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Gerry Adam and Cindy Kozachenko, Co-Chairs of the Organizing Committee for the Grand Slam of Curling event that just took place in Yorkton, presented a cheque for $5,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director, of The Health Foundation, for the new CT scanner. The donation is from both the Yorkton Curling Club and the Organizing Committee.

“We had a meeting last night,” said Gerry Adam, “and decided that since our curling event had gone so well and since the community and the whole region had supported our event so strongly we wanted to make a donation and give back to the commu-nity. We thought donat-ing to the CT scanner made sense because it’s a very important piece of diagnostic equipment and it will be used by this whole region.”

“Gerry gave me a call explained they were making a donation and I

was extremely pleased. We are getting close to our goal and this is a significant donation and jumps us a lot closer to raising all the money we need to pay for the CT,” said Ross Fisher.

“I thought this dona-

tion was also very thoughtful, and a very good way to say thank you to the community for the tremendous sup-port they gave the Grand Slam of Curling event,” continued Mr. Fisher.

Grand Slam donates

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By Thom BarkerStaff Writer

Cathay Wagantall started 2015 as the Conservative nominee for Yorkton-Melville and ended it as the Member of Parliament.

“I certainly was hopeful of that and worked hard to that end, she said. “Obviously the riding has been a strong Conservative riding, but the campaign and the election showed that nothing can be taken for granted and I think I mentioned that on the night of [October 19] that you have to earn the support and trust of the people in your riding and that’s job one.

Within days, she was off to Ottawa. Although a little overwhelming at first, she said you don’t really have time to dwell on it.

“There’s that initial ‘oh my goodness,’ and then there’s the opportunity to get up to Ottawa right away and the orientation process just really solidifies every-thing for you very quickly, I had chosen to keep Garry [Breitkreuz’s] executive staff there and the staff here, so I had 20 years of experience going with me through that process.

“Initially, it was a mixture of thrilled and feeling like you’re drinking from a fire-

hose, no question. There’s a lot to learn, but the environ-ment is amazing, really good support all the way around, right from my own Conservative caucus to my staff and the people on the Hill that serve you there are remarkable.”

All in all, she said she is really enjoying it, par-ticularly getting to do her maiden speech in the House of Commons on the Monday following the December 4 Throne Speech, in which she talked about seniors issues and veterans as she had been name the deputy critic for veterans affairs.

“It felt really good, I really

appreciated the opportunity to do that and the feedback was good.”

Wagantall was back in the riding for the Holiday recess and had the following mes-sage for the season:

“Christmas and New Year’s is a key time in peoples’ lives,” she said. “It’s a time that you really focus on family and friends and building memories and if it is a spiritual experience for you because it is the birth of Christ there’s the religious side of it, the faith side of it too, so wherever people are at with those dynamics, I just want to encourage them to have a wonderful time with

family and friends and focus on what’s most important and going into the new year we always have hopes for bet-ter things so I do wish peace and safety and health and joy on people as we go into 2016.

And speaking of the new year, she had some thoughts on that too.

“I’m beginning to realize, as a new member myself, that you have huge respon-sibilities in Ottawa, but your constituency is key, so to be able to balance those two, I’m really hoping to, now that the office is there, to get set to do some of those round tables that I’ve talked about,” she said.

“I’m in opposition, so our priority first of all is to hold the government accountable and work with them as much as we possibly can. Part of the challenge is that all the promises that were made need to be kept and at the same time need to be costed. It’s becoming clearer that a lot of things haven’t been costed out and then there’s all those things that you’re not expecting, like the cost of bringing the refugees over, all that type of thing is signifi-cant and they’re already well beyond the deficit that they had hoped to have right now without a lot of things fleshed out yet.”

By DEVIN WILGERN-R Writer

This is the last New Year before the next pro-vincial election, and Yorkton MLA and Minister for Rural and Remote Health Greg Ottenbreit says that defined what the government had set out to do in 2015. It was a year to finish off the mandate from 2011 and prepare for the next provincial elec-tion on April 4.

The year was also defined by a focus on the economy, Ottenbreit says, specifically trying to find ways to diversify so the province is less reliant on one aspect of the economy for its revenues. He admits that the dramatic decline in oil prices has been a hit to the province, but that means they have to focus on keeping the rest of the economy strong.

“Whether it’s strength-ening our economy through expanded markets, through our natural resources, through our agricultural products, making sure we have a competitive tax environ-ment, making sure we

have an environment that’s really attractive for investment, is a lot of what we have been doing over the past number of years, but specifically the past year.”

Still, a hit is a hit, and the province is running a deficit in 2015, reporting a $262 million deficit last quarter. He admits that this has lead to “finding efficiencies” in the various ministries, including his own in Rural and Remote Health.

In his own portfolio, Ottenbreit says that the focus has been on building, whether literally, with new facilities across the prov-ince, or figuratively, bring-ing in staff in traditionally hard to fill roles in rural areas. Ottenbreit says that boosts to training seats have paid off in 2015, as well as changes to interna-tional recruitment through SIPPA. Between a higher rate of retention, more doc-tors passing the SIPPA programs, and more train-ing in rural centres, Ottenbreit says many long-term projects are pay-ing off.

“Virtually every Friday

I have been opening a new facility, either a long term care facility, an emergency centre, a clinic... We’ve seen a lot of successes on the infrastructure side but also a lot of success on the employment side... We’re able to fill those very important spots in rural areas, like in Preeceville and across the province.”

Locally the provincial government has also come under fire for changing the way some services are delivered, especially after the closure and privatiza-tion of laundry services, which also hit Yorkton. Ottenbreit believes that if healthcare is to be sustain-able, things have to be done differently.

