going to be awesome.”

The Predators are tak-ing on the Carolina Hur-ricanes in the opening round. “They are a really fast and skilled team so we will need to be on our game,” Jeannot adds. “If we play the way we can and play with our iden-tity we are a really tough

team to beat too. It will be a good hard fought series for sure.”

Other players from Sas-katchewan and Manitoba include:

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In addition to the play-ers, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are also repre-sented in teams’ front of-fice staff. Moosomin’s Dave Tippett is Edmonton’scoach and former MelvilleMillionaires goaltenderRon Hextall is the generalmanager of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The two prov-inces are well representedthese playoffs; only time will tell if the cup will becoming to a nearby com-munity.

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Ed, my old neighbor in Saskatchewan, feels that you should never ask se-niors, especially family members, how they are. They will tell you way more than you want to hear.

I told Ed yesterday that the older we get, we find saying that we are fine just doesn’t cut it any-more. Besides, if you do not want to hear how we golden oldies are keeping, tell us that we are looking well. We won’t argue with you, and we’ll let you tell us how you are because it will be nothing compared to our problems.

I told Ed there is an Ezekiel text that sounds like old men and women talking as they complain; “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.”

It wasn’t that the peo-ple in our text were all old folks, but they were exiles, captives of war sent to Babylon. They

were cut off from their temple at Jerusalem, their city, and homeland as prisoners of war.

Their hope of being re-leased and able to return to Jerusalem was gone. They felt dead or hope-less, like dry bones or skeletons left to decay on an ancient battlefield.

Ezekiel was God’s prophet among the Bab-ylonian exiles. God had shown Ezekiel that noth-ing is impossible for God to accomplish.

Ezekiel saw a valley full of old dry bones come alive with sinews, flesh, skin and breath so that the bones were a great army on its feet once more before his very eyes. It was the word of God that made the bones come alive.

Ezekiel knew that he was a prophet of the Lord God Almighty who can do whatever He says or promises. Ezekiel 37:1-14

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God told Ezekiel to promise the exiles of blessings to come with the words, “You shall know that I am the Lord, I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live.”

As senior citizens, we may act like getting older is like being a prisoner of war doomed and without

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The Town of White-wood will receive a $6,016 grant from the federal government’s Canada Healthy Community ini-tiatives to install video and audio broadcasting capabilities in the curling lounge at the Whitewood Community Centre.

The grant money will be used to install a high definition camera as well as 10 overhead micro-phones in the ceiling to allow audio from any-where in the room to be picked up and broadcast. The grant will pay for all necessary equipment and the installation.

The application was submitted by the town in order to provide a community facility that would allow for council or other groups using the facility to be able to broadcast or hold Zoom meetings with high qual-ity audio and video. The

equipment will allow the curling lounge to be utilized more frequently by various individuals, groups and organizations.

The Canada Healthy Communities Initiative is a $31-million investment to build safer spaces and ensure a higher quality of life for people across the country, by helping communities adapt to the challenges presented by COVID-19.

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Dust control applied onsome Melville streets

By Councillor A. RondeauGrasslands News

Melville City Coun-cil met remotely on May 17, and the agenda for the regular meeting of council featured several reports from Andrew Fahlman, director of Pub-lic Works.

Over the past couple of weeks, council received two letters from residents of Park Boulevard that outlined significant is-sues with dust blowing in from the gravel section of Seventh Avenue East as it leads to Agri-Park Road. Director Fahlman noted that since those letters arrived, dust control has been applied to Seventh Avenue East, as well as Prince William Drive be-hind the Co-op hardware and grocery stores, and Winnipeg Street.

It has been an incred-ibly dry spring and that has magnified the prob-lem, however Public Works is using a new dust control product this year that should work much better than products they

have used in the past. Director Fahlman

noted the costs of paving those stretches of road would cost well over $1 million and are not likely to be budgeted for in the foreseeable future. New speed limit signs have been ordered to remind drivers that the gravel section of Seventh Ave-nue is still a 50 km/hr zone. Slowing down vehi-cles will also help allevi-ate some of the dust.

Another home-based business license was granted, this time for a home renovation busi-ness.

Director Fahlman pre-sented the monthly water distribution report. As always, samples of Mel-ville’s water were all tested to far exceed stan-dards for purity.

Fahlman presented re-ports on two of the city’s wastewater pumping sta-tions. Station No. 1 is the city’s primary lift station and is located on Main Street by the football field. It is beyond its use-ful lifespan.

Council had approved $5.7 million in the 2021 budget to build a new station. The tender pro-cess has closed, and all bids have been reviewed. Council approved the bid of Westridge Construc-tion Ltd., and all signs presently point to the project remaining within budget.

Lift Station No. 4 is much smaller, primarily serving Kihew Fabco and Future Ford. Council had previously authorized a new lift station, but after further evaluation, the existing station can be repaired and fitted with new parts, saving approx-imately $100,000 from the originally budgeted cost.

The next regular and workshop meetings of council are scheduled for June 7. Council will con-tinue to meet remotely until it is deemed safe to meet in person. Regard-less, these meetings are open to the public, and details on the meeting, as well as meeting login in-formation can be found at Melville.ca


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By Sabrina BaileyFort Qu’Appelle Detachment

Reporting period:May 11 to May 17

TrafficPolice are investiga-

tion a Herbie situation where the car allegedly switched gears and ran over the driver. This ve-hicle however was not a love bug.

A car was stuck in a tree after a driver took a curve too fast. Both par-ties involved provided a statement and a ticket was issued for careless driving. The vehicle was towed by the owner.

Police stopped a vehi-cle after receiving reports of the driver stumbling in a parking lot, driving erratically and at high speeds. The driver was not intoxicated but told members he was learn-ing to drive under stress. He was warned about his driving behaviour.

An intoxicated driver was taken to Regina Gen-eral Hospital after suffer-ing major injuries due to a collision.

MischiefPolice are requesting

that anyone who has in-

formation regarding the windows that were bro-ken on a house at Stand-ing Buffalo First Nation come forward. As always, if you wish to remain anonymous you can call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS

A male was escorted home after causing a dis-turbance by yelling and screaming as he walked home. Members discov-ered he was the target of the fighting reported through multiple calls. Police ensured he made it home safely and patrolled the area.

Court ConditionsA 29-year-old was ar-

rested for breaching no alcohol conditions after police received a call re-questing a 36-year-old male be removed. Police arrived at the residence to find that the caller no longer wanted the older male removed as the younger male was now causing issues.

OtherAn individual reported

their friend missing after visiting a restaurant to-gether. The caller went through the drive-thru while the friend went to

use the washroom. When the caller went to check on the friend she was gone. Police located the friend sitting outside the restaurant.

Crimes Against thePerson/Property

Police have received many calls about locks being cut recently on storage units. In many in-stances nothing is taken. Investigations are on- going.

A 20-year-old male has been charged with con-cealing a weapon and carrying a weapon for a dangerous purpose after a scene in a restaurant. The occurrence is still under investigation.

Police followed up with a complaint of a stolen vehicle and in-toxicated driving to find that the subject of com-plaint wanted to report the caller for assault. The assault is under investi-gation.

Several picnic tables were damaged on Main Street in Balcarres and one was stolen. Please call the police or report any information you have through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

Careless DrivingThis vehicle left the road, entered the ditch and came to rest in the trees. Noinjuries were reported.



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