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focusing on road safetyBY KARA KINNA

Monday evening, Moo-somin emergency respond-ers will be getting together

Highway 1 west of Mooso-min in a bid to raise aware-ness about road safety while they do their jobs. The move comes after the death of an Esterhazy tow truck driver who lost his life in the spring blizzard two weeks ago.

Several emergency re-sponders got together in Moosomin to attend the funeral in Esterhazy Sat-urday, and plan to use to-night’s gathering on the highway to raise aware-ness about the dangers of their job and drivers who do not slow down or re-spect tow truck drivers and other emergency workers.

“Safety is huge. When we’re out working on the highway now, it’s unbe-lievable how little respect

and us working on the side of the highway,” says Todd Davidson. Davidson is the owner of Davidson Truck and Tractor in Moosomin, and the one who is orga-nizing tonight’s highway gathering.

Continued on page 5

Mazergroup to build in Moosomin this yearMazergroup plans to build a new 25,000 square foot dealership on the North Service Road in Moosomin this year.

Site preparation work has already been done at the site. Bob Mazer says he expects the business to grow with the ex-panded facilities, and he expects the staff to grow as well. The new building will look similar to this Mazergroup location in Neepawa. Turn to page C1, the front page of our agriculture section, for the full story.

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BY SGT. SCOTT FEFCHAK, MOOSOMIN RCMPThings are starting to settle a bit weather wise and

year. Exciting details at the end of this report.

False alarmAn alarm at a Moosomin business resulted in noth-

ing. Nada. Zero. It was a false alarm. Just one this week though, so that’s cool.

Moose hit on highway

A call was received about a moose being struck on #1 Highway. This occurred around 10 pm when it was dark.

The vehicle operator drove the vehicle home after the moose strike to the amazement of Cst Berkshire.

owners planned to drive it to the shop the next day. The moose had struck the windshield and damaged the front of the car extensively.

The moose ended up departing this mortal world in search of eternal peace.

Second call re: moose

We were called again to the same moose the following afternoon as the caller thought it had just happened when he saw another vehicle parked near the dead moose.

EMS was also dispatched to the scene that was by that time over 12 hours old. The caller happened to be a pas-ser by who saw a vehicle parked near the dead moose and assumed an accident had occurred. It had not, but

we do.

911 misdials A 911 misdial happened at a school in our area. We

were able to determine there was no emergency. There was also a 911 misdial at the hospital twice this week.

Possible scam

A complaint was received about a possible business scam. That remains under investigation.

Remember folks, there are online entities out there that do provide services that may or may not be worthwhile purchasing.

We have gotten calls in the past from people who be-lieved they were scammed, but after a few questions it was learned that they had simply agreed to pay for a ser-vice that was not worth the money they paid.

This does not constitute a scam, it means a service was overpaid for. Be careful in your business dealings and also in your personal affairs. Some online businesses do

Caveat Emptor.

One speeding ticket, oneunregistered vehiclespeeding ticket was issued as well as a person warned for an unregistered vehicle. Check your plates folks. There’s a recurring theme every week about unregistered vehicles.

Rollover discoveredMembers came upon a rollover when on patrol. A tow

company was in the process of towing the vehicle which

ice, thus losing control and causing the rollover. Members examined the highway and the story checked

out as there was an icy portion just before the rollover site.

Hit and runs reportedMoosomin, another hit and run was reported in Wapella. The truck that was damaged had been parked and when the owner returned it had a dent and broken tail light later. Yet another hit and run was reported on Main Street in Moosomin. Jeez Louise, how can this happen so often that people don’t notice when they do it?

B&E reported

A B&E was reported at a business in Moosomin. Vari-ous power tools were stolen along with a Honda gener-ator. If you see some items being sold on the cheap, you should ask why.

If you get found with stolen tools you can be charged with possession of stolen property and you will lose the item you got a great deal on.

Not worth it, report those folks selling merchandise like this at deep discounts.

Speeder on Highway 1

A speeder was reported westbound on #1 highway. The caller gave a description of “a red car” which is

better than nothing.

coms to see if they could intercept the speeder. We could go out on #1 highway and drive like lunatics to catch someone allegedly driving like a lunatic, but is that wise?

No, what’s wise is using the radio to get someone along the last known heading to wait and intercept.

It’s fun to think about being like Roscoe chasing Bo and Luke Duke, but the reality is that’s just really not safe for everyone else.

I don’t know what kind of budget Hazzard County had, but the RCMP wouldn’t let me replace vehicles like that. We’ll work smarter and safer and keep our police cars out of swamps.

Collision in Moosominpened due to a combination of icy streets and driving too fast for the conditions. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Slow down when it’s icy.

Pot seized

A small amount of marijuana was seized from a couple

the youths were taken home by our members.

Deer struckA vehicle struck a deer and the driver was given his

options for towing companies to call. We left it in his ca-pable hands to deal with.

Crossing lights on

A call was received from CN Police that a crossing sign was activated at the Junction of 8 and 48 despite no train being due there for a couple of hours.

A technician was en route to determine what the prob-lem was, but I think we can all agree we already know. It’s haunted. We never heard from the technician ever again about what caused the mysterious crossing lights to start.

But they never call us back anyway so it’s doubtful a

Reaching out

In other news, I’ll be reaching out in April to the local governments of the detachment area to re-connect and establish our priorities for the upcoming year.

We generally focus as a unit on areas that we can im-prove upon in order to provide better policing to our AOR (Area of Responsibility).

This involves an audit of previous investigations, pro-cedures when dealing with prisoners, handling of seized property, quality of investigations, and ensuring high risk investigations are dealt with in accordance with pol-icy and law.