“We have to look at these things with an open mind, consider what’s the best way to serve the peo-ple of the province. When we look at health, should health be focused on laun-dry or should health be focused on health? In the facilities that are closing in the province, there’s a $30 million investment needed to retrofit or rebuild these facilities, and an additional $9 mil-

lion a year plus to operate them as opposed to the system we are going to, with the one centralized laundry in Regina. It’s a decision we made, and I believe it is the right deci-sion.”

He also believes the lean system in health is paying off, even if there were doubts raised in the recent auditor’s report about how successful the program is. Ottenbreit says that what he has seen has convinced him lean will work once it’s fully rolled out.

“It’s going to be a bit of a culture change to get it accepted by everybody in the health system, but I really do believe that if we’re going to have a sus-tainable health system for

decades into the future, that’s an area we have to go to.”

The most visible project to see completion in this riding was the Parkland College’s Trades and Technology Centre, a proj-ect that Ottenbreit has championed on the provin-cial level since it was pro-posed. He emphasizes that it’s the community support that sold the project on the provincial level and made it something that the prov-ince could feel confident was a good investment, including the successful

capital campaign.While it has not been a

perfect four years, espe-cially with large drops inresource revenue, Ottenbreit believes that they have ended their mandate on a strong note,and coming into the nextelection, he thinks they can stand on their record.

“Barring a couple things that we weren’t able to follow through with due to economic pressures,I think we’ve got a strong record going into this nextprovincial election, com-pared to the alternative.”

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GRAND SLAM – John Epping takes a shot at the Grand Slam of Curling. The event was a big success in the city thanks to strong community support. Now the Grand Slam is supporting the community, with a $5,000 dona-tion to the Health Foundation’s CT Scan campaign. Photo by Randy Brenzen.

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When Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney looks back on 2015, the highlight was quick to pick out; the open-ing of Parkland College’s new Trades and Technology Centre.

“It took a decade from start to finish, with a lot of people working on it,” said Maloney in a year-end inter-view.

While noting many people played a role in see-ing the idea for the Centre go through design, fundrais-ing, construction, and finally its official opening, the past president of the College drew special mention from the Mayor.

“Fay Meyers really had worked for years as president of the College,” he

said.Having the new Centre

now open to students id great for Yorkton, said Maloney.

“I think it will be a huge benefit for the city for a long time,” he said, and there are going to spin-offs resulting in jobs beyond the Centre itself.

And having a facil-ity such as the Trades and Technology Centre is a draw in itself.

“Education attracts people to the city, and some of them stay,” offered Maloney, adding education in general “is one of the building blocks” for a com-munity.

The College could well see further growth, but Maloney said he wouldn’t expect anything as soon as the new year.

“I think there will be another phase to it,” he said, but added a lot of time goes into planning such things, so it will not be immediate.

The next phase may well be one incorporating student housing, something which could involve the province, City and private concerns.

Maloney said if you have students coming to the College “it hurts if you don’t have an affordable place to live.”

And there will be need for education room too, suggested Maloney, as “Parkland College evolves to get a lot more program-ming.”

So what of the year ahead in Yorkton?

Maloney said growth has slowed, at least by some indicators.

For example building

permit numbers are down, but the value of those per-mits runs close to 2014.

And in the new year there will be some major develop-ments coming online, in par-ticular the new home for Maple Farm Equipment.

“It will be a distribution hub for our region,” said Maloney.

And there will be influ-ence in the city from the K3 potash mine development near Esterhazy.

Maloney said when a mine expansion of such magnitude, $1.7 billion, “we build a subdivision in Yorkton.”

And there is more subtle growth people do not always recognize, said Maloney. He pointed to the two canola crushing facilities noting when you factor in produc-tion expansions since the

plants opened, it is like hav-ing three plants in terms of overall capacity now.

To help with future growth the City will partner with the RMs of Orkney and Wallace for a truck traffic study in 2016.

Some preliminary work pegged truck movements in the city at 150,000, said Maloney, adding “we think that’s a low number.”

There is also work being undertaken to plan upgrades to Grain Millers and Sully Roads, in part-nership with the province, to facilitate future manu-facturing and processing

developments along those corridors, as well as serv-ing those already in place, said Maloney. He added the City has a memorandum of understanding with the provincial Department of Highways.

The new year will also see urban municipalities going to the polls in October.

When asked if he would seek a second term as Mayor Maloney responded with a smile “at this point I prob-ably will, unless Diane (his wife) says no.

“But I probably will … there are still things I want to get done.”

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Wind and solar power are the world’s fastest growing energy industries because they are cost effective and enjoy enormous public sup-port. SaskPower has, as a result, recently announced that renewables will be half

of our generation capacity by 2030. As our province pre-pares to meet this ambitious goal we should learn from the experience of those that have gone before us.

Solar panels and wind turbines represent a funda-mentally different way of generating electricity: they are distributed and decen-tralised. This, in combina-tion with modern technolo-gy, allows the public to be directly involved in generat-ing their own electricity.

Commenting on this opportunity Curtis Olson, Chair of SaskRenewables;

“What we are seeing today is equivalent to the beginning of the Internet age, whereby success depends critically on public

engagement and involve-ment. Maximizing the opportunity requires a fun-damentally different approach: public buy-in is critical. Securing that buy-in starts with a comprehensive process of asking the public how they want their renew-ables to be developed.”

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SaskPower’s 50 percent renewables target is about much more than wind tur-bines and solar panels: it represents a $5-billion industry which could employ

thousands of people in well paying jobs across the prov-ince. Today we start the pro-cess of realizing this awe-some potential. We look for-ward to working closely with SaskPower, the public and the Saskatchewan business community as we further develop our seven nascent policy proposals in the months ahead.

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According to a produce manager I once knew, the month of January sees a big spike in the amount of leafy greens and salads that are sold. This spike will gradually level off and it doesn’t take long until salad sales are at their normal level. This is the inevitable result of New Years resolutions, with everyone deciding all at once that they are going to eat healthier, lose some weight and improve their lives. Clearly, they eventually decide that they were perfectly happy how they were, and the big lifestyle change they promised themselves was inferior to the old lifestyle that they had grown used to.

