Affinity Credit Union waited until Credit Union Day to award one special gift -- $25,000 to the Shellbrook and Districts Health Services Project.

According to Affinity Shellbrook District Business Development Manager Lisa Anderson, the credit union received dozens of funding applications for this year’s uptake of Community Development funding but the scope of the Health Services Project made the district council’s decision an easy one.

“It really affects the whole district so that is why they decided to give half of our $50,000 to Shellbrook and Districts Health Services Project,” said Anderson.

With a $25,000 donation to the proj-ect also gives individuals or businesses naming rights to a room in the integrated health complex currently under construc-tion on Shellbrook’s west end.

The estimated local share of the $26 million project is $5.3 milllion and of that total, the committee has $2.7 million.

To date, between the Shellbrook Credit Union, FirstSask Credit Union and Affi nity Credit Union and their staff $134,142.43 has been donated toward the Shellbrook and Districts Health Services Project.

The Shellbrook Credit Union kicked off the Health Services fund raising with a $100,000 donation more than 10 years ago and have raised funds for the cause through events like casual Friday and community barbecues in the years since.

Each year, three of Affinity’s nine districts receive $50,000 in additional Community Development Funding to provide to projects in their area.

The Shellbrook District last received the community development funding in 2008.

Anderson added that when it is the Shellbrook District’s turn to receive the funding, the board tries to ensure that each of the communities they serve benefi ts.

Affi nity presented cheques to various organizations in Canwood, Leask and Marcelin throughout the month totalling $16,000.

The Shellbrook Skating Rink also re-ceived a $9,000 cheque earlier that day to go toward the facility’s roof project which was undertaken this summer.

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The Voice Of The Parkland Since 1912VOLUME 100 No. 43SHELLBROOK, SASKATCHEWAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

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Affi nity makes $25,000 donation to hospital

From left, Lisa Anderson, Affi nity Credit Union Business Development Manager, and Ian Lauder District Council member, present Murray Kasun, Treasurer of Shellbrook and Districts Health Services Project a cheque for $25,000 as a part of their Community Development funding.

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RM elections across the regionAs residents of Rural Municipalities

across the province hit the polls Wednes-day, there were just three RMs in the Shellbrook Chronicle readership area re-quiring elections to fi ll available seats.

There will be a mix of fresh faces in with familiar ones at the council table in the RM of Canwood going forward. The RM was one of the most hotly contested in the province with 11 candidates vying for four available seats.

Former Division 1 councilor Colin Hughes is now the new Reeve of the RM earning 364 votes. He defeated challeng-ers Sharon Banks (144) and former Divi-sion 2 Councilor Morley Rudolph (123).

The term for this seat is for one year.In Division 2 Robert (Roy) Crawford

defeated Dave O’Bertos by a margin of 102 to 69.

Arnold Berscheid won the seat in Di-vision 4 over Louise Grimard by a margin of 92 to 23.

The lone incumbent in the RM of Can-wood election, Ivan Beaulac retained his seat by a narrow margin.

Beaulac received 27 votes, just 4 more than his nearest challenger, Eva Larsen, who received 23. Patrick Wutzke received 11 votes while former Division 4 Coun-selor Benoit Duret received 9 votes.

In the RM of Leask, incumbent Real

Diehl defeated challenger Tom Mayer 67 votes to 30 to keep his seat in Division 2.

Myles Robin is the newly elected councilor in Division 4 after winning his seat by acclamation along with Division 6 incumbent Victor Unyi.

In the RM of Spiritwood, Jim Wing-erter won the seat in Division 2 over in-cumbent Gary Robinson 24 votes to 12. Also running in Division 2 were Debbie Torgerson with 13 votes and Chad Smith with 16. Division 4 and Division 6 incum-bents Stan Hare and Ervin Matzner were elected by acclamation.

All results are unoffi cial pending con-fi rmation.

About 20 spectators got a chance to meet their candidates in the upcom-ing provincial election at a political forum in Blaine Lake October 20.

NDP candidate Clay DeBray and the Sask Party’s Scott Moe answered questions from the floor and those posed by the organizing body, the Blaine Lake and District Chamber of Commerce, at the candidates forum for the Rosthern Shellbrook Constituency in the Blaine Lake Composite School Gym.

According to Chamber President Vivian Nemish, organizers were not aware of Green Party candidate Margaret Rose Uvery, until it was too late so she was not extended an invitation.

The candidates opened the presentation with snap-shots of their backgrounds and by giving a quick overview of their party’s platforms.

In Moe’s view, the key point of the Sask Party’s platform was the Five point Health Care Plan introduced earlier that day.

Key points to that plan include student loan for-giveness of up to $120,000 for doctors and $20,000 for nurses who choose to practice in rural and underserved areas, hiring a 20 doctor rural locum pool and the launch of the STARS air ambulance sys-tem in the province.

“This is going to be what is going to help us take care of some of the physician and nurse prac-

titioner shortages,” said Moe.

DeBray countered with the NDP’s Community Access Hospitals con-cept which is designed to open hospitals closed due to physician shortages through the use of nurse practitioners. Those nurse practitioners would not replace doctors but would work with physicians from neighbouring communities or a team of doctors hired

by the province. “We are committed to

coming into Shellbrook and Spiritwood and open-ing the hospital doors,” said DeBray.

Saskatchewan’s grow-ing economy and the pounding it is putting on the provinces roads was also brought front and centre through one of the Chamber’s questions.

DeBray stated that roads are an issue for

every aspect of life from health to education.

Because of that, he said the NDP has plans to take a portion of their budget and place it in to a separate Safe Rural Roads Fund to maintain and improve the province’s secondary roads.

Moe pointed to the Sask Party’s record of increasing highway spend-ing by 57 per cent which translates into about 6,000

km of road improvements. If re-elected, he said that work would continue with record levels of spending.

Nemish said that the Chamber has been con-sidering holding a forum for a number of years and everything fell into place for it to happen for this year’s provincial election.

“As a local chamber of commerce we wanted to do something for our busi-nesses. We were thinking of doing this many, many elections ago but we just never had the manpower to do it and we never had the ability to get every-thing together in such a short amount of time,” said Nemish, noting that having a fixed election date made the entire thing easier to plan for.

Both candidates said that they appreciated the opportunity to share their message in a forum that was well organized and non-confrontational.

“We didn’t want con-flict and we didn’t want party bashing so we thought this was the best way to do it,” said Nemish.

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Blaine Lake Chamber hosts candidates forum

NDP Candidate Clay DeBray. Sask Party candidate, Scott Moe.

286:29.Ladies and gentlemen

that figure may not mean a lot to you, but in fact it’s a new Saskatchewan Roughriders record for the longest period of time between offensive touch-downs.

The Riders finally snapped the touchdown drought, which spanned nearly five games, at 6:30 of the second quar-ter of Friday’s 25-13 loss in Calgary. Quarterback Darian Durant figuratively threw the monkey off his back when he rushed for a 4-yard touchdown which temporarily gave his team the lead. It was the small-est of victories for a foot-ball club which fell to 4-12

and is in the midst of one of the worst seasons in franchise history.

Now there are still two games left before the Riders will miss the play-offs for the first time in a decade and there’s still a chance at a 6-12 record. That would save the 2011 Riders from sharing ugly space in the record books with past Rider teams such as 1959 (1-15), 1979 and 1980 (2-14) and 1999 (3-15).

And perhaps that’s why Rider coach Ken Miller has stubbornly dug in his heels and refused to flush this season down the toilet. He is reluctant to look at his young talent in garbage games at the

end of the year. Miller will tell you - and there’s many who agree with him - that these remaining games are NOT akin to the preseason because those games don’t go into the record books. They don’t make history.

However no mat-ter how this tragedy of a season turns out, no one will ever forget how it’s ending. The image of franchise player Darian Durant, playing with one broken foot and a sprained ankle on the other, being

helped off the field in Calgary Friday night after being pulverized AGAIN, is tough to bear.

Although early reports stated Durant didn’t know where he was after taking a massive hit and was suf-fering from a concussion, Miller refuted that after the game.

“Darian is fine,” the coach asserted. “He’s talking normally, walking normally, feeling normally and is feeling good. I don’t know about a knock

on his arm. I’ll have to investigate that further.”

Upon the team’s return to Regina, Durant admit-ted that perhaps the best thing for him is to sit out the remaining games and not risk further injury.

Hallelujah! It is JUST this blogger’s opinion, but it says here there’s no point trotting this genera-tion’s Little General out there when he’s in such bad condition. If there’s no one behind him capable of playing, then that’s not

his fault.There are two games

left until the Rider Nation can gleefully turn on the examination light and dig into the autopsy. If there’s not enough talent, then it’s scouting’s fault. If there is enough talent then it’s the fault of coaching. What if, what if, what if.

Let’s just get it over already, so the healing can begin.

(Rod Pedersen is the voice of the Riders on CKRM radio)

October 28, 2011 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 3

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The Enhanced New Veterans Charter Act has recently become fully implemented, meaning that the enhance-ments made are now available to all eligible veterans, providing an additional $2 billion in support to these veterans and their families. With Veterans’ Week fast ap-proaching, it is a good time to take a look at the Enhanced New Veterans Charter Act.

The New Veterans Charter is a massive improvement on the old Pension Act, which provided only a modest monthly cheque and some provision for health care. The ENVC shifts the focus to the encouragement of wellness and extends many programs to the families of veterans.

In the area of rehabilitation, the act provides not only for medical and psycho-social rehabilitation, but also for vocational rehabilitation in the form of training or help in fi nding a job.

The fi nancial benefi ts include an earning loss benefi t, a permanent impairment allowance, a supplementary re-tirement benefi t and Canadian Forces Income Support.

Under the new system, a disability reward can be taken as a lump-sum, as an annual installment or a com-bination of the two.

The New Veterans Charter will help provide health benefi ts, such as prescription drugs and vision care to those who would not qualify for these services otherwise.

Other support will come in the form of a clothing ben-efi t for those who require specially designed clothing and support for family counseling. Educational grants are available in some cases.

Money cannot compensate for a life-altering injury suffered in the line of duty – however, the New Veterans Charter offers real hope to veterans by providing access to programs needed for these veterans to lead healthy, independent lives.

These veterans, who have given so much in service to our country, deserve support. Our government, through the Enhanced New Veterans Charter Act is looking to provide the assistance they, and their families, need in the pursuit of a better life.

