ShellbrookChronicle

The Voice Of The Parkland Since 1912VOLUME 101 No. 13SHELLBROOK, SASKATCHEWAN FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

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Board members, past and present employees, dignitaries, library users and the Shellbrook Elementary School Grade 2 class turned out to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Shellbrook Library Monday, March 26.

Local library Board Chair, Deb Mervold emceed the event which opened with speeches from Shellbrook Mayor George Tomporowski, board member and RM Councilor Doug Oleksyn, former Board Chair Bishop Tom Morgan and Wapiti Executive Committee Member Gerwing.

Library Vice-Chair Elna Fish also presented a comprehensive history of the library in Shellbrook.

Through the years, the library has been housed in many locations -- eight to be exact.

In 1952, Shellbrook joined the North Central Saskatchewan Regional Library after the Home and School Association raised the $225 start up fee.

The first branch was locat-ed in Halliwell’s Hardware with J.C. Hetherington volunteering as librarian.

The official grand opening took place in the Legion Hall, March 26, 1952.

From there, the library moved into the town restroom, west of the Elks’ Theatre and then later into a small room inside the theatre. It then found a tem-porary home in Dorothy’s Floral Shop in 1960 and then moved into Norman Smith’s Furniture Store where it stayed from 1961-1977. When that business was sold, the library remained until its next move into the basement of the Shellbrook Credit Union.

It was during this time that the Library’s longest serving librarian Hazel Barkway served her tenure.

A permanent home for the library was constructed at the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue East in 1984. The new facility was far more accessible than the previous location and traffic increased

“We were limited with space at the Credit Union and of course when we moved into the new building we got more shelving and so headquarters gave us a whole bunch more books,” said Barkway, who was the librarian from 1979 to 1994.

During her time one of the first stops for new residents in town was the library.

However, with the growth of technol-ogy the library’s needs outgrew the facil-ity and it was determined that one more move was in order.

In 1996, the library moved into its current home in the Provincial Building on Railway Avenue West.

Over the past sixty years 12 librarians, both volunteer and paid employees, have assisted with library patrons needs.

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Librarian Alanna Carswell and Shellbrook Library Board members Helen Larsen and Virginia Gray serve cake at the Shellbrook Library’s 60th Anniversary celebration March 26.

Investments in agriculture, revenue sharing key items in provincial budget

Shellbrook Library celebrates 60th

Increased investments in agriculture, municipal government and health care while maintaining a balanced budget were the key points of the last week’s pro-vincial budget according to Shellbrook Rosthern MLA Scott Moe.

An increase of $13 million to the province’s Agriculture budget marked the second highest budget in the in the history of that portfolio.

A record Crop Insurance budget of $177 million will see coverage levels increase to a record high $174 per acre, on average, in 2012, almost double the cov-erage levels offered in 2007. Producers will also now have the option of purchas-ing coverage of up to $100 dollars per eligible acre for land they are unable to seed due to excess moisture.

“Investment in agriculture is impor-tant in our constituency,” said Moe.

In addition, more than $20 million was invested in research, an increase of 50 per cent since 2007.

This includes a $2 million investment in wheat genomic research and $250,000 for the Global Institute for Food Security.

He pointed to the $20.6 million increase in municipal revenue sharing as another key point of this budget for municipalities across the province.

“I think it allows flexibility at the municipal level to make decisions and address challenges that they face on a daily, weekly and yearly basis,” said Moe.

The 9.5 increase brings provincial municipal revenue sharing to $237.4 mil-lion.

Regional health authorities will receive an additional $98 million, or 3.5 per cent in funding to operate this year. The overall budget increased to $2.9 bil-lion for 2012.

The budget also followed through on some Sask Party election promises in addressing rural health care issues with increases in training seats for nurse practitioners and physicians, doubled the number of residency positions for local and international medical graduates.

The budget followed through on the promse of Saskatchewan student loan forgiveness of $120,000 for doctors and

$20,000 for nurse practitioners in hopes of helping with recruitment and retention efforts in the province.

Funding of $5.5 million was also con-firmed for the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society Air Ambulance (STARS).

The budget also sees the continued commitment for 13 previously announced long term care facilities, including the Shellbrook and Districts Integrated Health Complex.

The budget also included a $60.5 million investment in the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative (SKSI). Funding for the program will support health regions to complete more than 8,000 more surgeries in 2012-13 (an increase of 10 per cent compared with 2009-10, the year prior to the initiative).

Moe noted that all of these commit-ments were made in a balanced budget.

“That was a commitment made by this government and its one that is important that we came through on,” said Moe.

Parkland Terrace has been a buzz with oppor-tunity! There is some-thing to look forward to daily! Program calendars can be picked up at the entrance to the nursing home. They are available at the beginning of each month. Newsletters are printed quarterly. This is a great way to promote and inform others what is happening at Parkland Terrace.

Recreation Therapy encourages and enables our

residents to strive for inde-pendence and participation in life! Opportunities are created with specific goals in mind. Our residents pick and choose what they would like to be involved in. Some partake in Recreation Programs 2-3 times a day, others once or twice a week. Each person is unique in how much intervention/stimulation they require.

Some opportunities included excursions such as trips to PA for shop-

ping and bowling and out for supper to the Canwood Restaurant. Our residents also enjoyed the tea at the Seniors Center and watch-ing curling and a figure skating practice at the rink. The Woodland Bus driv-ers are fabulous. Hats off to Grant and his crew for their expertise!

Special Events are also a big hit! In March we celebrated St. Patricks day, held a mini Spring/Winter Festival (our King was Olaf Olson and Queen was Edna Lens), and expe-rienced an in home all inclusive Mexican vaca-tion. Various large group programs are planned throughout the month. Entertainment fits into this category and is not only pleasant to hear, it is a great opportunity to social-ize. Most of our enter-tainers play tunes that the older generation can sing along to or reminisce about the good ol’ days. Many toes are tapping, hands clapping and residents are encouraged to join in on a wheelchair dance or two.

Smaller group pro-grams encourage resident participation, adaptations are made to enable our residents to engage in the activity. An example of this would be breakfast club where 3 to 4 resi-dents assist with prepar-ing breakfast which almost always consists of non other then bacon and eggs! Flipping bacon, cracking eggs and buttering toast are all tasks that can be

done by the breakfast club crew. The smell alone brings back memories of breakfast at home. This starts many conversations about family and food. Sometimes the morning lingers on into a second pot of coffee and stories shared are wonderful!

Some residents prefer short visits, or working on a project on their own. This is often referred to as one to one visits. Family members, staff and volun-teers can access items from Recreation Therapy staff to aid in their visit (games/puzzles, reading material, craft supplies, etc).

Items needed - If you have extra’s of any of the following we would gladly take them off your hands: games, craft supplies (glue sticks, white glue, modge podge, material scraps, etc), card tables, jewelry making kits and wood working projects.

Did you know a few of our gentlemen just finished assembling a dog house shingles and all! Just have to wait for warmer weather to paint it!

Upcoming dates to watch for are: A “Jockey” Spring Fashion Show April 3 @ 6:30 and an Easter Tea with The Happy Wonderers April 5 @ 2:00. Family and friends are welcome.

For those of you plan-ning ahead the Parkland Terrace Yard Sale will be held sometime in the last two weeks of May. Date will be confirmed by April

5th, 2012. Space can be booked following that date. Family members we count on you for donations to the sale and to assist with set up and working. The funds raised at this event enhance the resi-dent’s quality of life.

Mother’s Day raffle tickets are available for $1.00 each. Prizes include a single bed quilt for 1st, a pair of pillows for 2nd and 3rd prize is an apron.

VOLUNTEERS: April is VOLUNTEER

APPRECIATION month. We acknowledge our dedi-cated volunteers all year long but this month is set aside to go above and beyond.

Volunteers add so much to the lives of our residents. They enrich our day in so many ways. Some of the newest vol-unteers to make a differ-ence are our Grade Two and Five classes from WP Sandin School. Watching our residents eyes light up when they arrive is heart-warming! The connec-tion between the older generation and youth is something words cannot express. Our residents sit a little taller, listen more intently and engage in conversation freely. The students join Parkland Terrace Residents in a variety of opportuni-ties such as arts & crafts, music, games, visiting and physical activity to name a few. They enjoy a won-derful baked treat from our kitchen staff before they leave. It is wonderful to see the students becom-ing more comfortable each visit. Some wanted to stay the remainder of the day

to VOLUNTEER. It is something special to give of yourself for the ben-efit of others. Volunteers obtain lifelong qualities and experience!

Volunteers are an amazing link to the com-munity; we welcome those who may be interested in the rewards of volunteer-ing to contact us. Each one of us can make a difference, whether it is an hour or two a week/month/year….it all helps. Volunteers do not replace staff-they enhance service. We are flexible however; Volunteers must be reg-istered with Prince Albert Parkland Health Region, application forms can be picked up at the home.

VOLUNTEERS GIVE THE BEST GIFT OF ALL –THEMSELVES. Please join Parkland Terrace and Shellbrook Hospital in Celebrating Our Volunteers on April 23rd at 2:00pm in the Parkland Terrace Dining Room. We invite anyone who would like to perform their talent in a variety show at this special time! Please contact the Recreation Therapy Department to book your spot!

Congratulations to our VOLUNTEERS receiv-ing PAPHR Long Service Awards April 2, 2012. The award ceremony will take place in Prince Albert. Recipients have been con-tacted by mail. Way to go Shellbrook!

If you have a question, suggestions or information to share please contact myself.

Until next time enjoy the spring weather!

By Trina Chamberlain

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYTOWN OF BIG RIVER is receiving applications for

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For more information please contact the Town Offi ce 469-2112.

Pink Shirt Day to be celebrated in

SaskatchewanThe Canadian Red Cross works closely with schools

and communities in Saskatchewan throughout the year to train youth and adults to prevent and address bully-ing behaviour. On April 4, Red Cross is also celebrating Pink Shirt Day in Saskatchewan (April 19 in Prince Albert and area). More than 12,000 students and adults from 350 schools and businesses will be wearing pink shirts to bring awareness to - and take a stand against - bullying in our communities. Bullying awareness events and activities are being held throughout the province.

Why Pink? Pink Shirt Day is an engaging way to get students thinking about bullying and about what they can do to create a safe and respectful environment in their school. This initiative began after two high school stu-dents in Nova Scotia asked their peers to wear pink shirts to school to help another peer who had been bullied for wearing pink. Since then, the idea of wearing pink shirts to symbolize a stand against bullying has spread across the country, and into Saskatchewan where it caught the interest of the Canadian Red Cross.

Mayor George Tomporowski quoted Dr. Seuss’ “Oh the places you’ll go” to get his point across about the impor-tance of reading and librar-ies themselves.

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn the more places you’ll go.”

“The more knowl-edge we have the more empowered we are,” said

Tomporowski.Through the years

the library has expanded from 250 items to nearly 7,000 volumes plus access to a province wide net-work of library through the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services net-work. The library also includes computer ser-vices that were complete-ly unheard of when the library first opened its

doors.In 1975, the North

Central Regional Library celebrated a quarter centu-ry in existence and changed its name to Wapiti. In 1978 Shellbrook won the Wallis Wapiti Award for most improved branch and in 1999 was the recipi-ent of the Wapiti Regional Library Award in recogni-tion of its many accom-plishments.

Through the years the new facility has also doubled as a show-case for local artisans as well as Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) travel-ing art exhibits while local painters have also used the space to ply their craft.

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Library celebrates 60th Anniversary

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For the past 35 years, the Saskatchewan Junior Citizen program has been recognizing the outstanding youth of Saskatchewan.

This year four deserving youth, aged between 8 and 18 years old, will receive $3000 bursaries to help pay for their future post-secondary education.

Someone you nominate could be one of them.

Visit www.swna.com for more information and nomination forms or call Nicole Nater at 1-800-661-7962

Nomination closes April 30, 2012.

Shellbrook Housing Authorityis accepting bid applications for

Contract Maintenance/Caretaking ServicesThis contractor will provide maintenance and caretaking ser-vices for 32 senior units and 9 family units located in Shellbrook.The successful vendor is to provide the following services: • Regular seasonal grounds maintenance • General interior and exterior maintenance of buildings and suites • Mechanical and boiler maintenance • Accessibility to Housing Authority ten-ants for emergency calls • Regular inspection and maintenance of Housing Authority property • Regular activity reports to the Housing Authority. Basic working knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, heating, elec-trical, appliance repair and general maintenance is an asset. Must be able to perform manual labour and lifting tasks. Tools & equipment to be supplied by contractor.For further details, please contact John McIvor, Manager at 747-3995.Please submit sealed, written bid application, outlining qualifi ca-tions and references by April 9, 5 p.m. to:

Eileen Chappell, ChairpersonShellbrook Housing Authority

Box 339, Shellbrook, SK S0J 2E0

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J.C. Hetherington Lydia RowlesVesta Massey 1952-60Dorothy Loth 1960Doris Smith 1961-75Dorothy Perkins 1975 -77Anne Anderson 1978

Brenda Kinnaird 1978-79Hazel Barkway 1979-94Linda Mazurkewich 1994- 2007Diane Aug 2002Alanna Carswell 2007- Present

Shellbrook Librarians

Shellbrook Library Board Chair Deb Mervold speaks before a packed house as the Shellbrook Library celebrated its 60th Anniversary.

Fire rates going upNew rates were

approved for fire and res-cue calls at Monday’s meeting of Shellbrook Town Council.

Council approved the rates set forth by the RM of Shellbrook with increases in the cost per hour for trucks within and outside of the RM of Shellbrook.

Rates for the first hour of fire or rescue calls

requiring a fire truck or rescue van has increased from $$250 to $300. Out side of the RM the cost rises from $300 to $350 and each additional hour rises from $70 to $100.

Meanwhile, the charge

per man hour remains at $25, foam per pail will continue to be $160 and the air packs will stay at $25 each. Rescue equip-ment will also stay at $585 and the communications charge will remain at $20.

The Shellbrook Fire Department is jointly fund-ed by the RM and Town of Shellbrook on a 50/50 cost sharing basis.

April meetings of council have been set for April 9 and 23.

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With a week or so remaining in the National Hockey League season teams from the top through the bottom have some major decisions to make.

Top tier teams who have already captured a playoff spot need to decide whether or not to finish the season strong in hopes of carrying forward momentum or resting their stars in the few final games before what could be a grueling two month playoff drive.

Teams currently fighting for their playoff lives sim-ply need choose their lineups and strategies carefully because a simple misstep could see them on the outside looking in come April.

Meanwhile the teams that have already been math-ematically eliminated from playoff contention have to decide whether or not they want to play the role of the spoiler or the lame duck. Teams dwelling in the cellar of the league increase their chances of a first round pick in this spring’s NHL Entry Draft.

Three Canadian teams are currently contending for low draft picks this spring with the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs all hover-ing just above the last place Columbus Blue Jackets.

As of this writing, the Oilers are leading in the draft odds department sitting in 29th place with an 18.8% shot at the first pick. The Canadiens follow at 28th place at 14.2% with the Minnesota Wild and Toronto Maple Leafs trailing at 27 and 26, respectively.

Columbus, with a lock on dead last has a 48.2% chance of winning the draft lottery.

So what do these teams do with their lost seasons?The Leafs and Oilers set their fans up for disap-

pointment by starting the season at the top of the league before trailing off and eventually taking a nose dive in the standings.

Some predicted that before the season began that the Canadiens may steal the eighth playoff spot in the east but as the season progressed it became evident that it likely wasn’t going to happen.

So when a team is so far gone is there a real way to salvage the season? Does a 5-0 run to finish the season really matter if a team has been out of playoff contention for a month?

I say that once a team can no longer make the play-offs that they should switch into evaluation mode. If they have young roster players, give them more ice time. If they have some young talent languishing in the minors, bring them up and give them a chance to play a few games with the big club. The worst thing that can happen is you win a few games while giving your young players some NHL experience.

If the experiment doesn’t go so well and the team loses down the stretch, it brings them closer to that cov-eted first overall draft pick.

Slumming it in the NHL’s basement has helped teams like the Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks put the pieces in place to become Stanley Cup Champions.

Either way, the team is getting something out of it. When thinking of it in those terms, it’s pretty difficult

to understand why a team would stay the course that took them out of playoff contention in the first place.

BradDupuisNews Editor

Opinions

The playoff stretch drive

The big surprise in the provincial budget – the deci-sion to eliminate the employment tax credit for film mak-ers – looks to have caught everyone off guard. And, as a result, the industry here is making plans to pull up stakes while players in other provinces – notably Manitoba – are welcoming the departing Saskatchewan busi-nesses with open arms.

While the arguments for and against a continuation of the film tax credit are well documented, the decision represents a new direction for the Wall government.

This is the administration that presided over a huge win when Alberta began tinkering with oil royalties prompting the industry to divert its exploration budgets to Saskatchewan. The results of that are well known – it pushed us into bonanza territory.

In the wake of that decision Premier Wall repeatedly said business needs predictability and stable government action. The film decision – which came with no advance warning to the industry - suggests he`s dropped that stance and anyone in the resource sector will now have no choice but to second guess any promises from this government that the status quo is sacred.

* * *January was a quieter month for consumers in this

province.The most closely watched indicator of consumer

attitudes is the monthly retail sales report issued by StatsCan. And, after a year of moving upward at a signif-icant clip, January saw shoppers take a bit of a breather.

Sales in January were pretty much equal to December`s activity and, given that December is a big month for this particular sector, the performance is prob-ably fairly decent. And compared to a year ago, overall sales are up about six per cent.

Now, while those sound pretty good, compared to the rest of the country they were a bit anemic. Every other province had a stronger month-over-month performance and we were slightly better than the average on the annu-

alized figure.It is hard to assess just what

this means as one month does not make a trend and it may well have been expected, as it is not unusual to take a breather after turning in strong results through most of last year.

* * *One of the most potent driv-

ers of Saskatchewan`s economic strength these days is investment. Unprecedented volumes of capital are flowing into everything from technology to plants and equipment.

Without question the largest recipient of the fresh money is the resource sector, particularly oil and gas as well as potash.

Also included in the latest investment numbers, how-ever, are things such as schools and hospitals or housing. But these are dwarfed by the activity seen in the resource and manufacturing industries. This is all about the pri-vate sector, not government spending.

The latest figures on investment – released a few days ago – show Saskatchewan continues to ply uncharted waters. Last year more than $19 billion went into new long-term investments, surpassing the forecast for the year by roughly $2 billion. And this year is forecast to go even higher – to $20 billion.

In the last ten years capital spending by the public sector has risen to roughly $3.5 billion, comparable to the residential component. Private business investment, on the other hand, tripled from the $5 billion a year range to just under $15 billion.

PaulMartin

The Paul Martin Commentary

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ViewpointRural Sask. survives austerity budget

As far as “austerity” budgets go, Fi-nance Minister Ken Krawetz’s 2012-13 budget wasn’t as hard on rural Saskatch-ewan as some thought it might be.

In fact, there were even a couple gems set aside for some rural communities that may leave some thinking that this wasn’t an austerity budget at all.

Of course, the standard for “austerity” in rural Saskatchewan was set relatively high 19 and 20 years ago when NDP bud-gets designed to reduce the Progressive Conservative budgets cut deep into the heart of the province. Tax increases and cuts to highways spending and the GRIP program in 1992 followed by the closure of 52 rural hospitals in 1993 clearly left lasting scars on the rural landscape.

Last Wednesday’s Saskatchewan Par-ty budget infl icted no such deep wounds ... although a few of the cuts will certainly be felt.

The government’s “effi ciencies list” of program spending cuts included an in-crease on the cap of the seniors and chil-dren’s drug plan to $20 (from $15) that will pinch all provincial citizens. Simi-larly, the $25 additional costs (to $275) of the Senior Citizens’ Ambulance Assis-tance plan deductible might be more felt in rural Saskatchewan that has a higher

percentage of seniors.The elimination of Enterprise Regions

at a $4-million saving will also takes a bigger toll on rural people that benefi ted from the provincial government’s help in economic develop-ment.

Closures of two northern fi eld offi c-es in Cumberland House and Pelican Narrows plus a third in Moosomin (where conserva-tion offi ce staff will be consolidated in Melville) also stings.