As exciting as that all sounds, we also need to balance

that happen at the lake in the summer months.

ity issue is always brought up, which has been the same in every detachment I’ve ever worked in.

detachment, and at the end of the day a person can only be in one place at a time. Policing is expensive and how we are used should rightfully be with the input of the taxpayer.

With that in mind, you’ve been privy to some of the calls we get that may or may not be of good value for those tax dollars. These false alarms, 911 hangups, and other B.S. (basic service) calls we get eat up a lot of our time further preventing us from being visible and pro-ac-tive.

Thanks to folks being engaged and on the lookout for scams that are prevalent, there has been much less vic-timization in our area from that particular problem. This has freed up a great deal of time for us to focus on drug work and sensitive types of investigations you don’t of-ten read about here.

A thank you is in order for helping us help you not be victimized.

Sgt. will be awayabsent of the usual format.

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The fraud trial of Gre-gor Gmerek, formerly of Moosomin, has been post-poned again.

Gmerek was charged in December, 2012 for alleg-edly defrauding his em-ployer, Prairie Livestock, of a substantial amount of money.

The trial was scheduled to start on April 4, 2016, but was postponed to Novem-ber 21, 2016.

The day the trial was supposed to start in No-vember, it was postponed to March 13.

On the Friday before the latest trial was supposed to start last Monday, the judge

in the case accepted an ap-plication from the lawyer for the accused to adjourn the case until the fall.

New trial dates are Octo-ber 16-27, 2017.

In a ruling last June, Can-ada’s Supreme Court set new time frameworks for trials. The Supreme Court justices wrote in their judgement that “the sys-tem has lost its way” in al-lowing long delays before trial, and suggested pro-vincial court trials should be conducted within 18 months and superior court trials within 30 months, not including delays caused by the defence.

Gmerek fraud trial postponed to October

Continued from frontHe has invited local tow

-partment, police, ambu-lance, highway transport patrol, and the local tire

their lights, safely, on the side of the highway, to make a point to motorists.

“We’re out there lots with my business with the towing and with the ser-vice side of it, and it’s just countless times I have to walk back and set up my pylons because someone has gone by them so fast they blew them into the ditch,” says Davidson.

“It makes you less excit-ed about doing your job if you can’t do it safely.”

Davidson says he was af-fected by the death of the tow truck driver from Es-terhazy.

“When you look at your kids and your family it sure makes you wonder what you’re doing it for,” he says. “Because if that’s ultimately how you’re go-ing to end up, that’s not what we want. Everything is so safety oriented now and it seems like we’re go-ing backwards.”

The law mandates that motorists have to slow down to 60 kilometres an hour when passing emer-gency vehicles but David-son says it’s common for people not to be paying at-tention.

“I think people are multi tasking. When we’re work-ing a scene, every other per-

son that goes by is distract-ed either with an iPhone or something in their vehicle and everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere. We have no extra time any more and our lives just seem to be so hustle and bustle, every-one has to be somewhere and make the most of it.”

Davidson is part of a newly formed organiza-tion—the Roadside Re-

sponders Organization—which is trying to get tow truck drivers and other re-sponders to work together

representation when deal-ing with government and other organizations. He says safety has become a huge priority for that orga-nization.

Tow truck drivers are now pushing to be allowed

to have red and blue lights on the tops of their trucks instead of yellow lights.

between someone work-ing the scene and just a wide load going down the road,” says Davidson. “We want to have red and blue lights because we do feel

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one of us has been called to an accident where they are waiting on us to get there so they can use our equip-ment to extract somebody or lift something or move something so that the am-bulance guys can do their job. It’s lifesaving.”

Davidson says he re-ceived lots of support when he asked local re-sponders about gathering

their lights Monday eve-ning.

“We all talked about it before there was a death and we all said we want to do something before some-thing happens, and now it’s too late, something has happened so we have to move forward. It’s always on our mind,” he says.

“Everybody knows a close call and remembers in their mind a point in time when there was a close call, and know that something needs to be done. Everyone was willing to donate their

Davidson stresses the gathering will be as safe as possible, with police presence, and drivers can slow down as they pass

don’t want drivers stop-ping on the highway.

“We don’t want anyone to get hurt,” he says.

“If they want to see all the lights they are more than welcome to come out and drive by but we don’t want people stopping on the highway other than us. It’s just to raise awareness.

“For the most part it’s the motoring public that we want to notify that we are out there doing a job and we want a bit more respect, because when we are out there doing our job we need part of the road to do it. “Everyone who’s out working on the highway is at risk of being injured at any given time.”

Responders making point about safety by flashing their lights on highway Monday

Todd Davidson, the owner of Davidson Truck and Tractor, with his tow truck.

BY KARA KINNAThe Moosomin Kinette Club is

holding a spring kegger on Saturday, April 22 in the hopes that the event will be a major fundraiser for their club.

The “I’d Tap That” spring kegger will take place at the MCC centre on April 22 and will feature local coun-try band Shifty Morgan.

“We had kind of talked about do-ing an event in October but it ended up being too busy with our Monster Mash event,” says Kaila Neifeld, vice president of the Kinettes.

“We all felt like we needed some-thing to do on a Saturday night. There is not a lot for people our age to do. We wanted to just get everyone out and do something all together—

we normally do.”The result was the spring kegger

idea.“As far as I know we have nev-

er done an event like this,” says

Neufeld. “Those of us who have to been to keg parties, there is just a dif-ferent atmosphere than a cabaret so we thought it would be something fun to try.”

The Kinettes, who donate all of their money back to the community, are planning to use some of the mon-ey raised by the kegger to expand the existing Kinettes playground at Brad-ley Park.

“Some of the money is going to-wards our playground—we’re going to hopefully be expanding that, and other than that we will be putting it back into the community,” says Neufeld.

Neufeld says she hopes this be-comes an annual event.

and it is something we can continue to do for a couple of years,” she says.

