Clark's Crossing Gazette - January 7, 2016

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Unspeakable loss: family with two small children killed in deadly collisionBy HILARY [email protected] The Van De Vorst fami-ly were bright lights in the world, a young family with everything ahead of them. Those lights were snuffed out in a deadly collision late on the night of January 3. Jordan Van de Vorst, 34, Chanda Van De Vorst, 33, Kamryn Van De Vorst, 5, and Miguire Van De Vorst, 2, were killed when their Hyundai Elantra was struck by a Jeep Wran-gler attempting to cross the highway at the intersection of Wanuskewin Road and Highway 11. Catherine McKay, 49, of Saskatoon, has been charged with three counts of impaired driving caus-

ing death. McKay was re-manded in custody follow-ing a January 4 appearance in Saskatchewan Provin-cial Court. McKay is fac-ing additional charges with the passing of Kamryn who had lingered in hospital, but later succumbed to her injuries. A second court ap-pearance is slated for Janu-ary 7. Both Jordan and Chanda were deceased at the scene. Both children were taken to hospital, where they later passed away. Social media posts reveal Jordan was an amateur photographer and loved to capture shots of the north-ern lights. They reveal a vi-brant family that had been out enjoying the winter weather over the holidays

tobogganing and visiting Santa. The public outcry in re-sponse to the tragedy is pal-pable. The intersection in question is notorious for collisions. “I think the only solution there is lights,” said Judy Harwood, reeve of the RM of Corman Park. She sug-gests highways revisit their policy regarding putting lights on highways. “Keep in mind this is a rural in-tersection but we’re dealing with urban traffic.” Harwood has been getting emails and comments from rate-payers and says every-one has an idea. One gentle-man who lives in the area emailed to say he feels like he’s taking his life in his hands every day and he’s

tired of seeing tow trucks and ambulances there. She also believes the speed limited should be ad-justed. You’ve got people traveling 110 and 120 kilo-metres an hour on high-way 11, at the same time you’ve got south-bound traf-fic lining up in the left turn lane to access Wanuskewin Road. That left turn lane isn’t long enough, so traffic hangs at a standstill in the left lane of the high-speed highway. “God help them. They’re sitting ducks wait-ing to get rear ended,” said Harwood. Highways officials point to improvements that have been made to the intersec-tion. However, traffic vol-umes are increasing and collisions keep occurring.

Some suggest an inter-change is the solution. “With this regional plan-ning that we’re doing, High-ways is already looking at doing a major interchange with Highways 12 and 11. So I don’t see another one right there, but I could be wrong,” said Harwood. “And it takes so long for these plans to come to frui-tion, meanwhile people are getting hurt and dying.” “I know they’re going to say there’s no money to do this. But there has to be money to do it. How do you put a price tag on peoples lives?” How many more futures will be snatched while decision-makers hem and haw. The cause in the case of the Van De Vorst’s was im-

paired driving which car-ries its own set of chal-lenges, regardless of the challenges the intersection itself presents. Harwood said another reason to address this issue is the trauma these events inflict on everyone in-volved, from first respond-ers, to hospital personnel, to other people traveling. “There’s so many extenu-ating circumstances at that intersection. It’s enough al-ready. Let’s fix it,” said Har-wood. The Saskatoon Health Re-gion issued the following statement on behalf of the family and close friends of the Van De Vorst’s: “They are asking the public using social media networks, to respect their privacy.”