The New Years resolution is a kind of mass delu-sion, as though the beginning of the year is really going to lead to meaningful change in our lives just because the calendar rolls over. This is why they often fail, because it’s a societal pressure to make a life change rather than a genuine desire. Someone who actually wants to eat healthy is going to do it whether it’s January 1, July 23 or October 8. Someone who wants to have a New Years resolution, however, is only doing it because that is what you do in January, which is why they abandon the idea after a few weeks and they get cravings for some-thing fried.

It’s not the only time of year where people are influenced by the holiday. People get more generous around Christmas, people get more romantic near Valentine’s Day and people get more macabre near Halloween. We seem to internalize the next holiday and our personalities gradually shift to meet the expectations we have for whichever season we are entering.

The difference is that those holidays are not ones that people expect to make a permanent change. Giving to a local charity during Christmas is going to be great for the charity, it’s going to give you a good feeling, and if the feeling passes once the sea-son has shifted, it has served its purpose. The act of generosity still makes a meaningful impact. Someone might not be more romantic after showering their partner with gifts and flowers after Valentine’s Day, but unless they decide to get engaged it’s not some-thing people expect to last more than a day, even if they would prefer if it did.

The difference with New Years is that it is actu-ally expected to make a lasting difference in people’s lives. A resolution is expected to be permanent, that’s the point, and that’s why they’re always focused on things like health and well being. They don’t stick because it’s a passing feeling like all of the other holidays. It’s an attempt to make a perma-nent change out of a transient feeling, and that’s not something which will actually work.

Which is not to say that such a resolution is a bad

idea. If someone genuinely wants to make a lifestyle change, and it sticks, it could significantly improve their health and well being. It’s also going to be rela-tively easy in an environment where everyone knows your goals, offering deals on gym member-ships and incentives to make that change. To do it permanently requires much more than just a resolu-tion though, it requires a commitment that just jumping on the bandwagon of a season isn’t going to engender. Most seasonal bandwagons can be consid-ered a success whether they are the start of a per-manent change or a simple one off, while a resolu-tion requires more permanence.

I wonder if people are more likely to keep with a lifestyle change if they make it during a time that is not New Years. It seems like it would be more suc-cessful, it’s not tied to a holiday so it’s not something that is made out of obligation, but is instead some-thing that is done because people genuinely want to do and a change people want to accomplish. This is merely a theory, we need to find a statistically sig-nificant number of people to test it. The methodolo-gy for testing this theory could involve a survey of people who quit smoking, for example, and then track who kept the cigarettes at bay, who started smoking again, and when they had their ceremonial last cigarette, whether it was at the end of the year or on a day somewhere in the middle. It’s an idea that needs to be tested, purely for intellectual curi-osity.

I’ve always been against New Years resolutions, and would never make one myself. They fail more often than not, and the rush to make them does not really make for a permanent change in the lives of most people. I have been less actively against the idea in recent years, surely on occasion they actually work and people actually do make positive lifestyle changes thanks to the practice. Out of millions of people who attempt it each year, we have to have someone for whom the resolution sticks, it’s just the law of averages. I hope that if it’s a change you genuinely want to make and it’s something that will genuinely improve your life, you’re the one person who actually keeps a resolution this year.

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New Years resolutions don’t work

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WRITER: Devin Wilger

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There was not a lot of Earth-shattering news in Yorkton, but all in all 2015 was a good year for the city.

It was a year that saw the opening of the new Parkland College Trades and Technology Centre, the announcement of a 1.7 billion expansion of Mosaic’s pot-ash mine at Esterhazy and the start of construction on a new, expanded home for Maple Farm equipment, all develop-ments that portend huge economic ben-efit for the city and region.

In a year that saw declining fortunes at the provincial level due to the tanking of the oil and gas economy, Yorkton, with its diversified economic base, fared pret-ty well.

We also did well on the tourism front hosting two national, elite sports compe-titions the Canadian Junior Girls Golf Championship in August and the Grand Slam of Curling Canadian Open this month.

Also, just this week, Yorkton advanced to the final of the SnoRiders Magazine Sled Town Showdown, an accomplish-ment that solidifies the area’s position as a Mecca for snowmobiling.

It was not all good news, of course. Sunrise Health Region lost its laundry facility with the Province’s decision to privatize and centralize the service in Regina.

Municipal property taxpayers also continued to bear an increasing burden with rate increases that far outpace inflation and wages given declining oil revenues and lack of infrastructure sup-port from higher levels of government.

As with all things, you take the good with the bad and hope that on balance the ledger reads in your favour.

On balance it is fairly safe to say, we fared better than a lot of other places in sluggish economic times.

Looking forward to 2016, the big news is likely going to be the elections at the provincial and municipal levels. But even though the beginning of the new terms are likely going to occur under more austere conditions than the cur-rent Legislature and City Council faced, even those stories will probably prove anti-climactic.

We are not likely to see much change at either level.

The Saskatchewan Party appears poised to repeat as a majority. In lieu of a complete disaster or scandal, it will be an uphill battle for the NDP to unseat Brad Wall, who is arguably the most popular Conservative in the country and in what is now is certainly the most Conservative province.

As Alberta, Quebec, B.C. and the fed-eral Liberal Party have shown us, how-ever, anything is possible in politics. Cam Broten take note.

On the municipal front, with Bob Maloney seeking a second term as mayor, it is difficult to imagine an effective challenge being mounted unless it comes from one of the other sitting councillors. Incumbency is an advantage at any level of politics, but municipally it is virtually a guarantee.

Barring the unpredictable, 2016 prom-ises to be a pretty status quo year.

Things I do with words...

Devin WilgerColumn

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LETTERS PAGEto the editor

Most people - most nor-mal people, anyway - pay little or no attention to politics.