“If we sell the minimum amount of tickets that we have already pur-chased I think that it will be pretty big for us. If we had 250 to 300 peo-

ple, it would be amazing.”

foremost a fundraiser and the party is simply a bonus.

“The fundraiser is probably the

bonus part,” she says. “The club hasn’t done anything big this year so far so we were just really hoping to

-most.”

Neufeld says there has already been a good response to the event, with tickets starting to sell.

Like all events run by community groups and volunteers, a lot of work will go into hosting it.

“The whole club is involved so far,” says Neufeld. “We are going to need a little man power so we have asked a few of the Kinsmen to help us out, but they would all be there anyway supporting our event.”

Early bird tickets for the event are available at Witch’s Brew in Moo-somin, or by calling Kaila Neufeld

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Fundraising going well for new Rocanville playground

BY KARA KINNAThe Rocanville Playground Committee

is in their second school year of fundrais-ing for a new playground, and has raised around $60,000, but Kim Gulka, the pres-ident of the committee, says there’s still lots or work to be done.

The current school playground is in rough shape and it will cost between $80,000 to $100,000 to replace the large play structure.“It really seems to have gone down-

hill fast,” says Gulka. “We thought we had a little bit longer than what we do, and it just seems like there are more and more components of it that have stopped working. There were parts that we have had to remove. So we thought a year and a half ago that we better start seriously fundraising.

“We have been actively fundraising for our second school year. We have always had a small committee and typically we are mostly made up of teachers and staff at the school, even though we are the community playground. We now have four community members as well.”

Gulka says the committee has not yet picked out a new playground but they know it will be expensive.

“We have contacted companies like Play World and Blue Imp letting them know what our dimensions are and what some components are because we would like to replace it with something compa-rable to what we have,” she says. “We are looking at roughly $80,000 to $100,000.

“We have fundraised just about $60,000 right now. It has been just lots of little things. It is amazing how it slowly

adds up doing things like hot lunches. We get really nice donations and spon-sorships from people. We have done a family bingo night a few times now that have been very successful that makes us about $2,000 every time. The thrift store is fantastic. They have given us two do-nations of $3,000 each. PotashCorp gave us $10,000 last year. When we did a mu-seum lunch they sponsored it and paid for all the groceries to put it on. And the Co-op has been a great sponsor in the community in general. So we have had lots of great sponsors.”

While fundraisers to date have been fairly small, the group is planning a ma-jor fundraiser for this spring. The com-mittee has partnered with Rocanville’s Universe Satellite to bring in the GX94

May 27.“We are hoping it will be a good fun-

draiser for us,” says Gulka. “Stan (Lang-ley) from Universe Satellite is the spon-sor—he is paying for them to come in. He was looking for someone to run the

event and that is another advantage of a small town. His daughter is a teacher with us at the school and he knew how hard we were working to raise money. He has grandkids that use the park so he approached us and we are game to make it a big success.”

The event will be held at the new Pot-ashCorp Rocanville Community Hall.

“It has been a long road but it’s easy to get the support in a small town,” says Gulka. “In the next week or so we want to get together and have our initial Star Search planning meeting and then after that we will kind of see how things roll out from there.

“Based on the condition of our play structure we have had nothing but posi-tive feedback about the whole project. Everyone is on board to replace the old one with something awesome for the kids.”

Gulka says the committee would love to have a new playground ordered and in place by this fall.

“We would like to make our decision

prior to the end of the school year but that’s all dependent on bringing in the money,” says Gulka.

Gulka says so far the committee or-ganizing the fundraising for the play-ground has done a good job, but some more volunteers could be used, especial-ly to help plan Star Search.

“We haven’t put a call out for volun-teers for the Star Search yet, but I’m sure we will be,” she says. “It runs every month in our community calender and our school newsletter that we are always looking. There is no process—if you want to be in, you are in.

“If anyone wants to join our committee they can contact me at 306-435-3733.”

CorrectionIn an article on the World Day of Prayer

service at Rocanville in last week’s World-Spectator, the name of one par-ticipating church—St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church— was not included. We apologize for the error.

Rocanville School’s old playground is in rough shape and members of the playground fundraising commit-tee are hoping to raise enough money to have a new play structure in by fall.

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SaskPower selects preferred route for Birtle-Tantallon lineBY KEVIN WEEDMARK

SaskPower is in the public consultation phase of a pro-posed major transmission line in the Spy Hill-Tantallon area.

There will be an open house to discuss the new trans-mission line this Wednesday, March 22 at the Spy Hill Community Hall.

SaskPower and Manitoba Hydro are planning a major transmission line to carry 100 megawatts of renewable hydroelectricity from Manitoba into Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan portion of the line will run from the border to SaskPower’s Tantallon switching station, six ki-lometres north of Tantallon.

The SaskPower line will be between 25 and 35 kilome-

SaskPower and Manitoba Hydro have agreed on a tie point zone where the lines will meet—just north of the Qu’Appelle Valley at the border.

Earlier in the process, several potential routes were

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SaskPower has now selected a preferred route based on complying with environmental and safety regula-tions; minimizing agricultural, environmental, and other impacts; minimizing economic impacts; and building on favorable topography and foundation conditions.

Two potential border tie points were agreed to last sum-mer, and SaskPower worked on alternative route propos-

preferred route, the project is now in the public consulta-tion phase.

The 100mw of power is from renewable hydroelectric-ity, and will help SaskPower meet its goal of increasing renewable power generation.

renewable electricity in Saskatchewan. Right now we’re at about 25 per cent and our goal is to increase that to 50 per cent by 2030. This is one of those projects that will help us meet that target.

order to purchase some of their power we need to create

The new line will run from Birtle to Tantallon. Another -

nedy.

Tantallon line can help carry the power further into our

The Birtle-Tantallon line is expected to cost $30 million for the Saskatchewan portion.