As always, I look forward to your letters, e-mails and calls. Write me at: Rob Clarke MP, House of Commons, 502 Justice Building, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6. I hope you will fi nd time to visit my website http://www.rob-clarkemp.ca To contact me via e-mail use clarkr@parl.gc.ca or call my constituency offi ce toll-free at 1-866-400-2334.

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The Blaine Lake Chamber of Commerce did a great service to the community last week in hosting a candi-dates forum for the riding of Rosthern Shellbrook. The NDP’s Clay DeBray and the Sask Party’s Scott Moe faced off in a non-confrontational forum which saw each candidate outline their respective party’s platform and answer questions posed by the chamber as well as the crowd in attendance.

The Chamber did a really great job in organizing this inaugural event and I hope to see others take place for future elections. Candidates were provided the basic questions in advance so that they could give the best pos-sible answer but had to wing it for the questions from the floor. To keep the discussion civil during the question period, questions were written on a piece of paper and read by the moderator.

The forum was a great way for a group of people to hear the political stance of the candidates in their riding rather than basing their decision solely on party politics or promotional materials. The forum, which drew about 30 people, gave those in attendance one more tool in making their decision November 7.

* * * Both Dwain Lingenfelter and Premier Brad Wall

dropped the ball a little bit in this week’s leadership debate. The event was pretty much standard fare, with the exception of the absence of the provincial Green and Liberal leaders, but neither leader managed to hit a home run when the opportunity presented itself.

On potash royalties, Lingenfelter’s idea of a raise and a review were mentioned but were not really fleshed out. He did talk about doubling up the current rate from 5 to 10 cents on the dollar but did not discuss how a review process would work.

Would government be sitting down with industry players to hammer out a mutually beneficial agreement or would it be simple rate increase? Though the move is to greater share the wealth of the province’s natural resources, potash industry employees, business owners, contractors and others tied to any industry are also voters.

If he wants to sell the idea of a review, it is important for people to understand how something like that would work.

Wall on the other hand didn’t bother to mention the vast sums of money that come in via taxation from the potash companies, their employees and the businesses and contractors they do business with. These are the sums of money he believes that the province could lose if royalty rates are pushed too high and industry players scale back their Saskatchewan operations.

If Wall want’s to keep royalty rates the same, this is the notion he needs to sell to the public.

* * *I don’t know if Ken Miller just didn’t pick up last

week’s edition of the Chronicle or he simply didn’t get a chance to read my column. Either way, he missed out and it proved costly for his team.

The Roughrider’s coach put his hobbled quarterback Darian Durant into last weeks game with a broken bone in his foot only to be knocked out of the game with an ankle sprain on the other foot as well as a concussion. How did this guy not know how bad an idea that was?

BradDupuisNews Editor

Opinions

Candidates forum a great tool for

informing voters

For many small business operators their pension plan is the equity they have tied up in the business. Whether that’s a farmer who is banking on selling the land as a retirement nest egg or the small shop owner who hopes to sell the business at the end of a productive career, the business represents the bulk of their net worth.

The problem with this is that the value in the business some day has to be converted into cash. And that takes planning, something too few small busi-ness owners have done.

A new report from TD Bank says fully three-quarters of the small business owners in the country have no succession plan. Most say they don’t know what that plan will look like to they have not formalized it while roughly one-third say they simply haven’t gotten around to it.

The harsh fact of the matter is that every business will be sold. Whether it’s done by the owner or the owner’s estate, it will be sold. And not planning it properly prob-ably means the full value of the enterprise will not be realized and years of equity accumulation will be lost.

* * *For many small business operators their pension plan

is the equity they have tied up in the business. Whether that’s a farmer who is banking on selling the land as a retirement nest egg or the small shop owner who hopes to sell the business at the end of a productive career, the business represents the bulk of their net worth.

The problem with this is that the value in the business some day has to be converted into cash. And that takes planning, something too few small business owners have done.

A new report from TD Bank says fully three-quarters of the small business owners in the country have no suc-

cession plan. Most say they don’t know what that plan will look like to they have not formalized it while rough-ly one-third say they simply haven’t gotten around to it.

The harsh fact of the matter is that every business will be sold. Whether it’s done by the owner or the owner’s estate, it will be sold. And not planning it properly probably means the full value of the enterprise will not be realized and years of equity accumulation will be lost.

* * *The sales order books of the

province’s manufacturing sector are showing some positive signs.

This is a continuation of a trend we’ve been see-ing for quite a while as signs that the North American economy is gradually improving are becoming more and more evident.

Here in Saskatchewan sales were up by two per cent from July to August, That’s above the national average but on a year-over-year basis, Saskatchewan manufac-turers saw their revenues grow by 17 per cent. That figure was tops in the nation as equipment makers enjoy increased demand from the global farm community and steel fabricators capitalize on all the potash mine expan-sion.

The other big factors that the monthly figures show is that sales are so strong they are depleting existing inventories in manufacturers’ shops while new orders are so strong they are extending manufacturers’ order banks. That means buyers will have to wait longer to see their orders fulfilled.

Actually order banks nationally haven’t been this high since April of 2009, right after we started coming out of the recession triggered by the American banking crisis.

PaulMartin

The Paul Martin Commentary

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ViewpointPlenty of election goodies in rural Sask.

For an election that didn’t look like it would provide much for rural Saskatche-wan, there have been a surprising amount of goodies.

You may recall from previous visits to this space of your newspaper that it was anticipated rural Saskatchewan might be the red-haired child of this campaign. The Saskatchewan Party government, after all, had most of the rural seats sown up. It had even already announced the replacement of the Saskatchewan Hospital at North Battleford before the campaign.

And because the NDP was again con-ceding most of the rural seats to the Sask. Party, there didn’t seem to be much reason to think their campaign platform would place much emphasis on rural issues. (In addition, there is also the issue of the un-likelihood of the NDP forming govern-ment anyway, meaning that whatever they promise has signifi cantly less relevance.)

Finally, perhaps rural Saskatchewan had become maybe just a little spoiled af-ter the 2007 election. It did, after all, elect the vast majority of government members that promised and delivered on things like lower education property taxes on farm-

land _ an issue gnawing away at rural vot-ers for years.

The notion that rural Saskatchewan would do as well in 2011 seemed highly unlikely.

Well, notwith-standing that this year’s vote isn’t quite like 2007, it turns out that the 2011 vote might be better than many expected. Consider what we are hearing from the politicians campaigning for your votes.

Sask. Party leader Brad Wall recent-ly announced this on the health care: $120,000 forgivable loans for new doc-tors, nurse practitioners and nurses will-ing to relocated to under-served rural ar-eas for fi ve years; 20 additional seats for nurse practitioner training; a 20-doctor ru-ral locum pool to relieve rural physicians in need of a break; pilot projects for emer-gency services training in southwest, and; the launch of the STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society) medical helicopter

program.All of these proposed programs _

some of them, already started like the emergency ser-vices training and STARS _ stand to directly benefi t rural Sas-katchewan.

And not be outdone (or in the case of this election, out-promised) the

NDP early in the campaign outlined it’s own aggressive agenda. Included in the NDP plan are a series of 100 primary care clinics to be opened within 10 years _ 30 of which would be opened in the fi rst term of an NDP government. Given the vast number and nature of these clinics as a couple-times-a-week drop in centres, one can safely assume a lot of them would be in rural Saskatchewan.

Leader Dwain Lingenfelter also out-lined his own aggressive $24-million plan to encourage graduating University of Saskatchewan medical students to stay

in the province. And signifi cant upgrades to nurse practitioner training so that rural hospitals might remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week is a signifi cant part of the NDP’s health plan.

Of course, this is just an example of the programs seem specifi cally benefi cial to rural Saskatchewan. Rural folks would also benefi t from other broader-based ini-tiatives that the political parties are pro-posing.

For example, if you are the rural par-ent with a university-age student, you have the choice between the Sask. Party program ($500 grants for all graduating high school-age kids to attend university) and the NDP plan (a tuition freeze for all current and future university students).

The NDP are advocating 10,000 day-care spaces _ some of which would wind up in rural communities. The Sask. Par-ty’s biggest promise is signifi cant help with residential and independent living disabled. (Again, including those in rural areas.)

Surprisingly, it’s an election with a whole grab bag of goodies for rural Sas-katchewan.

Murray Mandryk

Your Two CentsYour Two Cents

Dear Editor:Prime Minister Harper

recently talked of the importance of dealing with the current economic cri-sis to prevent the world economy from returning to a recession. The tone and emotion in his voice clearly showed that he really was more concerned about the economy than anything else. How unfor-tunate!

Most scientists and environmentalists would say that climate change poses the greatest threat to us today and the future, yet our current political lead-ership for the most part are far more concerned about the economy.

Yes the economy is important and people having jobs and earning a living is important and the economy(under the management of the right wing freetraders who have exported 90% of North America’s manufacturing jobs off shore) has become a sick patient with ever increasing debt for govt and citizens. The only way for our current “consumer” based economy to thrive is to consume, yet the cor-porations have eliminated many well paying jobs. We,the consumer,are still

expected to consume by borrowing. Real incomes for working people have declined by almost 25% since the 1970s.

Today,just 7% of the GDP of the United States is based on manufacturing, most of that would be the auto industry(saved from being wiped out by govt intervention) and military production(which under US law must be domestic production). 93% of the US economy is now based on services(hotel and res-taurant staff) and finan-cial services (the antics of Goldman Sachs and others selling investments in their many forms bordering on fraud in many cases).

In the 1890s there was an economic depression in Canada and the US. Today hardly anyone knows this. That is because an economic event is temporary,it passes,things recover. Another event happened in the 1890s and that was the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The last one died in a zoo in 1901. Almost everyone today knows the story of the passenger pigeon. That is because this ecological event was forever.

I recently read about the extinction of the pas-

senger pigeon in Birds of North America first pub-lished in 1917. The events of the extinction were still fresh for the writers. In the 1890s people saw less passenger pigeons in there respective states and talked about it. It was even discussed in many state legislatures about creating some law to pro-tect the birds.But there was no overall awareness about the true extent of the collapse of the pas-senger pigeon population across North America. By the time people realized what had happened it was too late.There was just one living bird left in a zoo.No chance for captive breed-ing to save the species.