Pair caught following armed robbery at Langham Hotel

Two men were taken into custody by police December 22 after the Langham Hotel was robbed at gunpoint. Warman RCMP said the incident took place at about 2:00 p.m. when a lone male suspect entered the hotel in Langham brandishing a hand gun. The suspect de-manded money from the employee and left the prem-

ises with an undisclosed amount of cash. The vehicle with two male occupants was apprehended a short time later. Warman RCMP were assisted by Saskatoon RCMP Canine Unit, Saskatoon Police Ser-vices, Vanscoy Police Ser-vices and Dalmeny Police Services. Not wanting to be identi-fied publicly, the hotel em-ployee who was working at the time of the robbery credits a couple of local men for their quick think-ing and their assistance in the apprehension of the

suspects. “A customer entered the bar and (the suspect) then proceeded to the door with an undisclosed amount of cash,” she stated. She added the customer followed the suspect outside and with-in minutes a pair of local men spotted the car that was believed to have been involved in the robbery and followed it. The men were able to provide location in-formation to police. “I truly feel that these men involved in the armed robbery would not of been caught if it were not for

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these two gentlemen follow-ing them and informing the RCMP on their location,” the employee added. The suspects involved in the Langham Hotel in-cident are also believed to be connected to three oth-er recent robberies – two in Saskatoon and one other in rural Saskatchewan. Detectives with the Saskatoon Police Service, General Investigations Sec-tion, charged the two men with committing armed robberies at two Saskatoon businesses. On December 22,

Saskatoon RCMP contact-ed the SPS in regard to two men they had arrest-ed in connection with the robbery in Langham. One of the men was a suspect in a robbery committed in Saskatoon. Officers from both agencies worked to-gether to ultimately charge the men with two armed robberies in rural Sas-katchewan and two armed robberies in Saskatoon. On November 27, a hotel off sale in the 800 block of Central Avenue was robbed by a male armed with a handgun. On December

15, a gas station in the 2600 block of Broadway Avenue was also robbed by a male armed with a handgun. The two men, ages 38 and 32, currently of Kenaston, Saskatchewan, were to ap-pear in Saskatoon Provin-cial Court on December 24. The 38-year-old is fac-ing several charges, in-cluding robbery with vio-lence, wearing a disguise, breach of court conditions, and firearms related charg-es. The 32-year-old is facing charges of being a party to the offence of robbery with violence.

Christmas Day police pursuit nets four suspects Police had their own set of turkeys in a stolen vehicle to deal with on Christmas Day. Four people – two 17-year-olds and a pair of 19-year-olds – were ar-rested following a pursuit that began at 3:20 p.m. when Warman RCMP at-tempted to stop a stolen truck near Vanscoy. The occupants of the vehicle,

which had been reported stolen from Kenaston ear-lier that morning, sped away from police and into Saskatoon. Police say the truck avoided spike belts deployed by the RCMP and Saskatoon Police Ser-vice two separate times by driving through the ditch and into the oncoming lane. The stolen truck was

eventually stopped on Idylwyld Drive North and 36th Street where the four occupants were arrested. They have been charged with Flight from Police, Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Posses-sion of Stolen Property. The accused appeared in provincial court in Saskatoon on Tuesday, December 29.

Two men, ages 21 and 24, and a 22-year-old woman are facing a total of 83 drug and weapon related offenses following the search of a residence in the 600 block of Peterson Crescent in Saskatoon. At approximately 11:15 p.m., December 26, 2015, Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) pa-trol officers attended to the residence in an attempt to locate a male wanted by police. They located the male inside and conduct-ed a search of the residence. The 24-year-old male and 22-year- old female are also resi-dents at that address.

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Warman Fire Chief steps down after decades of serviceBy TERRY [email protected] After nearly 40 years with the Warman Fire Depart-ment, including over twen-ty years as Fire Chief, Gord Thompson officially retired from the post in a blaze of glory on Saturday, Decem-ber 19. During a ceremony at the Brian King Centre in Warman, Thompson was presented with his third Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal by Member of Parliament Kelly Block. But what many consid-ered the most touching, and most lasting, tribute was the presentation of a street sign bearing the name: “Thomp-son Road” to Gord and his wife Norma by Warman Mayor Sheryl Spence. The street, named after Gord and Norma Thompson will be located in one of Warman’s new neighbour-hoods. Norma Thompson is a respected schoolteacher who taught for many years in Warman before her re-tirement. Warman Deputy Fire Chief Russ Austin now moves into the position of Fire Chief following Thomp-son’s retirement. The suc-cession was planned two years ago when Austin was hired for the full-time post. In an interview a few days prior to the ceremo-ny, Thompson said he had “mixed feelings” about step-ping down from the fire de-partment. While he’ll miss the camaraderie of the close-knit group, he’s confi-dent the fire department is being left “in good hands.” “It’s part of the transition plan,” said Thompson. “My position for the last couple years has been to make sure things go smoothly, and they have. Now I guess I’ll just fade off into the sunset.” Thompson, an account manager for the provin-cially-owned Saskatche-