They’re Joe and Jane Frontporch, and they’re busy. Ferrying the kids to and from hockey practice, getting stuck in traffic, worrying about paying the mortgage or the rent, trying to catch up on their sleep. Busy.

They don’t have time for voluminous polit-ical party platforms or sitting through minis-terial speeches or read-ing departmental press releases. In the digital era, they’re overwhelmed by too much information - what U.S. writer David Shenk calls “data smog” - so they just tune it all out.

That’s why the pol-iticians who attract the most attention are the Donald Trump and Rob Ford types - guys so outra-geous, they break through the data smog and capture everyone’s attention. But smoking crack or making racist statements - while indisputably newsworthy

- isn’t always the best way to win elections.

So politicians and pol-iticos instead devote most of their waking hours to dreaming up ways to pierce the smog and cap-ture the attention of vot-ers. They concoct ways to simplify what they’re doing, or what they want to do. Thus, back in 1992, Bill Clinton was all about the economy, stupid. At any point in his 40-year career, Jean Chretien was the unity guy - vive le Canada! And in 2008, Barack Obama repre-sented “real change.”

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals liked Obama’s 2008 slogan so much that they stole it in 2015. “Real change” was their man-tra, repeated over and over, until it became their brand.

In the early days of the new Grit govern-ment, real change is tak-ing place, to be sure - in fiscal policy, on law and order issues, on the refu-gee file. No question, it’s a real change from what

preceded it.But something else is

happening, too. And it’s this: Justin Trudeau’s government is the TV Government.

TV is pictures, and pictures are power. More than any prime minister in our lifetime, Trudeau seems to understand that they best way to captivate Canadians - the best way to pierce the data smog - is to be all about pictures.

So, there he was, greet-ing Syrian refugees at Toronto’s airport in the middle of the night. Or sitting on the steps of Parliament, talking to a school kid having a bad day. Or posing for Vogue magazine or taking a Maclean’s magazine pop quiz. Or taking a bunch of hospitalized kids to see Star Wars. Or - day after day after day - cheerfully posing for selfies with average folks.

Some people are not impressed. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose sniffed: “While on the international

stage, we saw leaders of the western world come together, coalescing around the fight against ISIS, the impression that was left with Canadians and the international community was that our prime minister was con-sumed with taking sel-fies,” Ambrose said, hast-ening to add: “I mention this because it was men-tioned to me many times by constituents.”

She added that last bit, of course, because she knows it’s work-ing. Trudeau does, too. Asked about the selfies at town hall event run by Maclean’s, Trudeau verbally shrugged. “It’s not about image, it’s about substance,” he said. “You have to get to know people.”

Of course. For sure. But it’s more than that. Trudeau was pretty young when his dad rubbed shoulders with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, 30-odd years ago. But even a little kid could understand that

Reagan was much more preoccupied with images than words.

One of Reagan’s most influential advisers, Michael Deaver, didn’t hide it. “I have always believed that impressions are more important than specific acts or issues . . . I believe TV is a great boon to us in judg-ing our leaders. It lets us see all the dimensions that, in the past, people could only see in per-son: the body language, the dilation of the eye, the way they perspire. We see them when they are tired, worried, under great crises. If television focuses on somebody every day, it shows all the dimensions.”

So too Justin Trudeau, whom the camera loves and - to his critics - loves the camera right back. Trudeau knows, perhaps, that leaders are meas-ured by the impressions they create, not the poli-cies they promulgate.

There’s a risk in all of this, naturally. If,

six months from now, Trudeau is branded as Prime Minister Selfie - if his administration is simply regarded as a four-year-long photo op,punctuated only by statedinners and the occasion-al foreign trip - he’ll be introuble. He needs to bemore than the callow andshallow caricature his opponents suggest he is.

But if his visuals strategy works - and it’sworking so far - he’s gold-en. He can end up in 2023 as Reagan did: beloved by his partisans, and remembered as the greatcommunicator by all.

So far, so good. Butit can all end pretty swiftly, if Joe and Jane Frontporch sense that you’re all sizzle, and nosteak.

Warren Kinsella is a Canadian journalist, pol-itical adviser and com-mentator. Warren is included in Troy Media’s Unlimited Access sub-scription plan.

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To the Editor:

Earlier this year, the population of Saskatchewan hit an all-time record high, with more families choosing to make our province home than ever before. While optimism and opportu-nity remain high, there are those who struggle.

Many families live on fixed incomes of pension benefits, disability benefits, or provincial income assistance bene-fits. The struggle to secure safe, appro-priate and affordable housing is real.

The United Nations recognizes that an adequate standard of living, neces-sary to access to appropriate housing,

is a basic human right. The province recognizes this, in part, by providing income assistance and, also in part, by implementing laws that prohibit land-lords from discriminating against those who are most in need. The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, for example, prohibits discriminating against potential renters on the basis of religion, creed, marital status, fam-ily status, sex, sexual orientation, dis-ability, age, colour, ancestry, nationali-ty, place of origin, race or perceived race, gender identity, or receipt of public assistance.

Landlords who advertise rental accommodations in a discriminating

manner break the law of this province. Some examples include advertise-ments with the following statements:

• “Must be working”• “Adults only – no children”• “No Natives”• “No single mothers”While landlords have a responsibil-

ity not to discriminate, tenants have a corresponding responsibility to pay the agreed rent in a timely manner. Tenants also have a responsibility to keep rented homes clean and in good condition. Otherwise, tenants may face eviction and loss of a damage deposit.

We recognize municipal and provin-cial government organizations are

working with community-based orga-nizations to end homelessness and poverty in our province.

Fair treatment of landlords and ten-ants in all rental arrangements is one way to support these initiatives.

We encourage landlords and ten-ants to contact our offices if uncer-tainty exists about the legality or legit-imacy of a rental arrangement.