One of the reasons peo-ple did not act to save the passenger pigeon was that they just could not believe that a bird that had been so numerous could become extinct. When I read the stories of flocks of pas-senger pigeons that cov-ered the entire sky horizon to horizon and blocked out the sun I marvel at the incredible amount of wildlife that once existed on this continent. No one alive today will ever see a flock of that magnitude,if we see a flock of geese

of a few hundred we feel privileged.

The economy is in a mess precisely because of the policies sup-ported by Mr Harper. D e r e g u l a t i o n , ” f r e e trade”,low taxes for corpo-rations (in the 1960s half of the Govt of Canada’s revenue came from business and half from citizens,today 90% comes from citizens and less than 10% comes from busi-ness).

Globalization in the form it has taken has been an unmitigated disaster for the economy of North America,the workers who have seen high paying manufacturing jobs van-ish thus necessitating the increasing debt to main-tain the consumer lifestyle we have become accus-tomed to. It has also been a disaster for the environ-ment where pollution reg-ulations in other countries are much more lax.

Even though work-ers have employment in countries like Indonesia and China they are forbid-den from organizing into unions to fight for better wages and working condi-tions.

Continued on page 8

The dilemma of economy vs ecology

Awful Screeches, Squeals, Heavy Knocking, Thumping and Clanging

Halloween is the

time of year for squeals, squeaks, screeches and things that go bump in the night, but when these eerie and haunted sounds come

from your car, it’s time for maintenance. Noise is to the vehicle what pain is to the body: a warning.

“Being a car owner

doesn’t have to be scary,” says Patty Kettles, Manager, Marketing and Communications, Be Car Care Aware. “These are just

some of the many noises a vehicle makes when there’s a problem, but whenever there’s an unusual sound, it’s a good idea to have the car looked at to ensure safety and reliability and to help prevent costly repairs down the road.”

According to Be Car Care Aware Canada, the following strange and scary noises are clues that trou-ble is brewing within your car and that it should be checked out by an automo-tive repair technician.

Squeal: A sharp noise that usually means a prob-lem with the brakes or the power steering, fan or air conditioning belt. The entire brake system should be checked every year, including brake linings, rotors and drums. Belts should be inspected every three months or 5,000-8,000 kilometres.

Screech: A sound typi-cally caused by brake wear indicators that tell you it’s time for maintenance. Brakes are a normal wear item for any car and

eventually they’re going to need to be replaced for both performance and safe-ty reasons.

Squeaks: A number of things can cause squeaks, including belts, the water pump or alternator bearings or a pulley. Belts should be replaced when cracked, frayed, glazed or showing signs of excessive wear. And water pumps, tension-ers, idlers and alternators all have bearings that can fail and “squeak,” all of which should be checked.

Bang: A backfire, which can be caused by lean air/fuel ratio, an igni-tion malfunction and/or a mechanical failure.

Grinding (a metal-on-metal grating noise): A sound that is related to the brake linings. The brake system is your car’s most important safety system and needed repairs should never be put off.

Heavy knock: A pound-ing sound that is usually connecting rod or main bearing failures which are caused by excessive wear.

Thump: A sound that usually means there’s a problem with the tires. To maximize tire life and safety, check tire condition and inflation pressure every three months or 5,000 kilo-metres, and have the tires rotated and balanced.

Clang: Gears will make a “clanging” noise when there is excessive “lash” (movement gener-ally describes as “play”). It’s the kind of noise that accompanies one compo-nent being allowed to move because of excessive play and the abrupt halt it comes to when encountering the resistance of the part that didn’t move when it wnas supposed to.

Metallic ticking: Also often associated with excessive play in valve train components.

These sounds need not scare you, but they should motivate you to have the car looked at because everyone should feel safe, not just on Halloween, but every night.

Source: Be Care Care Aware Canada

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In the world of agricul-ture we are into the time of year where issues tend to cool, and farmers have a moment to exhale and re-lax just a little bit.

Harvest is complete, and in the case of 2011 it was a long fall season with generally good weather conditions which allowed farmers to put the crop in the bin without a lot of adversity. The result for most was an average crop, or better, put in the bin in good condition, in a year when grain and oilseed prices are as good across the board as they have ever been.

The mood regarding the 2011 crop has to be

generally good.With the current crop

harvested, it is still too early for most farmers to begin more than rudimen-tary planning for 2012, so that is not yet on the issue agenda.

In Saskatchewan there is an election which might attract some farmer atten-tion, but agriculture is not exactly high on the issue agenda.

That is the case for a couple of reasons.

On the one hand many of the key issues in terms of farmers relate to safety nets, and for the most part participation in the pro-grams with the federal government are longer

terms deals that neither front-running party, the Saskatchewan Party, or New Democrats are about to opt out of.

And then there is the simple truth of money. In Saskatchewan health care, education, and debt pay-ment takes up the largest portion of the province’s spending pie. With all

other expenditures, high-ways, social services, ag-riculture and other depart-ments divvying up what are the crumbs of expendi-tures, there is simply little expectation of signifi cant changes in agriculture spending.

So while the vote Nov. 7 in Saskatchewan is im-portant, it is not a big event

in terms of key issues.Which puts most farm-

ers back on the Canadian Wheat Board.

There is a lot of effort being put into rallying sup-port for a last ditch effort to make the federal gov-ernment pay attention in terms of maintaining the single desk selling agen-cy for Western Canadian wheat, durum and export barley.

It is interesting an or-ganization such as the Yorkton Chamber of Com-merce is hosting a debate on the issue, even as the Saskatchewan Chamber has come out in favour of change.

That a local Chamber

is wading into the fray by providing a public forum for both sides is interest-ing, although it might be too late to have an ef-fect since the Conserva-tives look completely en-trenched in its view and in its course of action.

It is too bad the debates had not been held earlier, and that there was some feeling the federal govern-ment might listen to the groundswell.

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agri-culture Minister Gerry Ritz have deaf ears on the issue, the way of democracy is to raise a voice and hope the powers in Ottawa fi nally realize it is voters talking.

AgricultureAg issues not high on election radar

October 28, 2011 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 7

By Dave Cubbon, P AgCavalier Agrow Ltd.Last week, I attended a

conference on wheat pro-duction. Through the win-ter, I will be giving some insight on how various ex-perts thought we could in-crease production of wheat in our area.

This week I will be focusing on where world wheat production will be heading in the next few years. The article is a summary of two speakers’ thoughts, Dr. John Clarke of the Crop Diversifi ca-tion Centre at the Univer-sity of Saskatchewan and Jim Bagshaw of Syngenta Canada.

World population is in-creasing. We are now at

6.5 billion people living on our planet. It is predicted that by 2050 we will have a world population of 9 bil-lion.

To support this level of population growth we are going to have to increase our food output by 1.6 % per year. That means that we are going to have to do a lot of things right on our farms to be able to feed the world.

World wheat produc-tion comes from 220 mil-lion hectares. This is by far the largest area planted to any single crop.

These acres represent more consumptive calories for humans than any other crop we grow. This means that we will need more

wheat to feed the world if our population continues to grow. We need calories and protein and wheat pro-vides humans with both.

Increases come from a number of areas. Her-bicide tolerant canola has had a signifi cant impact on yields in western Canada. This may be an opportuni-ty to increase wheat yields.

Disease resistance, ni-trogen use effi ciency and water use effi ciency are all ways to improve the yield of our wheat crops. These areas are generally im-proved through advanced plant breeding work.

To do see this happen, there will be a major in-vestment made. In North America, we see about

a 1% increase in wheat yields annually compared to a 1.5% yield increase in Europe. Europe in-vests more money in ce-real crops breeding so it is fair to assume that the increased yield response is coming from more dollars invested in research.

The money to do this research is going to have to come from somewhere if we expect to continue to see our wheat production increase.

Government funding for agriculture research is declining and it is going to have to be private industry that takes the lead in ad-vancing the yields of our wheat crop.

In Europe, private in-

dustry has taken a lead role already and the extra dol-lars that they are invest-ing has helped the wheat yields improve.

In the Meadow Lake area, wheat will be a part of our production for many years to come. We have to look at ways of making the crop profi table.

Higher yields and bet-

ter quality of the product that we grow will help maintain profi tability.

With the potential for the value of this crop in-creasing as demand in-creases in the world, we must insure that we use the new tools that research will develop for use in our area.

Calvin Daniels

On Agriculture

The importance of wheat growing to feed the future

Saskatchewan resi-dents are urged to take pre-cautions to avoid infection with hantavirus, especially when cleaning up rodent infested barns, homes or other buildings in their communities, following a recent hantavirus fatality in West Central Saskatch-ewan.

“Hantavirus infection is a rare but potentially fa-tal illness,” Deputy Chief Medical Health Offi cer Dr. Saqib Shahab said. “We advise people to take pre-cautions against hantavirus by avoiding contact with deer mice to every extent possible. This is the time of the year when mice are moving indoors. Farmers, grain handlers, cottagers

and home owners, who are most likely to be exposed, should take precautions when cleaning rodent-in-fested buildings to prevent direct contact and breath-ing in of air particles that may be contaminated.

This includes ventilat-ing the building by open-ing doors and windows for at least 30 minutes before cleaning, using wet mop-ping methods and wearing gloves.”

Humans are most of-ten exposed to the virus by breathing in air par-ticles contaminated by deer mouse saliva, urine or droppings containing infectious hantaviruses. Hantavirus infection be-gins with fever, muscle

aches, cough, headaches, nausea, and vomiting. In rare cases, symptoms may get worse and lead to Han-tavirus Pulmonary Syn-drome (HPS), a rare but often fatal illness. HPS can progress rapidly into seri-ous lung complications. Individuals who develop fever or respiratory illness within one to six weeks of potential exposure should seek immediate medical attention.

There have been 21 cases of Hantavirus report-ed in Saskatchewan since 1994, including four cases in 2004, one case in 2008, one case in 2010 and one this year.

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ration have created a work force that costs very little to produce goods to sell to the West but it has caught up to them for the consum-ers in the west have run out

of money since the well paying jobs are gone. Heck even low paying jobs are hard to find in most of the US today. There are tent cities outside most cities with the unemployed,the mainstream news media

gives this little attention as it would not fit the pro-paganda bill. How many people in the US are home-less? There are some 11 to 17 million unemployed Americans. Their wel-fare system is limited and

restricted. Food stamps pay a single unemployed mother of 4 just $16 a month for food.

