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Liz Spetz297-8804

www.realtor.ca

The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of ourcommunity and is distributed acrossNorth America. Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman

Safe Surfing on the Internet Instructor Jake Miller

Thursday, March 17th @ 7 PM,Eastend School

Suggested donation $40 ALL proceeds goto the Eastend Handi-Van Fundraiser

A 3 hour computer hands on training sessionfocusing on how to protect your personalinformation and your PC while on the Inter-net. Should be comfortable with email andinternet surfing and have a personal emailaccount (gmail, hotmail, sasktel.net, etc.)

Make your cheque payable to the Town of Eastend (enter Jake's Handi-Van Fund-raiser in the memo field). Charitable receiptwill be provided by the town. Drop off yourcheque with Jake or Carol Miller in advanceof the course date to confirm your atten-dance. Only 10 seats available.

Contact Jake (295-3849, http:// www.jmiller.ca ) for additional info.

T.REX DISCOVERY CENTRE

Family Matinees

March Matinees at

1:00 pm

Saturday, 26th -Yogi Bear

April MoviesSaturdays @ 7 pm

Saturday, 2nd -The Fighter

Saturday, 9th -Black Swan

Saturday, 16thThe Chronicles of

Narnia:The Voyage of theDawn Trader

Suggestions for moviesare welcome.

Please contact theT.rex Discovery Centre

One Admission Price

$3.50 each

T.rex Discovery Centre,Eastend, SK.

For more information visitwww.trexcentre.ca

or contact us at(306) 295 4009

MLS #386650

Guest Commentary:

Were All Just a Bunch of Junkies!

So hey, listen up grain famers and cattlemen and women!! Have you ever heard the story of the kidwho has it all going for him. Hes finally noticed and everyone wants to be his friend. Including thesmart looking guy in the pinstripe suit who offers him a line, a puff or a pretty pink pill and says, thiswill make you smarter, faster, more desirable, the youll be rich and you wont lose control. The kidtakes the pill, puff or line and gets hooked, life is great, things are going his way. One day he takes alook in the mirror and sees lines and scars on his face. Hes no longer desirable to anyone, especiallythe guy in the pinstripe suit, whos been there done that and now moves on to the next victim. So thiskid will spend the rest of his life trying to correct the damage that he has done because he gave intotemptation. Doesnt sound good, not a happy story and especially not a story you would like to relate

to.The cattle industry has not been great in the past two decades or so. Cattlemen have been faced withBSE and farmers have had to deal with a dictatorship known as the Wheat Board. Then all of a suddenour wealthy neighbouring Alberta land owners decide that they have had enough of the oil and gasindustry taking advantage of them and they want more. So the big guys move onto the next best thing Saskatchewan!! Virtually untouched and desperate for money. So, this is where the sweet-talkingguy in the cheap suit, driving his jacked-up 4x4 with a red and white license plate, comes into play.Similar to the dealer in the pinstripe suit but this guy is only a guppy in a great big sea of smart guys inpinstripe suits. Yep, many of us have had the pleasure of seeing this guy pull up to our house and wavemoney in our faces. How many of you have been delighted and how many of you have turned this guyaway? If you turn him away hell just go to your neighbour, offer him the same sweet deal and theyllget your oil or gas anyway, so you best take the money. So you go along with hundreds of other land-owners in the country, not thinking of the consequences and the environmental impact it will have onyou and your land in the future. Just like an addict, we refuse to look at the future and remain in de-

nial. We laugh and mock the crazy environmentalists saying, theyre wrong, full of it, damn treehuggers.

After the big guys are done with us it wont just a Sunday morning coming down. It will take centu-ries to come down from; actually I dont think we ever will. So picture this because this is real and thiswill happen, no drug addict comes out free and clean on the other side. The southwest of Saskatche-wan is a unique and amazing place. As farmers and ranchers we love it and take pride in living here,its quiet and the scenery is beautiful. Weve got it all! Or so we did have it all. That was before theoil and gas showed up. Contd on pg. 2

Eastend Kinettes 50thAnniversary

The Eastend Kinettes would like to inviteall past & present Kin Members to our

50th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, March 26, 2011at the Eastend Memorial Hall

For more information or to RSVPCall Laurel @ 295-3812

Eastend Soccer Club 2011 SEASON

-For children and youth from 4 y.o. pre-school

to grade 8 or 9??all groups CO-EDteams as per soccer division of ages (U14,U12, U10, U8. U6)-Practices are held Wednesdays. Season endswith our Family wind-up Wed. June 15th.

- 1st practices Wed. April 6, 2011 Watch out for Registration forms sent outfrom school with students! ( moreforms available @ the school, Eastend Health& Gift, and Davis Medical Clinic)

Forms with fees due:Thurs. March 24 by 3:30 pm Hand in at the

school office, or Eastend Health & Gift, orDavis Medical Clinic. [There is a late fee!] Soccer Club jerseys & soccer socks available.

SOCCER MEETING: Mon. March 28th 7:30pm @ the School All interested personsplease attend this informational meeting.

We need coaches for U8 (Gr 1 & 2)and for U6 (kindergarten & 4 yo preschool )teams !! You do not need to know how to playsoccer - most kids soccer in Canada iscoached by parents often with no previous ex-perience. There are lots of resources avail-able!