But a lot of rural communities also received a lot of direct benefi ts in this budget.

For starters, $5.5 million for the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) pro-gram suggests rural people are on their way to better emergency care. Also, there was $42.7 million to begin construction of seven previously announced long-term care facilities in Biggar, Kelvington, Kipling, Kerrobert, Maple Creek, Mead-ow Lake and Prince Albert as well as third-party grants for six additional LTC facilities currently being built in Radville,

Redvers, Rosetown, Shellbrook, Tisdale and Watrous.

There was $38.6 million for construc-tion of six new schools in Warman, Swift Current, Saskatoon, White City and Lloy-

dminster, $4 mil-lion in planning funding for three new schools in Hudson Bay, Lead-er and Martens-ville. Meanwhile, schools in Lloyd-minster, Lumsden, White City, Prince Albert, Regina,

Humboldt, Regina, Saskatoon, Hillmond and Weyburn will all see money for major renovations out of a $50.1-million fund.

Rural communities also faired pretty well in highways spending, notwithstand-ing a near $18-million drop in the depart-ment’s overall budget to $426 million from what was spent last year. The min-istry will be moving forward on Estevan’s bypass, completion of Yorkton’s trucking route, the St. Louis Bridge and comple-tion of Hwy 11 twinning. Also, $70.5 mil-lion has been set aside for upgrades un-der the rural highway strategy and there’s a $13-million increase in the bridge and

culvert strategy (to $59.2 million) that will see 29 bridges replaced. The govern-ment also committed $23.5 million to its Municipal Roads for the Economy Pro-gram.

Communities will be hit with the pre-viously announced eight-per-cent increase in policing costs, but Meadow Lake will see $700,00 to address policing issues in that city.

In agriculture, there will be $321.4 mil-lion to fund Crop Insurance and AgriSta-bility plus $5.3 million for the Benefi cial Management Practices Program, $3.5 million for intensive Livestock Opera-tions Environment Program, $2 million for wheat geonomic research, $790,000 for Farm Business Development Initia-tives for Young Farmers, $210,000 for grain bag recycling, $1 million for rat control and $500,000 for beaver control.

Finally, the Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program of 2011 will be con-tinued into 2012 with $5 million.

Sure, it’s our dollars and resource royalties paying for this, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too excited about the gov-ernment spending our own money.

But with all the pre-budget talk of aus-terity, cuts to rural Saskatchewan were not as deep as we’ve seen in the past.

Murray Mandryk

Shellbrook Chronicle Polling Question:

Should a second bridge for Prince Albert be an immediate

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Dear Editor,“Stephen Harper’s for-

mer chief of staff now back in the private sector, told CTV’s Question Period that “suppression of vote is a despicable, reprehensible practice and everybody ought to condemn it.”

(1) “He insisted that internal measures were in place in the Conservative campaign to ensure that his offi cials did not engage in dirty tricks.”

(2) Unfortunately as more information comes to light from those engaged in calling

(3) and fl ow of monies through local campaigns to

call centres (4) an orchestrated sup-

pression of votes, rather than the action of an over-ly partisan individual, is emerging.

It is to be hoped Ste-phen Harper will act against this threat to the in-tegrity of our system of se-lecting our rulers as Prime Minister of Canada not as Leader of a political party whose actions are being questioned.

It is imperative what-ever resources needed are made available, to deter-mine with precision, what occurred that led to thou-sands of voters being mis-

directed on Election Day 2011 and who were in-volved to enable the courts to “throw the book at who-ever is behind calls to de-liberately mislead voters in the 2011 election.”

It is imperative to make these actions a one time scandal that do not spread into our future.

Yours truly,Joe HueglinNiagara Falls. Ontario

Editor:Are the following

events coincidental or were events pre planned?

Is there even a remote chance that an illuminati was and is involved?

The crows nest rail agreement was dismantled -- an agreement equiva-lent to a law or a treaty. Extremely low resistance by those affected was dis-played as broken promises etc. of this magnitude were not common yet.

The destruction of the

Farmers Union was easily accomplished as by now neighbours didn’t trust as well as becoming envi-ous of success. A bit more interest in places but lack of leadership.

Till today most people don’t know how it was that a grain company, once a people owned utility, was dismantled and disap-peared before the partici-pants and supporters eyes.

Anyone follow through on the shares fiasco? Still not over.

And Viterra was born from a bankrupt company to the biggest grain com-pany in Canada. Was the C.W.B. still in the way of private and corporate entrepreneurs? As long as the Federal Government had a say and control it was not a comfortable situ-ation for offshore to off er take over bids. Now with the Government control out of the way the sky is the limit. Open for busi-ness. Is a world monopoly a possibility?

Is it humanly possible that the people concerned were unaware of the pos-sibilities. If they were then they are not fit to govern.

Mr. Harper please organize a Canadian sale while the duped Canadian public still have something to be proud of. Beautiful comfortable jails are not our preference.

United we stand -- divided we fall.

Oops, too late.Emmanel OystreckYorkton.

Canadian buyer needs to be found for Viterra

Govt needs to act to stop scandal from spreading

Your Two CentsYour Two Cents

The Shellbrook Seniors Curling Club wrapped up the 2011-12 season with their annual Closed Bonspiel March 21.

The team of Larry Ferster, Jim McComas, Wayne Pringle and Van Coates edged the rink of Wilbur Grayston, Edith Turner, Pat Gunn and Ray Danger by a score of 8-6 to with the Club Championship.

In the B Event it was Murray Cameron, Orville Agrey, Marrion Miller and Bob Dowes over the team of Arnold Gunderson, Amund Otterson, Maurice Tanchuk and John Hein to win the Ross Ritchie Trophy.

In the C Event, the team of Wilf Lindenback, Pius Senger, Terry Macsymic and Kurt Hillenbrand defeated Blake Jones, Sylvia Savage, Edna Cooper and Ken Jensen to win the Bill Stephens Trophy.

The club also presented Stella Jones with a life membership to the club which is bestowed upon members as they turn 80 years old.

Through the year the

club holds monthly curl-ing draws with randomly chosen teams squaring off. The following are the monthly winners from 2010-11:

November: Wilbur Grayston, George Tomporowski, Terry Macsymic and Maurice Tanchuk.

December: Joop van Melle, Ethel Williamson, Leo Moore and Pius Senger.

January: Arnold Gunderson, Jerry Clark, Pat Gunn and Ray Danger.

February Wilbur Grayston, Jim McComas, Wayne Pringle and Van Coates.

March: The team of Ron Helm, Jerry Clark, Edith Turner and Ray Danger tied the team of Murray Cameron, Jim McComas, Edna Cooper and Pius Senger.

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Senior’s wrap up season with Closed Bonspiel

Club president Eileen Chappell presents the Club Championship trophy to Larry Ferster, Jim McComas, Wayne Pringle and Van Coates.

Club president Eileen Chappell presents the Ross Ritchie Trophy to B Event winners Murray Cameron, Orville Agrey, Marrion Miller and Bob Dows.

Club president Eileen Chappell presents the Bill Stephens Trophy to C Event winners Wilf Lin-denback, Pius Senger, Terry Macsymic and Kurt Hillenbrand.

Club president Eileen Chappell presents Stella Jones with the life member plaque.

CURLING IN COSTUME -- A costumed Gord Goudal calls the shot at Adam Brad looks on at the Shellbrook Curling Club’s annual Icemaker’s Spiel. The fun spiel, featuring three end games, signals the end of the curling season.

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Free trade has become the key focus of for-eign trade policy in both Canada, and around the world for several years in Canada, starting in earnest with the initial free trade deal inked with the United States.

In general terms that deal and the follow-up North American Free Trade Agreement, have been a positive from the Cana-dian perspective, although if anyone assumes trade is now completely free fl ow-ing they are wrong.

Over the years since NAFTA Canadian sectors including lumber, pork, and the Canadian Wheat Board have spent consid-

erable time in court, and spent a lot of money in the process, ensuring trade ac-cess.

There is also the reality that total trade access be-tween two countries is not likely to be something we should aspire to.

There are differences in standards and regula-tions to consider. It is one thing to have a free fl ow of goods, but one does not want to reduce the safety level consumers are ac-customed to with existing Canadian laws.

At the same time there are sectors a country might wish to protect.

In Canada, when it comes to agriculture, there

has been a desire to protect this country’s supply-man-aged sectors, dairy, poultry and eggs, and with some solid reasoning.

On the one-hand the system comes as close to assuring farmers a return based on cost-of-produc-tion as has been achieved. In agriculture where re-

turns ebb and fl ow all too regularly, often leaving farmers losing money, the stability of supply manage-ment is a positive.

Consumers should also feel a level of confi dence in sectors which rely great-ly on freshness, and are key elements of a balanced diet, are maintained here in

Canada. The idea of fresh milk at the grocery store starting out from a cow in California, or Mexico, seems to run counter to the idea of fresh.

However, as Canada looks to broaden free trade access, supply manage-ment always seems the chip other countries want this country to sacrifi ce.

Canada is now consid-ering entering into a Trans-Pacifi c Partnership Asian negotiation.

Greater access to Asian markets would generally be a good thing, especially as the Pacifi c Rim appears the likely economic driv-ing hotbed in the years ahead.

But the United States and New Zealand, already in the loop, have said they want Canada to negotiate less protection for supply-managed sectors, a door once opened is likely to see the system eroded away over time.

Greater trade access is good for Canada as a country with the ability to far out-produce domestic needs in agriculture, and been mineral and resource rich, so we need to be at the table.

The question though will always remain how much we will give up to sign a deal.

AgricultureWhat will Canada give up for foreign trade?

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On Agriculture

By Leroy Bader, PAgFarm Business

Management SpecialistA key area of farm

management is keeping track and knowing your cost of production. That cost should include both your variable, or cash costs, and an allocation of fixed or overhead costs. An accurate calculation of your cost per bushel or per animal will serve as a very useful guide to enterprise decisions such as crop rotations and live-stock production. It is also a critical step in your abil-ity to set price targets for marketing. To assist you in

this process, the Ministry of Agriculture has created the following tools:

Crop Planning Guide:The Crop Planning

Guide contains cost esti-mates of crop production for each of the soil zones as well as estimates for specialty crops.

The guide contains an estimate of variable and fixed expenses for an aver-age sized farm in each of the soil zones. The farm size used for the black soil zone, for 2011, was 1,169 acres. This is based on the 2006 census of agriculture data. The crop prices used are farm gate price esti-

mates based on informa-tion available in December of 2011. Crop yields are increased by 20% above the long term area aver-ages from Saskatchewan Crop Insurance.

It is important to real-ize that the figures used are estimated costs based on recommended produc-tion practices for the soil zone. To make the best use of this guide it is impor-tant to use the worksheet supplied with the publica-tion and enter in your own costs, yields and commod-ity price estimates. This worksheet is also available as an online calculator.

On-Line Calculators:In addition to the

published Crop Planning Guide and on-line calcula-tor, there are also a number of other on-line calculators available on the Ministry website. The planners are in excel spreadsheets and may be useful tools in determining your individ-ual cost of production. To find these calculators go to the Ministry of Agriculture website at www.agricul-ture.gov.sk.ca and scroll to the very bottom of the page.

Some of the other cal-culators found here, that may be useful in determin-

ing your cost of produc-tion, include:

- Beef Cow-calf plan

- Cattle feeding break even calculator

- Feedlot plannerKnowing your break-

even yields and prices won’t guarantee a farm profit but it does keep you on target when used

in decision making and can greatly improve your chances of success.

For more informa-tion on this or other farm management topics, con-tact your Regional Farm Business Management Specialist at 878-8841 or the Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377.

What is your cost of commodity production?

The Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) welcomes a world leading grain com-pany like Glencore to the Canadian marketplace. “It is clear they bring a wealth of expertise and connec-tions to sell Canadian grain around the world,” says Stephen Vandervalk, Presi-dent of the Grain Growers of Canada. “We are very pleased with their com-mitment to continue work-ing with leading farm or-ganisations like the Grain Growers.”

Glencore is one of the world’s leading integrated producers and marketers of commodities, headquar-tered in Baar, Switzerland, and listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. For Cana-dian farmers it will mean growth in new markets

and wider market access through Glencore’s global distribution channels.

Richard Phillips, Exec-utive Director of the Grain Growers of Canada, spoke directly with Chris Ma-honey, Director of Agri-cultural Products of Glen-core earlier today, “We were very pleased with the enthusiasm and posi-tive attitude they are show-ing wanting to take part in the Canadian agriculture industry,” says Phillips. We received reassurance that Canadian agriculture would be a top priority for the company and we look forward to doing business with them,”

Richardson Interna-tional also met with the Grain Growers this morn-ing. “In our meeting with Curt Vossen, President of

Richardson International we were pleased to hear their commitment to in-crease their presence in Canadian Marketplace. Richardson is a good example of a Canadian owned company that sees a bright future in Canadian farming and value-added processing.”

The Richardson pur-chase means Glencore and Richardson will each have about 1/3 of western Canada’s grain handling capacity, whereas current-ly Viterra has 45 per cent and Richardson has 25 per cent.

After speaking directly to senior management of Agrium today, Vander-valk commented, “While Agrium is a well respected Canadian company, we are told they will now have 30

per cent of farm input busi-ness.

In areas of western Canada where farmers feel there will be less competi-tion, we will encourage the competition bureau to have a look and make appropri-ate recommendations.”

“At end of the day, what farmers want is com-petitive pricing to buy our inputs and competi-tive bids when we sell our grain,” concludes Vander-valk.

Representing tens of thousands of success-ful wheat, durum, barley, canola, oat, corn, pea, len-til, rye and triticale farm-ers, the Grain Growers of Canada is well known as the national voice of Cana-dian grain farmers. Please visit www.graingrowers.ca .

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JUNIOR CURLING PROGRAM -- The Shellbrook Curling Club launched a junior program this curling season. Through the year, participants learned the basics of the game and worked on their skills Wednesday afternoons. Pictured here are: Coaches Brad Ledding, Richard Bell and Nathan Dzialo. Middle Zach Bell, Gavin Fisher, Brennan Stochmanski, Mitchell Muller, Ethan Bell, Breck Thiel, Kaitlyn Stene, Jessie Boon, Mya Boettcher and Alexis Banda. Front, Carson Ledding, Lance Paton, Shayla Paton, Mason Mamchur, Deklen Poppel and Aidan McKibben-Venn.

The Shellbrook Elks captured their ninth Fort Carlton Hockey League title in eleven years but will have to wait a week for a second chance at the Provincial A Championship.

The Elks scored the go ahead goal against the Bruno T-Birds with just 37 seconds left in the game for a three game sweep in the FCHL finals. However, they came out on the wrong side of a one goal game Saturday night which will see them make a second trip south for all the marbles as they face the Bienfait Coalers in Estevan. Saturday March 31.

Elks 2 Bienfait 3The Bienfait Coalers

rebounded from a close loss at home to even their Provincial A final series with the Shellbrook Elks in Shellbrook Saturday night. Jackson Walliser played a solid game for the Coalers turning away 38 of 40 shots while the team in front of him managed to capitalize on the relatively few scoring chances they received.

The Elks jumped out in front early in the first with a goal from Aki Seitsonen but couldn’t build any more momentum through the period despite having three powerplay opportu-nities.

The Coalers tied the game midway through the second period on a goal from Chris Hammett but neither team would score

another until the third frame.

Bienfait broke the tie three minutes into the third period on a powerplay goal from Daylan Wheeler but Bret Peppler of the Elks replied three minutes later to restore the tie game.

Steve Kaip scored the winner for the Coalers with 3:46 left in the third.

The Elks were 0-3 on the powerplay while the Coalers went 1-3 with the man advantage.

Game three takes place in Estevan Saturday March 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Elks 7 Bruno 6After handily winning

the first two games of their FCHL Final series, the Shellbrook Elks did not have an easy game 3.

The Elks jumped out to a two goal lead early in the first period as Korey Diehl and Ryan Gareau both scored in the first three minutes of the game.

Luke Strueby cut the lead in half with a goal with six minutes left in the first period.

The Elks further pad-ded their lead in the sec-ond with another pair of quick goals, this time from Aki Seitsonen and Mason Wallin. However, the T-Birds managed to work themselves back into the game despite being out-shot 12-8 in the second period.

A goal from Dan Erlandson made the score 4-2 but Chris Walter regained the three goal lead for the Elks as he

scored a minute later. Then the T-Birds went on a run of four unanswered goals through the second that put them in the drivers seat. Brayden Klimosko scored a pair two minutes apart to bring the T-Birds within a goal. The Birds tied the game with five minutes left in the period with Strueby’s second of the night and Brett Novak scored the go ahead goal with 1:27 left in the period.

Chris Thompson tied the game five min-utes into the third. Both teams played solid defence

through the third limiting shots to 5-3 in favour of the Elks.

With 37 seconds left on the clock, Gareau scored the series clinch-ing goal, his second of the night. The Elks went 1- 8 on the powerplay while the T-Birds went 2 - 7 with the man advantage.

Elks 9 Bruno 1Mark Walter and Ryan

Gareau each had a pair of goals to power the short handed Shellbrook Elks past the Bruno T-Birds in game two of their Fort Carlton Hockey League final matchup.

Shellbrook’s Josh Peterson scored the game’s first goal 3:43 into the first followed by a goal Bruno’s Lee Huber 3:30 later. Walter scored his first of the game with 4:21 left in the first to regain the one goal lead for the Elks.

Late in the first, the Elks lost the services of defenceman Matt Bergen to a game misconduct for checking from behind which shortened their bench further. The Elks dressed 14 skaters to Bruno’s 18.

The Elks continued to pad their lead with a sec-

ond goal from Walter, on the powerplay, a minute into the second. Gareau and Curtis Olsen also scored in the second to give the Elks a 5-1 lead going into the third period.

Ryan Robin, Korey Diehl (short handed), Gareau (powerplay) and Aki Seitsonen each scored in the third to bury any hopes of a Bruno come-back.

Both teams played a grittier game than in game one with a total of 23 infractions called with Shellbrook receiving 13 of those.

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Elks win league, play Prov A fi nal Saturday

Craig Hayden, Captain Hugh Hamilton, Chris Walter, Owen Walter, Matt Bergen, Aki Seitsonen, Korey Diehl, Curtis Olsen, Nathaniel Martin, Joel Belair, Ryan Robin\ and Brock Fitch. Middle Mark Walter and Ryan Gareau, Front Chris Thompson, Mason Wallin, Josh Peterson and Matt Swaby. Goaltender David Clements.

Regular Season ChampsPrairie Outlaws

Least Penalized team Prairie Outlaws

Top ScorerBrett Peppler - Prairie Outlaws

Best Goals Against AverageKelly Guard/David Clements - Shellbrook Elks

Most Valuable PlayerRobin Giesbrecht - Prairie Outlaws

Most Valuable Defenceman Blair Toms - Rosthern Wheat Kings Most Gentlemanly PlayerChris Hahn - Prairie Outlaws

Rookie of the YearJornan Menke - Prairie Outlaws Coach of the YearColin Aebig - Rosthern Wheat Kings

Playoff ChampsShellbrook Elks

1ST ALL-STAR TEAMGoalKelly Guard - Shellbrook ElksDefenceHugh Hamilton - Shellbrook ElksBrett Dickie - Bruno T-BirdsForwards Bret Peppler - Prairie OutlawsChris Hahn - Prairie OutlawsBrett Novak - Bruno T-Birds

2ND ALL-STAR TEAMGoalRobin Giesbrecht - Prairie OutlawsDefence Drew McDwemott - Prairie OutlawsBlair Toms - Rosthern Wheat KingsForwardsJordan Menke - Prairie OutlawsCory Perkins - Warman Wild CatsBrock Harrison - Rosthern Wheat Kings

FCHL League Awards

FUNDS FOR CANWOOD REGIONAL PARK -- Terry Hamborg, left, and Karen Kvinlaug, right, accept a cheque on behalf of the Canwood Regional Park from Dianne Ethier and Scotiabank Branch Manager Connie Bahnuick, matching funds raised at the annual Canwood Supper and Silent Auction fund raising event March 10. Funds raised will be used to continue im-provements at the park.