Millions of homes lie empty as the banks fore-closed on the owners. One out of every ten homes in

the US faces foreclosure.Times are tough and

getting tougher. If you have not read John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” you should. It is the defini-tive work of fiction of the Great Depression. If you don’t have the time you should see the excellent John Ford directed film of the same title.

The answer lies in more govt involvement in the economy not less. Socialism should be infused into the capitalist system to make it more fare and caring for the downtrodden. The rich should be taxed at levels they were in the 1960s to pay for proper govt servic-es to be provided for all.

The environmental issues must be faced and dealt with. Climate change

is an juggernaut that moves slowly forward. Govts should be doing everything to understand it

with more science,not less as Harper wants. I think the problem is like that of the passenger pigeon,people just cannot envision the consequences happening as they are so unbeliev-able. Vancouver under 75 feet of ocean water. PEI gone,submerged under the sea. It is just so unimaginable,maybe that is why we as a society have failed to act. I look up at the sky today and it is hard to believe that one flock of birds could cover the entire sky and take up to three days to fly over.

All this action about the economy just made me more aware about all

the inaction in regards to the environment.

Peace,Neil SinclairRural Saskatoon, Sk

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The dilemma of economy vs ecology

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Dear Editor:Saskatchewan folk better prepare for our children

living in a private for profit, expensive American style health care system. How could our once progressive prov-ince swallow Wall’s and McMorris’s phony excuses for sending expensive surgeries and analysis of CT and MRI scans to private for profit clinics and companies; all at the expense of public medicare. Meanwhile, we’ve witnessed:

* A $12.5 million cut in non-physician recruitment funding with no increase in training seats.

* $400,000 spent on an ‘international headhunter’ to help recruit doctors.

* Subsidies for prescription drugs, eye-care, chiroprac-tic services, medical care and dental sealant program for working poor cut or terminated.

* After replacing Regional Health Boards, McMorris cut their funding and asked them to find $10 million sav-ings through cuts in WCB claims, sick leave, closing beds and overtime. Running health care workers off their feet serves McMorris’s zeal to privatize medicare.

A devastating crisis in long-term, care continues due in part to a reduction of 8.65% of the beds. Seniors lan-guish in expensive hospital beds waiting for LTC beds. McMorris cancelled funding to replace 134, LTC facilities and instead provides a loan guarantee (Saskatchewan tax-payers’ expense) to private Amicus Healthcare Inc. whose cost per/patient is $185/day compared to $156/day in other LTC facilities.

Systematic reviews in Canada, US and Britain con-clude that non-profit facilities provide more quality-care and that Canadian LTC residents would receive some 42,000 more care hours in public facilities.

“Of all the forms of inequity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Helen M. Baker,Saskatoon.

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Attendees of the latest meeting of the Shellbrook and District Chamber of Commerce got an outsid-er’s view of the Town of Shellbrook.

The meeting featured a presentation of a “First Impressions Survey” taken by representatives from Spiritwood.

Outgoing economic development officer for Northern Lakes Economic Development Corporation Desiree Casson presented the powerpoint slideshow outlining the committee’s findings.

The presentation noted that Shellbrook was well

signed with good access to the town and service roads and provided a number of worthwhile services.

What it seemed to be lacking was a brand or trademark that would make the community more recognizable to outsiders.

Before taking the tour, surveyors wrote down their preconceived notions about the community which included that it was a bedroom community to Prince Albert, had good services and was well laid out.

The five minute impression noted that the town was well kept, the

campground and pool were inviting, the two car dealerships were impres-sive and that people took part in beautifying the town through keeping their properties neat.

Dandelions in some of the park areas and a lot filled with old vehi-cles near the Town’s west entrance reflected nega-tively on the town’s aes-thetic.

The tour, taken in June, missed out on some of the beautification features of the town like the flower boxes on the boulevards and at the main entry to town.

They also noted that some of the older buildings in the Town’s Main Street and some of the communi-ty’s business signs needed some refreshing.

However, overall the town’s business’s gave the impression of a vibrant business community.

In the Town’s residen-tial area, they noted that mixture of house trailers and conventional homes were not a good mix but noted that having devel-oped residential property and a wide variety of home sizes reflected positively on the community.

The community’s resi-

dents were also given high marks for their knowl-edge of the area, friendly demeanor and willingness to help.

The list of events that are held in the community on an annual basis, like the Shellbrook Artisans Tour and Sports Day, also pro-vided some appeal.

The town’s health ser-

vices also received high grades but the survey was completed before three of the community’s six phy-sicians moved out of town and a fourth retired.

As a part of the agree-ment, Shellbrook also took part in a first impres-sions survey of Spiritwood which will be presented at a later date.

North Central cross-country at Timber Ridge

October 28, 2011 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 9

Continued from page 7Exposure to hantavirus

can be reduced by: •Blocking openings

that might allow rodents from entering a building.

•Storing human and animal food, water and garbage in containers with tightly fi tted lids.

•Keeping yards clean, and storing woodpiles above the ground and away from the home.

•When cleaning a home or community, be aware of animal droppings and nest-ing materials, and take ap-propriate precautions to avoid exposure.

•Dampening areas contaminated with rodent droppings with bleach disinfectant and remov-ing droppings with a damp mop or cloth to reduce the chance the virus may become airborne. Never remove droppings by dry sweeping or vacuuming.

For more detailed in-formation about Hanta-virus and how to prevent

infection, please visit the Ministry of Health’s web-site at www.health.gov.sk.ca/hantavirus

Hantavirus precautions Amanda Duret, Stephan Cyr and Rylan Couture

On Thursday, October 6th four athletes travelled to Ski-Timber Ridge to compete in the North-Cen-tral District Cross-country run. Amanda Lepage com-peted in bantam girls, Ry-lan Couture in junior boys, Amanda Duret in senior girls and Stephan Cyr in senior boys. All four did extremely well in their races. The three older ath-letes qualifi ed to advance to provincials. On Satur-day, October 15th we were in Middle Lake for the Provincial Cross-country races. All the events had 80 or more runners in them and our athletes again did very well fi nishing in the middle of the pack. Con-gratulations to Amanda Duret, Rylan Couture and Stephan Cyr for represent-ing our school with class.

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The Shellbrook Aardvarks season came to a close with a 42-26 loss to Biggar Sunday afternoon.

The Aardvarks showed up at the 2-3 game short-handed after having their roster trimmed with injuries in the final game of the regular season with the Spiritwood Sabres. In all five players were knocked out of the game with the Sabres. In all five players were knocked out of action in the loss to Spiritwood.

Head coach Devon Thorpe noted that in all his expe-rience playing and coaching football he has not seen so many players injured in a single game.

However, the outlook is good heading into next year as there are only three current roster players graduating -- Carson Kalyn, Jordan Engelbrechtsen and Brandon Featherstone.

“We’ll have a good core of guys going into next year,” said Thorpe.

Aardvarks lose out of football playoffs

Page 10 Shellbrook Chronicle October 28, 2011

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We all have that go-to item in our wardrobe that seems to go with every-thing. If you’re worried that too many washes will cause your favourite black sweater to look a bit dull try the below at-home bud-get-friendly tips to ensure your sweater stays looking like new.

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“This isn’t one of those elections where someone can say ‘all the parties are the same,” said CTF Prai-rie Director Colin Craig. “The three main parties have put forward some very different visions for Saskatchewan.”

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Halloween is an excit-ing time for children as they dream about who they will dress up as and all the treats they will bring home. It is also a time for public to remember some safety tips to help make Halloween a safe time for all!

C o s t u m e Considerations:

• be seen, wear bright colors and/or add reflec-tive tape that will be clear-ly visible to motorists

• be comfortable, dress for cooler temperatures yet permits mobility

• wear walking shoes so you are comfortable

• wear a mask that allows you to see and breath easily or instead of a mask use non toxic make up or face paint

• if you have costume accessories such as a knife or sword, make sure it is made of soft, flexible material

• look for flame resis-tant costumes

Before Trick or Treating:

• remind everyone to not eat treats till they return home and they are inspected by a parent

• have a light snack or meal before going out so there is no temptation to try treats

• confirm travel route and time expected home

• discuss pedestrian safety

Trick or Treating:• try to go out while it

is still light, if not carry a flashlight

• younger children should be accompanied by a parent or older sibling

• go out in groups• plan you route along

well lighted areas and let an adult know your route

• go to homes that have their outside light turned on

• use a crosswalk or a corner, looking both ways before proceeding.

• if there is not a side-walk, walk facing traffic

Treats:• throw away home-

made treats• if a treat is unwrapped,

the package is torn, loose or has small holes in it, discard

• check fruit for punc-tures; if skin intact, wash before using

• beware of chok-ing hazards; size, shape, consistency and composi-tion could make a candy a choking hazard such as hard candies, peanuts, gum and small toys

• if your child has a food allergy, read labels and know what products they can consume

• if in doubt throw it out

Home Safety:• have your yard and

home well lighted• clear sidewalk and

yard of any potential trip-ping hazards

• if you have a pet, keep it inside or in a ken-nel away from trick or treaters

• if you have carved pumpkins with candles in them, place in a area where they could not ignite anything

• use Canadian Standards Association decorative lights and check there are no dam-aged sockets, frayed cord or loose connections. Do not overload extension cords.

Tips for Drivers:• be aware of the

increased pedestrian vol-ume

• Slow down in resi-dential areas

• children in their excitement may not always be prudent of traffic safety, they could dart out any-where

• costumes or a mask may impede a treaters vision, expect the unex-pected

• enter and exit drive-ways slowly

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The Canadian Tax-payers Federation (CTF) applauded the Harper government for introduc-ing legislation today in the House of Commons to scrap the wasteful and in-effective long-gun registry.

“The bill introduced to-day (Ending the Long-gun Registry Act) is long over-due,” said CTF Federal and Ontario Director Gregory Thomas. “Our supporters would have preferred that the government go further and also eliminate licens-ing for non-restricted long-guns, but today’s legisla-

tion addresses the most wasteful and unnecessary parts of the program.”

“Canada’s auditor general has documented, not once, but twice, after extensive investigations, that the long-gun registry has been a billion dollar boondoggle,” said Thom-as. “The long-gun registry has been a political prop – nothing more - since the day it was conceived. Ev-ery penny wasted on this ineffective registry would have been better used by Canadian law enforcement agencies to go after real

criminals.”Thomas pointed out

Canada maintains a strict regime of gun control, in-cluding mandatory licens-ing, mandatory permit-ting, both for buying and transporting hand guns and automatic weapons, as well as restrictions on the length and calibre of re-stricted weapons, the size of ammunition clips, the storage of weapons and ammunition, and the lock-ing of weapons.