wan Transportation Com-pany (STC), has served as Fire Chief in Warman since 1993, when he took over from John Thiessen. Warman’s first fire chief was Jake Dyck. The fire de-partment, which was recent-ly re-branded as Warman Fire Rescue, began in 1964. Thompson said the fire de-partment can take pride in several accomplishments, including: the introduction of First Responder train-ing; the partnership among volunteer fire departments that ultimately resulted in the formation of the North Corman Park Fire Chiefs Association; paving the way for a 911 system in the area; and pioneering the use of automated external defibril-lators (AEDs) in Warman. “The biggest change is the amount and quality of train-ing that our firefighters, and those of surrounding com-munities, now have,” said Thompson. “It’s up to profes-

sional standards.” In 1987-88, Warman was the first volunteer fire de-partment in Saskatchewan to take the First Responder emergency medical training course. “MD Ambulance pro-posed it to us and we took it back to our membership and brought it up at a meet-ing and discussed it, and the majority agreed that we would give it a whirl,” said Thompson. “So we started taking the training and it went on and on and on. There was no course outline and they didn’t have any idea how much to teach us, so they just kept teaching and we just kept absorbing more and more and more. We kind of pioneered it with MD Ambulance. We weren’t the first group to be certi-fied, but we were the first to

Warman looks to attract doctorsBy HILARY [email protected] The coming year will hold some changes for Warman residents, medically speak-ing. Early in this New Year, four of five doctors plan to leave their Warman practic-es for other opportunities. Elise Hildebrandt, new president of the Warman Chamber of Commerce, got the news the first week in December. “We were told that four out of five doctors were leaving,” she said. The chamber executive took action by sending a survey to all their members, seeking their response to the situation. “We as a chamber went to our members immediate-ly and said, does this cause you a concern. And they said, ‘yes it does’,” said Hil-debrandt. The Chamber discussed the matter at a subsequent board meeting on December 8 and resolved to do whatev-er they can to attract physi-cians to Warman. “We have reached out to our members and they have identified this as being crit-ically important to them as business owners and as res-idents of Warman,” said Hil-debrandt. “We will contin-ue to collect information on what we as a Chamber can

do to assist with physician retention and attraction in our city.” While growing communi-ties like Warman and Mar-tensville are attractive to physicians because of their expanding populations and many amenities, their close proximity to Saskatoon also poses challenges when it comes to physician recruit-ment and retention. The pro-vincial government offers a number of financial incen-tives to doctors setting up practices in rural Saskatch-ewan, but both Warman and Martensville are too close to a major city to qualify for that program. Warman city council made a decision in 2014 to not offer a municipally-fund-ed monetary incentive to new doctors. Martensville faces similar dilemmas. Dillon Shewchuk, Community/Economic De-velopment Manager for the City of Martensville says they don’t have a standard incentive package for phy-sicians. “We handle it on a case by case basis,” he said. “We feel like we’re real-ly on our own in respect to this. For example, rural communities in Saskatche-wan have access to more re-sources than we do: Return of Service Contracts, the Ru-