The Shellbrook Skating Club took one last opportu-nity to show off their skills for the year as they hosted their annual ice show -- “We are the World.”

The annual year end display saw skaters, rang-ing from learn to skate CanSkate programs to the StarSkate figure skat-ing programs, perform a series of routines themed after countries around the world.

This year, the club took some giant steps for-ward as they hosted the Skate Canada Region 12

Competition for the first time in 21 years.

“It was a great opportu-nity for us to showcase out skaters within the region,” said Harms.

Though one of their StarSkaters, Alanna Forbes, is graduating out of the program, Harms said that a group of young-er skaters are moving up.

“It is exciting to see the development of the skaters this year. We have five young skaters moving into the StarSkate stream. That’s huge for us,” said Harms.

“It shows that there is interest in the sport of skating in Shellbrook.”

The club also rec-ognized long time vol-unteer Ev Hollowell as she has been nominated for the Skate Canada Saskatchewan Regional Volunteer Recognition Award, which will be awarded at the Annual General Meeting in Regina April 28.

Hollowell began vol-unteering as a judge in Saskatchewan in 1986 and has been involved with the Shellbrook club for more

than 30 years. The club executive

also grew this year with the addition of three new

members -- effectively doubling its size.

A powerskating pro-gram was also offered for

the first time this year with 25 skaters taking part in a 10 week program.

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Bahamas Alanna Forbes, Emilia Gillies and Hailey Harms.

Ireland Erika Stene, Emmalynn LaMotte, Mya Cyr, Kacy Cambell and Trinity Fusick.

Italy Ethan Klaassen, Aiden Tait, Danielle Cadrain, Devin Cadrain, Abby Ledding, Ava Ledding and Jake Boettcher.

Mexico Rayne Cyr, Brooke Cadrain, Ashlyn Schmitz, Tegan Naumann and Breanne Cadrain.

Switzerland Jade Keyowski, Beau Ahenakew, Jessica Sharron, Leah Naumann, Courtney Lens, Selah Robillard. Front Charlise Smith-Hayden, Jack Sharron and Davi Clarke.

USA Abbie Lens, Amelie Stephan, Marcail Philp, Peyton Ahenakew, Emmersyn Nahorniak. Front Reese Galloway, Matt Muller, Cole Fisher, Mason Klein and Brooklynn Klaassen.

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My involvement with the Saskatchewan Seniors started some 15 years ago when I started to attend meetings of my local Seniors center. That put me at about the age of 65 and I well remember the looks that my wife and I received when we first entered to attend our very first meeting. Looks that said who are you?, why are you here?, what do you want?. Oh yes, the greeting was not that warm

and friendly, still we took out memberships, still get-ting those strange looks but however my wife and I persisted and we became accepted as genu-ine seniors. The agenda at most of the meetings was not earth shaking but it did include selecting mem-bers to attend district and region meetings, decid-ing what prizes were to be given at the card games and who was going to clean the kitchen up after

the meeting. It was differ-ent and it was interesting.

Not too long later I was elected to the board of directors and served there for a few years before tak-ing over the presidency and it was then I learned just how stubborn seniors could be. If there was any mention at all of change to the normal routine it was quickly voted down and it required a great deal of tact and persistence to go ahead with new programs. Status

Quo was good enough and it nearly always prevailed. There are times when I am visiting senior centers across the province I see some of that same feel-ings. Although we need, as an association, if we are to survive, younger people to come forward, there is that reluctance to accept them and make them feel welcome.

When visiting senior centers in various parts of the province in my 70’s as a new Vice President of this Association I would always be asked the num-ber one question. How can we increase our mem-bership?, and the answer always was, allow younger people to become mem-bers. Then that answer brought up another great debate on how old did you have to be to be a senior. That debate went around and around every where I went. There still isn’t an answer to it but the advice given at that time which would be the same advice now, is to allow people to come into your center and if they like what they see then let them become a member no matter what age they are. We need the younger members along with their new and fresh approaches to being in their “golden age”.

Seniors in this prov-ince are really no different than seniors in any other province in that we hold the history of the village, town or city that we live in deep within our minds and hearts. We are a living archive and we are unique in that regards. It’s what we do as seniors as a matter of course, we remember, and we love to recall events and dates and times that have taken place not only in our own individual past but also the in the past of our parents and our grand-parent and even our great grand parents. We may not remember what we had for lunch on Tuesday of last

week but we do remember all that other good stuff. This particular fact was never so clear to me as when I visited with and talked to seniors all across the province, I felt at times that those seniors were not only giving me a view of their lives but also a view of Saskatchewan and indeed of Canada.

We as a group are smart and we probably have wisdom to spare, though probably that’s not the way a large number of the population regard us. They see us, generally speaking, as just being old and slow, somewhat deaf and not able to see clearly, but that’s only the physical side of us. They fail abso-lutely in getting to know what’s in that wonderful mind of ours. O the stories we could tell, if only some one would ask us.

We may not know the difference between an I pod and an I pad, and what to do with flash drives and USB ports but that does not make us stu-pid. What it does is show that we are just not E tech minded or that we even care about such things. We have a phone and we have a TV and we have come to accept all the worries and troubles that those two items can bring, so how much more worry and trouble does the regular

senior need or want. We know that we do have a problem with change but at the same time we do know what makes the world go around, and that’s love and kindness and we try our best to give that out in abundance.

April and May are the times when the districts and the regions are hav-ing their meetings so if you need or want me to be there now is the time to issue the invitation

Just heard the news of the 2012 budget in regards to seniors, more frustration for us.

Hopefully the spring like weather we are expe-riencing will make us want to get out more and enjoy life a little more. In the midst of sharing all your wisdom do try and remem-ber to remain active and stay healthy.

Len Fallows. President SSAI.

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Notice is hereby given that the Assessment Roll of the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 for the year 2012 has been prepared and is open to inspection at the offi ce of the Assessor from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday from March 30, 2012 to April 30, 2012. A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of The Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required. Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her as-sessment is required to fi le his or her notice of appeal with the Assessor, R.M. of Leask, Box 190, Leask, SK S0J 1M0 by the 30th day of April, 2012. Dated at Leask, Saskatchewan, this 30th day of March, 2012. Sheri McHanson BuddAssessor

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The Regular Meeting of the Council of the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 was held in the Leask Municipal Office on Thursday, December 15, 2011.

The following are the highlights of that meeting:

Present were Reeve Len Cantin, Administrator Sheri McHanson Budd and the following Council mem-bers: Steve Nelson (Div 1), Real Diehl (Div 2), Marcie Kreese (Div 3), Myles Robin (Div 4), Robert Girod (Div 5), Victor Unyi (Div 6).

That Council Supervision and Indemnity Vouchers be accepted Council and approved as circulated.

That Bylaw No. 4/2011 be read a and third time and finally adopted.

That Bylaw No 6/2011 being a bylaw to enter into an agreement respecting the provision of fire protection services be read a first time.

That Bylaw No. 6/2011 be read a second time-and third time and finally adopted.

Councillor Robin left the Council Chambers

That Bylaw No. 8/2011 be read a second time and third time and finally adopted.

Councillor Robin returned to Council Chambers

That the RM pur-chase a dozer blade from Arrow West Equipment for $5000.00 and that Justin travel to Edmonton to eval-uate the blade and pick it up.

Councillor Robin declared a pecuniary interest and left Council Chambers

That the RM contract tree removal services to clear another .7km on each side of South Corral Road starting at an area that has similar sized wood and brush density. And that we hire Kyle Robin to use chainsaws to remove trees 6”and larger in diam-eter and then hiring Prairie Dawg to mulch the remain-ing brush at a cost of not more than $1800.00.

Councillor Robin returned.

That Council accept the following reports as circu-lated and that they Reports be filed accordingly.

Administrator’s Report, Bylaw Enforcement Report, Reeve’s Report – Tree Removal, Joint Fire Committee Meeting, Green Fund Committee Meeting, Safety Committee Meeting and Job Description Meeting.

That Council appoint Reeve Cantin to the Green Fund Committee.

That the RM consult SARM legal council to reg-

ister caveats on the lands we have gravel interests in as per the provisions in our gravel agreements.

That the RM agree to contract Shellbrook Crushing to crush 10,000 cubic yards at Hordiuk’s pit by June 1, 2012 and that we check if they are interested in crushing at Bruner’s pit if there may be less that 5,000 cubic yards to crush.

That Council send a let-ter to Shellbrook Crushing that if they are in agree-ment we will estimate the volume of crushed gravel at the Bruner pit and Crown Hill pit and make payment based on said estimate by December 31, 2011 and that the actual vol-ume be measured as it is placed on the road whereby a payment for the differ-ence will be made by the R.M. of Leask if the gravel has been underestimated or a credit will be issued by Shellbrook Crushing to the R.M. of Leask if the gravel has been overestimated.

That we accept the gravel agreement from Danny and Kathy Ksyniuk for January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014 at $1.50 per cubic yard.

That Council accept the gravel agreement from Lloyd Bruner for Gravel January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014 at $1.25 per cubic yard.

That the RM refer the gravel agreement from Crown Hill to SARM Legal counsel for advise-ment, with the amendments made during our gravel meeting and that we change the gravel standard to Type 106 as recommended by the Department of Highways.

That the following vacations carry over be approved:

That all of coun-cil and the administra-tor be approved to attend the Parkland Association of Rural Municipalities Annual Meeting on January Annual 25, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in Spiritwood.

That Council cancel our Regular Meeting of December 28, 2011.

The council of the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 has consented to pro-posal of Duncan’s Beach to become an organized hamlet. The application and additional applica-tion materials received November 28, 2011, along with the following council consideration will be for-warded to the Ministry.

Services provided in the proposed organized hamlet should be consistent with services provided to other ratepayers. If utilities such as sewage (septic clean out, lagoon, etc.), water distri-bution and garbage pick up will be provided they

should be revenue neutral and meet all requirements and obtain all permits from the appropriate regulatory bodies

That Council accept council remuneration rates for 2012 as follows: $20.00 hourly rate for meetings and supervision, $ 0.55 per kilometer for mileage for municipal business, $15.00 per meal for council meet-ings and $45.00 per diem.

That Councillor Kreese and Reeve Cantin be appointed to the Policy Manual Development Committee.

That Council con-tact the SARM Planning Consultants to attend our OCP Zoning r e g u l a r meeting in January.

That the request for hos-pital tax abatement on Lot 5, Block 8, Plan 94B03105 W3 Pelican Cove be denied as there is a residential improvement on the prop-erty.

That the RM pay the third and season final prog-ress estimate for the BCF project 207 as recommend-ed by the Engineer on the conditions of a signed stat-utory declaration and WCB clearance being received from the contractor.

That the RM contact Sasktel to determine what their plans are to restore the road allowance conditions that were damaged when the lines were reploughed along Grid 783 and the res-toration must be approved by our engineer. And that we contact SARM legal counsel to advise us on a claim Damage a g a i n s t Sasktel if necessary.

That the administrator work with outside staff to acquire barrels to mark the damaged areas along Grid 783 at intervals as advised by the engineer.

Councillor Robin left the room.

That the RM abate residential improvement taxes on L6 B3 78B17791 W3 Pelican Cove in the amounts of $253.89 munic-ipal taxes, $165.09 school division taxes and $112.50 hospital levy, due to the demolition of the cabin on the property in March.

Councillor Robin returned.

That Council write off the following outstanding accounts receivable Write-off invoices: Sasktel Snow Removal $ 2 5 . 0 0 invoice was paid; Brian & Candise Ashby T r a i l e r License Fees $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 empty site; Sandra Evans, Trailer License Fees $200.00 billed in error; Stephen & Linda Britton Mowing , $47.25 was added to taxes at year end.

That Council send a letter to Neil DeGirolamo that for municipal roads not

normally graveled council policy is that when gravel is applied, it is cost shared with the landowner requesting the gravel. And that council denies the request for payment for the brush clearing on the right of way as it was not autho-rized by council.

That we contact the landowners of NE 33-48-07 W3 that there will not be any road maintenance on the private road pro-viding access to the North Emerald Lake Subdivision without snow removal and custom work deposit and a signed snow removal/cus-tom work agreement. And that we invite them to our next meeting to discuss a road easement agreement.

That the items listed on our current insurance pol-icy for the fire department be removed and insured under the same policy as the fire hall Equipment and other fire department equipment.

March 30, 2012 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 13

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BLAINE LAKE: Wapiti Library: Books, DVDs, Internet, Study/Meeting Space, Proctor Service. *New Hours*: Tuesday 1-5, Wednesday & Friday 1-5, Thursday 5-8. Weekly Programming: After School Club (Crafts, Stories, Homework Help) Thursday 2:15-5:15, Craft n’ Chat for Adults Thursday 6-8, Drop In Computer Help Friday 2-4. 306-497-3130.CANWOOD: Branch of Wapiti Regional Library Hours: Tues. and Fri., 1 - 5 p.m. Internet services available at the library.DEBDEN: Wapiti Library hours: Monday 3 pm - 7 pm. Afterschool Program 3:30 - 5:00. Wednesday 11 am - 4 pm. Librarian: Aline HannonLEASK: Wapiti Library Hours: Tues. & Fri.: 1 - 5:30 pm & Sat., 1:00 - 5:00 pm.MARCELIN: Wapiti Library is open Tues. 11 - 4 pm; Thur. 3 - 8 pm. For information on all your library needs, please contact 306-226-2110.SHELLBROOK: Shellbrook Branch of the Wapiti Library located at 105 Railway Ave., West (Provincial building). Library Hours: Mon., 2 - 6:00 pm; Tues., 2 - 8 pm; Wed. 2 - 8 pm; Thur., 2 - 6:00 pm; Fri., 10 - 4 pm. Children’s Story Time: Fri. 10:30 am (Oct. - May). Ph. 747-3419.SHELLBROOK: Shellbrook & District Ministerial Association presents 2012 Lenten Lunch Series, “They Heard Him Gladly”. Fri., April 6 - Good Friday Ecu-menical Worship. St. John’s Lutheran Church at 7:30 p.m. Pastor John Slemming - guest speaker. Topic. “A Friday They Call Good” - Hebrews 10: 16-25. Free Will Offering to be collected to further the work of the Shellbrook Ministerial.SHELLBROOK: Hidden Hills of Shellbrook Golf Course Spring Fling, CASH ELIMINATION DRAW & DANCE, Featuring REWIND (70’s music), Music sponsored by The Shellbrook Co-op, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, Shellbrook Com-munity Hall, Cocktails 8 p.m. ~ Dance 9 p.m. ~ Midnight Lunch ~ No Minors - Elimination Draw - 1st & 50th Number Drawn - Wins $100; 3rd Last Number Drawn - Wins $250; 2nd Last Number Drawn - Wins $500; Last Number Drawn - Wins $1000. For tickets contact: Larry Ritchie 747-1010 (Home) 714-7714 (Cell); Sally Gunder-son 747-2587 (Home); Ron Cripps 747-3326 (Home. Dance tickets available at the door.SHELLBROOK: Reloading class on Sat., March 31, 10:30 a.m. at the Wildlife Federation Club House. Cost $20 - Members; $25 - Non Members. To register call: 747-2783SHELLBROOK: SMSA- 2012 Ball season: Registration will be on Tuesday, April 3rd from 5:30 – 7:30 at the skating rink. Registration fee plus a post dated uniform/Sports Day cheque will be required. If unable to make registration night, forms available from the town website on April 2nd and can be mailed to Box 1114, Shellbrook S0J 2E0. Registration will be accepted until April 20th.

PRAIRIE SPIRIT SCHOOL DIVISION NO.206Prairie Spirit School Division

invites applications for Bus Drivers

Please visit our website at www.spiritsd.ca for more details.

SMSA 2012 Ball Season Registration Tues. April 3rd ~ 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Shellbrook Skating Rink. Registration fee plus post dated uniform/Sport day cheque required. If unable to make reg-istration night, forms available from the town

website on April 2nd and can be mailed to: Box 1114, Shellbrook S0J 2E0.

Registration will be accepted until April 20th

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ARCHIBALD - Walter ‘Ashton’ June 22, 1916 - March 22, 2012.

With heavy hearts the family announces the passing of Ash, beloved husband, father, grand-father, great grandfather, great great grandfather and friend at Big River.

Survived by wife Hel-en, his children Florence Young, Grace (Joe) Harty, Lorne (Florence), Doug (Martha), Sally Polichuk, Sandra (Joe) Schmidt, Neil (Linda), Beth (Uwe)Bartsch. 25 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren, 3 great, great grandchildren.

He was predeceased by his fi rst wife and mother of his children Dorothy Ma-rie (Lane); parents Walter Willis and Florence Rachel Archibald; sisters Flor-ence, Irene and Gladys, brothers Norman and Roy, granddaughter Sheri-Lynn; sons-in-law Archie Young and Terry Polichuk.

Cremation has taken place and a memorial ser-vice will be held at a later date.

D E L A R O N D E , VERNON ‘VERN’ LLEWELLYN - It is with profound sadness and the deepest of grief that we announce the passing of Vernon ‘Vern’ Llewellyn Delaronde of Prince Albert

in the Palliative Care Unit at the Victoria Hospital on Monday, March 19, 2012. Vern was born in Mont Nebo, Sask on October 6th, 1924 to parents, Fred & Clara Delaronde on the farm home. At a very young age he rode the box cars to British Columbia and worked at any job he could fi nd as was par in the war days. He worked in the Peat Moss Factory in Burnaby before relo-cating to Claresholm, Al-berta where he worked for a rancher. He returned to Saskatchewan and worked in various areas before gaining employment at Central Motors in Prince Albert. It was here he met his wife, Ruth and they were married in 1949 be-fore returning to the family farm in Mont Nebo. They later moved to Saskatoon where he worked at Fire-stone Inc. It was there he entered the Reserve 406 Squadron, formerly the City of Saskatoon Squad-ron now stationed at the Canadian Forces Base Shearwater. It was here he enjoyed the fl ying as-pect while working as an Aero Engine Technician. Once again he returned to his love of farming before fi nally relocating to Prince Albert where he worked at Mann Motors, Gus’s and Northland Trucks. He excelled as a mechanic, fi xing anything even if wasn’t broken. His daugh-ter claims he could fi x any-thing from a broken ear-ring to a broken heart and all the biggies in between.

Vern loved sports of all kinds, playing softball, golfi ng, fi shing and hunt-ing. At the age of 50, he took up fl ying as a hobby and enjoyed many years soaring the wide open spaces either alone or

mostly with Ron Browne or Brent Pillipow. While driving a School Bus in the Mont Nebo area, he coached hockey and soft-ball. For the past 32 years the family have enjoyed a cabin at Pratt Lake where the happiest times were enjoyed with children and grandchildren and were so happy to entertain their friends and relatives. While at the lake, Vern built a fl oat on barrels complete with seats, etc. and motor and many hours were spent on the lake fi shing or just enjoying the lake.

Vern is survived by his loving wife of 63 years Ruth (nee Sandin); His son Wayne (Cheryl) of Alida, SK; His daughter Wen-dy of Prince Albert, SK; His youngest son, Dar-rell (Saskia) of Courtney, B.C; His grandchildren, Jennifer (Lyle), Kelly (Chad), Jody (Adam) and their mother Barb; Joshua (Amanda), Paige; Jordan and their mother Cindy; Ashley Delaronde and her father Gerry; and Sarah; special families Rod & Cathy Atkinson, Rebecca (Kevin), Blake (Carla) and Dash; The Robillard fami-lies Ozzie (Hollis); Merv (Bonnie), Sandra (Marco) and Greg. He is also sur-

vived by two sisters-in-law: Judy & Gladys; a brother-in-law David (Ti-nia) and numerous nieces and nephews.

Vern was predeceased by his parents Fred & Clara Delaronde; His brothers Lawrence, Ar-chie and Paul; His sisters Louise and twin sister Ve-rona; His father-in-law and mother-in-law, Bill and Hannah Sandin; sisters-in-law, Isobel Delaronde and Pat Delaronde; brothers-in-law Toby, Mickey, Ed, John and Alice Sandin; and a grandson, Darcy Wayne at birth.