Thomas warned pro-vincial premiers to care-fully consider federal audi-tor general’s reports before engaging in speculative posturing around the issue.

“Provincial govern-ments will face a resound-ing, immediate, sustained and ultimately painful backlash from law-abiding farmers and hunters if they decide to play politics with this issue,” said Thomas. “Any long-gun registry proposal would simply play on urban ignorance of Canadian gun-control legislation and urban ig-norance of the rural, ab-original and northern way of life.”

In 2002, the CTF deliv-ered a petition with 14,000 signatures to the auditor general, requesting the original investigation into the program, and in 2006, the CTF delivered a sec-ond petition with 28,000 signatures to the minister of public safety, demand-ing an end to the registry.

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BLUEGRASS -- The Spinney Brothers, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, had toes tapping at a con-cert October 19 at the Shellbrook Theatre. The concert, presented by the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Olde Tyme Music Society, drew a crowd of about 200.

HALLOWEEN HOWL -- A small crowd didn’t deter Dizzy River from putting on a solid show for Saturday night’s Halloween Howl. The local band played the concert in support of the Shellbrook and Districts Health Services Project and Doctor Recruitment Committee Octo-ber 22.

Pictured is W.P. Sandin SLC Representatives: Kelli Stene, Jen Wendel, Sarah Bilyk, Shaunee Kobialko, Mrs. Rhonda Berezowski - Advisor

To mark World Polio Day October 24, W.P. Sandin students collected pennies for the Pennies for Polio Campaign. Every 6

cents donated provides the ‘drops’ needed to vac-cinate a child in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa.

The Pennies were col-lected by W.P. Sandin stu-dents and then given to the Prince Albert Rotary Club.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION - Rod Kalyn accepts a $9,000 cheque on be-half of the Shellbrook Rec Centre from Affi nity Credit Union Business Development Man-ager Lisa Anderson and District Council member Ian Lauder. The donation was made through Affi nity’s revolving Community Development fund which sees each district receive $50,000 in funding for community projects every three years.

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LUTHERAN CHURCHZion - CanwoodSunday School,

Worship Sunday, 9 a.m.St. John’s - Shellbrook

Sunday School, Worship Sunday, 11 a.m.Pastor Doug SchmirlerParkside, Immanuel11 a.m. - Worship &

Sunday School Pastor Chris Dean------------------------PENTECOSTAL

CHURCHParkside

10:00 a.m. Time of prayer10:30 a.m. Worship

11:00 a.m. Sunday SchoolPastor David Baldock

ShellbrookSunday School 9:45 a.m.

Sun., 11:00 a.m. - WorshipPastor David Bodvarson

747-7235Canwood

11 a.m. - WorshipPastor Glenn Blazosek

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Sunday 6:30 p.m.Pastor L. Trafford

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Study and Prayer.Sun., 10:30 a.m. - Worship

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DebdenSun., 9:30 a.m. - Mass.Fr. Sebastian Kunnath

Big River - Sacred HeartSun., 11:30 a.m. - Mass

Whitefi shSun., 2:30 p.m. - Mass.

VictoireSat., 7:30 p.m. - Mass.

Fr. Bernabe Millan Sajonas

Eucharist CelebrationsMuskeg

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Sunday, 3 p.m. St. Agatha’s -

ShellbrookSunday, 9 a.m.

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St. Henry’s - LeaskSunday 11 a.m.

St. Joseph’s - MarcelinSaturday, 7 p.m.

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School.Sat., 11:00 am Worship

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and Wednesday evenings.Parkside 747-2309,

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8 a.m. - Morning prayer Service.

9 a.m. Holy CommunionCanwood - Christ Church2 p.m. 1st & 3rd Sundays

Evening Prayer 2nd & 4th Sundays Holy

CommunionMont Nebo - St. Luke’s

2 p.m. - 1st and 3rd Sundays Holy Communion

2nd and 4th Sundays Evening Prayer St. Andrew’s -

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Bus Driver Appreciation Day - October 17 was Bus Driver Appreciation Day. Thank you to all of the bus drivers in our com-munity who safely transport our students to and from school each day! W.P. Sandin High School treated our bus drivers with an afternoon snack of coffee and donuts, as well as a carnation to say “thanks”!

NEW WELL TIED IN -- The intersection of Fourth Avenue and First Street East in Shellbrook was closed earlier this week to lay pipe to tie in the town’s new deep well. Work began on the well last year which was funded equally between the Federal, Provincial and Municipal government through the Building Canada Grant. The deadline for project completion is October 31 of this year.

Canadians, in this Information Age, are now more in-formed than ever when discussing construction with their builder. Most of us expect only the most energy-effi cient and environmentally responsible designs, fi xtures, mate-rials, and methods. As a result, builders must constantly keep up with latest technology and how to apply it. Here’s the latest scoop in the world of construction: Replace wood-framed walls with the newest, concrete system. Homes built with concrete will give you the strongest, most energy effi cient house on the block. Instead of a

stick frame, the walls of your house will be built with In-sulated Concrete Forms (ICFs). This award-winning sys-tem, advanced by Canadian company Nudura, delivers energy savings and human health benefi ts as well. Drafts are eliminated. The house will be stronger, more sound resistant, and more fi re resistant than a house built with wood. Nudura also reports that energy savings may also be as high as 70 per cent. More information on this—as well as effi cient ceilings and fl oors—is available online at www.nudura.com.

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Since the world’s best golfer, Tiger Woods, is more like Pussycat Woods these days, do we know for certain who has assumed the title of world’s most dominating golfer?

It’s not Rory McIlroy, who gave golf fans palpitations in June by winning the U.S. Open by eight strokes, but then fell in love with a tennis player and saw his golf game level out to mediocre. It’s not Luke Donald, who is ranked No. 1 in the world but hasn’t won a major title in 10 years as a pro.

Here’s a suggestion: The world’s most dominating golfer is a young lady from Taiwan by the name of Yani Tseng. The 22-year-old is clearly the best woman golfer in the world. Dominating? Most definitely.

Tseng this year won two majors, seven other titles and posted earnings on the Ladies Professional Golfers Association tour of $2.3 million — a full $1 million more than the runner-up, Cristie Kerr of the United States. Her stroke average of 69.6 was almost one full stroke better than anyone else, a huge difference in a statistical category usually separated by tenths, or hundredths of a stroke.

At 22, her five major titles make her the youngest golfer, male or female, to reach that total. Woods may never tie or exceed Jack Nicklaus’s 18 majors, but Tseng has a great chance to surpass the 15 won by Patty Berg, the women’s leader.

Asians are dominating the world of women’s golf, with media attention in the United States on the wane as a result. Americans Kerr, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie and the teenage sensation Lexi Thompson play second-ary roles in the play-for-pay game. Can anyone recall the last time an American was the No. 1 woman in the world of golf? Before Tseng, Lorena Ochoa of Mexico was No. 1 and for a decade before that, Annika Sorenstam was the queen of global golf.

Tseng has won five of 11 tournament starts since the middle of June, and is the clear-cut favourite every time she tees it up. And she is great for the game; she always has a big smile on her face, her English has improved enough for her to comfortably conduct interviews with European and American media, and she cheerfully interacts with fans.

If you get a chance to see Tseng and the world’s best female golfers in action, don’t turn it down. Yani and the rest will be competing at the CN Canadian Open at the Vancouver Golf Club next August and you read it here first: She will be the favourite to win.

• Janice Hough, of leftcoastsports-babe.com: “Theo Epstein has apparently come to terms with the Chicago Cubs to be their new GM. The contract is appar-ently for five years and $15 million. With the provision that if he gets the Cubs to the World Series, Epstein will be nomi-nated immediately for sainthood.”

• Norman Chad, on Twitter.com: “Best I can tell, the New York Jets going to a hurry-up offence makes as much sense as Pee-wee Herman driving twice as fast to get to a singles bar.”

• Comedy writer Jerry Perisho: “A 100-year-old man completed the Toronto Marathon. Experts credit the amazing power of the tantalizing female running shorts he followed for 26.2 miles.”

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “A 100-year-old man completed a marathon race in Toronto. The sad part is he was 96 when it started.”

• Steve Rushin at si.com: “Indira Gandhi said you can’t shake hands with a clenched fist, but that’s what the hand-shake often is in sports, a screw-you pos-

ing as a howdy-do.”• A Globe and Mail editorial on fight-

ing in hockey: “There will always be rock ’em in hockey, but the NHL needs to real-ize that the sock ’em is on its way out.”

• Fox’s Tim McCarver, after Cardinals reliever Marc Rzepczynski needed just seven pitches to record two rally-killing strikeouts in Game 1 of the World Series: “It’s a five-letter word: S-T-R-I-K-E.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Those three foot-

ball players suspended by top-ranked LSU had tested positive for synthetic marijuana, two sources told ESPN.com. In other words, the Tigers are 0-3 on arti-ficial grass this season.”

• Hough again: “Three LSU football starters were suspended for . . . fake mari-

juana? This would have never happened at OSU or Miami. Their boosters pay enough for players to be able to afford the real thing.”

• Perry again: “Singer Paul Simon, in case you missed it, turned 70 last week. Suddenly he can’t remember where Joe DiMaggio went.”

• Steve Simmons of Sun Media: “The last thing anybody thought when the Blue Jays traded Edwin Jackson, Marc Rzepczynski and Octavio Dotel to St. Louis: ‘Well, that puts them in the World Series.’ “

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle on post-game rituals in sports: “Hockey: After playoff games, teams line up and players seem to be shaking hands, although actually they are giving back teeth they’ve acquired during the game. The coaches shake hands with one another and exchange a few words in Canadian.”