SaskPower has a 100 mw power purchase agreement with Manitoba Hydro that will run from 2020-2040.

The next steps in the process will be environmental -

tinuing to May, 2018, and easement acquisition, continu-ing up to July of 2018.

Construction is tentatively scheduled for 2018 to 2020, and the line would go into use in 2020-2021.

The open house in Spy Hill is scheduled for noon to 7 pm Wednesday at the Spy Hill Community Hall.

we’re going back out there and showing them that we’ve taken their feedback and presenting to them the preferred route and border crossing area. We can provide a little bit more information to them than when we were out there in

feedback on the progress that we’re making.

we take that into consideration.

the feedback we get. We allow people to ask questions and talk with them about the project and what consider-

at SaskPower’s open houses.

solar and wind we are doing open houses, and allowing for public consultations.

-ers from the area to come and provide feedback. We def-initely encourage people to come and talk to us to get a better understanding of the project and to share their

This map shows the preferred route for the Saskatchewan portion of a planned 230 kV power transmission line that will run from Birtle, Manitoba to the Tantallon switching station.

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and Publisher

One of the best parts of my job is I get to learn new things every day.

With every news story, I’m learning new things, and when we miss things I learn about it in a hurry.

A couple of weeks back, we ran a story about the his-tory of the Elkhorn CIBC branch, and about the fact that the building was one of many constructed as “kit build-ings” when the bank was expanding rapidly.

The story mentioned a few other examples of the kit building, but didn’t mention the RM of Moosomin build-ing right here in Moosomin.

Lots of people quickly pointed out that the Municipal Building was originally built as a bank, in the same style as the Elkhorn bank branch and other kit buildings that were built for the bank.

Thanks to everyone for pointing this out!

Respect emergency respondersOn the evening of Monday, March 20, local emergency

services plan to line up along the Trans-Canada High-way and run their lights as a reminder to the public to slow down and give emergency service workers and vol-unteers room to do their jobs.

On Saturday, tow truck operators from the area met at Davidson Truck and Tractor and travelled to Esterhazy, where a funeral was held for Courtney Schaefer.

Courtney Schaefer lost his life in a fatal crash on High-way 22 between Gerald and the Mosaic potash mine, during the last winter storm. The collision involved a tow truck, a semi and two other vehicles.

Monday evening, representatives of local emergency services will be flashing their lights to remind drivers to be cautious around emergency responders.

Firefighters, EMTs, police officers, tow truck drivers, highway transport patrol officers and other emergency responders are putting their safety and their lives on the line to keep the public safe. They are often put into un-safe conditions, responding to emergencies in all sorts of road and weather conditions.

Please show all emergency responders the respect they deserve—slow down when passing them and give them the space to do their work.

Thanks for the supportWe are very fortunate to be operating the World-Spec-

tator in one of the most supportive communities I can imagine.

If you look to the third section of this week’s newspa-per, you will see we have put together a 36 page spring agriculture section.

Our staff put in a lot of hard work to produce a section like this, but it’s a supportive community that makes it possible.

There were 99 ads on the list for this section as it went to press—more than last year, which was more than the year before, which was more than the year before.

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Show your support for familyThere will be a prayer vigil for the Victor Santos fam-

ily of Moosomin March 30 at 7 pm at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Moosomin.

The family came as refugees and are facing the pos-sibility of deportation from Canada.

Try to come out and show your support for a family that has become part of the local community.

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net debt-to-GDP ratio of 20 per cent. Transportation, commu-nications and economic development accounted for a quarter of federal spending and transfers to other governments 20 per cent. Meanwhile, debt service charges were 27 per cent due the newly formed federal government assuming provincial debts. There were no transfers to persons.

-lion, resulting in a debt-to-GDP ratio of 36 per cent. Assorted transfers to persons and other levels of governments now ac-count for nearly two-thirds of federal government spending.

Until the First World War, customs duties dominated fed-

Over time, the importance of these three new revenue sourc-

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modity taxes (GST, excise taxes and customs duties) making

government’s primary focus transition from the active eco-nomic development of a country grounded in liberal economic principles to an activist role partly aimed at bringing about a more egalitarian society via social spending. Despite the ben-

War era - given the subsequent slowing of economic growth,

Prudent government spending is useful, such as, for ex-ample, the construction of the transcontinental CPR railway where subsidies encouraged the building of a risky transpor-tation project. However, the same strategy also saw over-sub-sidization of the CPR and substantial subsidies to two other less-successful rail lines. More government spending is not

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great divergence between revenues and spending leading to

The important policy decisions when it comes to spending are when to spend, what to spend, how much, and how to pay for it. The wrong answer to any of these questions has nega-

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While interest rates remain at historic lows, economic

The progress made in reducing the federal net debt-to-GDP

debt to once again grow uncontrollably.

This editorial was written by Livio Di Matteo, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and professor of economics at Lakehead Univer-sity. He is the author of A Federal Fiscal History: Canada, 1867-2017.

Kevin Weedmark

RM of Moosomin building was also built as a bank kit building

The RM of Moosomin’s Municipal Building in Moosomin, and the CIBC branch in Elk-horn, were built as kit buildings in the early 1900s. They were built with the bank branch on the main floor and an apartment for the bank manager above.

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Mike Schwean, Moosomin’s rec direc-tor, and the person largely responsible for the new PotashCorp Sportsplex in Moo-

simulators there.Schwean got a hole in one during the

Friday night corporate league on Friday, March 10. He was playing the Tazegzout golf course in Morocco at the time.

“I just couldn’t believe it went in and then the other guys came over to look. I’ve never been close,” he says. “I actu-ally hit it pretty well and it bounced once and just rolled right in the middle. It was cool.”