A Funeral service was held at MacKenzie Cha-pel, Prince Albert, on Sat-urday March 24th at 1:00 p.m. with Albert Hannigan offi ciating. Burial took place at Aarseral Cemetery near Mont Nebo Sask. Arrangements in care of Northern Funeral Service, MacKenzie Chapel. Brian and Bev Stobbs, Funeral Directors.

Rest in Peace dearest hubby, dad and grandpa. We cannot change the way things are but Death will never steal our lov-ing memories of you, your smile, your wit, your wis-dom nor your love of fam-ily......

Page 14 Shellbrook Chronicle March 30, 2012

Obituaries

LUTHERAN CHURCHZion - CanwoodSunday School,

Worship Sunday, 11 a.m.St. John’s - Shellbrook

Sunday School, Worship Sunday, 9 a.m.Pastor Doug SchmirlerParkside, Immanuel11 a.m. - Worship &

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

CHURCHParkside

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

11:00 a.m. Sunday SchoolPastor David Baldock

ShellbrookSunday School 9:45 a.m.

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

747-7235Canwood

11 a.m. - WorshipPastor Glenn Blazosek

Leask Gospel Tabernacle

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

306-466-2296------------------------

EVANGELICAL FREEBig River

11:00 a.m. - WorshipBible Classes 9:45 A.M.Summer: 10:30 a.m. - 12

469-2258Youth Nite: Fridays

Mont NeboWed., 7:30 p.m. - Bible

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

Pastor Bill Klumpenhower

------------------------CATHOLIC CHURCH

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

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

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

VictoireSat., 7:30 p.m. - Mass.Fr. Sebastin Kunnath

Eucharist CelebrationsMuskeg

Sat., 7:30 p.m. - MassMistawasis

Sunday, 3 p.m. St. Agatha’s -

ShellbrookMass Sunday, 11 a.m.

Fr. Tru LeSt. Henry’s - Leask

Mass Saturday 7 p.m.St. Joseph’s - Marcelin

Mass Sunday, 9 a.m.Fr. Tru Le

------------------------PRESBYTERIAN

MistawasisSunday worship

11 a.m.Rev. Bev Shepansky------------------------SEVENTH DAY

ADVENTIST407-2nd Ave E,

ShellbrookSat., 9:45 a.m. - Sabbath

School.Sat., 11:00 am Worship

Broadcast on VOAR 92.1 FM

Pastor Stanislav Kondrat306-764-6853

------------------------SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

Currently meeting in homes on Sunday morn.

and Wednesday evenings.Parkside 747-2309,

Leask 466-4498 Marcelin 226-4615------------------------

ANGLICAN CHURCHLeask - All Saint’s

8 a.m. - Morning prayer Service.

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

Evening Prayer 2nd & 4th Sundays Holy

CommunionMont Nebo - St. Luke’s

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

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

ShellbrookSunday, 11 a.m.

Holy CommunionFather Harnish

468-2264------------------------

UNITED CHURCHBig River

1st & 2nd Sundays 1 p.m. - Worship

at Anglican ChurchAll Other Sundays -10 a.m.

Shellbrook - KnoxSun., 10 am - WorshipPastor Dave Whalley------------------------ABUNDANT LIFE

CHURCHBig River

Sun., 10:30 a.m. - Worship

Regular Church Services, Sunday School and Special Church Events will be listed with the

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‘Journeying through life ‘

I like pastor James MacDonald view on life. What a valuable lesson he learned during his days as a basketball player. He tells the story this way;

“I played a lot of bas-ketball ... I sprained my ankles many times, and I learned too late that the best way to handle all that black-and-blue is to fi ll a wastebasket with ice and top it off with water. Then,

while the injury is fresh, put your wounded foot deep into that cold water and leave it there.

If you can last for one minute, it’s just crazy pain-ful. But if you can keep it in there for two minutes, the injury and its recovery time will be cut in half. … If you can hang on for two and a half minutes, you can be playing basketball again by Thursday, but the pain of holding your foot in that arctic water will have you crying out for someone to bring you a sharp object. Even with my worst inju-ries I seldom made it two and a half minutes.

But here is the amaz-ing thing about “remaining under the pain” of having your foot in that cold buck-et: If you can hang in there for three minutes, you’ll be walking on it tomorrow. The pain will be consum-ing those last thirty sec-onds, worse by far than the injury itself now. But you will walk tomorrow.

The application that I see here is the journey is tough at times, the cure might even be painful but most benefi cial.

Dave Bodvarson SPA , Pastor

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March 30, 2012 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 15

Masters week: wall to wall Tiger Woods

BrucePenton

It’s Masters week, which means it’s a) the unoffi cial start of spring; b) golf’s fi rst major of the season; and c) the begin-ning of wall-to-wall Golf Channel coverage of Tiger Woods.

Woods, who went nearly three years without a PGA Tour triumph, is the most famous and most polarizing athlete on the planet (at least in the west-ern world) and got himself into a little bit of trouble a couple of years ago, as you may have heard. His golf game went south and it seems like a good time to talk about his golf game, but I need knee surgery, so maybe some other time.

Since his “trouble,” Woods underwent a swing change with Canadian in-structor Sean Foley and last December fi nally won something — a limited fi eld (18 of the world’s best ) tournament in California that he hosts. So the Tiger fans started getting excited again, with the Masters only four months away.

So we were thinking about exploring that angle of his comeback, but then I strained my achilles ten-

don, so maybe later.In early March, Tiger

shot a 62 in the fi nal round of the Honda Classic to roar back from nine strokes behind to fi nish second to Rory McIlroy and put his fans into a state of near hysteria, with the Mas-ters only a month away. But then he pulled out of the Cadillac World Golf Championship at Doral midway through the fi nal round and the air went out of that balloon.

Two weeks later, though, Woods not only contended, but fi nally won his fi rst tournament since September, 2009, taking the Arnold Palmer Invita-tional by fi ve strokes two weeks before the Masters, making him the over-whelming oddsmakers’ favourite for the Green Jacket at Augusta. His fans were giddy. Jack Nick-laus’s record of 18 major titles was in Tiger’s sight again.

So should we discuss that situation here? Yes, of course. Ooops! What was that? Sorry, just crashed into a fi re hydrant. There’s water everywhere. And there’s some blonde chas-

ing me with a nine-iron.Talk to you later. After

the Masters. Tell me how Tiger fares, OK?

• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, lament-ing that Tiger moved away from Orlando and didn’t

leave much in the way of a legacy: “He has his Ti-ger Woods Foundation in L.A.. He has huge Tiger-Jam fund-raiser in Vegas. He has his PGA Tour event in D.C. He has branches of his Tiger Woods Learn-ing Center for children in California, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and now in South Florida. Mean-while, in Orlando, the only remembrance we have is the Tiger Woods Com-memorative Fire Hydrant.”

• Jim Trotter of SI.com, on Peyton Manning: “He is the quintessential pocket

passer. He is more likely to run for offi ce than he is for a fi rst down.”

• Comedy writer : “. . . Manning signed a $96 million, fi ve-year contract with the Denver Broncos. Maybe the mile-high al-

titude will bring out that legendary Peyton Manning warmth and charisma.”

• Perisho again: A 100-year-old grandmother will be a torchbearer car-rying the Olympic fl ame through the streets of Lon-don. Her 300-metre leg of the relay will start on July 2 and end on July 11 or 12, depending on the wind.”

• R.J. Currie of sports-deke.com: “According to a Stanford University pro-fessor, high-performance vehicles don’t move much, but mostly stand around doing nothing 97 per cent of the time. In a related story, the Niners signed Randy Moss.”

• David Whitley, Fan-House, on the New York Jets acquisition of Tim Tebow: “Love or hate

Tebow, Rex Ryan needed to tone down the circus he’s created. Instead, he’s bringing in the biggest el-ephant in the NFL room. . . . If the coaching staff thought (Mark) Sanchez’s arm was erratic, wait un-til Tebow throws his fi rst screen pass into the East River.”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: ”The Broncos didn’t care where Tebow went, as long as he left town quickly, be-fore God buried Denver in a massive avalanche.”

• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, on the Tebow trade to the Jets: “New Yorkers have al-ready noticed a much more wholesome aura in their city since Timmy Terrifi c came to town. The smog has cleared, taxi drivers are staying in their own lanes and Antonio Cromartie is practising contraception.”

• Reggie Hayes of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel, on Manning go-ing from the Colts to the Broncos: “Turns out Man-ning will play for teams only with horse-related nicknames.”

• Headline at TheOn-ion.com: “Peyton Manning re-injures neck saying no to Titans.”

• Budd Bailey of the Buffalo (N.Y.) News, af-ter Kansas football coach Charlie Weis says people

only think of him as ‘some arrogant, obnoxious, loud-mouth punk from New Jer-sey’: “Not so, Charlie — we didn’t know you were from New Jersey.”

• ABC’s Jimmy Kim-mel, on CBS raking in more than $600 million in ad revenue from the NCAA tournament: “Of that, the players receive — what’s zero per cent of $600 million?”

• Brad Miller, a con-gressman from North Car-olina who happens to be a UNC alumnus: “If Duke was playing against the Taliban then I’d have to pull for the Taliban.”

Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca

The surveys are in for the After-School Program. We have come to the con-clusion that the need is most defi nitely here for such a program. Some of the details of this ongoing project is it will become a Before AND After-School Program. The cost is yet to be determined, as we are waiting upon confi rmation of funding. Registration is most-likely to be held at the end of August, 2012. Our fi rst Parent Board meeting will be April 18 at 7:00 pm held at the Town Offi ce. If you feel that you would like to be part of the board, please feel free to show up to this fi rst meet-ing to see what the board will be all about.

Swimming lesson registration has been a popular topic in my out-look account. Registra-tion will be held May 10 from 5-7pm at the Com-munity Hall. Forms will be available online the week before on the town website; www.shellbrook.net. Sessions will run all through July and the fi rst 2 weeks of August. I have added in an extra session this year as our lessons seem to become in higher demand all the time. As

a report on the paddling pool; unfortunately last year the paddling pool col-lapsed into itself, so for the 2012 season there will be no paddling pool avail-able. We are budgeting for 2013 season to not include a paddling pool – but pos-sibly adding in a couple spray park items. This will offer the tots to play in the water without the li-ability of drowning as the paddling pool was always a place where there were no guards on duty. To help replace the availability the shallowness made avail-able by the paddling pool, we are looking into pur-chasing a tot-dock. This will depend on the money made from our fundrais-ers this year. Another pur-chase for the future of the pool will be a new liner and new covers – we are hoping these new covers will decrease heat loss and therefore decreasing our energy bill. Remember, for all of these upgrades to happen, we need your sup-port! Come out to the pool fundraisers this year and help upgrade your pool, it will not only increase sum-mer fun, but it will also in-crease our quality of life – giving us more options of

being physically active. The pitching clinic ran

by Peter and Becky start-ed this week. This clinic will run every Tuesday and Thursday all through April. Another ball update is that minor ball registra-tion will be held April 3 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.

Saturday is the Golf Course Spring Fling. Head out to the Communi-ty Hall to support the Golf Course!

Weekly Health Tip: This spring-like weather has many of us excited for the summer season. Along with the summer season comes those yummy sum-mer drinks such as pop and slushes. Beware of these tasty sugary drinks as they contain tons of sugar! Maybe make slush-es at home with some low-calorie sugar substitutes or with some 100% fruit juice. This way you can still enjoy those yummy slushy drinks but get some healthy nutrients as well.

Have a great week!Cassie BendigShellbrook Recreation

Directoroffi ce – 747-4949cell – 747-9098email – shellbrookrec-

director@sasktel.net

From the desk of the Recreation Director

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Facilitator Employment Orientation Program

Big River First NationReporting to the Program Coordinator, North Region, the facilitator will provide the participants with an Employment Orientation program focusing on employability skills, employment attitudes, life skills development and work camp orientation. Activities will lead to personal growth, life skills, job readiness and career development. Qualifi ed applicants will have a Grade 12 with post-secondary training or relevant experience in career/employment counseling or life skills coaching.A more detailed description of the position can be found on the NWRC website at www.nwrc.sk.ca NWRC wishes to thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. This is a full-time term position from April 13, 2012 to June 29, 2012. The pay range is $178.64 to $219.42 per day. Apply your exceptional talents in a unique academic atmosphere. Please apply in writing, quoting fi le #96-BRFN-1112, by April 2, 2012 at noon to:Human ResourcesNorth West Regional College10702 Diefenbaker DriveNorth Battleford, SK S9A 4A8Fax: (306)445-1575E-mail: careers@nwrc.sk.caNOTE: The commencement of this position is subject to funding decisions, which are beyond the control of North West Regional College, and therefore subject to change.

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March 31Guess who is

65!

Dr. Wayne DiakowDr. Stephen Malec

Dr. Carolyn HaugenDr. Nicole Lacey

Central Optometric GroupOPTOMETRISTS3 - 210 - 15th Street East,

Prince Albert S6V 1G2

PHONE 764-6311

TRUCKING

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DIRECTORY... ...THE PULSE OF THE REGION

RED WINGAUTO RECYCLERSHwy. 2 North - Pine Village

Mon. - Fri. 8 am to 5 pmSat. 9 am to 3 pm

(excluding long weekends)RR 5, Site 16, Comp 13

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Ph: 306-922-2210Fax: 306-922-2689

AGRICULTURE

Drs. Degelman, Miller,

MacDonald & FinkP.A. Vision CentreOPTOMETRISTS3 - 2685 - 2nd Avenue WestPhone 764-2288

Prince Albertwebsite: www.pavision.optometry.net

OPTOMETRIST

OPTOMETRIST

764-27731-800-561-4357

WHITROW STOBBS& ASSOCIATES

G. Whitrow, Prof. Acct. B. Stobbs, Tax Acct.

Consultants for Simply Accounting

ACCOUNTING

CURBING

P.A. VACUUMService - Parts

(all makes of vacuums welcome

FREE ESTIMATES

SALES763-3202#2-150-32nd St. W.Prince Albert, SK

(behindPizza Hut)

VACUUM SALES

FUNERAL SERVICES

DELBERT M.DYNNA

Law Office100A - 10th St. East

Prince Albert, SK S6V 0Y7phone (306) 764-6856

fax (306) 763-9540Preferred areas of practice:Wills, Estates, Real Estate

LAWYER

PLUMBING

A & A Trading Ltd.1-131 Service Rd. East, Box 457

Shellbrook, SK S0J 2E0

For All YourUsed Car

and Truck NeedsEmail: aatrading@sasktel.net

Cell: 306-747-7168Fax: 306-747-3481

Ph 747-4321 anytime

AUTOMOBILE

NISSE FOUNDRY

Bronze cemetery plaquesmade at Mont Nebo, Sask.

Phone: 468-2853Fax: 468-2252

email nisse@sasktel.netweb: www.nissefoundry.com

Build our community:Buy locally manufactured

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• Complete Autobody Repair• Lifetime Warranty• Auto Glass Repair

• Paintless Dent Repair492 South Industrial Dr.

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• Pump & Fuel Injector Overhauls• Drive-In Bay Service

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Fax: 763-0410

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REAL ESTATE

BMW Plumbing & Heating

Licensed Gas Fitter/Journeyman PlumberNew Construction &

RenovationsFurnace/Boiler/AirconditioningFree Quotes

1-306-883-2350Cell: 1-306-883-7467

Barry West, Owner/OperatorSpiritwood, SK. S0J 2M0

PLUMBING

LAWYER

Wilcox-Zuk-ChovinLaw OfficeKimble Bradley

747-2641Shellbrook

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• CONSTRUCTION •• CONSTRUCTION •AUTETAUTET

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• Framing, Concrete, • Exterior/Interior FinishingResidential & Farm Building

Allan Autet466-2159466-7771

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Shelltown Plumbing& Heating

Saalmic Mechanical Services Ltd.Courteous, professional,

reliable, plumbing, heating,gas fitting services

Phone 747-4332Shellbrook, Sask.

Rocky Road Trucking Ltd. Debden, SK

For all your Grain Hauling needs. Contact Rocky CoutureCell (306)468-7872 or

(306)724-2176

FUNERAL SERVICES

HEARING CLINIC

Carlton Trail Hearing ClinicDr. Jodi Haberstock,

Au.D., BCC - HISDoreen Chyz, BC - HIS2995 2nd Ave. West

South Hill Mall, Prince Albert, SK306-922-0003

TF 1-877-477-6863www.carltontrailhearing.com

WELDING/REPAIR

PARKSIDE WELDING & REPAIR

MOBILE & SHOP

Greg OlsonPh: 747-2990 Cell: 747-8148

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BEAU “LAC” FUNERAL HOME LTD.Pre-Arrangements Available

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Dave Hjertaas ~ Tammy Smart ~ Donna Lovberg John Couture Greg Spencer Marjorie Brossart Fred Pomrenk

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FUNERAL SERVICES

Don Moriarty Lesley SullyColette Kadziolka Wayne TimoffeeLouise Robert Andrea Langlois

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1-888-858-2727Pre-Arrangements Available

STUCCO SERVICES

STUCCO/STONE/DRYWALLFor Stucco, Parging or Stone Ph: Frank (306) 427-4908

For Drywall, Boarding, Taping, Texture & Small Renos

Ph: Rodney (306) 427-4907

Kwik KerbContinuous Edging Suits:

• Garden Soil & Bark Retention• Mower Strips• Driveway Borders & Edges• Landscaping Contouring• Paving Borders• Carparks

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FARM EQUIPMENT

PARTSLarry Adamko, Joe Clyke

After Hours 960-1921SERVICE

Chris LucyshynAfter Hours 960-4916

SALESBrent Karr 232-7810

INSURANCE

1-877-898-8248 (TAIT)

SHELLBROOK 747-2896CANWOOD 468-2227

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FOR SALE - Com-puter desk $50; Ga-zelle exerciser with spare parts $150; 27 “ color TV $150; green leather sofa $100; Green leather recliner $200; Kitchen ta-ble with six chairs $100; Venmar air exchanger $600; Eureka vacuum $150. Call 764-1363 TFCH

FOR SALE - Sam-sung Energy Star tall tub stainless steel dishwasher, white front, new condition with 1½ year transferable warranty. $300. 747-3381 leave message. 2-13CH

FOR SALE - Band sawn lumber, spruce 2x4 to 2x10 from 8 ft. to 20 ft.; 1x6, 1x8, 2nd cuts, and bull rails also timbers from 4x4 to 12x12. Phone 306-469-2490, Big River. TFCH

FOR SALE - 1 year old laying hens for sale. $2.00 each dead or alive. Call Frank 306-466-2249, ext 101 or 780-870-7912 4-16CH

FOR SALE - 1 Ton truck with alumi-num van, low step bumper, full height inside with 4’ cab over. Former U-Haul truck. 1979 Ford F350 with du-als, good running condition. $2,500 Ph: 747-3463 1-13CH

FOR SALE - 2007 650 Kawasaki quad. Good shape. $5,500. Ph: 747-2909 2-13CH

FOR SALE - 1998 Bergen 16’ stock trailer. Ph: 747-3185 TFCH

FOR SALE - New Bourgault packers, 48 run, Bourgault 2115S air seeder tank, very good condition. FH28-32cultivatore with air seeder kit. Liq-uid fertilizer kit. Ph: 984-4606 eve-nings. 3-14CH

FOR SALE - 1991 946 Ford Versatile, original owner, 4300 hrs. 4 re-motes, plus aux. shedded, 20.8 x 42 duals; 1982 Case 4490 original own-er. 4 remote, shed-ded 18.4 x 34 du-als, 3300 hrs; 40’ Airseeder, Flex-coil 400 cultivator 9” spacing with 2320 Flex-Coil air tank; Flex-Coil 65 sprayer 80’ w/800 gal tank; Flex-Coil 95 harrow packer bar 60’ #240 Val-mar. Call 306-747-3932, Cell 306-747-8225 2-14CH

FOR SALE - Black and Red Angus bulls on moder-ate growing ration. Performance info available. Adrian, Brian or Elaine Ed-wards, Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK 342-4407 TFCH