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Human Rights Commission Dale Beck

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Looking back over 2015, I had a few suc-cesses (bumper crops of squash, beans and corn; my new ‘Quick Fire’ hydrangeas per-formed well) and a few misses (no watermelon again; a poor carrot yield). And overall, the weather in Saskatoon was great. But enough reflections on the past – we’re at the New Year and it’s time to make a few modest plans.

I think ornamental grasses are underused and those that are used, are used to excess. I’m talking about the annual pur-ple fountain grass and perennial grasses like ‘Karl Foerster’ feather reed grass, blue fescue and, to a lesser extent, blue oat grass. When I received my Johnny’s Selected Seed cata-logue (www.johnny-seeds.com) last month, I noticed that they had a good selection of annual ornamental grasses: ‘Frosted Explosion’, ‘Lowlander’, ‘High Lander’, ‘Ruby Silk’, ‘Lime Light’ spray millet, ‘Feathertop’, ‘Silver Tip’ and ‘Black Tip Wheat’. Closer to

home, Early’s Farm and Garden Centre (www.earlysgarden.com) also carries a selection of annual grass seed to try: bunny tails, cloud grass, pony-tails, ‘Flashlights’ gold-en millet and ‘Frosted Explosion’. Some make great accent plants in flowerbeds and con-tainers while others can add airiness or drama to cut flower bouquets. A few you can direct seed, but for best results, they should be started indoors. I haven’t decided which ones yet, but I plan on growing four or five of the above.

Not just for hippies anymore, heirloom veg-etables have become mainstream with heir-loom tomatoes avail-able at farmers’ mar-kets and even in some grocery stores. Heirloom varieties are more variable, and some say more flavour-ful, than modern hybrids. Also unlike hybrids, they are open-pollinated and come true from seed so you can save your own seed from one crop year to the next. I’ve been

growing a few heirloom dry bean varieties for three years now. One heirloom bean variety I especially like is ‘Desoronto Potato’ dry bean. In soups, it breaks down complete-ly, creating a thick, glu-ten-free, hearty soup. Prairie Garden Seeds (Humboldt, SK; www.prseeds.ca) and Heritage Harvest Seeds (Carman, MB; www.heritageharvestseed.com) are two of a grow-ing number of prairie-based heirloom seed suppliers. Come out to your local Seedy Saturday/Sunday this spring to swap heir-loom seeds with your neighbours and to check out heirloom seed sellers (www.seeds.ca). This year, I’ll be adding an heirloom squash variety to my garden.

I take inspiration from other peoples’ gar-dens and the plants they grow. This year I was bowled over by common Joe Pye weed as I stood looking up (not a usual occurrence, as I stand at 6 ft.) at its massive blooms in a friend’s back yard. Herbaceous peonies

usually underwhelm me, but seeing Itoh peonies at the height of bloom in an acreage garden have convinced me that I need to include one or two cul-tivars in my garden. Maybe I can convince the community garden where I have a vegeta-ble plot to start a peren-nial border (as a way to encourage more bees and other pollinators to visit) with some of the perennials that have caught my eye.

I’m initially sad when something win-terkills in my garden. But then I realize it’s an opportunity to try something new. I don’t know what that will be in 2016, but I am hop-ing that I have room for a few new perennials like 2015’s perennial of the year, ‘Biokovo’ gera-nium (white flowers with soft pink centres) or the one from 2013, ‘Jack Frost’ Siberian bugloss with its varie-gated silver and green leaves topped by clouds of tiny forget-me-not flowers in spring.

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Whether it’s a formal champagne event, or just a get-together with loved ones, tasty appe-tizers are a must for any successful holiday season party. In today’s market place, there are so many outlets for one to buy appetizers pre-made from the freezer section, but this elim-inates all the fun and creativity. Preparing for an evening of guests should be enjoyable and what you prepare should be an expres-sion of your personal-ity. There are numer-ous options that are not only delicious, but easy as well.

For fancier events, it is nice to have small morsels of food that people can manage with one hand to “pop” into their mouths. This is extremely helpful when a drink is being held in the other hand and there is an abun-dance of standing and socializing. A perfect example of this would be canapés. Don’t let the fancy French name scare you. They are sim-ply pronounced (can ah pays) and are defined as bite-size open-faced sandwiches. Most can-apés consist of a base, a spread, and a garnish. Get the bakery to slice your bread lengthwise and toast these sheets of bread in the oven. Then symmetrically place small dollops of spread on every square inch and cut the bread into the squares that are now mapped out. Garnish each one and place them on a platter. An example of a spread and garnish would be horseradish flavoured cream cheese with small pieces of thin beef and a parsley sprig.

Chicken wings are an extremely popular appetizer, and the price of ones that are already “flavoured and cooked” compared to raw ones is drastic. A simple marinade or sauce can be made from ingredi-ents you most likely have in your refriger-ator already like bar-beque sauce, ketchup, or hot sauce, mixed with a variety of other ingredients. Half the fun is creating some-thing uniquely yours. Nothing is more satisfy-ing than hearing some-one say, “Wow, have you tried Katherine’s wings? They’re incred-ible!” The other half of the fun is all the money you will save.

A very extraordin-ary appetizer would be an Italian antipasto platter. This can be easily assembled as a last minute dish with a collection of morsels normally found in an Italian pantry. Make a quick marinade of equal parts of balsamic vinegar and extra vir-gin olive oil for arti-choke hearts, toma-toes, grilled asparagus, roasted peppers, or any other vegetables you prefer. Arrange these

marinated veggies on a platter along with sundried tomatoes, melon pieces wrapped in proscuitto, roasted garlic heads, chunks of Parmesan cheese, and slices of baguette, for example. The possibil-ities are endless, so be creative. The options to choose from for the appetizers you are going to serve are immeasurable, but hopefully I have given you some ideas. Food is a great social aspect of bringing people togeth-er, and even more won-derful when you have made it from scratch.