Schwean says he’s not an avid golfer so it was pretty surprising for him to get a hole in one.

but I don’t golf a ton in summer,” he says.Schwean says the hole in one showed

up on the screen and someone snapped a photo.

“They all tried to hit the replay but they couldn’t go back, but it shows up on the screen as a one,” he says.

Golf leagues have been running all win-ter at the Sportsplex, which opened before Christmas. Schwean’s hole in one marks

Mike Schwean stands in front of the simulator and the golf course in which he got a hole in one on March 10. The screen shows the hole in one on the 14th hole.

Schwean fi rst to get hole in one at new Sportsplex

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Moosomin Skating Club presents....

The entire Moosomin Skating Club

The Moosomin Skating Club held its year-end carnival on Sunday, March 12. The carnival theme was “Disney Classics”and featured many of Disney’s classic characters as well as solo performances from local skaters.

Sydni WilsonSarah Rotteau

Kim Poole photos

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Left: Gracy Russell skating as the Little Mermaid.

Above: Hailey Fisher and Brooklynn Kruppi skating as Anna and Olaf.

Left: Casey McCormac and Lydia Smith skating to the Pocahontas song “Colours of the Wind.”

Above: Paige Hutton skating to the Hercules’ song “Zero to Hero.”

Left: Peyton Glass and Reese Miller as Cruella DeVille and a dalmation from 101 Dalmations.

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BY KEVIN WEEDMARKWith the publication of information on its detailed

route, Enbridge Pipelines is one step closer to its Line 3 replacement.

On February 2, the National Energy Board approved

the lands proposed to be crossed by the pipeline.

Enerby Board if they object to the detailed route. Any statement of opposition must set out the nature of

the person’s interest and the grounds for the opposition to the proposed detailed route of the pipeline.

public hearing. In assessing Enbridge’s proposed detailed route for

account in determining the best possible detailed route of

ing of construction of the pipeline. The detailed route process does not reconsider the

NEB’s original decision to approve the project. Line 3 runs across the southern Prairies and into the

line to replace it.

The project includes:

• The decommissioning of the existing Line 3 pipeline.

required during construction.

sioning activities are proposed to begin once the Line 3

18 months to complete.

Enbridge one step closer to line 3 replacement

BY ROSE MAILLOUXOn March 11, the Rocanville and Dis-

trict Wildlife Annual Banquet, Awards, and Fundraiser was held at the Moosomin Armoury Hall. Ron Hilgers was the Mas-ter of Ceremonies and Jerry Hilgers said grace before the sold out crowd.

Kim Johnson-Hilts and her helpers ca-tered the fantastic meal. It consisted of roast beef, ham, potatoes, gravy, salad, buns, and dessert. Roast moose was sup-

Mountain Park, and cooked by Irene McLean. Delicious bear meatballs were supplied and cooked by Ron Hintz.

“The Saskatchewan Wildlife, with over 33,000 members, was started by a group of hunters over 88 years ago,” says Helen Sheppard. “Today the group is mainly

-eries and how we can support it so it is still here for future generations to enjoy. The money we raise locally goes to sup-port projects, as our walleye rearing pond at Moosomin Lake, Habitat Trust for land purchases, education at the Hanin Creek

school, and other projects that come up.”The children delivered the door prizes

to the lucky winners. Toques, mugs, pan-cake mix, honey, and a folding shovel were some of the items that were won. Helen Sheppard sold 276 memberships, Irene McLean sold 86, and Ron Hilgers sold 78.

The awards were handed out by Irene McLean. Ron Hintz won the photography contest for his picture taken in Saskatch-

won by Nolan Kruppi, Heaviest Duck won by Dennis Neufeld, Best Elk Antlers won by Rhea Hilgers, and the Best typical

Whitetail Antlers won by Mark Eckersley.

prizes were drawn, the auction and silent auction was held. The winner of the gun auction was Nathan Dearle. The winners

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cate from Korner Kafe, were Tina Gompf and Kristi Farkas.

The auctioneer was Hugh Garrett. Other items in the auction were a spotting scope and stand, a Rider sweater, a case of oil, a willow table, and an air compressor. There were around 40 auction items and 23 silent auction items.

“A fun evening was held by all. To those who were unable to buy tickets this year, we will be holding the supper at Rocan-

ville’s new hall next year with unlim-ited room,” says Helen Sheppard. “A big thanks to everyone who donated items and those who attended, we could not do this without your support. All members are encouraged to attend meetings held the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Rocanville Museum. New people means new ideas.”

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Rocanville Wildlife awards banquet held

Ron Hintz won the photography contest.

Above: Helen Sheppard was given the certifi-cate for selling the most memberships—276. Irene McLean handed out the certificate.

Left: People load up on supper, which includ-ed bear meatballs and roast moose this year.

Irene McLean presented Nathan Longman the award for the Largest Moose Antlers.

Ron Farkas won the Best Non-typical Whitetail Antlers award.

Mark Eckersley won the award for Best typical Whitetail Antlers. Presenting is Irene McLean.

Rylan Eckersley was awarded the Walleye (boys) certificate. Irene McLean is presenting.

Keith Eckersley picked up Den-nis Neufeld’s certificate for the largest goose.

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Jeannie Skulmoski was presented with two tickets to an NHL game between the Ottawa Senators and Winnipeg Jets in Winnipeg on April

played Plinko during one of the

to win the tickets.The Plinko game was set up by

Conexus Credit Union in partner-ship with the Moosomin Senior

Rangers as a fundraiser for the Se-nior Rangers Scholarship Fund. This

fund. Jason Wiens, with the senior Rangers, says the money will be donated annually to a young Senior Rangers player who is planning to

further their post secondary educa-tion.

“We’ve had tremendous support from the business community and our fans and we want to make sure we do everything we can to help out our community,” says Wiens.