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Singing praise for Tseng: Golf’s most dominant

BrucePenton

Friday, November 4Prairie @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmShellbrook @ Hague - 8:30 pmTisdale @ Beardy’s - 8 pmSunday, November 6Prairie @ Beardy’s - 8 pmShellbrook @ Tisdale - 5:30 pmFriday, November 11Warman @ Prairie - 8 pmShellbrook @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmBeardy’s @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmSaturday, November 12Hague @ Warman - 8:15 pmBruno @ Shellbrook - 8 pm.Sunday, November 13Dalmeny @ Prairie - 4:30 pmTuesday, November 15Bruno @ Hague - 8:30 pmFriday, November 18Hague @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmShellbrook @ Prairie - 8 pmBruno @ Beardy’s - 8 pmRosthern @ Warman - 8 pmSaturday, November 19Rosthern @ Shellbrook - 8 pmDalmeny @ Warman - 8:15 pmSunday, November 20Beardy’s @ Tisdale - 5:30pmFriday, November 25Bruno @ Rosthern - 8:30pmTisdale @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmShellbrook @ Prairie - 8 pmSaturday, November 26Rosthern @ Beardy’s- 8 pm

Hague @ Shellbrook - 8 pmBruno @ Warman - 8 pmTuesday, November 29Dalmeny @ Hague - 8:30 pmFriday, December 2Bruno @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmHague @ Prairie start time 8 pmWarman @ Beardy’s - 8 pmSaturday, December 3Prairie @ Warman - 8 pmShellbrook @ Tisdale - 8:30 pmSunday, December 4Shellbrook @ Bruno - 6:30 pmHague @ Tisdale - 5:30 pmFriday, December 9Tisdale @ Bruno - 8 pmWarman @ Hague - 8:30 pmPrairie @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmRosthern @ Shellbrook - 8 pmSaturday, December 10Dalmeny @ Shellbrook - 8 pmTisdale @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmBeardy’s @ Warman - 8:15 pmSunday, December 11Bruno @ Prairie 3 pmTuesday, December 13Beardy’s @ Hague - 8:30 pmFriday, December 16Warman @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmHague @ Bruno - 8 pmRosthern @ Prairie - 8 pm (Laird Arena)Saturday, December 17Dalmeny @ Bruno - 8 pmRosthern @ Tisdale - 7:30 pm

Beardy’s @ Warman - 8 pmSunday, December 18Prairie @ Tisdale - 2 pmDalmeny @ Beardy’s - 8 pmTuesday, December 20Warman @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmFriday, December 23Hague @ Bruno - 8 pmWednesday, December 28Beardy’s @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmFriday, December 30Beardy’s @ Bruno - 8 pmTisdale @ Shellbrook - 8 pmDalmeny @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmFriday, January 6Shellbrook @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmWarman @ Hague - 8:30 pmBeardy’s @ Prairie - 8 pmSaturday, January 7Bruno @ Tisdale - 7:30 pmDalmeny @ Shellbrook - 8 pmSunday, January 8Tisdale @ Hague - 2:30 pmRosthern @ Bruno - 6 pmFriday, January 13Shellbrook @ Beardy’s - 8 pmTisdale @ Warman - 8:15 pmBruno @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmRosthern @ Hague - 8:30 pmSaturday, January 14Bruno @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmWarman @ Shellbrook - 8 pmBeardy’s @ Tisdale - 7:30 pm

Sunday, January 15Dalmeny @ Prairie - 3 pm (Laird Arena)Tuesday, January 17Tisdale @ Rosthern - 8:30 pmFriday, January 20Prairie @ Bruno - 8 pmShellbrook @ Warman 8 pmSaturday, January 21Hague @ Rosthern - 8:30pmBeardy’s @ Shellbrook - 8 pmDalmeny @ Tisdale - 7:30 pmWarman @ Bruno - 8 pmSunday, January 22Tisdale @ Prairie - 4:30 pmTuesday January 24Prairie @ Hague - 8:30 pmFriday, January 27Prairie @ Warman - 8 pmHague @ Beardy’s - 8 pmRosthern @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmSaturday, January 28Warman @ Bruno - 8 pmSunday, January 29Prairie @ Shellbrook - 6:30 pmFriday, Febuary 3Tisdale @ Hague - 8:30 pmRosthern @ Beardy’s - 8 pmSaturday, Febuary 4Warman @ Tisdale - 7:30 pmHague @ Dalmeny - 8:30 pmSunday Febuary 5Prairie @ Beardy’s - 8 pm

Fort Carlton Hockey League 2011 – 2012 Regular Season Schedule

The Shellbrook Elks make some key changes while maintaining their core group going into the 2011-12 Fort Carlton Hockey League season.

It all starts in goal for the Elks as Kel-ly Guard will be between the pipes along with David Clements.

Guard, a former NHL prospect, back-stopped the St. Walburg Eagles to a Pro-vincial A title in 2010.

Meanwhile, key subtractions include Adam Moar and Bret Peppler who have moved on to other teams in the FCHL. Also leaving the team is Jason McComas who moved on to the Shellbrook Silver-tips of the Beaver Lakes Hockey League.

Filling those holes are Matt Swaby

and Dane Lindscog and Corey Diehl. The Elks see their fi rst action Sunday

when they host the Spiritwood Timber-wolves in exhibition action. The puck drops at 5:30 p.m.

The league will have a different land-scape with the subtraction of the Blaine Lake Imperials, who folded this year. This leaves the FCHL as a nine team league with the Beardy’s Blackhawks and the Tisdale Ramblers playing their second year in the league.

Elks coach Jim McComas stepped down after last year leaving a hole on the bench. Until a new coach is found, some of the core group of players will fi ll the role.

Elks make changes ahead of 2011-12 season

Scott MoeSask Party

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?

This constituency is my home. My family and I have experienced many of the local triumphs and challenges alongside our neighbours and other fami-lies in this community. My beliefs are closely aligned with the people I wish to represent. I have worked and played with many people in this broad rid-ing, forming many close friendships and partner-ships along the way.

I learned a lot about the Saskatchewan Party after volunteering at many of their events and gatherings across the province. That’s how I know that Premier Brad Wall and his team will keep this community and our province moving forward. I want to join their team and do my part to keep this momentum going so that my children can grow up, and eventu-ally raise their own fami-lies, in a strong and stable province. What are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?

Our constituency is vast in terms of geography and it includes many dif-ferent and unique commu-nities. However, the issue of health care affects all people in our region, and the Saskatchewan Party’s health care plan will im-prove access to quality health care for people and families across the prov-ince.

Associated with this issue is the challenge of meeting the needs of our seniors. With an ambi-tious plan already in place, the Saskatchewan Party is committed to further re-ducing costs to seniors so that life for those who built so much for us will be more affordable.

Other important issues, like highways, education

and social programing change daily. As we take steps to resolve some of the most pressing issues, we will face others. How-ever, I will be committed to making sure the issues throughout the constitu-ency are always heard in the legislature and get the attention they deserve. How would you address those issues, if elected?

All elected leaders are representatives of the peo-ple and families in their constituency. Close con-sultation with volunteer groups, municipal groups and individuals - provides the consensus by which an MLA is guided when working in government leadership. I welcome the opportunity to utilize my experience in physician recruitment and hospital planning so I may help each community receive the most benefi t possible from the Saskatchewan Party’s Five-Point Plan for better healthcare. With additions to training seats for medical profession-als, reduction in student loan repayments for doc-tors, nurses and NPs stay-ing in rural and northern communities and creation of a doctor locum pool (among other strategies such as launching STARS and expanding EMT pilot projects) this constituency stands to gain important access as we move forward with the Saskatchewan Party.What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

So far, the Saskatche-wan Party has made many important commitments in this campaign. But, the one I welcomed most and the one that will affect the Rosthern-Shellbrook Constituency the most is the Five-Point Plan for increased access to health care. It is designed to ad-dress the need for more doctors and nurses in our rural and northern commu-nities. With more health care professionals working in our rural communities, the closer more people and families will be to impor-tant health care services. It will also be very good news to communities who have been working hard to fi nd solutions in what can sometimes be an arduous process – I feel there is no issue more deserving of a strong platform and the re-sources required to make it happen.

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Saskatchewan votes 2011Rosthern Shellbrook Constituency

Margaret Rose UveryGreen Party

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?

I care!! This is pre-dominately a rural/farming area. The good folks who are producing our very sustenance to survive de-serve the best possible rep-resentation in government we can provide.

To enable them, we must lower their taxes/op-erating expenses in order to keep them ‘on the land’, and encourage them to avoid becoming enslaved by the multi-national cor-porations which only care about theri share-holder profi ts. What are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?

Clean (Potable) wa-ter, competent/accessible health care and better roads.

Here in Hafford the H2O is hard -- very ‘hard’ and corrosive due to the high mineral content of iron and manganese, etc. The cost to improve the situation would be close to a million dollars.

Our ‘Medi-scare’ sys-tem has resulted in the demunition of full-func-tioning, small hospitals throughout this and many other constituencies.

Secondary, very nar-row highway 340 between Hafford and Radissson (the Yellowhead route) is dangerous to travel on -- at all times. The constant patch-work vice properly laid road bed is unaccept-able, to say the least. How would you address those issues, if elected?

Obviously major water infrastructure initiatives would be priority one. Even if an increase in mu-nicipal and RM taxes were to be undertaken, to make the H2O cleaner, safer and healthier to consume.

As for improved Health Care, we have to view the challenges from the patient

perspective. This means a “bottom-up” approach ver-sus the “top-down” meth-odology.

Many ineffi ciencies presently exist, cost over-runs are always expected as, a matter of course, re-sulting in ever increasing budgets. Much better man-agement of our funding for those important resources has to take place. Most ru-ral, secondary roads/high-ways are in desperate need of attention.

Less patchwork and proper road bed construc-tion must be how we ac-quire the transportation routs we deserve.What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

The Green Party says “Pass legislation to prohib-it the importation of high level Radioactive waste into Saskatchewan!!!”

Corporatocracy Vice Democracy is what we are currently subjected to. We simply must be more sustainable on all fronts = masters of our own do-main.

Clay DeBrayNDP

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?I have a long history of community involvement. Everything I’ve done in my life has involved giv-ing back to the commu-nity. I work tirelessly to achieve the goals that I set and I believe the people in Rosthern-Shellbrook can relate to that hard work.What are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?When I’m on the doorstep, I keep hearing two things

over and over; healthcare and fi scal mismanage-ment. People in the rid-ing are concerned about hospitals closing and why it’s happening in a “boom” economy.How would you address those issues, if elected?The Sask NDP has com-mitted to opening 22 hos-pitals as community access hospitals which will pro-vide much needed services to small towns and rural areas. An NDP govern-ment would manage the province’s books with the Bright Futures Fund to en-sure that our future genera-tions will be able to enjoy the success that we’ve had.What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?For me, it’s the commit-ment to the future of the province. The platform lays out a nice vision for where we want the prov-ince to be moving, back to balanced budgets and fi scal responsibility where everyone can benefi t.