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Dear Sherri: In order to make

something taste great, you have to stay focused on flavour when you are assem-bling it. Some simple

changes will help you with this. The two main ingredients in nachos are tortilla chips and cheese. Make sure that the chips are lightly salted and of high qual-ity, and if using ched-dar, choose the extra-old variety for the most flavour. Then add tasty morsels on each layer such as spiced chick-en, black olives, diced tomatoes, green onions, and chilies for example. Most importantly sea-son each layer of cheese

with chili powder, salt, and fresh cracked pep-per to help bring out the flavours of every-thing. Serve with sour cream, salsa, guaca-mole and enjoy!

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“All railway prop-erty - including railway yards and bridges - is private property,” says

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Here are some tips for riding your ATV or snowmobile safely:

• Cross only at desig-nated locations.

• Ride on approved trails only (look for signs

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• Expect a train on any track, in either dir-ection,

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• Stop at railway crossings to ensure you don’t ride in front of or into the side of a passing train.

• Contact the railway

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• Keep in mind that helmets, engines, wind and weather may muffle the sound of an approaching train.

• Do not ride next to

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Keep your commun-ities safe and report anyunsafe behaviour on railway property by call-ing CN Police at 1-800-465-9239.

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Were you to step outside after midnight on the first day of 2016, the cold, clear winter air would give you a magnificent view of the winter constellations, Taurus, Orion, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo spread out across the southern sky, west to east. Low in the south would glis-ten Sirius, the bright-est star in the sky.

Also, rising on the eastern horizon thirty minutes after mid-night is the orange giant Arcturus, the fourth brightest star . On this first day of 2016, passing half a thumbs width to its right will be Comet Catalina. The comet will be on the verge of naked eye visibility, and an easy target in binoculars. Although its proximity to bright Arcturus makes it easy to spot on the 1st, skies

will be darker as the week progresses and the Moon is not in the way. Be forewarned, though, that it’s a speedy little devil; Catalina moves north-ward a degree (thumbs width) a day, so you have to be quick to keep up. In binoculars and telescopes, Catalina should be readily visible as a small circular, perhaps bluish, cloud.

This year will be better than the last at featuring the planets, with Jupiter entertain-ing February through August, and Mars and Saturn putting on a show June through September.

On April 16th, Mercury puts its best evening face forward, shining brightly in the western sky after sun-set. Then, on May 9th, the tiny black disk of

Mercury spends seven hours from sunrise to a little after noon cross-ing the face of the Sun. Of course, you can’t stare at the Sun except through professionally certified solar filters. Yes, I have some, so stay tuned as the date gets closer.

On May 30th, Mars, the Red Planet, will be at its largest since 2005, and on June 3rd, Saturn will be at its brightest for 2016, showing off its wide open rings all evening for the next few months.

August through October will feature a series of planet tricks where they vie for our attention passing each other in the sky, and on November 14, we will have yet another Super Moon (yawn), the closest until 2034.

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tificate and provide it to their employer along with a letter of parental consent. Employers must keep both documents on file.

“It is exciting to see young people starting work over the holiday break and we want them to be safe,” Labour Relations and Workplace Safety

Minister Don Morgan said. “The readiness course allows young people to enter the workforce prepared with the knowledge to be successful.”

The YWRCC is designed to teach young workers about their rights and responsibilities related to health, safety and employ-

ment standards in the workplace. The course gives young people the tools they need to have a safe and positive experi-ence when they start working. The course can be taken online at www.saskatchewan.ca/ywrcc. A paper-and-pencil version of the course is also available.

Workers aged 14 and 15 have some other restrictions.

They cannot:Work after 10 p.m.

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Work more than 16 hours in a school week.

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Christmas holidays or summer vacation, these restrictions do not apply and young workers are allowed to work the same hours as other employees.

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“Exile on a Grid Road”by Shelley BanksPublished by

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Why is this all impor-tant? Because life whizzes by, and most of us don’t take the time to stop and consider how a grasshop-per resembles a twig on a patio gate, or how-on a grave or anywhere else in a certain season-“lumps of clay jut\through the snow”. This is the very stuff of life; it counterbal-ances the tedium of work-a-day lives, the horrors of cancer and chemotherapy, the shadows that deaths leave behind. It’s good and necessary to celebrate what goes on beneath the glossy surface of life, and that’s what poets like Banks do so well.

The finely-tuned poems in this book are mostly short, and Banks has employed various styles: free verse, qua-trains, couplets, haiku, a prose poem, a pantoum, concrete poetry, and even a found poem, “Swordfish,”

“from text describing com-plex patterns in number puzzles from an online Sudoku Guide.” This diversity might signal that some of these pieces were written while the writer was in a poetry class, or perhaps she just enjoys the freedom of experimentation. The variety is aesthetically appealing, as is the range in subject matter.

“Greed” is among the poet’s many consider-ations. An octogenarian is greedy for “dregs of wine, the last peanut skins,” and Banks examines the greediness of the photog-rapher who’s compelled to “capture” the image of an owl and satisfy her “need not to believe\but prove this presence”. She con-tinues:

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The “bird-stained win-dow” in “The Strike Drags On” is, for this reader, an ideal metaphor for this accomplished collection. The poet is an acute observer (the window), who records and shares personal observations and experiences in poems that sometimes whisper, sometimes sing, and sometimes howl. Yes, there are “stains,” and that’s the reality of any-

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How junior hockey gained prominenceCould a Canadian

sports columnist choose a topic for the final week of December other than the Men’s World Junior Hockey Championships without facing likely deportation to a south-ern hemisphere without a hockey arena?

Of course interest in the Junior event is far higher in the last 20-25 years than it was in the days of my youth.

The championships have been around since 1974 (unofficially) and 1977 officially (my Grade 11 year).