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BY KARA KINNAThe Rocanville Tigers’ bid for a provincial champion-

ship came to an end on Sunday, March 12.The Tigers fell 4-1 to the Gull Lake Greyhounds in game

best of three series was tied 1-1 going into the game, with the Tigers winning 5-2 in game one in front of a home crowd on March 4 in Rocanville, and Gull Lake winning game two with a score of 7-2 on Saturday, March 11 Gull Lake.

against Watrous.Tigers head coach Boyd Wilson says Gull Lake fought

the Tigers hard during the weekend in Gull Lake. The Ti-gers were also down Devin LeBlanc and Niko Grose in game two, and both Konrad McKay and Ashley Howie were suspended for game three.

“Their goalie played really well and we just couldn’t put the puck in the net,” says Wilson. “They outworked us hard, they were probably the hardest working team the most forechecking team. They really didn’t give us any space to get our puck control game going.”

Wilson says the Tigers didn’t know much about the Greyhounds going into the series.

“We didn’t really know how they played. We were kind of surprised. We hadn’t had anyone play us that hard in that way before,” he says. “I think we may have been

and worked better on the ice for it.”Wilson says the Tigers were hoping for the provincial

“Our goal is to always try to win it. Everyone said we wouldn’t get past Grenfell and we thought we beat them pretty handily. Gull Lake, we thought we’d get by them, especially after game one, but I don’t think anyone was

They played a good game in Rocanville.“Their goalie played really well. I don’t know that we

controlled as much of the game up there as we did here but we really did own probably two thirds of the hockey game on Sunday up there.”

Despite the provincial loss, the Tigers’ season contin-

says it means a lot to the team to compete in their league

than provincials.

The Miniota-Elkhorn C-Hawks were up 1-0 over the Russell Rams in the NCHL

the weekend.The C-Hawks downed the Rams 5-2 in

game one of the series on Sunday, March 12 in Elkhorn.

Games two and three were on Friday in Russell and on Saturday in Elkhorn.

tied 1-1, with Dillin Stonehouse opening

scoring for the C-Hawks. Stonehouse and Colby Walker each added goals for the C-Hawks in the second period to make it 3-1.

The Rams scored early in the third to make it 3-2, but Stonehouse added an-other, giving him a hat trick, and Curtis

If needed, game four will be on Friday

horn on Saturday.

The Wawota Flyers were up 2-0 against the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings last week in

end games. The series is a best of seven.Game three took place on Friday in Wa-wota and game four took place on Sunday in Yellow Grass.

The Flyers defeated the Wheat Kings 5-4 in game one and 6-5 in game two.

goals in the second period. Yellowgrass

scored one to make it 5-3 then added a fourth goal in the third period.

In game two the Flyers took a com-

added a sixth goal in the second period. The Wheat Kings spent the game chipping away at that lead, scoring two goals in the second period and two more in the third to bring them within one point of the Flyers.

place on Friday in Wawota and Sunday in Yellow Grass.

Gull Lakedefeats Tigers in provincial south fi nal

C-Hawks up 1-0 in fi nal heading into weekend

Wawota dominates fi rst two games in Big Six fi nal

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Spectator Sports

The Wawota Flyers defeated the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings in games one and two of the Big Six fi nal before heading into games three and four on the weekend.

Game one was played in Wawota before a huge crowd.

Left: Dylan Lamon-tagne on the heels of one of the Wheat Kings

Bottom left: Tay-lor Ernst comes in for a shot on goal.

Below: Riley Riddell right, and Kayle Swan-son, left, get physical in a battle for the puck.

Flyers, Wheat Kings battle

in fi nal

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The Moosomin Curling Club held its night of champions on Friday last week, with the league fi nal games taking place that night. Below are the winners in the various leagues:

RichardsonPioneer donates

$10,000 to Moosomin

Curling RinkRichardson Pioneer

made a donation of $10,000 for the Mooso-min Curling Rink on Friday, March 10.

Adrien Gaudet, plant operations manager in Whitewood, applied for the money from the Rich-ardson Foundation. The money will be used for up-grades and repairs at the curling rink, including new shingles. Gaudet says he knew there was a need at the curling rink in Mooso-min, and decided to apply for donation money to help the rink with repairs.

From left is Richard-son Pioneer’s Director of Operations Robert Root, Chad Stewart accepting the donation on behalf of the Moosomin Curl-ing Club, and Richardson Pioneer Whitewood plant manager Adrien Gaudet.

The winners of the Red Barn Men’s League. From left are Mark Nixon, Pat McDonald, Corey Turpie, and Owen Frape.

The winners of the Farmers’ League. From left are Layne McFarlane, Linda Nixon, Harvey Nixon, and Bill Thorn.

The winners of the Conexus Credit Union Mixed League. From left are Mark Nixon, Elliot Martens, Dawn Ikert, and Pat McDonald, and Angie Turpie presenting for Conexus Credit Union.

The winners of the Celebration Ford Ladies’ League. From left are Tyler Thorn presenting for Celebration Ford, Kendra Young, Deanna He-bert, and Melissa Davidson. Missing is Brittany Glasser.