FOR SALE - Johner Stock Farm bulls. Polled Herefords/Black Angus yearling and 2 year olds. G u a r a n t e e d , Delivered. David 3 0 6 - 8 9 3 - 2 7 1 4 , Justin 306-248-1305 20-26CH

FOR SALE - Reg-istered Black An-gus bulls. Year-ling and 2 year olds. Reasonably priced, well de-veloped bulls. Not force fed, but carry enough condition to go out and work your pastures. Transformer, Ko-dai, Raven, Mas-ter and Diversity bloodlines. $100 deposit will hold until May 1. Tours welcome, for more information please call Christopher at West Cowan Api-aries 469-4970 or 469-7902 23-30CH

FOR SALE - Reg-istered Black An-gus Heifers. Year-lings ready for breeding in the spring. Leading bloodlines from very dependable no nonsense cows. Approx. 30 avail-able, for more in-formation please call Christopher at West Cowan Api-aries. 469-4970 or 469-7902 6-13CH

FOR SALE - Qual-ity Red and Black Salers bulls for calving ease. El-derberry Farm Sal-ers, Parkside 747-3302 8-17CH

FOR SALE Fleck-vieh infl uenced Simmental bulls. Traditional Red and Black. Four D Ranch 306-342-4208 10-21CH

FOR SALE - F l eckv ieh -S im-mental bulls, Tra-ditional, Red and Black. Also Sim-mental-Red Angus Cross bulls and one Black Simmental-Red Angus Cross. Foxdale Farm and Ranch. Glenn and Christine. 747-3185 TFCH

FOR SALE - Black and Red yearling Simmental bulls, Muirhead Cattle Co. 763-2964, 747-8192 6-17CH

FOR SALE - Pan-els and gates 10’, 12’ and 16’. 5 or 6 horizontal bars. Call for prices. 468-2070 3-15CH

FOR SALE - Round hay bales year old. excellent horse hay, cattle oiler, cattle head gate, pen, alley-way, Ph: 747-3182 2-14CH

FOR SALE - Large round bales, ap-porx. 1500 lbs. Also trucking available. Call 466-2261 2-14CH

FOR SALE - 100 small squares $5.00/bale. Call 466-2261 1-13CH

FOR SALE - #14 2nd St. East, Shell-brook, 1978 1,500 sq. ft. bungalow, main fl oor recently renovated with a 500 sq. ft. addition onto the back of the house. Upgrades also include new windows, doors, Styrofoam and sid-ing. On a double lot close to schools and downtown. Beautiful Maple kitchen cupboards with undermount sink and bay win-dow. 3 bedroom, 3 bathrooms. Large second bedroom. Master suite is very spacious with a large walk in clos-et and four piece bathroom which includes walk in shower with show-er panel and regu-lar shower head, 42x66 soaker tub, heated tile and TV. Laundry on main fl oor. Central air, new water heater and sand point. Partially fi nished basement. Fenced in yard with un-derground sprin-klers, wiring for outdoor speakers, and a 12x16 shed. Drive through at-tached garage. A real must to see! Possession to take place July 9, 2012 (arrangements can be made for ear-lier) $309,000 Ph: 747-3306 2-13CH

March 30, 2012 Shellbrook Chronicle Page 17

LAND TENDER IN CANWOOD RM 494NW 23-51-5 W3, 160 ac., 150+/- cult. Assessment 71,300, new well into Hatfi eld water system. TERMS:1. It is the responsibility of each bidder to inspect each parcel for accuracy and conditions.2. Year 2012 land taxes to be paid by purchaser.3. Highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.4. Submit bid(s) by mail to :

Gilbert Provencher (Canag Ventures)Box 7, Site 2, SHELLBROOK, SK S0J 2E0

5. All bids must be postmarked or received by: 5:00 pm on March 30, 2012.6. Successful bid(s) will be notifi ed by April 12, 2012.7. For more information call Gilbert @ (306) 747-3181 or Fax @ (306) 747-3332

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FOR SALE - House in Shellbrook, 725 Cardinal Court, 6½ yrs. old. 1,345 sq. ft. fully fi nished up and down. Large mature yard. Main fl oor 3 bedrooms, 2 baths; down, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Available imme-diately. $359,000 obo. 883-2992 1-13CH

LAND FOR SALE - R.M. of Can-wood,#494, Deb-den area. 160 acres of pasture, large dugout, electric fence. 724-4903 8-20CH

FOR RENT - Pas-ture land for lease, 7 quarters, will split up, cross fenced. Lyle Muller 747-2805 4-14CH

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HELP WANTED - Canwood Regional Park is accepting applications for op-eration of the Club-house and Conces-sion for the 2012 season from May 1 to September 30th. Living accom-modations avail-able at the park for applicants if required. Send ap-plications to Box 9, Canwood, SK S0J 0K0. For further information and list of duties con-tact Terry Hambo-rg at 306-468-4425 (cell) or Shirley Danberg at 468-2114 (evenings). Applications close on March 31, 2012. 5-13C

HELP WANTED - Shellview Sod Farms is currently looking to hire a Class 1A delivery driver for the 2012 sod harvest. Work to begin approx. May 1 and con-tinue to freeze up. Duties include, but not limited to basic truck/trailer main-tenance, operating

fork lift, and deliv-ering sod through-out the province. Please fax resumes and abstract to 747-3147 or call 306-981-3910 for more information. 5-15C

HELP WANTED - Shellview Sod Farms Ltd. is cur-rently looking to hire a fi eld opera-tor. This position will begin approx. May 1 and contin-ue to freeze up. Du-ties include but not limited to operat-ing equipment and providing labor di-rectly related to sod harvest. Equipment included tractors, forklifts and mow-ers, etc. Applicant must have a min Class 5 driver’s license and be in reasonable fi tness. Please fax resumes to 747-3147 or call 306-981-3910 for more information. 5-15C

HELP WANTED - Kel Dal Ventures Ltd. is now ac-cepting applica-tions for full time employment for the following po-sitions: Liquid Fer t i l izer /Grain

Haul (Sask.); Tri-dem end dump for gravel haul (Sask., AB); Part time shop mechanic/farm hand (Shell-brook). Accommo-dation available. Super B and farm experience an as-set. Applications must possess a VALID CLASS 1 Licence, be physi-cally fi t, pass drug and alcohol test-ing and criminal record search. All positions to start no later than May 1st. Please fax resumes to 306-747-4324 or email keldalven-tures@sasktel.net. 2-14CH

HELP WANTED - We are now accept-ing applications for the following positions: Full time offi ce assistant, must have work-ing knowledge of Word, Excel, Pub-lisher and Power-point, knowledge of basic offi ce pro-cedures, be open minded, friendly and able to work with the public. Wages negotiable. Part time book-keeper, must have

working knowl-edge of Simply Ac-counting, Word and Excel programs, ability to work with the public is an as-set. Hours of work and wages are ne-gotiable. Please reply in confi dence to: Box 1236, Shellbrook, SK S0J 2E0 2-14C

SERVICES - Now Open Goller’s Tire Service Ltd. in new Spiritwood loca-tion. Call 1-306-883-2992 or cell 1-306-841-7980. Mobile tire repair truck, mechanical repairs, parts and accessories, weld-ing and more. Also now hiring. Email gollerstire@sask-tel.net 1-13CH

AUCTIONS - Eas-ter Special An-tique & Collect-able Auction Sale Saturday, April 7, 2012 9:00 AM Delisle Town Hall, Delisle, SK Bod-narus Auctioneer-ing bodnarusauc-t i o n e e r i n g . c o m 1-877-494-2437 PL#318200SK

Thank you to all who came to our aid on the high-way by Parkside on March 19. To the Emergency Re-sponse Team, Al Dionne, the ambu-lance attendantes and Const. Kajner. A special thank you to Janie and Jordan Denton, Your kind, caring attention was so appreciated. God bless you all. - Clarence Chris-tianson and daugh-ter, Joan.

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WYATT - In loving memory of Bill, dear husband, father and grandpa, March 31, 2002.

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Forever missed.- Margaret, Lester, Margie, Raymond and families.

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Aberdeen - 1 1/4’sBengough - 22 1/4’s

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Blaine Lake - 245 acresBruno 14 1/4’sCupar - 5 1/4s

Davidson - 6 1/4’sEastend - 2 1/4’sElfross – 22 1/4’s

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Harwarden - 1 1/4’sLestock - 21 1/4’s

Lake Alma – 14 1/4’s Marcelin - 7 1/4’s

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Call DOUG 306-955-2266

EMAIL:saskfarms@shaw.ca

Letter of appreciation:I have sold some land to Doug

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AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE

Page 2 Shellbrook Chronicle/Spiritwood Herald March 30, 2012 Agriculture Edition

People are always looking for ways to im-prove in their lives. No matter whether it is scor-ing more goals on the hockey rink, achieving higher marks on a test, or increasing responsibility at work, the quest to do better is something most of us pursue consistently.

Indeed, farmers are no dif-ferent. When they plant a crop, they expect a strong yield, which is why they use plant science technolo-gies, like pesticides and plant biotechnology.

Lorne Hepworth, presi-dent of CropLife Canada, the trade association that represents the plant sci-

ence industry, explains. Higher yields mean farm-ers of fi eld, vegetable and fruit crops see up to $7.9 billion of additional on-farm income each year and it doesn’t stop at the farm This type of activ-ity is good for individuals, good for communities and it’s also good for our tax base.”

In fact federal, provin-cial and municipal gov-ernments see a benefi t of about $385 million in tax revenue thanks to the val-ue-added contributions of plant sciences.

In addition, increased yields mean more than 97,000 full time jobs are created in over 20 different sectors, Hepworth pointed out.

“Anytime one eco-nomic sector can give the economy an incremental ‘boost’, that money is go-

ing to work through the rest of the economy,” says agronomist Mark Good-win. “When a farmer pro-duces and sells a tonne of wheat, this sets off a chain of subsequent activities through the economy. The buyer of wheat may use it

to produce bread and the buyer then sells that com-modity to the end user.”

Farmers face many fac-tors that they can’t control, such as the weather, but by using tools like crop protection products and plant biotechnology, they

are able to combat stresses caused by insects, weeds and diseases that would otherwise reduce their har-vests. Access to the right tools is helping to increase yields for the benefi t of all Canadians.

Agriculture Edition March 30, 2012 Shellbrook Chronicle/Spiritwood Herald Page 3

More on the farm means more in the bank

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Canadian farmers are feeding the world

Canada has a long and successful agricultural history that includes being known for growing enough food to not only feed itself but also to feed people in many other countries around the world.

“Canadian farmers are up to the challenge of feeding all of us but they also produce enough food to help supply more than 150 countries,” says Lorne Hepworth, presi-dent of CropLife Canada, the trade association that rep-resents the plant science industry. “This impressive food supply is thanks to the increased yields harvested with the help of tools like pesticides and plant biotechnology.” Furthermore, Canada’s strength as an exporter of food helps contribute positively to our national economy.

“If we use canola as an example,” says Hepworth, “productivity has signifi cantly increased because of plant biotechnology products. Between 1996 and 2007, there was a 20 per cent increase in crop yields because of the improved genetics in the crop to combat weed control.

“We can also look at wheat to see how modern crop protection tools have impacted production. About 24 per cent of wheat production in Canada annually can be at-tributed to the use of crop protection products. This trans-lates into a net benefi t of more than $1.7 billion for farm-ers.” he said.

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All crops are planted with hopes that the harvest will be profi table. That’s why farmers rely on tools like crop protection prod-ucts and plant biotechnol-ogy to help increase yields. Increased crop production means farmers benefi t eco-nomically, which in turn stimulates economic activ-ity that ripples through the entire economy.

In fact, did you know that the bountiful yields that Canadian farmers con-sistently harvest with the help of plant science tech-nologies, generates $7.9 billion in added value for them – and it also delivers $385 million in tax revenue for federal, provincial and municipal governments.

When more food is produced, it also means that jobs are created. If we use wheat production as an example, for every tonne a farmer produces and sells, work is created for bak-ers, janitors, accountants, truckers and many others. In reality, the economic benefi ts from increased yields in agriculture lead to the creation of more than 97,000 full time jobs in over 20 different sectors including manufacturing, wholesale, retail and fi nan-cial.

The next time you do laundry there are good odds you are contributing to the Saskatchewan econ-omy. Laundry detergents contain sodium sulphate and there are fi ve sodium sulphate plants in the prov-ince. Saskatchewan’s sodi-um sulphate is found in al-kaline lakes in the southern part of the province. Water is removed and salt depos-its, containing the mineral, are left behind. It is used in detergent (dishwash-ing and laundry powder), carpet deodorizers, corn starch, the pulp and paper industry and glass industry. The province ranks fi fth in the world in the production of sodium sulphate.

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Crown Investments Corporation Minister Tim McMillan, on behalf of Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud announced $105,000 in new fund-ing for the Saskatchewan Association of Agricultural Societies and Exhibitions (SAASE) to administer agriculture safety and edu-cation programs.

“Keeping farm and ranch families safe is a major priority for our

government and aware-ness plays a large role,” McMillan said. “I’m pleased to partner with SAASE on these innova-tive programs to educate our youth about agricul-ture and the importance of farm safety.”

The Ministry of Agriculture is committing $30,000 in annual fund-ing over the next three years for Farm Safety Day Camps. These Camps pro-

mote safety on the farm through interactive dem-onstrations and displays. Students also receive train-ing on how to respond to injuries while on the farm. The camps are held across the province and are aimed at kids aged six to 15.

The Ministry of Agriculture is also provid-ing $15,000 to SAASE’s Ag on the MOOve agri-culture awareness project. This funding will be used

to purchase a trailer and develop interactive educa-tional displays. The trailer will be used to transport the displays throughout the province for youth attend-ing trade shows, agricul-ture events, fairs and exhi-bitions.

“SAASE and the 62 member Agricultural Societies would like to thank the Ministry of Agriculture for support-ing this important initia-tive,” SAASE Executive Director Glen Duck

said. “Saskatchewan’s Agricultural Societies have always played a major role in rural Saskatchewan, and the hosting of the Farm Safety Day Camps and the Ag on the MOOve project will enhance that role.”

Page 4 Shellbrook Chronicle/Spiritwood Herald March 30, 2012 Agriculture Edition

New funding for farm education and safety

Have you ever heard the term invasive species and wondered what it re-ally meant?

Invasive species are plants, animals, aquatic life and micro-organisms that out-compete native species when introduced outside their natural envi-ronment. They can threat-en Canada’s ecosystems, economy and society.

Typically, invasive spe-cies have characteristics such as higher rates of re-production, fewer natural predators and an ability to thrive in a variety of envi-ronments. These character-istics contribute to making the species more diffi cult to control.

“In the Prairie provinc-es alone the Canada thistle costs about $320 million a year,” says Pierre Petelle, vice president of chemistry at CropLife Canada. “In

Manitoba, leafy spurge, another invasive species, infests about 340,000 acres of land which costs mil-lions of dollars a years to control.

According to the Ca-nadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), there are approximately 485 inva-sive plant species across our country. The CFIA classifi es 94 of these plants—close to 20 per cent of them—as agricul-tural and forestry pests and goes on to estimate that they impact our economy to the tune of $7.5 billion every year.

“When you think about those kinds of negative im-pacts,” Petelle continued, “it’s easier to understand why farmers and other economic sectors, such as forestry, use pesticides to help control invasive spe-cies, as well as other types

of pests that compete for water, sunlight and soil nu-trients. The cost of leaving these pests unchecked is just too severe.”

More information on invasive species is avail-able online at www.inva-sivespecies.gc.ca.

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The Provincial Government will pro-vide up to $1.7 million to Milligan Bio-Tech under the Saskatchewan Biofuels Investment Opportunity (SaskBIO) pro-gram.

Milligan Bio-Tech is a Canadian bio-diesel production company based in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan. The company’s strong focus on research and develop-ment has resulted in bio-diesel that meets or exceeds North American and European standards, as well as a number of environ-mentally friendly co-products.

“We are pleased to provide support to Milligan Bio-Tech through the Sask-BIO program,” Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said. “These projects contrib-

ute to the growth of our rural economy, create jobs and provide additional market-ing opportunities for our farmers.”

“We appreciate this support, which will help us continue to grow our busi-ness and support the local and provincial economies,” Milligan Bio-Tech President and CEO Joe Holash said. “We are com-mitted to providing high-quality bio-die-sel products and we thank the provincial government for this contribution through the SaskBIO program.”

The SaskBIO program provides repay-able contributions for the construction or expansion of transportation biofuel pro-duction facilities in Saskatchewan. The program ends on March 31, 2012.

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Canola was developed through conventional plant breeding from rapeseed, an oilseed plant already used in ancient civilization as a fuel. The word “rape” in rapeseed comes from the Latin word “rapum,” meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga, cabbage, Brus-sels sprouts, mustard, and many other vegetables are related to the two natural canola varieties commonly grown, which are culti-vars of Brassica napus and Brassica rapa. The change in name serves to distin-guish it from natural rape-seed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content.

Hundreds of years ago, rapeseed oil was used as a fuel in lamps in Asia and Europe. The Chinese and Indians used a form of rapeseed oil that was un-refi ned (natural). Its use was limited until the de-velopment of steam power, when machinists found rapeseed oil clung to wa-ter- or steam-washed metal surfaces better than other lubricants. World War II saw high demand for the oil as a lubricant for the rapidly increasing number of steam engines in naval and merchant ships. When the war blocked European and Asian sources of rape-seed oil, a critical shortage developed and Canada be-gan to expand its limited rapeseed production.

After the war, demand declined sharply and farm-ers began to look for other uses for the plant and its products. Rapeseed oil ex-tracts were fi rst put on the market in 1956–1957 as food products, but these suffered from several un-acceptable characteristics. Rapeseed oil had a distinc-

tive taste and a disagree-able greenish colour due to the presence of chloro-phyll. It also contained a high concentration of eru-cic acid. Experiments on animals have pointed to the possibility that erucic acid, consumed in large quantities, may cause heart damage, although Indian researchers have published fi ndings that call into ques-tion these conclusions and the implication that the consumption of mustard or rapeseed oil is danger-ous. Feed meal from the rapeseed plant also was not particularly appealing to livestock, due to high levels of sharp-tasting compounds called gluco-sinolates, and they would not eat it.

A variety developed in 1998 is considered to be the most disease- and drought-resistant Canola variety of rapeseed to date. This and other recent vari-eties have been produced by using genetic engineer-ing. Currently, 82% of the rapeseed crops planted in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan are GM (genetically modifi ed) herbicide-tolerant canola varieties.

Barley’s a kind of grass, like wheat, that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Barley is differ-ent from wheat mainly in that it will grow with less rain, so you can grow it more different places, and also in that it doesn’t taste as good as wheat. So poor people usually ate more barley, and rich people ate more wheat.

People fi rst began to farm barley (instead of picking it wild) around 10,000 BC in West Asia,

possibly because of a cli-mate change that made the world hotter and drier.

People ate barley like wheat as a boiled porridge, or in soup, and they also made barley bread. Bar-ley is also the grain people usually used to make beer.

Because you only ate the seeds from the barley, you had all the rest of the plant left over. The stalks dried into straw, and you could weave the straw into mats to sleep on, or give it to animals to sleep on, or make shoes or baskets out of it, or tie it into bunches to thatch your house. The leftover straw was nearly as useful as the seeds.

Oats are annual grass-es, and are used as both for both human and animal nutrition, in addition to other purposes. They are a commonly grown crop in the world today. How-ever, they bring with them a somewhat tempestuous history.

Modern oats probably originated from the Asian wild red oat which grew as a weed in other grain crops Archaeological studies show that oats have been found dating from about 2,000 BC, but these grains were probably simply weed seeds. It was prob-ably much closer to the birth of Christ before, as the last of the cereals to be cultivated, oats were pur-posely grown in southeast Europe or Asia Minor. Be-fore being used as a food, they were used for medici-nal purposes

Oats have a couple of traits that caused them to be less favored than other grains - a bland taste and a tendency to spoil. Greeks and Romans considered

oats to be diseased wheat and many cultures be-lieved them to be better suited to animals. Despite these issues, oats became a staple in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and the Scandiv-ian countries.