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Saskatchewan votes 2011Saskatchewan Rivers Constituency

Jeanette Wicinski-Dunn

NDPWhat makes you a

good candidate for your constituency?

I am a strong voice willing to bring forth the issues and concerns of the people in the Sask Rivers Constituency, I believe in myself and I’m confi dent in my ability to listen and speak out will be what is needed in this constitu-ency.

What are the biggest issues facing your riding?

The biggest issues in this riding are: Health Care ( rural and urban). Diefen-baker Bridge and the NDP have committed to build-

ing another bridge, and also concerns for securing a Green Future ( recycling, cleaner energy source, des-ignated green spaces,)

How would you ad-dress those issues, if elected?

The NDP have heard the concerns of health care and having 24 hour emer-gency care in the whole constituency is our com-mitment with having Com-munity Access Hospitals. We can have these emer-gency centers open with senior Nurse practitioners, EMTs and a team of pro-vincial doctors,

The NDP have already made the commitment to building a second bridge , and we have also budgeted in our platform for a recy-cling program as well as committing to 50% cleaner energy by 2025

What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

I believe it is all impor-tant, but I am passionate about Health Care needs for Sask Rivers, and issues that affect all my constitu-ents.

Nadine WilsonSask Party

What makes you a good candidate for your constituency?

I feel my experience makes me the best candi-date for MLA. I have twice been elected Reeve for the RM of Paddockwood, and have also served as a school trustee. I’ve been involved in 4-H clubs, and my work as a cattle rancher and farmer has connected me with many wonderful people.

I was privileged to work on the family saw-mill operation, and I rec-ognize the importance of the forestry industry. If re-elected, I look forward to continuing work as the Legislative Secretary to the Minister in charge of Immigration. I was also chosen to sit on the Plan-ning & Priorities Commit-tee, and was elected Dep-uty Caucus Chairperson. Most of all, I look forward to serving my constituents as their representative in Regina.

What are the biggest issues facing your riding?

The most pressing is-sues facing our constitu-ency involve highways construction, doctor and nurse recruitment, surgical wait times, and employ-ment issues. Your Sas-katchewan Party govern-ment has made progress over the past four years: Our province now has 900 more nurses and nearly 200 more doctors working here than in 2007. Training seats for nurses and doc-tors have grown, and sur-gical wait times have been drastically reduced. We are growing our population, creating a larger tax base.

Our nation-leading economy has also enabled the largest-ever Highways budget in Sask history. More optimistic news is the sale of the Big River

sawmill, which is sched-uled to return to operation in the near future. This is excellent news, as I’m sure many locals are looking forward to the employ-ment opportunities in this community.

How would you ad-dress those issues, if elected?

If re-elected, our gov-ernment has promised to continue our recruitment and retention plan for doc-tors and nurses in rural communities by offering up to $120,000 of their stu-dent loans forgiven. Com-bined with a federal pro-gram, new doctors would be eligible for a total of $160,000 in loan forgive-ness, while nurses would qualify for $40,000. Your Sask Party government would also ensure that criminals are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Our election platform includes more record in-vestments in infrastruc-ture: $2.2-billion over four years to repair and main-tain highways. This infra-structure is important in order for Saskatchewan’s economic momentum to continue.

What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

The most important part of our election platform is responsible governance in the face of uncertain eco-nomic times throughout the world. This election, we will not engage in a “bidding war” to buy Sas-katchewan people’s votes. Our government has paid down more than 44 percent of the provincial debt, and if re-elected, we will strive to pay down even more.

Our responsible plat-form will ensure steady job creation, lower surgi-cal wait times, more paved highways, and maintaining the country’s lowest un-employment rate. I would caution against the NDP’s tax-and-spend platform, as I’m sure we have learned from the past, potash rev-enues are not constant or set in stone.

To summarize, I would say the sum of the many parts of our election plat-form are very important: responsible economic poli-cies, while carrying on the growth and success of the past four years.

Paul-Emile L’Heureux

Green PartyWhat makes you a

good candidate for your constituency?

I feel that I am a good candidate for the people of Sask Rivers because I have the time to deal with the issues and I bring a to-tally different perspective on most of the every day concerns .I’ve been living on our farm for 35 years ,sat on provincial boards and local boards. I was a high school teacher for 31 years.

What are the biggest issues facing your riding?

The issues in our riding that I hear most

often are related to forestry,agriculture,and tourism.

The forest could do a lot more for the people. There should be much more done towards value added to the trees that are processed,which contrib-utes to local jobs.

Some forests should be better managed and pre-served perhaps for people use,be it local green space or tourism.

Whichever direction we take, the care of the water or ecosystems can-not be compromised.

The other major con-cern is in the manner that the environment is being affected with respect to in-dustrial type of agricultural practices. Can we continue to apply over 100,000,000 liters of pesticides yearly all over our province with-out suffering from a multi-tude of health problems.

How would you ad-dress those issues, if elected?

A Green Party would provide fi nancial incen-tives to farmers to transi-tion to a more organic style of farming. This is neces-sary to stop the contamina-tion of our rivers,lakes and naturally our food. Many thousands of people get their drinking water from the Sask River system. Besides coliforms and ni-trates monitoring are we being dupped in believing that it is perfectly safe?

A Green Party would strongly encourage small farm enterprises to pro-duce local foods avoiding importation of foods that we don’t have any knowl-edge about. Why can we not grow all of our own cabbage,root crops,apples etc.??.

A Green Party would facilitate and promote the construction of freezer or processing plants to move in that direction.

What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

There is no money in the world that is more im-portant than clean, safe and wholesome water,air and food.

Your health depends on it. There is no other politi-cal party in this province more dedicated to those principles; vote with your heart,Vote Green Party.

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Jeremy HarrisonSask Party

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?

I’m grateful to voters in the Meadow Lake area for supporting me in working to keep this area moving forward and I think there are three reasons this part-nership is working so well.

First, I’m from Mead-ow Lake. I grew up here, my parents live here, and my wife and I are rais-ing our kids here. When I stand up in the Legislature, I’m standing up for my neighbours.

Second, I have experi-ence representing this area. When people are getting their cars fi xed or going to the doctor, they want to know they’re in experi-enced hands. I have dedi-cated years of hard work to representing the Meadow Lake area in both Parlia-ment and the Legislature.

Third, moving Sas-katchewan forward takes teamwork and the Sas-katchewan Party is a great team. Brad Wall is a great team leader and people I talk to know he’s the right leader to keep Saskatch-ewan moving forward.What are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?

This election is very important in Meadow Lake because we have a clear choice: keep moving forward with Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party team or we can go backwards with Dwain Lingenfelter’s NDP.

Meadow Lake has tak-en huge steps forward with the Saskatchewan Party in the last four years. We have so many new neighbours moving in that Meadow Lake has offi cially become a city. We’ve repaved roads such as Highway’s 3,4, 26, and 55. We’ve lowered taxes.

We know what would happen if Dwain Lin-genfelter’s NDP took us backward. When he was in power, the NDP raised taxes 17 times. Lingenfel-ter has promised to hike SaskPower rates for indus-try even though it could

put local mills out of busi-ness. He is promising new revenue sharing with First Nations that will cost hun-dreds and hundreds of mil-lions.How would you address those issues, if elected?

We need to keep Sas-katchewan moving for-ward and Brad Wall’s Sas-katchewan Party has the track record to prove that we can keep the province growing.

The Saskatchewan Par-ty has hired 900 new nurs-es and doubled the number of doctors we can train in Saskatchewan in the last four years. In the next four years, we’re going to for-give student loans for new doctors who work in rural communities. We’re also going to train more nurse practitioners.

The Saskatchewan Party hired more than 100 new police offi cers to keep our communities safe in the last four years. In the next four years, the Sas-katchewan Party will hire more police offi cers and more prosecutors.

The Saskatchewan Par-ty has balanced the budget and paid down more than 40 per cent of the prov-ince’s debt in the last four years. In the next four years, the Saskatchewan Party will continue to bal-ance the books.What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

Every Saskatchewan family has to sit down at the kitchen table and fi g-ure out a family budget. It’s important to set priori-ties and make responsible decisions. The provincial budget is the same.

Brad Wall’s Saskatch-ewan Party has delivered balanced budgets and we’ve paid down more than 40 per cent of the province’s debt. But we’ve also invested more than $2 billion in roads such as Highway 4; we’ve hired 900 nurses; and, we’ve lowered taxes for families and small businesses.

On the other hand, Dwain Lingenfelter’s NDP has made one reckless campaign promise after an-other. In fact, the promises he’s already made would plunge the province back into a more than a billion-dollar defi cit. That’s on top of the hundreds of millions Lingenfelter will give to First Nations through so-called revenue sharing.

The most important part of the Saskatchewan Party platform is the prom-ise to keep the province moving forward.

Helen Ben NDP

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?

- I’ve lived in the Meadow Lake area for al-most all my life.

- I’ve had experi-ence in government, serv-ing as chief of my commu-nity for six years.

- I’ve spent many years educating children in our communities, one of the most important jobs our provincial government is involved in.

- As an elected of-fi cial, I’ve got a healthy track record of responding to the people I represent, and standing up for our communityWhat are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?

Folks in Meadow Lake and area have let me know that they’re primarily con-cerned with:

- A f f o r d a b i l i t y : Meadow Lake`s communi-ties are becoming more ex-pensive to live in. People living on fi xed incomes, especially seniors and stu-dents have been hit hard by government-inspired increases in their cost of living.

- Many Commu-nities are being forced to close down emergency rooms and severely restrict admission to the local hos-pital.

There are simply not enough doctors. The cur-rent government hasn’t dealt with this issue. As a result, residents have no place to go in an emergen-cy. There is a need for new approaches – innovations that offer consistent health care to those who need it when they need it.

- Better Financial Management: Saskatche-wan seems to have missed an historic opportunity to diversify the Saskatch-ewan economy and ensure

lasting prosperity for av-erage families. The Wall government has “blown the boom”.How would you address those issues, if elected?