Spectator Sports

Moosomin curling night of champions

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TOWN OF MOOSOMIN 701 Main St. • Box 730

Moosomin, SK, S0G 3N0 E-mail: twn.moosomin@sasktel.net

Phone: 306.435.2988 Fax: 306.435.3343

PUBLIC WORKS Kim Looyenga - 306-434-9850

Director of Public Works & Utilities Doug Baily - 306-434-8073

Assistant Foreman

RECREATION OFFICE E-mail: msmn.rec.brd@sasktel.net

Phone: 306.435.3622

MAYOR: Larry Tomlinson 306-435-7943

COUNCILLORS: Chris Davidson 306-435-7914

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SEASONAL LABOURERThe Town of Moosomin is now accepting applications/resumes for employee(s) as a SEASONAL LABOURER for the 2017 SEASON, within the Public Works Department.It will be considered an asset if you have skills in Heavy Equipment Operation, Mechanical Repair and have a valid Class 3A driver's license.Applications/resumes will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 21, 2017, however, said deadline may be extended depending on applications/resumes received, until a suitable applicant is chosen.Applicants who advance to an interview stage, will be required to provide a Criminal Record check from the R.C.MP.The Town wishes to thank all persons who apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applications may be mailed, delivered, faxed, or e-mailed to the Town of Moosomin at the following address:

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Town of MoosominASSESSMENT ROLL

Notice is hereby given that the assessment roll of the Town of Moosomin for 2017 has been prepared and is open for inspection in the office of the assessor during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the fol-lowing days: Monday to Friday inclusive, March 24, 2017 to May 26, 2017, excluding statutory holidays.

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The Assessor, Town of Moosomin, Box 730, Moosomin, SK S0G 3N0,

by the 26th day of May, 2017.Dated this 24th day of March, 2017

Paul ListromAssessor

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Since Annika Sorenstam walked away from profession-al golf in 2008 to live a normal life—getting married, rais-ing children, developing her business empire—the Ladies Professional Golf Association has been playing hot potato with declaring who’s No. 1 in the world rankings.

For a few years, it was Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa but she quit at age 28 to get married and have kids. Since then, no

number of solid contenders.The women’s game gets scant attention from sports fans

around the world, but real fans of golf know the names of the better players. Canadians know all about Brooke Hen-derson, the pride of Smiths Falls, Ont., who is among the top 10 players in the world, but could the average sports fan name 10 other female golfers?

Perhaps the best known woman golfer among Ameri-cans is Michelle Wie, who is so far down the world rank-

name. Wie burst on the world scene 14 or 15 years ago, when she was a 13-year-old playing in the PGA Tour’s Hawaiian Open, nearly making the cut. Since then, Wie has shown a few bursts of greatness, winning the 2014 U.S. Open for example, but her potential has always far outdistanced her success.

More recently, Lydia Ko of New Zealand appeared poised to take over dominance of the women’s game, vaulting to No. 1 in the world rankings two years ago at the age of 17. But then her game stalled, as Inbee Park of South Korea and Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand have recently joined her as two of the game’s more dominant players.

Currently, Ha Na Jang of South Korea, one of a multi-tude of Asian stars, is No. 1 on the CME Globe points list, the LPGA equivalent to the Fed-Ex Cup standings.

spiration—comes up in Palm Springs next week, where Ko is the defending champion. She will certainly be one of the favourites, and Canadians will hold out hope that Henderson can win her second major, but LPGA commis-sioner Michael Whan would be over the moon thrilled if a Woods-like dominant player—preferably non-Asian, for U.S. marketing purposes—emerged from the pack.

It likely won’t be Wie. It could be an American like Lexi Thompson, or even Henderson. Most likely, however, the Asian connection will continue to dominate. For true golf fans, that’s OK. Golf is a global game and there’s no better example of it than on the LPGA Tour.

• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Cavaliers forward Ky-rie Irving doubts the world is round. Ironically, he’s heard snickers from all four corners of the Earth.”

• Steve Simmons of Postmedia: “My life has been suf-

pitches from the intentional walk. Now to decide: How to celebrate 20 additional seconds in my life.”

• Blogger Chad Picasner, on MLB’s move to shorten games by eliminating the four pitches to constitute an intentional walk: “This is like solving world hunger by giving everyone one oyster cracker.”

• Sports columnist Dave Kindred, about covering the talkative Joe Theismann while working for the Washing-ton Post: “If you didn’t ask to interview him, he’d pick up your tape recorder and interview himself for you.”

• Bob Molinaro of pilotonline.com (Hampton, Va.): “Anybody following the World Baseball Classic? I’ll ac-cept as an answer, ‘The what?’”

• TC in BC: “The World Cup (soccer) will be expanding to 48 teams. ‘Yay’ said Liechtenschtien, The Vatican and Manitoba.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Who says pro sports aren’t show business? Andrew Bogut broke a leg in his Cavaliers debut.”

Bruce Penton

LPGA waiting for dominant star to emerge

Three local senior basketball teams—the Moosomin senior boys, Rocanville senior boys and Rocan-ville senior girls—advanced past conferences held March 10-12, and moved on to regionals on the week-end, hoping for a shot at provin-cials.

The Moosomin Senior Boys beat

ferences, then lost to Oxbow in the

enough to send the boys to region-als in Saskatoon where they were

ranked 10th out of 16 teams in 3A.The Moosomin Senior Girls lost

Esterhazy and did not move on to regionals.

The Rocanville senior boys hosted

for the team—and were seeded sec-ond in the province heading into the weekend. The team was hop-ing to advance to provincials, which

senior boys basketball team.“It’s exciting to do something

that’s never been done before,” says coach Todd Volk.

The Rocanville senior girls moved on to 2A regionals in Canora on the weekend. The girls won both of their games at conferences, although one game with Radville was extremely close—69-68. The girls were seeded 12th going in to 2A regionals.

The Redvers Senior girls won their

Gravelbourg 60-18 but lost to Glad-mar 54-35 the following day and did not advance to regionals.

Three local basketballteams move on to regionals

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New furniture store owners speak about businessBY KARA KINNA

There was a full agenda at the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday, as people packed into the Canalta banquet room for a number of pre-sentations.

Wayne McGonigal and Arvelle Fisk, the owners of Zaylie Furniture—a new furniture store that will be opening this spring—in-troduced themselves to Chamber members and spoke about their new business.

The new store will be lo-cated along Broadway Av-enue in the former Celebra-tion Ford building.