It wasn’t until 1982 Canada won gold.

In the early days of the event iswas played in virtual obscurity. There was really only the Stanley Cup and World Men’s Championships which an average hock-ey fan was aware of when I was young.

To be honest even the World Championships were little talked of. The Soviet Union had pro-gressed to far in hockey at that time they were eating whatever hodge-podge team Canada sent over. We countered our best played in the National Hockey League as a way to protect our hockey pride and went

on with our NHL-centric lives.

In 1972 the best Russians proved they were at least the equal to the best Canadian NHLers, although those who lived and died on every shot of that famed series with remind the NHL blocked the great Bobby Hull from playing because he had jumped to the rival World Hockey Association. Oh, and Bobby Orr, a pretty fair defenceman in that era was injured and could not play either.

While that series was memorable for so much on the ice, it also re-opened Canada’s hockey eyes to international hockey.

But even then Junior hockey was … well it was Junior hockey. It was not seen as being top calibre hockey by many back then.

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Cable television hap-pened.

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ideal, content at a time of year when much of the country is sitting around home gorged on turkey, and frankly unable to do much more than chan-nel surf the TV. (It is the same reason we now see the Spengler Cup on the tube).

The Spengler started in 1923, but was near unknown in Canada until the 1990s and TV coverage here.

I must add an aside here that is too bad the many channels with sports today aren’t more active seeking out new content. Leading up to Christmas this year how many 2015 Junior games were rerun. Come on, does any-one have nothing bet-ter to do than watch a game played last year? Maybe a classic from 20-years ago, a game remembered fondly but the details shrouded by the fog of time. But 11

months ago? Of course I could

fill this page based on the strange material Canadian sports chan-nels waste airtime with, and that may be the case another day, but this week it is Junior hockey.

With the help of TV the Juniors became a focus, catching our col-lective attention at a time of year when we frankly need a little boost as it comes in that slightly depressing post present unwrapping, the culmination of some eight weeks of expecta-tion and plum pudding.

Of course as the championships gained prominence so too did our collective expecta-tions.

The pressure on any player to wear a Team Canada jersey is to win gold, or they have failed. Such is the reality for a country which lives and

dies with its prowess on the hockey ice.

Some might argue that, but the proof of the view of things was summed up rather nicely in the opening to the Boxing Day game between Canada and the United States this year.

Clips of the two teams were mixed with clips from The Revenant, a new movie launching in a few days starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The storyline of the movie is “while explor-ing the uncharted wil-derness in the 1800s, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his

beloved family. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry ter-rain to track down John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), the former confidant who betrayed and aban-doned him.”

That is pretty dark stuff, a movie dripping brutality and revenge, yet it was deemed a fitting way to preview a Junior hockey game between Canada and the U.S.

Yes we bleed hockey, and the pressure to be the best or have failed is always there, and now fully on Junior play-ers as this tournament now has our eyes clearly focused on it every year.

Oh, and Canada lost the game 4-2, and that means they have just upped the pressure on themselves.

by Calvin Daniels

SportsView

From the Couch

Exile on a Grid Road

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Computer Basics for Seniors – Winter 2016

The Yorkton New Horizons Seniors Centre

is sponsoring an introductory course

which will be presented by the

Parkland College in Yorkton. Six three-hour sessions will cover the most common elements of computer operating knowledge and efforts

will be made to address your particular interests and needs. The cost will

be approx. $300 per student or less,

depending on enrolment.Contact Elaine Win-

tonyk at 306-782-3312 for more details.

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enroll.

Body BlastExercise/yoga classes

for seniors. Come out and get fi t!Saturdays, January 9, 16, 23, 30, 10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. at New

Horizons Senior Citizens Hall,

78-1st Ave., N. Yorkton.$5.00 per person.

Pre-registration is not required. Please bring

your own mats. Contact Vi at 306-782-7218 for

more information.

Co-Ed Pool League Every Monday at 7 p.m. from now until the end

of April 2016. Downstairs at the Yorkton Legion.

380 Broadway St. W.Come out and have some

fun. No partner required.

Everyone welcome. Cash prizes every week! For more information con-tact Wayne at 306-783-

7785

New Horizons Friday Night Dance

78 First Ave. NorthYorkton, SK.

Great night of dancingEveryone is welcomeTime: 8:00 pm - 12:00

amJanuary 1 New Years

Special Dance $10Music by:

Old Country LadsJanuary 8

Peter and the White Sand Band

For more informationCall Peter: 306-782-1846

The Caring ClosetLower level of Safire

Clothing & AccessoriesQuality, free used

clothing for women who require outfits for career or educational purposes.Donations are accepted.

Fittings are done by appointment. Call 306-521-0332, 306-783-0026

or 306-786-1570.

The Yorkton Legion Track Club

The club is open to all Yorkton and area athletes born in 2003 or older.

Coaches also needed.To register or learn more contact Club

Manager, Marcel Porte at marcel.porte@bayer.com or call Cell: 306-

621-7716.

The Travelling Mabels

A “Stars For Saskatchewan”

performance presented by the Yorkton Arts

Council,Monday, February 29,

2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Anne Portnuff Theatre, Yorkton Regional High

School. The Travelling Mabels,

voted ACMA 2011 “Group of the Year,” are

a folk/country female trio full of spirit, spunk

and laughter. Collectively, their songs

bring a wealth of life experience to the stage. Singularly, each woman can vocally stand alone, but once you hear the

combined harmony blend, you will know

why these three women came together. The

beauty of the Mabels is that they represent three generations of

women. This has opened the door to a dynamic energy both musically

and in the rapport with the audiences that most

wouldn’t experience every day. With musical

influences from Dolly Parton & Bob Dylan to

Sheryl Crow, along with their comedic, yet often heart-felt take on life, they more than meet a wide range of audienve expectations. www.thet-

ravellingmabels.comTickets are available at

the Yorkton Arts Council, 306-783-8722,

online at www.ticketpro.ca or at the door.

www.yorktonarts.ca

Dart League Attention dart players,

steel-tip action is underway at Gunner’s

Lounge at Royal Canadian Legion. This is a fun league for all ages, so beginners are encour-

aged to come out. For more information call

782-1783.