Oats were introduced to North America with oth-er grains by Scottish set-tlers in 1602. They gradu-ally became a major crop until about 1920, when machines began to replace horsepower. Acreage pre-viously devoted to feed oats has now been replaced by soybeans, a more mar-ketable crop. With the ad-vance of knowledge about nutrition, oats were recog-nized as a healthy food in the mid 1980s and there-fore may become more popular once again for hu-man nutrition.

Wheat - Grown all over the world, wheat covers more of the earth’s surface than any other cereal crop. However, although it takes more land space than other cereals, based on a three year average it is only the third-largest cereal crop, behind maize and rice.

As one of the fi rst grains to be domesticated, modern wheats developed from cultivation starting in the middle east about 9-11,000 years ago in the fertile crescent of the mid-dle east. Without a clearly identifi able timeframe, the Neolithic period is iden-tifi ed by the domestica-tion of crops and animals, which began with the de-velopment of farming, and endured until the develop-ment of metal tools.

By 4,000 BC the ex-panding geographical range of farming resulted in bread wheat becoming a common staple from Eng-land to China. Although rice was more important to the development of East Asian cultures, wheat was the nutritional foundation for cultures in Europe, the middle east and western Asia.

Wheat was introduced in Mexico by the Span-iards around 1520 and to early American colonists in the 1600s. At that time it was not popular in New England due to the soils and climate, but in the mid

1800s wheat was grown from seeds introduced by migrating Europeans and agricultural scientists in the area that would later be called the “Wheat Belt.”

The 1830s saw the de-velopment of the reaping and threshing machines, allowing farmers to greatly increase their productivity during harvest. The devel-opment of the steam en-gine in the 1880s and the internal combustion en-gine in the 1920s increased farmer productivity during both planting and harvest, and as a result wheat fi elds became larger.

Wheat is generally grown intended for food for humans, but lesser quality wheat and the nu-trient-dense by-products of fl our refi ning are used for animal feed. Wheat is also used for whiskey and beer production, and the husk can be separated and ground into bran (1, 6). Before the introduction of corn into Europe, wheat was the principal source of starch for sizing paper and cloth.

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*Important Note: Due to access restrictions, Parcels 3 & 4 will be sold together. The successful bidder on this group must pay the selling price multiplied by two and shall receive both parcels.

PARCEL 3: SW 32-48-05 W3, 161.53± title acresPARCEL 4: SE 32-48-05 W3, 160.13± title acres

PARCEL 5: SE 33-48-05 W3, 159.85± title acresSK/RM OF CANWOOD #494PARCEL 6: PSE 20-49-05 W3, 86.40± title acres PARCEL 7: PSE 20-49-05 W3, 55.96± title acresPARCEL 8: PNW 08-49-05 W3, 76.43± title acres

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Saskatchewan Minis-try of Agriculture receives numerous calls every year about the opportunity to buy and export lentils and other pulses because peo-ple are interested in par-

ticipating in this business or wish to investigate al-ternate methods of sourc-ing product.

The federal Canada Grain Act specifi es that pulses cannot be bought or

sold without a license. The Canadian Grains Com-mission has the authority under the Act to license dealers and operators of various elevators, or in some cases, to provide a license exemption.

Information can be found at www.grainscana-da.gc.ca/licensee-licence/ ifl m-mrdl-eng.htm.

A questionnaire called, “Mode of Operations” should be completed and sent to the Licensing and Security Unit of the Cana-dian Grains Commission to evaluate your situation. They will determine what type of license you require and contact you to proceed with your application. They will also determine whether you may be ex-

empt from requiring a li-cense.

To apply for a license, the Canadian Grains Com-mission strongly suggests following an applica-tion checklist (available on their website at www.grainscanada.gc.ca) to en-sure all forms and docu-ments are complete. They also recommend sending in documents and forms as they are completed, in-stead of waiting for all the required information, as this will help the Commis-sion process your applica-tion in a timely manner.

The Canadian Grains Commission will only evaluate and monitor grain through physical factors such as weight and qual-ity of grain that is shipped to domestic markets and abroad. They do this in an unbiased manner repre-senting “third party” status for Canada’s grain sector. They do not sell grain; however, they do provide a list of agencies and organi-zations that buy Canadian grains. For more informa-tion contact the Canadian Special Crops Association by phoning (204) 925-3780, emailing: offi ce@specialcrops.mb.ca or vis-iting their website at www.

specialcrops.mb.ca; con-tact Pulse Canada by call-ing (204) 925-4455, email-ing offi ce@pulsecanada.com, or visiting their web-site at www.pulsecanada.com; or refer to the Special Crop Marketing Company Synopsis on the Minis-try of Agriculture website at www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/ Special_Crop_Mar-keting_Company_Synop-sis.

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Rail fences cut during the dry, waning Moon will stay straighter.

Wooden shingles and shakes will lie fl atter if cut during the dark of the Moon.

Fence posts should be set in the dark of the Moon to resist rotting. Ozark lore says that fence posts should always be set as the tree grew. To set the root end upward makes a short-lived fence.

Don’t begin weaning when the Moon is waning.

Castrate and dehorn

animals when the Moon is waning for less bleeding.

Slaughter when the Moon is waxing for juicier meat.

Best days for fi shing are between the new and full Moon. See our best fi shing dates for the year.

Dig your horseradish in the full Moon for the best fl avor.

Set eggs to hatch on the Moon’s increase, but not if a south wind blows.

Predicting the weather has been a human passion for ages. Farmers wanted to know what kind of a season was forthcoming -- would there be enough rain or would there be drought?

Would the winter be cold or mild? How could they tell if a violent storm was coming? Not having Dop-pler radar in their log cab-ins, they relied on natural signs to help them predict the weather. Sometimes the most convenient ba-rometer were their own farm animals. For exam-ple:

Cats scratch a post be-fore a wind, wash their faces before a rain, and sit with their back toward the fi re before a snow.

If a rooster crows at night, there will be rain by morning.

Pigs gather leaves and straw before a storm.

If cows lie down and refuse to go to pasture, you can expect a storm to blow up soon.

If a dog starts to whine for no reason, you can ex-pect a major storm -- pos-sibly a tornado.

Birds on a telephone wire predict the coming of rain.

The darker the woolly bear’s (warm) coat, the more severe the winter will be. If there is a dark stripe at the head and one at the end, the winter will be se-vere at the beginning, be-come mild, then get worse just before spring.

When dogs eat grass, you can expect a severe storm.

Red sky at morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night, a sailor’s de-light.

A falling meteor pre-dicts fair weather.

If rain falls while the sun shines, then the show-er will last half an hour.

If a quarter moon lies on his back, it is holding the rain. However, if it tips over, grab your slicker.

Blue sky in the north-west foretells fair weather and a good breeze.

If the moon rises red and appears very large,

then rain is only a half day away.

Other than groundhogs, badgers and bears, other wildlife - especially insects and bugs - can be depended upon to predict the com-ing weather conditions. In Britain, for instance, loud singing crickets predict the coming of violent storms. If spiders weave their webs before noon, then it will be fair weather. Ants are sup-posed to be busier before a storm, as are cockroaches.

Locusts sing when the air is hot and dry.

When toads appear in large numbers, you can ex-pect rain.

If bears and horses get thick coats early, then ex-pect a severe winter.

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gathering nuts before a bad winter.

If wasps build their nests high, a severe winter is on its way.

Even the weather it-self, can be used to predict future conditions. For in-stance, for every fog in Au-gust, there will be a snow-fall in winter. Furthermore, a hot summer precedes a cold winter.

The fi rst frost of au-tumn will occur exactly six months after the fi rst thun-derstorm in the spring.

If the autumn is windy, then expect a mild winter.

If the spring in windy, expect a cool summer.

If it is a dry spring, it will be a wet summer.

A mild winter precedes a cool spring.

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Until the middle of the 19th century, hay was cut by hand with sickles and scythes. In the 1860s early cutting devices were developed that resembled those on reapers and binders; from these came the modern array of fully mechanical mow-ers, crushers, windrowers, fi eld choppers, balers, and machines for pelletizing or wafering in the fi eld.

The stationary baler or hay press was invented in the 1850’s and did not become popular until the 1870’s. The “pick up” baler or square baler was replaced by the round baler around the 1940’s.

In 1936, a man named Innes, of Dav-

enport, Iowa, invented an automatic baler for hay. It tied bales with binder twine using Appleby-type knotters from a John Deere grain binder. A Pennsylvania Dutchman named Ed Nolt built his own baler, salvaging the twine knotters from the Innes baler. Both balers did not work that well. According to The History of Twine, “Nolt’s innovative patents pointed the way by 1939 to the mass production of the one-man automatic hay baler. His balers and their imitators revolutionized hay and straw harvest and created a twine demand beyond the wildest dreams of any twine manufacturer.”

The history of hay bales

There were once ap-proximately 3,300 eleva-tors in Saskatchewan (in 1930-1931). At the end of the 1990s, only about 800 remained in opera-tion, and by the summer of 2006 the number of active and de-commissioned el-evators and terminals was approximately 540. The crib-construction wooden elevators fi rst appeared in southern Manitoba and rapidly moved west and north as the western agri-cultural frontier expanded, particularly after 1900, with an infl ux of eastern Canadian, American and European homesteaders. Elevators rapidly came to symbolize the pre-eminent economic activity of the region in general, and the province of Saskatchewan in particular – cereal grain production.

The fi rst recorded ex-port shipment of Canadian prairie wheat occurred in 1876. Because of a serious failure of the spring wheat crop in Ontario, attributed to defects in the seed, a representative of a Toron-to seed company visited Manitoba to obtain 5000 bushels of wheat to use as seed. Although he did not succeed in getting the entire amount, nearly 860

bushels of Red Fife wheat was shipped from Winni-peg to Ontario.

By the late 1870s prai-rie farmers were producing more wheat than could be absorbed domestically and they began to export the surplus. In 1877, an Ogil-vie Flour Mill in Eastern Canada received a consign-ment of Manitoba wheat. In October 1877, the fi rst shipment of wheat from Manitoba to Great Britain occurred. These early ex-ports initially travelled by Red River steamboat south to Minnesota and from there were shipped by rail to the eastern seaboard. In 1879, Winnipeg obtained rail connections with Min-neapolis and commercial shipments began to move south.

Although wheat had been grown annually in the Red River Valley since 1812, a number of devel-opments in the last part of the 19th century encour-aged the spread of agricul-ture across the prairies. In the 1870s the land was sur-veyed, divided into home-steads and thus prepared for agricultural settlement.

The 1870s also saw the introduction of new, ear-lier maturing, varieties of wheat such as Red Fife,

its hardiness well suited to the prairie environment and growing conditions. In the 1880s, new technol-ogy in the milling industry enabled millers to pro-duce a high quality white fl our from Red Fife wheat, thereby increasing the de-mand for prairie wheat. In 1883, the completion of the Canadian Pacifi c Rail-way (CPR) line between Winnipeg and Fort Wil-liam (present-day Thunder Bay) provided an all-Ca-nadian route for incoming settlers to the west and for agricultural exports to the east. The principal benefi -ciary here was Winnipeg. Thanks to its position on the CPR main line, Win-nipeg became the most im-portant retail and whole-sale distribution centre in the west. It early became the centre of the grain trade as well, with the opening of the Winnipeg and Pro-duce Exchange in 1887.

Rising wheat prices on the world market and the occupation of suitable homestead lands in the United States combined to encourage the begin-nings of immigration to the prairies. In the early 20th century, two more transcontinental railways were built across Sas-

katchewan and the west: the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacifi c (GTP). Like the CPR, the Canadian Northern and the GTP built an extensive net-work of branch lines in this province.

Wheat production on the prairies grew rapidly from the turn of the 20th century on. Saskatch-ewan overtook Manitoba as the nation’s largest wheat producer in 1909, and continues to hold that honour to our own day. At the same time, the storage and handling of wheat also evolved. The most impor-tant development here was the introduction of the el-evator, fi rst in Manitoba and then across the prairie west.

The First Elevators - The fi rst vertical grain el-evator on the prairies was a unique rounded silo-like 25,000-bushel capac-ity structure, built in 1879, by William Hespeler, at Niverville, Manitoba. In 1881, the Ogilvie Mill-ing Company erected the fi rst rectangular-design elevator on the prairies at Gretna, Manitoba. This

rectangular design quickly became the ‘standard’ for elevators.

The size and design of these vertical eleva-tors took advantage of the fl owing quality of bulk, loose grain, especially when acted upon by grav-ity, making the handling of grain cheaper, quicker, and less labour-intensive. Joseph Dart, a Buffalo warehouseman, fi rst intro-duced the mechanical prin-ciples of the elevator in the United States in 1842 and

the endless cup conveyor was quickly adopted in el-evators across the U.S. The U.S. system was copied when grain handling facili-ties began to appear at ini-tial shipping points across the Canadian prairies.

The fi rst elevator built in Saskatchewan was likely at Moosomin or In-dian Head, both commu-nities having elevators as early as 1884. The oldest remaining elevator in the province, built in 1895, is at Fleming.

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Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s called for massive immigration to the West. The railway brought settlers to the Prairies and transported agricultural products back to the East. Settlement was slow at fi rst, but by the mid-1890s, settlers began to pour into the Prairies. This massive infl ux lasted until the be-ginning of the First World War.

The Dominion Lands Act of 1872 and the survey system divided the Prai-rie Provinces into town-ships, sections (640 acres), and quarter sections (160 acres). A homesteader could claim a quarter sec-tion for ten dollars, pro-vided he met certain con-ditions. Breaking land was a tough job often done by a team of oxen or horses and a single-furrow walk-ing plough. Farmers with money could buy a steam or gas engine and a gang plough. Wheat was the main crop. Oats was grown for animal feed.

The development of earlier-ripening Marquis Wheat was crucial for western farmers. Marquis was tested at the Domin-ion Experimental Farm in Indian Head and released to farmers in 1909. When Rosthern-area farmer, Sea-ger Wheeler won fi rst prize with Marquis at the New York Land Show in 1911, the agricultural world took notice. Saskatchewan’s future as a grain-growing province was bright.

By the 1920s, most of the available agricultural land was occupied and land was broken. Many farm-ers bought more land and more farmers were able to afford a small gasoline or kerosene-powered tractor. Crops were harvested with binders and threshing ma-chines; the threshing crew consisting of 20 or more men moving from farm to farm. The fi rst combines arrived in Western Canada in the mid- to late-1920s. With a combine, fewer men were needed to bring in the crop.

There was a push dur-ing the 1920s towards improved livestock herds with an emphasis on purebred animals. Cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, and poultry were exhibited at agricultural fairs across the province. Most farmers ran

a mixed operation, raising livestock, and growing grain.

The 1920s also saw farmers look to new solu-tions for their marketing problems. The Saskatche-wan Wheat Pool, a farmer-owned marketing co-oper-ative, was created in 1924. The Pool built or bought hundreds of country eleva-tors in Saskatchewan.

A decade of drought combined with economic collapse during the 1930s brought most of Saskatch-ewan to its knees. Farm practices of the 1920s had pulverized the soil causing it to blow away in the hot, dry winds of the 1930s. There was little feed for cattle; crops and gardens had withered and died. Insect plagues and an out-break of western equine encephalitis or sleeping sickness devastated the horse population.

Experimental farms, the University of Sas-katchewan, and farmers themselves, experimented with different farm practic-es and machines designed to minimize soil degrada-tion. Leaving a trash cov-er, planting shelterbelts, strip farming, and seeding crested wheat grass helped to hold the soil in place.

By the end of the 1930s rains returned to the Prai-ries. The Second World War helped to bring about economic recovery. Farm-ers were urged to raise hogs for Britain. Mechani-zation on farms increased, but that was hampered by the emphasis on war pro-duction by Canada’s man-ufacturing sector.

The prosperous post-war years saw more money in the hands of the farm-ing community. The uses of horses for farm work declined. New machin-ery like rubber-tired trac-tors, cultivators, discers, swathers, self-propelled combines, and trucks made it possible for one farmer to farm more land. Farms grew bigger. Chemicals to control insects and weeds, and fertilizers to improve yields made farms more productive but more ex-pensive to operate.

Where previously farmers depended almost exclusively on machin-ery manufactured in East-ern Canada or the United States, a western agricul-tural machinery industry began to develop. At the University of Saskatch-ewan, new crop varieties better able to withstand Saskatchewan weather conditions were devel-oped.

A revolution in the kinds of crops grown on western farms began with the introduction of a new crop - canola - in the 1970s. Developed from rapeseed by scientists at the Univer-sities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, canola was wel-comed by western farmers. Other crops, like lentils, fi eld peas, and chickpeas were proven to thrive on the Prairies. Acreage pre-viously seeded almost exclusively to wheat now grew a host of different crops.

In the livestock indus-try, farmers imported new breeds of cattle. They also began to raise bison, elk, llamas, and even ostriches as a way to diversify their operations. Hog produc-tion saw the growth of intensive livestock opera-tions.

Farm practices changed radically as the shift to di-rect seeding, minimum or zero tillage replaced the old practice of summer fal-low. Air seeding systems developed and perfected in Saskatchewan along with other innovations like the application of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to guide power units changed the way farmers planted and harvested. A few farm-ers began to raise organic crops, catering to health-conscious consumers.

The trend to larger farms increased as bigger, more automated machin-ery made it possible. The country elevator system

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At its peak in 1936, Sas-katchewan boasted some 142,000 farms; by 2006, that number had shrunk to just over 44,000.

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Tides manifest the gravitational pull of the moon as it circles the earth. If you think of the water on the earth as a thin skin on the surface mass of the planet, it is easy to under-stand how the gravitational effects of the moon’s orbit can pull the water mass gently from side to side. The tide cycle follows the same time cycle as the ris-ing moon, occurring faith-fully every twenty-four hours and fi fty minutes. Tides rise in lakes and riv-ers as rhythmically as in oceans.

The correlation of moon and tide may not seem to have anything to do with planting or gar-dening, but consider the fact that the water content of the earth responds to the same tide cycle as the massive bodies of water that cover our planet. Any

gardener knows the impor-tance of the soil’s water content to a germinating seed. It makes sense to consider, when planting your garden, the pull of the moon and the moon’s posi-tion in order to give seeds the best chance to germi-nate, grow and develop....

Rainfall, like the water content of the earth, is af-fected by the cycles of the moon as surely as the tides, which reach their highest point every 14.6 days or twice a month. Rainfall cy-cles mirror the two-week tide cycle in response to the position of the moon. The highest rainfall oc-curs just after the full and new moons. Once a month, when the moon is nearest the earth, tides are pulled 30% higher than when the moon is farthest from the earth.

Not only does the grav-itational pull of the moon affect the tides and rain-fall, but it affects the air currents on the surface of the earth as well. Plants are extremely sensitive to any tiny energy fl uctuation....

Lunar winds on the earth’s surface, moving at l/20 of a mile per hour, are too minute to be felt on the human skin, but they come, as do tides, twice daily. In the morning they fl ow east, in the evening to the west, infl uencing the

growth of plants as surely as sunshine and rainfall.

Tides, lunar winds, earth tides and rainfall, together with the subtle effects of the moon on the shifting of the earth’s crust and the moon’s effects on the patterns of thunder-storms and their corre-sponding effect on ioniza-tion in the air, convince us that the effects of the moon on our planet are constant-ly coming into play, infl u-encing the growing things of the earth. These factors considered, gardening and seeding crops in accor-dance with the phases of the moon seems not so odd after all.Why the Moon Phase Sys-tem Works

The time at which a seed is sown is the begin-ning of its life cycle. Fi-nal plant yield, as every gardener/farmer knows, is crucially affected by the conditions encountered by the seed.

The person most re-sponsible for formal ex-perimentation in this area is Maria Thun, whose research on her farm in Darmstadt, Germany, has been fi nancially supported by a group of biodynamic farmers.

In 1952, Thun devel-oped a method of sowing a fi xed number of crop rows over a sidereal month.