“We started noticing how many trucks from the city are coming in here,” said McGonigal. “Almost every day we see a furni-ture truck from Brandon or Regina in town, but the conversation stopped there because a furniture store needs a lot of space and we didn’t know where we could put it.”

The couple eventually spoke to Garry Bonkowski, the owner of the building on the corner of Broad-way Avenue and Gordon Street, and decided they had found a location that would work.

“We cold called furniture business from similar sized towns and crunched a lot of numbers and took the plunge,” said McGonigal.

“We hope to be up and running for the beginning of April, we are just wait-ing on stock and we are still renovating,” said Fisk.

Fisk said the new store would be carrying Ashley and England furniture (a division of Lazy Boy), as well as Frigidaire and Elec-trolux appliances, and Sim-mons and Sealy mattresses.

Fisk, who currently runs a country chic furniture store called Funky Junk, says she will also still be carrying some of her own furniture as well.

Fisk added that the store will also have delivery and

Chamber member Bill Thorn asked if they would provide appliance repair. McGonigal and Fisk said they have looked at it and found it an extremely tough service to offer.

“We have looked into

anyone to take that school-ing,” said Fisk. “Even to get the training is really

gal.McGonigal said some

companies will simply re-place an item if it breaks

under warranty and no re-pair person is available.

‘Looking back through theages’ theme ofChamber parade

Andrea Dunn spoke about the Chamber parade being held on July 8—the weekend of the Moosomin Rodeo and Homecoming. Dunn said she is hoping businesses participate and

with her.The theme of this year’s

parade will be “looking back through the ages” in homage to Canada’s 150th anniversary and the Moo-somin homecoming.

Dunn said the parade last year was so big that the start of the parade arrived back at the starting loca-tion just as the end of the parade was leaving.

“We had a huge amount of support and we are very appreciative,” she said.

The parade starts at 10 am on July 8 and partici-pants are asked to start lin-ing up at 9 am.

Kristy Nelson with the Rocanville recreation de-partment added that Ro-canville is also holding a parade on June 17 if any Moosomin area businesses would like to participate in the Rocanville parade as well.

RBC’s Gillspeaks about debit card fraud

Nathan Gill, the Busi-ness Accounts Manager at RBC in Moosomin, gave a presentation on debit card fraud.

Gill wanted to inform Chamber members about “shimming.” A shim is a device that sits between the chip on the card and the chip reader on an ATM or POS machine and records the data from the chip as it is being read by the ATM or POS. Shims are slim, plastic cards planted inside the machine.

discovered in Mexico and Europe and are just start-ing to show up in Canada now. In B.C. the RCMP dis-covered four devices inside a POS machine in January.

While data collected by shimmers can not be used to fabricate a chip-based card, Gill said it could be used to clone a magnetic strip card. While most banks use chip cards in Canada, Gill said not all banks have adopted the chip card standard world-

wide.Gill said shims must be

physically implanted into POS and ATM machines, which means shimmers are looking for employees who are not paying attention or machines that are left out overnight.

He said a machine with a shim inside of it will usu-ally behave differently.

“People say when you put a card in it’s quite sticky or tight,” he said.

He said businesses should immediately report if anything is abnormal about the way their ma-chine is acting, especially if a card is sticking inside the machine.

CommunityChallengemarathoncoming up

Kristen McAuley, the owner of Strive Fitness, spoke about plans for the seventh annual Commu-nity Challenge.

The marathon will be a partnership between Strive and Borderland Co-op again this year, and will include a 2K fun run, a 5K and 10K route and a half marathon.

The event will be held on Saturday, June 10 this year, and will raise funds

for physical activity locally.“The purpose of it was

to raise proceeds for youth physical activity in Moo-somin and the surround-ing area, so the past few years we put the proceeds towards the football team, the elementary school for their phys ed class, and

this year we chose for the funds to go toward the high school’s phys ed,” said McAuley.

McAuley pointed out that not all kids play sports, but by supporting the school’s phys ed program,

“If we support the schools almost every kid is going to get physically ac-

of that,” she said.McAuley said there are

three ways to take part in the marathon. She said people can participate, help volunteer, or provide sponsorship.

Second annual Swing forScholarships golf tourney planned

Tracy Page with South-east Regional College told Chamber members that the college is planning its second annual Swing for Scholarships golf tourna-ment on Saturday, June 3 at Pipestone Hills Golf Club.

She said the event would be an 18 hole Texas scram-ble followed by a steak supper. At the end of the day, scholarships will be handed out to students at Southeast Regional Col-lege.

The money from the tournament goes towards providing scholarships for students pursuing post-secondary training at Southeast College in Moo-somin.

“Last year we raised $4,600 for the students

and handed out $18,000 in scholarships at the sup-per,” said Page.

Page said the college is looking for golfers, spon-sors, anyone wanting to donate prizes, or attend the supper and the presenta-tions.

“It was very successful last year because of the support of the community and we think we can grow it,” she said.

Good responseto Women on the Go tour Dec. 3

Chamber secretary Kev-in Weedmark told Cham-ber members that there wa a lot of interest from Cham-ber members and Women on the Go Tours will try to put together a bus tour in Moosomin on Sunday, Dec. 3.

Weedmark also thanked Moosomin town council-lor Teddi Taylor for her work in bringing Cheryl Hughes, the organizer of Women on the Go Tours, to Moosomin.

Hughes was in Moo-somin in January to tour the town and speak at the January Chamber meeting about the possibility of in-cluding Moosomin as one of her tours.

Several chamber mem-bers expressed interest and Hughes will work with them to put together a tour.

Women on the Go Tours bring women from the city to spend a day touring, shopping and dining in ru-ral communities.

Arvelle Fisk and Wayne McGonigal are the owners of Zaylie Furniture which will be open-ing this spring.

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