For further information please call Anne Davis@ 295-3281

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CCCCOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITY H HH H APPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGS

ECT&EDA Mar. 1Eastend Arts Council Mar. 7Eastend Swimming Pool ?Historical Museum Mar. 15K-40 Mar. 2CWL Mar. 2Friends of the Museum &

T.rex Discovery Centre Mar. 10RM of White Valley Mar. 9TOWN COUNCIL Mar. 9Clay Centre Comm Club Mar. 15School Comm Council Mar. 15Chamber of Commerce Mar. 16Fire Dept. Mar. 1 and 15Prairie Pearls Mar. 30RW Institute Mar. 9CWL Bake Sale Mar. 17

TOPS MEET - Health Centre Quiet Room,Thursdays @ 5:15 p.m.

AA Mondays @ 8:00p.m. at Henrys Place BINGO Mondays at 7:00 in the Rink!

Alanon Health Centre Quiet Room

MARCH DATES FOR P HYSICIAN CLINICS IN EASTEND

S HERRY HORNUNG RN(NP) - M ARCH 14, 16,17, 23 A ND 24

P HYSICIAN M AR.18, 24, 25, 28 AND 29

To book an appointment Phone 295-4184 Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.

EWWHC Lab Hours:Mon - Thurs 9:00-12:00, 1:00 - 4:00

Closed Fridays

Call Us for AllYour Insurance

Needs

Prevent a claim from happening

Try and remove snow

off your roof.You may or may not be covered!

SHOP LOCAL

Get Bonnie working for you

EASTEND AGENCIES104 Maple Avenue North. Eastend, Sask.

295-3655east.ag@sasktel.net

Come in and check ourdaily soups

And new bacon mozzamushroom burger

Breakfast all day every day!

Have you tried our newomelette yet?

Made how you like it!

Chinook School Division No 211

ANNUAL MEETINGMarch 21, 2011

Live Satellite ConferenceEastend School Library

7:30 PMPlease accept this as

your invitation to attend

pg. 1 - Were All Just a Bunch of Junkies!

Now, if you take a Sunday drive around the countryside youll see its littered with black barrels. Back roads that are now as busy as highways with strangers driving big 4x4 trucks (with those same red andwhite license plates) that rarely wave or slow down for that matter. There are huge chunks of earthmoved and scraped to the side, and one thing in particular that I find the most frightening, is the stenchof rotten eggs. Our water! What the heck? What about our water? Our life line, without it we cant

survive and neither can our cows, our children or our grandchildren. The environmental impact is, of course, the worst part of the outcome but one thing that might catch your attention is the impact it willall have on your wallet. This will impact things like the price of your groceries and, even worse, theprice of land. On thing that has been so great about Saskatchewan is that a young person has been ableto virtually start his or her farming or cattle operation from modest means and expand into a progres-sive business. Just lately I heard of land prices of $90 thousand per quarter and beyond. So, all thatextra money that the oil and gas industry is flashing in out faces doesnt really matter if we still cantafford to buy our groceries or to expand our farming and ranching operations. Do you see this pictureyet? Were all just a bunch of junkies! The high is great but sooner or later well have to come down.

Lets not try to get rid of the oil and gas, we all know that would be like trying to slay a dragon. Notgoing to happen, nope not a chance. We do however need to be realistic about the consequences andstay informed about what is happening to our land, water and environment, because you just cannotdeny we need fresh air and water to survive and so do our animals, plants and children. Ask questions,get informed. There are many surface rights groups out there that will inform you of your rights aslandowners. Dont be ignorant and turn a blind eye for fear that you will chase the big guys away.The big guys arent going anywhere, were sitting on a gold mine and theyre going to cash in,then leave us with the mess when they are done.

A Fellow Junkie

Enter throughthe green door,discover discounts,

a friendly greet.Try some coffee

and a treat,at your local

gift store.

ShannonsCloset

your gift store and moreEastend

sale : Thursday, March 17 open : 12:00 -5:30 pm

One Coyote, Six Shots

The photo montage on page 3 of theBlogSpot is provided by slg.

www.eastendedge.blogspot.com

Riversbend Farm

- Select Angus Beef for Sale-

Grassfed and grain finished No added hormones or

antibiotics Sold by the quarter, half or

whole Dry aged and cut to your

specifications healthy, affordable and locally

grown

Contact Darrell at 295-3817or e-mail morviks@gmail.com

for more details.

Permanent Half TimeCustodian

Eastend SchoolCompetition #979

The Chinook School Division is seeking apermanent half time (.5) Custodian forEastend School, required immediately. The custodian assists the Facility Operatorat the school .. For complete details regarding this jobopportunity please contact the Human Re-sources Department or Kevin Jones, Super-visor of Facilities (ext 236), at 1-877-321-9200 or Eastend School Principal, DeeDean at 306-295-3601 .Information is also available on our web-site at www.chinooksd.ca under the JobPostings link. Applications to be submittedby :

4 pm, March 23, 2011

Please visit www.chinooksd.ca often

to view all job opportunitiesas they become available .

Zanj&

Daphne Ortonare showing their art

@Grand Coteau Gallery

in Shaunavonfrom

March 1st through March 25th

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Seasonal Birds

The photo montage on page 5 on theBlogSpot is provided by slg.

This week it features a photo of

Edgy Letters

Letters to the Edge are welcome. StartingMarch 14, please limit them to 250words. They will be printed as space al-lows. JK

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