Volunteers Needed!The Canadian Red Cross

is seeking volunteers for the Friendly Visiting

Program for Seniors. Volunteers will be trained to provide weekly visits or

phone calls to socially or geographically

isolated seniors in Yorkton and surround-

ing area. One hour every other week is all that is

required to provide social interaction with a senior

and peace of mind for family and caregivers. For more information contact

306-620-3281 or email michelleb.smith@redcross.

ca

Crossroads – a support group for

women who are experiencing or have experienced violence.

Group is held Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30

p.m. For more info 782-0673 or 782-5181.

Tot SpotBoys & Girls Club

Drop-In Centre @ SIGN on BroadwayMon., Tues., Thurs., &

Fri., 9 a.m. to noon.Tues., Wed., Thurs.,

2-4 p.m. Free to participate!

Parkland Right to Life Meetings

Meets every third Wednesday of the month

@ St. Gerard’s Hall basement @ 7.30 p.m. For info. call 306-783-

6240.

St. John Ambulance First Aid Classes

OHS Standard First Aid/CPR classes.

Personalized courses and online training also

available.For more info. or to register call Judy at 783-4544 or email:

sjayyorkton@sk.sja.ca.

Habitat for HumanityVolunteers Wanted

To get your name on thevolunteer list for a build

or to be part of a committee, go to

www.habitatyorkton.ca and click on

“Volunteer Now”

Community Adult Band

Rehearsals Tuesdays 7 p.m. at Yorkton

Regional High School Band Room. Two bands –

Community Concert Band and Yorkton’s ALL

THAT JAZZ Big Band New members welcome! For more information, contact Larry Pearen, Director 306-786-2582 (days) 306-782-4182

(evenings).

Grief ShareThe Grief Share support

group is sponsored by people who understand what you are experienc-

ing and want to offer you comfort and encour-agement during this dif-

ficult time. Every Tuesday at St.

Peter’s Hospital MelvilleIn the McLeod

Conference Room at 10:00 a.m.

ALL ARE WELCOME! Register with either:

Margaret Yost 728-4744Ralph E. Hale 728-9205.

Yorkton Prostate Group Meeting• meets every 3rd

Thurs. of the month in the meeting room at the

hospital• promotes early detec-

tion and speedy recoveryCall 782-5748 for info.

Calling all Bridge Players!

The Yorkton Duplicate Bridge Club has started

up. The club meets weekly on Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. at the Yorkton Public Library. Call 783-

4220 for more details.

Yorkton and District United Way

• looking for dedicated people interested in tak-

ing part of a growing organization that helps

agencies and crucial ser-vices in and around the Yorkton area. To learn

more call Kristin Parsons at 782-9389 or

email yorktonunited way@sasktel.net.

Club DJHeritage Baptist Church

Thursday evenings 6:30-7:45 p.m.

• for children Grades K-6

• a mid week program designed to engage local

children with church • Bible stories, crafts,

games, music and more...

Call 783-7912 for details.

Al-AnonAl-Anon meets Mondays,

8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and

Wednesdays at the Westview United

Church.

Yorkton Branch of the

Saskatchewan Genealogical Society

Monthly MeetingsYorkton Public Library

For info. call Sharon Lindsay at 783-7054.

Save the Yorkton Brick Mill

Become a member and be a part of a great historical venture.Learn more or get

involved by visiting: www.yorktonbrickmill.

orgInterested parties can also call 783-0290 or

783-6211.

Treasure Chest Toastmasters Club • meets weekly on

Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00

p.m. at SIGN on Broadway. Impact your world by enhancing your

communication and leadership skills.

Guests and new mem-bers welcome. For more

information contact: Faye - 782-2994; or Joanne - 783-3034.

Cribbage & PoolThe Yorkton Retired Citizens Inc. group

invites interested crib-bage and pool players to come out to St. Gerard’s Church – lower level –

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:15 to 4 p.m. $1 for the afternoon for

crib, $1.25 for the after-noon for pool, price

includes light lunch.For info. call Helen at

783-0802 or Angie at 783-7838.

Big Brothers Big Sisters In-School

MentoringBe a Mentor – spend one

hour a week. Play games, do crafts,

read books...Make a difference in

the life of a child.For info. call 782-3471.

Kinette Club of Yorkton

• meets the second Wednesday of every

month at 7 p.m. To learn more or to attend, contact Club President – Melissa

Kirwan at 306-730-7733

Yorkton Creators 4-H Club

Welcomes new members ages 6-21.

Projects include cooking, sewing, woodworking

and cloverbud. For more info. call Vi at

306-782-4721.

Parkland Therapeutic Riding

AssociationHorseback riding and

other activities for children and adults with physical and intellectual

disabilities.Meets Tuesdays at noon

Shadow Stables. For more info call 306-782-7930 or 306-782-

7782 or email mbozsik@sasktel.net.

The Torch Club– leadership, growth and

empowerment program for youth

ages 10-13Call Erin at 783-2582

for details.

Singers Unite!Yorkton Community

Concert Choir Practices every Monday

at 7:30 p.m.in the choir room

at the YRHS (use parking lot

entrance)Contact Laurene at 782-0460, Shanni at 783-9145 or Anna at 744-2729 for details.

Adult Dance Group(Troyanda Ukrainian

Dance Ensemble)Ukrainian Orthodox

AuditoriumWednesdays,

6:15 to 7:15 p.m.Call John Denysek at

782-1559 or email: jde-nysek@sasktel.net to join or to learn more.

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