(The term sidereal refers to the position of the moon in relationship to the stars or constellations in the sky behind it.) In other words, Maria Thun sowed accord-ing to varying phases of the lunar cycle. Once the crop came to maturity, it was weighed and studied, and the results were re-corded. Thun’s fi ndings were accumulated over a ten-year period from 1952 to 1962. The crop Thun chose to study initially was potatoes; subsequently she studied not only other root crops but also leaf crops, fruit-bearers and fl owers.

Thun’s results were surprising. She discovered if potatoes were planted when the moon was in the constellations of Taurus, Capricorn or Virgo (tra-ditionally termed “root days”), the crop was more prolifi c than if she planted when the moon was posi-tioned in other constella-tions of the zodiac belt. After some thought, she concluded that potatoes did better if planted while the moon was clearly po-sitioned in earth signs than at any other time. Potato crops planted when the moon was positioned in the constellations Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces--the wa-ter signs of the zodiac--did poorly.

The results of Thun’s studies fascinated another experimenter in Germany. Graf repeated her method from 1973 to 1975, this time using many different types of soils, and plant-ing radishes as well as potatoes. Graf discovered that sowing on root days affected positively the growth and production of crops, and got best result when using chemically un-treated, organic soils.

In 1976, Kollerstrom and Muntz, Sussex mar-ket gardeners, repeated the experiments of Graf and Thun and gained a 45% increase in yield for crops sown on root days. Con-ducted over a period of two months, their study did not show that the phase of the moon, waxing or waning, made as much difference as the moon’s placement in the sky at the time of sow-ing.

The effect of the phases of the moon on seed ger-mination and growth was fi rst studied by L. Kolisko in 1930. Using wheat, Ko-lisko found that seeds ger-minated faster and more prolifi cally when sown at the full moon. The new moon gave him the most unsuccessful results. Lat-er experiments on cress confi rmed Kolisko’s fi nd-ings. Recent studies at Northwestern University,

conducted by Professor F. Brown, have shown that, even under equal temperatures, seedlings absorb more water at the full moon than at the new moon. The fi ndings lend credibility to adages that recommend harvesting at full moon. It seems plants have less water content at the new moon phase. Pro-fessor Brown went so far as to test plants in a dark-ened laboratory where they would have no direct access to effects of sun or moon. The plants still responded to the moon phases.

Other experiments have been conducted at Wichita State University and at Tu-lane University. All have achieved the same results. Experimentation indi-cates that seeds sown just before or around the full moon have a higher rate and speed of germination than those sown at the new moon because seeds are able to absorb more water at the full moon.

The lunar month is di-vided into two basic moon activities: waxing and waning. The beginning of each process is designated by the new and full moon. A full moon occurs when the moon is 180 degrees opposite the sun, in posi-tion to receive sunlight over the maximum vol-ume of its surface. A new moon occurs when the sun and moon are so closely aligned that it is impos-sible for the moon to give off any refl ected sunlight. Waxing occurs in the pe-riod between the new and the full moon. Waning de-scribes lunar activity be-

tween the full and the new moon. When the moon is waxing, it is said to be in its fi rst and second quarters. The waning of the moon brings the phases through the third and fourth quar-ters of the cycle.

The waxing moon phase is a good time to en-courage plant growth and proliferation. The waning moon phase is a useful time to control plant growth and keep down garden pests.

We have already seen evidence asserting growth and liquid absorption peaks at the full moon, and drastically declines during the new moon.

We know from fl uctua-tions in the electrical fi eld of plants, made visible through Kirlian photogra-phy, as well as through ex-perience, that plants grow and absorb water at an ir-regular rate. Rapid growth rate is often followed by a period of rest. Fruit bear-ing is followed by a period of dormancy. Although we do not know the full effects of the waxing and waning moon on plant growth, we do know that synchroniz-ing phases of plant growth with the phases of the moon produces healthier plants and more abundant yield.

Traditionally, garden-ers have been advised to sow seeds at the full moon, perhaps because our ances-tors discovered that seeds germinated more rapidly then. Many people today sow at the new moon in or-der to ensure germination before the growth spurt given the plant by the full moon.

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Ten years later, Eli Whitney unveiled the fi rst hand-powered cotton gin, considered a marvel at the time because it was able to separate seeds, hulls and other unwanted materi-als from cotton after it is picked.

But it was Cyrus Mc-Cormick’s reaper, fi rst demonstrated in 1831, that laid the foundation for the farm equipment industry we know today. This de-vice, along with McCor-mick’s self-raking feature, allowed one man to cut 40

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By the mid-1800s, “real” horsepower began to give way to “mechani-cal” horsepower as the portable steam “traction” engine quickly followed the development of the stationary steam engine. These developments her-

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spurred many of today’s full-line manufacturers. 1698 - Thomas Savery invents a crude steam engine which initiates a chain reaction of events that leads to the develop-ment of the steam trac-tion engine. 1702 - Jethro Tull of Great Britain in-vents the seed drill and is perhaps the best-known inventor of a mechanical planter. The seed drill con-sisted of a box of grain and seeds hauled by a horse. The seeder is built using the foot pedals of a church organ. Because the seeds are planted in rows rather than randomly, it is much easier for a horse-drawn cart to remove weeds that formed around the crop. 1784 - Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president, statesman and inventor, develops the fi rst plow designed with the use of a mathematic formula to reduce soil re-sistance during plowing. 1785 - A plow that features a cast iron moldboard and share is developed in Scot-land by James Small. 1794- Eli Whitney develops the fi rst hand-powered cotton gin on the General Nathan-

iel Greene plantation near Savannah, Ga. The cotton gin separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted ma-terials from cotton after it is picked. 1797 - Charles Newbold patents the fi rst cast iron plow in America.

1814 - Jethro Woods, a blacksmith in Scipio, N.Y., patents a cast iron plow with three replace-able parts. 1822 - Jeremiah Bailey of Chester County, Pa., patents a horse-drawn machine with a revolving wheel with six knives for cutting hay and other ma-terials. 1825 -The “whoa-back” horse-drawn hay rake is developed. The whoa-back was named for the way in which the op-erator had to stop the rake

and back up the horse in order to dump hay to form a windrow.

1833- Obed Hussey patents the fi rst successful reaper for small grains. It consists of an oscillating sickle bar and a platform to catch the cut stalks. 1834 - Cyrus Hall McCor-mick develops the horse-drawn mechanical reaper at Staunton, Va.; Joab Cen-ter, Hudson, N.Y., patents a machine for turning and spreading hay. 1836 - Hi-ran Moore and John Has-call, Kalamazoo, Mich., develop a machine for mowing, winnowing and threshing grain.

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cont’d. from page 181841 - The fi rst practi-

cal grain drill is patented by Moses and Samuel Pen-nock of Chester County, Pa.; Robert Ransomes of Ipswich, England, intro-duces the fi rst steam-pow-ered traction engine and began producing it com-mercially a year later.

1844 - William Ket-chum of Buffalo, N.Y., patents the fi rst machine strictly for cutting hay.

1849 - The fi rst steam traction engines appear in the U.S. These por-table models are pulled by horses. One of the fi rst portable steam engines, the “Forty Niner,” was built by A.L. Archanbault in Philadelphia. The engine was offered in 4-, 10- and 30-horsepower sizes.

1850 - The fi rst com-mercially successful “hay press,” the forerunner to the modern baler, is intro-duced. Popularly known as “The Mormon Press,” this stationary machine processed bales of hay for transportation by barge on

the nation’s rivers. 1853 - Walter A. Wood introduces the spring-tooth dump rake (also called the sulky rake) to meet the growing needs of farmers working with mowers. 1855 - The fi rst self-propelled stream trac-tion engine in the U.S. is invented by Obed Hussey specifi cally for plowing. 1857 - The Oliver chilled cast-iron plow is developed by James Oliver. 1858 - Lewis Miller of Canton, Ohio, patents an improved hay mowing machine. 1862 - Thomas Aveling, a Kentish farmer — dissat-isfi ed with portable steam engines used to power farm machinery because they had to be moved from site to site by a team of horses — develops a self-moving steam engine. He begins to manufacture his engines in partnership with Richard Thomas Porter to form Aveling & Porter.

1863 - John Deere de-velops the Hawkeye Rid-ing Cultivator, the fi rst im-plement designed to ride instead of walk behind.

Because so many men lost limbs during the Civil War, the cultivator was mar-keted as easily operated by “one-armed or one-legged men.” 1869 - The J.I. Case Co. produces the fi rst steam-powered trac-tion engine that is used pri-marily to replace animals in farming operations.; Gilpin Moore designs the Gilpin Sulkey Plow, which takes farmers off their feet and allows them to ride as they plow.

1882 - Cyrus McCor-mick builds the fi rst Mc-Cormick Daisy Reaper. 1886 - World’s fi rst self-propelled combine is de-veloped by George Stock-ton Berry of Lindsay, Calif.; William Deering & Co. is the fi rst manufactur-er to build a factory to pro-duce “binder twine” used on their harvesters. 1887- In Sterling, Ill., the Char-ter Gasoline Engine Co.’s creation of a gasoline-fueled engine led to early gasoline traction engines before the term “tractor” was coined by others. 1889

- Charter Gasoline Engine Co. adapts its engine to a Rumley steam-traction-engine chassis and its fi rst production run is for 6 “traction engines.”

1892 - In a tiny vil-lage in Northeast Iowa, John Froelich invents the fi rst successful gasoline-powered engine that can be driven both backward and forward. The Froelich tractor, forerunner of the Waterloo Boy tractor, is considered by many to be the fi rst successful gaso-line tractor. Froelich’s ma-chine fathered a long line of stationary gasoline en-gines and, eventually, the famous John Deere 2-cyl-inder tractor.; Case is the fi rst of the old-line har-vester companies to build a gas tractor. The “Pater-son Tractor” was not suc-cessful and the company did not build another gas tractor until 1911.; Ru-dolph Diesel patents the compression ignition en-gine that became known as the diesel engine. Herbert Akroyd-Stuart, Halifax,

Nova Scotia, fi les the fi rst patent for the diesel engine in 1890, but never pro-duces one. 1893 - Charles and Elwood Williamson of Union City, Ind., invent “new and useful” improve-ments to land rollers for farming, roads and other purposes. 1894 - The side-delivery rake is developed to produce more appropri-ately sized windrows for hay loaders. 1897- Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr form the Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Co. in Madison, Wis. They move manufacturing operations to Charles City, Iowa, in 1900. The company is the fi rst to call their product a “tractor.”

1902 - Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co., Minneapolis, Minn., con-tracts with the Joy-Wilson Co., Chicago, Ill., to de-sign a farm tractor. This evolves into the popular Twin City “40.” 1904- Benjamin Holt, a Cali-fornia manufacturer of agricultural equipment, develops the fi rst success-

ful crawler tractor. It’s equipped with tracks rather than wheels to keep heavy tractors from sinking into soft soils. 1905 - Interna-tional Harvester devel-ops the fi rst friction-drive tractor by utilizing the IH stationary gas engine with a Morton chassis. 1907 - With chief engineer, Jo-seph Galamb, Henry Ford begins work on an experi-mental gasoline-powered tractor. It is referred to as the “automobile plow” and was never called a “trac-tor” during development. 1910 - Ummo Leubens de-velops the fi rst round hay baler. 1912 - Australian farmer and inventor Arthur Clifford Howard develops the fi rst powered rotary til-ler. 1916 - In Meade Coun-ty, Kan., Harry Krause designs and builds the fi rst one-way disk plow. 1918 - American Harvester Co. of Minneapolis begins manu-facturing the horse-drawn Ronning Harvester.

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cont’d from page 191919 - The Gilson

Manufacturing Co. be-came the fi rst to attach a gasoline engine to a multi-purpose gardening imple-ment, ultimately manufac-turing about 7,000 of these tractors for the Beeman Tractor Co. of Minneapo-lis, Minnesota. Gilson be-gan making garden trac-tors under its own name by the early 1920s

The company was re-named Gilson Bolens Co. in 1928 and Bolens Man-ufacturing Co. in 1939.; International Harvester develops the fi rst com-mercially available power-take-off (PTO) system, to allow power from a tractor engine to be transmitted to attached harvesting equip-ment.

1923 - The Baldwin Brothers of Nickerson, Kan., develop the fi rst self-propelled “Gleaner” com-bine, mounted on a Ford-son tractor; Deere & Co. launches the Model “D” tractor. It will remain in the line for nearly 30 years; International Harvester introduces its Farmall trac-tor. With the rear wheels set wide apart and narrow front wheels, the tractor

was ideally suited for cul-tivating row crops. 1925 - Deere & Co. begins work on the “GP” (General Pur-pose) series tractor as the answer to International Harvester’s Farmall. 1926- Helmer and Ellert Han-son of Lajord, Saskatch-ewan, introduce the hay swather. Engineers at In-ternational Harvester, hav-ing observed the operation of the Hanson brothers’ swather, develop their own model. 1927 - Interna-tional Harvester becomes the fi rst company to offer swathers for sale. These early machines were pow-ered by a ground wheel, but subsequent models were PTO-driven. With the introduction of these implements, farmers were able to windrow hay and then process it during the appropriate season; Deere & Co. offers combines in two sizes: the John Deere No. 1 and John Deere No. 2. The No. 1 was a smaller unit for smaller farm op-erators. 1928 - Italian trac-tor manufacturer SAME is credited with producing the fi rst diesel-powered agricultural tractor. 1929- Deere & Co. offers the “GP” wide-series tractor.

The fi rst model incorpo-rates a narrow front wheel arrangement and rear wheels that straddle two rows, making it ideal for row-crop operations.

The Ann Arbor Bal-er is developed by Ray Moore McDonald and is recognized as the world’s fi rst pickup baler.

1931 - Caterpillar man-ufactures a crawler tractor with a diesel engine, which offers more power, reli-ability and fuel effi ciency than those using low-oc-tane gasoline. 1932 - The fi rst commercially suc-cessful pickup forage har-vester is developed by Er-win W. Saiberlich and sold by Fox River Tractor Co. of Appleton, Wis. 1933 - Allis Chalmers joins with Firestone Rubber to de-velop the fi rst air-fi lled rubber tires for agricultural tractors. Tests by the Univ. of Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory fi nd that rub-ber wheels result in a 25% improvement in fuel econ-omy; Harry Ferguson’s 3-point hitch is attached to a David Brown tractor in England, creating the Fer-guson-Brown model A. By 1937, sales dropped and relations between Brown

and Ferguson became hos-tile. Ferguson shopped his system to Henry Ford in 1939 and together they re-lease the Ford model 9N. This partnership dissolves, resulting in a lawsuit over royalties. By 1960, Fergu-son’s patent expires and the 3-point hitch becomes the industry standard; Fred Hoeme of Hooker, Okla., develops a heavy-duty chisel plow. W.T. Graham, Amarillo, Texas, purchas-es the manufacturing and distribution rights in 1938 and it becomes known as the Graham-Hoeme chisel plow. 1935 - International Harvester introduces a diesel engine for wheeled tractors. 1936 - Ed Nolt, a Pennsylvania farmer, pur-chases a knotter mecha-nism to bale the windrows of straw produced by his combine. This was the fi rst twine tie hay/straw baler. 1930-1938 - Massey Harris develops its M-H General Purpose tractor, the industry’s fi rst four-wheel-drive, steel-wheeled tractor. It also has an ad-justable track width. Un-fortunately, the benefi ts of four-wheel drive were not yet fully understood. The machine was modernized

in 1936 with the instal-lation of rubber tires, but sales failed to increase.

1940 - New Holland Machine Co., New Hol-land, Pa., develops the fi rst commercially successful automatic pickup, self-tying hay and straw baler. 1941 - Massey Ferguson produces the fi rst success-ful self-propelled combine with the Massey-Harris 21SP combine. 1944 - Leonard T. Fleischer de-velops the fi rst ridge-till equipment and establishes Fleischer Manufacturing Co. in Grand Isle, Neb. 1945 - Peter Pakosh, de-signs and builds the fi rst prototype grain auger and, 8 years later, starts selling thousands under the “Ver-satile” name, making it the standard for modern grain augers. 1946 - Woods Brothers Equipment Co., Oregon, Ill., develops the fi rst tractor-mounted ro-tary cutter mower, invent-ed by Keith Leonard and Mervel Wood, it provides an advanced cutting meth-od that permits the driver to control cutting lengths and contours. 1947 - Allis Chalmers introduces the “Rotobaler” that produces round bales that are 16

inches in diameter and 48 inches wide; Karl-Ragnar Åström builds the fi rst front-end loader in Swe-den and establishes AB Ålö-Maskiner, the manu-facturer of Alo/Quicke loaders; Edward Gideon (E.G.) Melroe founds Mel-roe Manufacturing Co. to produce the Melroe Pickup combine attachment; John Eyestone, Upper San-dusky, Ohio, builds the fi rst self-propelled, 4-row corn picker-sheller. He builds the machine by us-ing a surplus WW II 6-WD power unit, installing two Minneapolis-Moline pull-type corn heads together and adding a new Min-neapolis-Moline sheller to the frame. He then in-stalls a 320-bushel bin to collect the shelled grain; Servis Equipment Co. en-gineers Clyde Robinson and Hoy West develop the fi rst front-mounted stalk shredder to shred cot-ton and corn stalks; Lyle Yost, founder of Hesston Machine and Manufactur-ing Co., develops the fi rst grain auger unloader for combines;

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cont’d from page 20Ray Hagie, founder of

Hagie Manufacturing Co., Clarion, Iowa, invents the fi rst self-propelled sprayer for agricultural applica-tions; Brandt Machine Works, Carlisle, Ark., manufactured its fi rst grain cart, designed to help a lo-cal farmer haul rice from the combine in the fi eld to the truck. Several are still in use today. The fi rm fol-lowed this innovtion with the design of a round hop-per grain cart in the 1950s.

1948 - Brillion Iron Works introduces the “Sure Stand” grass seeder. Colo-rado farmer Frank Zybach invents the center pivot ir-rigation machine, which revolutionizes irrigation technology. The system consists of sprinklers at-tached to arms that radiate from a water-fi lled hub out to motorized wheeled tow-ers in the fi eld. Zybach is awarded a patent in 1952 for the “Self-Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Ap-paratus.”

1949 - Univ. of Cali-fornia-Davis agricultural engineers Coby Lorenzen and Jack Hanna develop a successful tomato harvest-er that is made by Black-welder Manufacturing Co.

of Rio Vista, Calif.; Seeing a need to increase fl ota-tion in wet fi eld conditions and make better use of the tractor’s available horse-power, Richard and L.G. Unverferth, develop the fi rst bolt-on dual tractor wheels. This innovation uses a cast “hat-style” ex-tension that attach the dual wheels to the drive wheel’s weight holes.

1950 - The fi rst self-propelled windrower is produced by Killbery In-dustries and marketed under the “Grain-Saver” brand name; The Stihl BL is unveiled as the fi rst one-man, gasoline-powered chain saw. It weighs 35 pounds and is equipped with a manually-adjusted swivel carburetor that al-lows the saw to be used for both bucking and felling; The “Pulvi-Mulcher” tills and compacts a seedbed in one pass is introduced by Brillion Iron Works.1951 - The Ferguson Co. devel-ops a side-stroke reel rake that uses only two spiders and six bars. Around the same period, a no-reel rake was invented. Called a fi n-ger-wheel type rake, it uses raking wheels with tooth-like projections. The side-delivery type continued to

develop and remains the most widely used type of hay rake today. 1954 - Val-mont Industries develops the fi rst commercially suc-cessful irrigation system for Great Plains farmers. 1955 - Hesston Machine and Manufacturing Co., Hesston, Kan., introduces the fi rst self-propelled swather. - The Roll-Over Protection System (ROPS) for tractors is developed by Lloyd H. Lamouria, Ralph R. Parks and Coby Lorenzen at the Univ. of California-Davis. South Australian company Gyral, founded by Albert Fuss, introduces an air seeder in the 1950s in response to farmers who were unable to plant in more compact soil environments. The seeder was light in weight and mounted on a Graham Holme chisel plow. 1957 - Deere & Co. signals a sig-nifi cant change in row-crop planting with the introduc-tion of a 6-row planter and cultivator, designed for corn and cotton producers. The fi rst skid-steer loader, designed and built by Cyril and Louis Keller, Rothsay, Minn., is a small, light-weight, 3-wheel front-end loader capable of turning 360 degrees within its own

length. 1958 - AB Ålö-Maskiner develops the fi rst “drive-in” front end loader. Linde’s launch of the fi rst hydrostatic transmission marked a milestone in the history of forklift design. Melroe Manufacturing Co. forms a partnership with Cyril and Louis Keller to create the Melroe self-pro-pelled loader. John Steiger, along with sons Douglas and Maurice, build the fi rst Steiger tractor in their barn at Red Lake Falls, Minn. Steiger #1 was built from truck components and powered by a 238-horse-power Detroit Diesel En-gine. 1959 - The Wagner TR is the fi rst articulated tractor in production with 4-wheel drive and 4-wheel steering. It is powered by a Cummins 8.1-liter, 90-horsepower or 12.2-li-ter 155-horsepower en-gine.