- We`re working to bring costs down on hous-ing, child care, education, care for seniors, and en-ergy costs

- Community Ac-cess Hospitals offer a practical option, staffed by nurse practitioner, so peo-ple continue to have health and emergency services where and when they need them.

- To make sure Sas-katchewan families benefi t from resource wealth over the long term, an NDP government is committed to developing the ‘Bright Futures Fund.’

Like similar funds in Alaska and Norway, the ‘Bright Futures Fund’ will see the government put a portion of Saskatchewan’s non-renewable resource royalties aside to invest for the future. The fund would be ‘hands-off’: indepen-dently managed, with the government not allowed to withdraw money to cover short-term defi cits and day-to-day spending.What do you see as the most important part of your party’s election platform?

Thanks to our abundant natural resources and hard-working people, Saskatch-ewan continues to be pros-perous. The NDP believes that Saskatchewan’s pros-perity should be shared by the people who helped cre-ate it. We have a plan for change - change that ben-efi ts you.

The Saskatchewan NDP will build on our prosperity in three simple ways - putting people fi rst with better health and so-cial programs; managing our fi nances wisely for fu-ture generations; and mak-ing strategic investments that will serve us well as we move into the future.

November 7this

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Saskatchewan

Susan Merasty Green Party

What makes you a good candidate for your con-stituency?

What is a good candi-date, do we really know? I know that I will do my best for the people of Saskatch-ewan and in representing my party. Yes, I’m a new face on the political scene and I’m sure I will learn many things along the way. I look forward to the expe-rience and will be the voice for the people in my riding and elsewhere.What are the biggest is-sues facing your riding?

One issue that needs to be addressed here and across Canada is health care.

When I left Meadow Lake years ago I was able to see a doctor within the same day you called the clinic. Now I have to schedule an appointment weeks in advance to see a doctor.

How do people living with diabetes and other ail-ments deal with this issue on a daily basis?

Other issues I see is af-fordable housing and edu-cation. These issues will only intensify as time pass-es and our population base continues to grow.How would you address those issues if elected?

I would work with all the party leaders to solve all issues we are currently facing in our society today. What do you see as the most important part of your parties election plat-form?

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the Shellbrook Seniors have just started their fall activities. During the sum-mer we staffed the Tourist Information Booth Tues-day and Thursday after-noons during June, July and August.

The improvement of the buildings acoustics has been completed. A new Sound System donated by the Groenen Family has been installed

Two new High Energy Furnaces have been in-stalled

The Seniors took part in the Shellbrook Street Fair. Now it is back to fall activities.

Shellbrook Seniors As-sociation

Wednesday September 14 2011

President Myrna Bur-gess chaired the Birthday Party meeting..

There were 20 mem-bers and 1 guest present.

Adeline Fossey read the minutes which were adopted as read.

Joyce Brunton gave the treasure’s report . Moved by Joyce seconded by Ma-rie Laberge that the report be approved. Carried

Moved by Liz Renz seconded by Marlene Ma-son that the bills be paid. Carried

ReportsHall - Adeline reported

that there are 4 bookings for the hall for September.

The new Sound System donated by the Groenen Family has been installed.

Conveners - Bea Lande asked for volunteers to make desserts for the Tea and Bake Sale,

A work sheet was passed around for mem-bers to sign.

Kaiser - Isabella Henry reported that the proceeds from the Sept Kaiser Tour-nament netted $202. 50 for the Health Services Proj-ect.

To date the Kai-ser Nights have netted $2532.25 for the Seniors Association and $2582.00 for the Health Services Project.

Executive committee - the suggestions are as fol-lows

September - Friday Sept. 30 during Seniors’ Week a Tea and Bake Sale 2-4 p.m.

October - Tuesday Oct. 18 invite Rosthern Seniors for Thanksgiving Dinner 12 noon.

November - Advanced poll Tues to Sat. Nov. 1-5

- KAISER CAN-CELLED FOR THUR . NOV. 3

December - Christmas Party Friday Dec. 16

New BusinessMoved by Marlene

Mason seconded by Bea Lande that for the Groenen Family donation we have a plaque made to put on the cabinet of the Sound Sys-tem . Carried

Moved by Marlene Mason seconded by Lorna Thompson that we have a plaque made for Elaine Mitchell’s donation of the Kawai Electric Organ. Carried

AnnouncementsNext meeting Wednes-

day Sept. 28Pius Senger adjourned

the meeting. Games of choice followed

September Birthdays - Dora Gustafson, Gertrude Gear, Dorothy Miller and Van Coates

Birthday cake supplied by Ann Jacobs, sandwich-es by Ella Reidt, Lorna Thompson and Norma

Cornwell.Business meeting Sep-

tember 28President Myrna Bur-

gess chaired the Business meeting

There were 19 mem-bers present.

Adeline Fossey read the minutes which were adopted as read.

Business arising from the Minutes

The membership vot-ed to have one meeting a month for a trial period until the end of our year March 31 2012 starting October 2011

ReportsHall - Adeline reported

that their were 11 bookings for October.

2 Carbon Monoxide monitors have been pur-chased and installed in the Hall. This was recom-mended in the furnace in-stallation manual.

Carpet Bowling has been cancelled for this year.

Due to the Advanced Poll Kaiser will be can-celled Thursday Novem-ber 3

Conveners -Bea Lande - Tea and Bake sale - hall will be open at 12. Please have your baking here by 1 p.m.

Thanksgiving Dinner for Rosthern Seniors will be Pot Luck.

New BusinessMoved by Norma

Cornwell seconded by Dora Fraser that we pro-vide the hall rent free to Public Health for the Flu Shots. Carried

Moved by Stella Jones seconded by Marlene Ma-son that we serve coffee and cookies during the Flu Shots. Carried

Moved by Bea Lande seconded by Alice Bruce that we sell coffee and

cookies at intermission for Saskia and Darrell’s CD launching. Saturday Octo-ber 29. Carried

AnnouncementsTea and Bake Sale 2-4

p.m. - Friday September 30

Flu Shots 9 - 12a.m. and 1-4 p.m. - Tuesday October 11

Next Meeting Wednes-day October 12

Kaiser Tournament 7:30 p.m. - Thursday Oc-tober 13

Flu Shots 9 - 12a.m. and 1-4 p.m.- Tuesday Oc-tober 25

Myrna adjourned the meeting. Games of choice followed.

Lunch was provided by Loreen Remus, Mar-lene Chalifour and Adeline Fossey

Shellbrook Seniors Association newsOctober 28, 2011 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 1 9

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Stephen Vandervalk, President of the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC), today called on politicians, the Cana-dian Wheat Board (CWB) and all farm groups to consid-er the interests of producers following the introduction of the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act.

The Federal Government has put forward a transition plan within Bill C-18, allowing the Board to transition to the open market by continuing as a voluntary marketing organization.

“On behalf of farmers, the Grain Growers of Canada are asking everyone to tone down the rhetoric and work together over the coming months,” says Vandervalk. “It is time now for the elected CWB directors to accept the fact that change is coming and work with Government to make sure we have a smooth transition into the open market for the benefi t of western Canadian farmers.”

“Agriculture should not be a political game because adversarial attitudes and activities are all wasting valu-able time and making dialogue more diffi cult,” says Vandervalk. “This hurts farmers’ interests, the Canadian Wheat Board as an organization and damages our valu-able international reputation with our trading partners.”

The CWB has a respected world-wide brand, a huge rolodex of sales contacts, experienced people in both rail and ocean freight, front line staff who work with farm-ers every day, and now with the fi ve year guarantees the Government is offering, the Canadian Wheat Board has the opportunity to be successful.

Many things have changed since the Board’s incep-tion. Progress in technology and science has changed the face of agriculture. Farmers are now able to market and lock in prices for their grain from the seats of their tractors.

“On my own farm, sometimes the Wheat Board has made money for me and some years it has lost money. But at the end of the day, farmers who want to market their own wheat and barley need to have the freedom to do so – as they do in all other parts of Canada,” says Vandervalk. “That is why we support this legislation.”

Grain Growers calls for calm in rising storm of rhetoric

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C O M I N G EVENTS - St. Ag-atha Soup, Sand-wich and Bake Sale, Wednesday, November 2, 11:30 - 1:00 Everyone Welcome.

The Mont Nebo Community Club would like to thank the 2011 Mont Nebo School Re-union Committee for the generous donation to the hall. It was so good to have all those who attended come “home” to Mont Nebo. Another thank you to the Shell Lake/Mont Nebo History Book Committee for the generous donation from the fi nal sales of the book. All proceeds will go to the Mont Nebo Hall for repairs/up-keep.

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Debden School cel-ebrated Education Week from Oct. 17th – Oct. 21st. This year’s theme was LITERACY FOR LIFE.

On Monday morn-ing, marvelous muffins from Cottage Bakery were enjoyed by students, par-ents/grand-parents, bus

drivers and staff. Parents/grand-parents could then go visit the classrooms for first period.

On Tuesday, high school students were matched with elementary students as Math buddies. Math was practiced by all for 20 minutes!

On Wednesday, the elementary students were treated to volunteer pre-senters. Students from grades 1- 6 were placed in groups and rotated from one session to the other for the afternoon. The session presenters displaying their talents were:

Lucille Scott – Art Rocks Gallery – She showed the students how to paint on feathers (her specialty) and other items.

Laurna Parent – She played her guitar, sang (and had the students sing

along) and did some jig-ging.

Father Sebastian – He showed a power-point and spoke about education in India.

Gerry Pelletier – He showed some of his wood-carvings and showed stu-dents how to get started with bars of soap.

Constable Plankenhorn and Constable Knock – They introduced them-selves as school liasons and spoke about safety. They also answered many questions.

Roseline Duret (along with other teachers that were group leaders) – They did some line-danc-ing and handed out Mr. Freeze treats.

On Thursday, the high school students partnered up with the elementary students again but this time as Reading Buddies. Many books were read!

On Friday, during the last period, elementary students paraded around town chanting and show-ing the public their take on education and literacy.

They all carried signs or flags they had made pro-moting education such as, Debden School is awe-some! Literacy for Life! Reading Rocks! Math is Marvelous! Education is important! Je suis folle de l’ecole! J’aime l’education! to name a few!

All in all, students had a great time and learned again about the importance of education and literacy! Thanks to all staff and volunteers who made this week such a success!

Page 24 Shellbrook Chronicle October 28, 2011

Education Week observed in Debden

Laura ParentGerry Pelletier

Father Sebastian

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