1960 - First all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are built by Jiger Corp. and ap-pear as 6-wheel vehicles with yellow fi berglass tubs that allow them to fl oat; International Harvester launches the Cub Cadet as the fi rst lawn and garden tractors produced by a ma-jor tractor manufacturer. Melroe Manufacturing Co.

introduces the M-400, the fi rst 4-wheeled, all-wheel drive “skid-steer” loader. MacKissic introduces in-terchangeable grinding screens in stalk shredders. 1960s New Holland intro-duces the industry’s fi rst

mower-conditioner. The Haybine 460 cuts and con-ditions hay in one pass to make hay harvesting faster.

cont’d. on page 22

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newly developed wettable chemicals. 1966 - Allis Chalmers introduces the fi rst no-till planter; The DICKEY-john Manufac-turing Co. introduces elec-tronic monitoring devices to allow farmers to plant crops more effi ciently. Attached to mechani-cal planters and air seed-ers, the devices monitor the number and spacing of seeds being planted; A farmer and rancher from North Dakota notices the need for an affordable and moderate-sized tub grinder to feed his live-stock. He starts a company to produce the Haybuster C-Series. It was the fi rst product for the company now known as DuraTech Industries International, Inc., which is headquar-tered in Jamestown, N.D.; 1967 - International Har-vester introduces the fi rst hydrostatic-drive com-bine; Kinze Manufactur-ing of Williamsburg, Iowa, builds the fi rst auger-un-loading grain wagon. Un-verferth Manufacturing in-troduces the step-up wheel lug that allows farmers to adapt older tractors to the larger 38-inch diam-eter wheels and tires that manufactures are install-

ing on new tractor models. The larger tires improved drawbar horsepower and speed. Charles Shivvers invents and patents the tapered sweep auger, the Shivvers Circu-Lator, the fi rst in-bin continuous fl ow grain drying system. 1969- Rekord Sales, Ather-stone, England, develops the fi rst commercially successful straw chopper attachment for combines; Avery Weigh-Tronix in-vents the weigh bar fi rst installed on an Art’s-Way grinder mixers, securing a patent in 1972. The new invention revolutionized grinder mixer machinery, allowing a farmer to ac-curately batch feed rations

for hogs. They can weigh each ingredient added into the mixer and accurately dispense it to different groups of livestock; Ace Pump Corp., Memphis, Tenn., introduces the fi rst close-coupled hydraulic motor-driven spray pump. Servis-Rhino patents the fi rst 4-gearbox, fl ex-wing rotary cutter. The Flex 15 enables the wings to be raised without damaging the wing drivelines. Un-til then, all fl ex-wing cut-ters featured only three gearboxes; Don Landoll invents the fi rst traveling axle trailer.

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especially small compa-nies, haven’t developed health and safety programs for their business. In an emergency scenario, this will leave them in disarray as to what to do and will almost certainly confl ict with the execution of your emergency preparedness plan. This could lead to potential injuries, damaged property and equipment, or costly shutdowns.

One way to determine the safety culture of a con-tractor is to ask that their health and safety plan be included in their work-bid as part of the consideration for winning the contract.

In the absence of the contractor having a health and safety plan, then this puts greater onus on you to outline and clearly com-municate what health and safety measures are ex-pected of all contractors and their employees on your farm, and to do so be-fore any work begins.

Four of the key points to cover include a work site review with the contractor pointing out the location of emergency equipment, power sources, wash-rooms, etc as well as any potential hazards. Next, ensure the contractor has appropriate means to man-

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Sheep have been a part of Saskatchewan’s econ-omy for nearly 140 years, with the fi rst sheep arriv-ing on the Canadian prai-ries in the early 1800s. It has been noted that many of the large cattle ranches in southern Saskatchewan

were actually established fi rst as sheep operations. In 1889 the town of Maple Creek became a distribu-tion point for 30,000 sheep that had been trailed across country from Idaho and Montana; these sheep com-prised the fi ne wool range

breeds. Ranchers felt they needed the hardiness, graz-ing habits and wool quality that they could obtain from the French Rambouillet and the Spanish Merino breeds, even though their confor-mation to produce meat left much to be desired. The largest fl ocks are still lo-cated in the southern part of the province; however, they only consist of 500–1,000 ewes and are now made up of the dual-purpose breeds: Targhee, Columbia, and other white-face crosses. The fi rst sheep to arrive at the University of Saskatch-ewan sheep farm in 1911 were Shropshires. The sheep sector of the farm was quite dynamic during the fi rst twenty years of its operation; various breeds were kept for judging and display purposes, but the Shropshire breed remained dominant for quite some time. Throughout the years many other sheep-breeding programs were undertaken and many research trials were conducted at the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan.

The post-war period was not kind to the Sas-katchewan sheep industry. Australia became the world supplier of fi ne wool; with synthetic fi bres replac-ing wool in many types of clothing, the price of Cana-

dian wool dropped; and the development of New Zea-land as a major exporter of low-priced lamb affected the Canadian lamb market.

Saskatchewan’s sheep population has shifted with the changing times: its numbers peaked in 1934 at 381,000, and declined to below 100,000 head in 1974; an all-time low of 53,000 occurred in 1986. Since then sheep numbers have steadily risen, and the provincial ewe fl ock now stands at 70,000; this makes Saskatchewan the fourth-largest sheep pro-ducing province in the country.

Sheep production in this province consists of farm fl ocks, range fl ocks, and fi nishing operations; there is also some interest in dairy operations. There is a wide variety of breeds: Suffolk, Hampshire, Dor-set, Columbia, Targhee, Rambouillet, North Coun-try Cheviots, Canadian Arcotts, Rideau Arcotts, Texels, Katahdin and Dor-per are the most common. Farm fl ocks range in size from sixty to 250 ewes, and generally market lambs that are fed to a fi nished weight of 110 pounds, the usual target weight for slaugh-ter lamb in Canada. Range fl ocks are much larger and

tend to be found grazing on short-grass prairie in the southwestern part of the province. These lambs are usually weaned off grass and sold as feeder lambs through the big fall sales, or direct to feedlots. There are several feedlot operations in the province, the largest being located north of Re-gina. Lamb makes its way to Canadian and American markets via order buyers, feedlots, and public auc-tions. Many lambs are sold through the assembly ser-vice of the Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board.

Sheep are often over-looked as an opportunity in agriculture, a factor that has been slowly addressed in recent years. Sheep pro-duction remains a viable al-ternative within sustainable agriculture: a relatively low cost of entry, a higher biological effi ciency (more than one offspring), and additional opportunity ar-eas such as wool and dairy make sheep production at-tractive. In addition, sheep provide a positive ecologi-cal grazing control where they are used to manage weeds such as leafy spurge and others found in emerg-ing reseeded forests. With the advent of round bale feeders, portable electric fencing and many other la-

bour-saving devices, more and more women are be-coming the fl ock caretakers and managers. However, there are many challenges in producing sheep, in-cluding predator problems (coyotes) and the need to reach economies of size in order to supply markets on a continual basis.

Purebred sheep pro-duction is represented by the Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders Association, which manages the pure-bred shows and sales in the province. Some of the other organizations that oversee the business of their breeds are the Saskatchewan Ka-tahdin Association and the Western Katahdin Sheep Co-operative Ltd. The latest organization to be formed in the province is Canadian Prairie Lamb (CPL); incor-porated in 2003, this group took the initiative to devel-op some value-added lamb products. Today CPL has a product line that includes raw and cooked marinated lamb kebabs, two variet-ies of cooked appetizer lamb meatballs, lamb sau-sage, and a product called “cooked lamb in Moroc-can orange sauce.” CPL is leading the way in Canada when it comes to the pro-cessing and marketing of value-added lamb products.

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History of sheep production in Saskatchewan

• In 1918 there were only 12,382 immigrants to Saskatchewan com-pared with a peak of some 46,000 in 1912. Saskatch-ewan’s total population reached about 675,000 in 1918, a huge increase over the 1901 census report of 91,279. Source: Canada Year Book, 1919

• The number of tractors on Saskatchewan farms increased from 17,523 in 1921 to 43,308 in 1931. Source: WDM Winning the Prairie Gamble research

• The number of grain elevators in Saskatchewan peaked at 3240 in 1932-33.

• The number of farms in Saskatchewan peaked in 1936 at just over 142,000.

• 1937 was the worst year of the Depression; the average yield per acre in Saskatchewan was 2.7 bushels per acre.

Number of horses on Saskatchewan farms in 1921 - 1,169,278; 1930 - 1,071,80; 1941- 838,000; 1951 - 303,853; 1961 - 109,000. Source: Canada Year Books, 1921; 1930; 1942;1952-53;1962.

Average farm price of Wheat per tonne in Saskatchewan in 1920 - $56.95; 1930 - $17.27; 1940- $21.31; 1950 - $54.75; 1960 - $58.05; 1970 - $53.28; 1980 - $209.81. Source: Fair-bairn, Garry: From Prairie Roots: The Remarkable Story of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool

Number of machines on Saskatchewan farms from 1926 to 1951. Bind-er 129,177 (1931) 70,584 (1951); Threshing Machine - 27,046 (1931) 19,221 (1951); Combine - 6,000 (1926) 43,000 (1951); Trac-tor - 26,700 (1926) 106,700 (1951); Truck 3,300 (1926) 50,000 (1951); Car - 52,000 (1926) 63,000 (1951). Source: Ralph Hedlin, “Machines Have Changed Saskatchewan” in The Country Guide, May 1955, pp. 10, 86

Number of farms in Saskatchewan in 1991 - 60,840; 1996 - 56,995; 2006 - 44,329. Source: in-teractive.usask.ca; 2006 census

Fifty year progress - Population - 195,000 (1905) 828,000 (1925) 880,665 (1955); Cities - 3 (1905) 7 (1925) 8 (1955); Towns - 16 (1905) 80 (1925) 98 (1955); Villag-es - 63 (1905) 368 (1925) 373 (1955); Rural Mu-nicipalities - 2 (1905) 301 (1925) 310 (1955); School Districts - 896 (1905) 4679 (1925) 5221 (1955); Hospitals - 6 (1905) 119 (1925) 163 (1955); Post Offi ces - 12 (1905) 1423 (1925) 1250 (1955); Rail-way Mileage - 1176 (1905) 7631 (1925) 8883 (1955);

Motor Licenses - 0 (1905) 79,383 (1925) 267,373 (1955); Acreages Under Cultivation - 1,638,281 (1905) 27,195,453 23,705,573 Grain Elevators - 298 (1905) 2552 (1925) 2975 (1955); Elevator Capacity (bu.) - 8,935,00 (1905) 90,000,000 (1925) 190,110,000 (1955). Source: map WDM-1973-S-22954 in the West-ern Development Museum artifact collection. Infor-mation from research fi les and artifacts in the collec-tion of Saskatchewan West-ern Development Museum www.wdm.ca February, 2010.

In 2006 there were 44,329 farms in the prov-ince with 36,967,219.6 acres of seeded land (ex-cluding Christmas trees). There were 12,235 beef cat-tle ranch and farms (includ-ing feedlots) and 25,400 grain farms. The number of farm operators was 59,185 and 39,000 families. There was 3,060,000 head of cattle and 44,329 fruit, berry and nuts, vegetables, sod, nursery and green-house farms. 27,801,000 dozen eggs were produced in Saskatchewan that year.

Source: Statistics Canada. 4-H Clubs - 4-H clubs

had two predecessors - agricultural clubs, more commonly known as the Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs, which were supervised by the Agricultural Extension Department and the girl’s clubs or Homecraft Clubs. In 1952, both types be-came 4-H Clubs, but they continued to be adminis-tered and operated sepa-rately. The Saskatchewan 4-H Council was formed in 1957 for the purpose of encouraging club work, act as a clearing house, coor-dinate efforts and advise on policies and program direction. In 1963 all 4-H work was placed under a single supervisor, H.R. Clark. By 1970 the role of the Extension division had changed considerably. Direct contact with clubs was maintained through a monthly mailing of the 4-H “Leader’s Bulletin” and the 4-H quarterly, “Fo-cus”. The Division was still involved in preparing pro-gram material, conducting the provincial selections, and operating programs at Camp Rayner, the Division was no longer involved in

club events, the appoint-ment of judges, or the club effi ciency competitions. In 1985, 4-H became au-tonomous and moved their

offi ces from the Extension Division. The following supervised the program: H.R. Clark (1963-1969); G. Hass (1969-1979); P.

Katz (1979-1985). Source: Saskatchewan Archival Infor-mation Network.

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Dean would like to thank every customer who walked through the doors since 1998 and WELCOME them and every new customer to stop by for a coffee and visit! As always I will continue to give that one-on-one personal touch service, its the Deano motto!

We’re a short drive, for a lifetime of service!

You know how they say “A good repair shop is hard to fi nd” Well that’s us! We’re hard to fi nd & it’s worth your time!

Month of AprilDAILY

GIVE AWAYS!

We’re accepting applications for Part-Time & Full-Time• Shop Tire Repair • Mobile Tire Repair • Shop Mechanic• Book Keeper • Janitor

Send resumes to:Fax 1.306.883.2932

Email: gollerstire@sasktel.net

GOLLER’S TIRE SERVICE IN NEW LOCATIONNOW NOW OPENOPEN

GOLLER’S TIRE SERVICE LTD. • 6 Miles South of Spiritwood (Turn Right)• 5 Miles West (Turn Left)• 2 Miles South (Turn Right)• ¼ Mile West (We’re on your left)

Hard To Find! Worth Your Time!1.306.883.2992 or 1.306.841.7980

Email: gollerstire@sasktel.net

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TIRESSALES & SERVICE• Industrial• Agriculture• Automotive• ATV & Rec• Service TruckMobile Repair

PARTSSALES & SERVICE• Agriculture• Automotive• ATV• Accessories* NAPA PARTS *

MECHANICALSERVICE

Auto• Oil Changes• Brakes• Shocks• Front EndTractor Trailer• Brakes• Wheel Seals• Air Leaks

WELDINGSERVICE

• In Shop Repair• Fabricating - ATV Trailers - Auto Trailers• General Agricultural Repairs

SALES NEW & USED

• Tires• Parts• ATVs & Rec• Accessories

CUSTOMER SATISFACTIONDEAN GOLLER GUARANTEE

• 26 yrs. experience• Knowledge of product we sell• Knowing each customer individually and their needs• There is NO Customer, NO job, NO problem to small• Courteous service with a smile, especially after the sale.

WHAT DO WE DO?

Tires and PartsNOW ARRIVING

By The Semi Load!

Harvest technology has evolved over the years and while Saskatchewan pioneers had creative ideas they did not achieve com-mercial success, however manufacturers incorporat-ed their inventions to fur-ther the industry.

In the mid 1920s, broth-ers and farmers Helmer and Ellert Hanson from Lajord, Saskatchewan faced with a farm labor shortage began discussing the idea of pick-ing up swaths with a modi-fi ed conventional combine. They built their idea from experience of relatives in South Dakota. The South Dakota relatives developed a central delivery reaper (basically a swather) and a travelling thresher (picked up and threshed rows), however their inventions garnered little attention from both farmers and manufacturers.

The Hansons noticed grain dried better lying loose on top of the ground rather than being bundled in sheaves and they de-cided to build a swather from scratch and convert a swather to a pickup for a combine that would han-dle both swath rows and sheaves; this minimized the risk of an unproven meth-od.

The Hanson brothers who live only six miles

apart each developed their own prototypes. They followed no blueprints or drawings, rather each brother saw in his mind the complete machine and how it would work. Interesting-ly both machines when fi n-ished were nearly identical.

They did not apply for patents, rather they shared their ideas freely and they received considerable at-tention from manufacturers and engineers.

International Harvester Co. (IHC) sent an engineer to evaluate the machines in the fi eld and in 1928, mar-keted their fi rst swather, a 12 ft. McCormick-Deering Windrow-Harvestor.

The J.I. Case company sent their chief designer, who at their request had his company make 32 in. cyl-inders which increased the combine’s ability to pick up heavy rows. Among the fi rst companies to market swathers were IHC, Case and John Deere.

Separating grain at har-vest was based on shaking the grain free of the straw and chaff.

In the 70s, Western Roto Thresh Company out of Saskatoon marketed a new rotary type of combine utilizing the centrifugal force to achieve maximum grain separation. To this point conventional com-

bines used a straw walker design that shook the grain from the straw using con-veyors. The principal was good, the problem was straw would build up in the system, which resulted in heavy grain loss. These combines also used blow-ing air to remove the chaff,

which resulted in further grain loss.

In the late 60s, two Manitoba farmers had ex-perimented with using a perforated rotating drum and centrifugal force to separate grain. The De-partment of Agriculture approached Roto Thresh

president, Barney Habicht to build prototypes of the perforated drum.

Production of the Roto Thresh combines began in the early 70s in Saskatoon. Farmers who purchased the equipment were able to reduce their grain loss, however despite the new

technology and good feed-back from the customers Roto Thresh was not able to compete with full line manufacturers. However John Deere incorporated the rotary principle into a combine a few years later.

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Harvest technology from Saskatchewan

Do you have Sleep Apnea?It’s more common than you think!

About 20% of the population has Sleep Apnea!

• Excessive daytime sleepiness• Snoring with pauses, gasping or choking during sleep• High blood pressure• Morning headaches• Lack of concentration• Poor memory• Fatigue• Are you sleepy when you drive?

If you have any of these symptoms, see your doctor and have them refer you to us. We can arrange to send out a monitoring de-vice that you wear for one night in the comfort of your own home. A trip into Saskatoon is not required for this test. This device moni-tors your breathing and blood oxygen levels.

If you are already on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) we would be honoured to serve you. Whether you are needing some help with a problem that is frustrating you or has caused you to stop using your CPAP, we can help get you back

on track! If all you need is a new mask, or a replacement part we can help with that too.

Call Prairie Oxygen, your Medical Home Oxygen

and Sleep Apnea Care ProviderSaskatoon

Phone: 306-384-5255Fax: 306- 384-0022

Do you suffer from any of the following symptoms?

If you don’t think you have any of these symptoms, ask someone else in the house if you do!

• Aggregate Hauling• Grain & Fertilizer Hauling

• Excavating • Tractor Service• Contaminant Hauling • 24 Hours

Offi ce: (306) 747-4328 • Fax: (306) 747-4324Cell: (306) 747-9322 • Ft. McMurray: (780) 799-5210

Email: keldalventures@sasktel.net

Scott GallowayOwner

SPIRITWOOD STOCKYARDSOffice: 306-883-2168

Regular Sales Every WednesdayOwner/Manager: Brian Jacobson

We will be hosting a Public Information Traceability and Herd Health Seminar

Beginning @ 2 p.m. - Ending with SupperBrian is asking for as many Livestock

Producers as possible to attend. There will be an afternoon of

Speakers from Merial, CFIA & CCIAfollowed by ‘Beef on the Bun’ Supper

If you are able to attend we ask that you let the Stockyards know as we need to

know exactly how many of you can come so supper can be planned.

We’re asking you to let us know for sure by Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

Call Brian or Pat @ 306-883-2168

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Ernst TruckingGrain & Fertilizer

HaulingR & J Ernst

Owned & Operated by David Ernst

Call David

Cell 306.747.7618Shellbrook, SK.

“Have A Farm Safe Spring”

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