ral Physician Incentive Pro-gram and the Rural/Region-al Practice Establishment Grant through the Saskatch-ewan Medical Association and the Physician Recruit-ment Agency of Saskatch-ewan (saskdocs.ca). Mar-tensville (and Warman) are lumped in as bedroom com-munities, and simply exclud-ed, and there’s an assump-tion by these agencies that if people need medical care they’ll just go to Saskatoon,” said Shewchuk. Physician incentives are something they’ve talked about quite a bit as a city council. “It’s going to be very costly to put togeth-er a package that’s going to be great enough to entice a doctor, especially if the goal is to establish a new prac-tice,” he said. “But, in grow-ing centres, we have lots of priorities and other things going on. It’s a predicament for sure,” said Shewchuk. This week, some Warman patients received a letter stating that their physician will no longer be practicing in Warman. No replacement has been found The owner of the GAMA Medical Clinic declined to comment on the loss of the four physicians. Manage-ment also declined to com-ment.

Aberdeen family rebuilding after Christmas Eve fireBy HILARY [email protected] A blazing inferno is not what anyone expects to see when returning home on Christmas Eve. The Haw-man family knew their Christmas would be dras-tically altered as they watched their house go up in flames that night. Aberdeen firefighters ar-rived at the Hawman acre-age, 19 miles north of Aberdeen, at 10:03 p.m. to find the house beginning to

succumb to the flames.Mitch and Santana Haw-man along with their three children stood helplessly by as everything they owned went up in smoke. “The home was construct-ed with a lot of cedar sid-ing and cedar shakes and it burns really fast,” said Adrian Hamoline, deputy fire chief for the Aberdeen Fire Department. One occupant of the home narrowly escaped being con-sumed by the fire. Hamoline

said Noreen Lucas, Haw-man’s mother, was sleeping very soundly because she hadn’t been feeling well. “From our understanding, when the lady that was in-side woke up, the fire was already well established,” said Hamoline. All four family dogs made it out, but one of them stopped to wake Lucas up and likely saved her life.

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Area residents voice concern over new Langham lagoonBy HILARY [email protected] The location of a pro-posed new lagoon for Langham is being con-tested by some area resi-dents. As a result, the RM of Corman Park council voted to defer a decision on discretionary land use for the lagoon for two months. The current lagoon is near the end of its life and cannot be expanded due to required setbacks, as well as the Highway 16 right-of-way and existing develop-ment. Residents voiced their con-cerns at the regular coun-cil meeting on December 21, and in writing. They worry their property val-ues could go down, that de-velopment will be restrict-ed or impossible, and some worry about the smell. Michael Neufeld said he had previously purchased land that would be amena-ble for development near the proposed lagoon loca-tion along the riverbank. He paid acreage price for it and hasn’t got an answer from the town council as to what they will do to ad-dress the loss of property value. “It’s just very unfortu-

nate that somebody has that property at that level,” said Langham mayor Bev-erley Panas. “Progress is something that we are not responsible for. We have a responsibility to our rate payers.” RM administrator, Adam Tittemore clarified that de-velopment is not prohibit-ed with the setbacks, but it is restricted. RM Council-or John Germs observed that development is re-stricted in other areas of the RM as well. “A lot of us can’t do five per quarter,” he said. The concerned landown-ers have sought to negoti-ate with council but they say the town has refused. Council’s decision to defer on the discretionary land use question will allow for the possibility of negotia-tion between the town and the landowners. In an interview after the decision, Neufeld said, “We’d like to actually go through what all the reg-ulations are with them.” The group wants to know if an area that includes a landfill, ball diamonds and soccer pitches is consid-ered a ‘built up’ area. “As far as we’re con-

cerned there should be a way to make that a buffer zone between the town, the residents and the lagoon,” he said. “And so there needs to be some way that we can negotiate and find something where all of us are able to maybe give a little and come to a resolu-tion. The whole group of us landowners want to negoti-ate, and the town refuses.” Langham town represen-tatives were not keen to de-fer the decision. “I would like council to either say yay or nay,” said Panas. Bill Delaney of Associat-ed Engineering said it was unreasonable to assume the town of Langham would absorb costs of com-pensation. “That would be contrary to any business I’ve ever been part of,” he said. “It’s a difficult pro-cess, very much so,” said Langham councilor Bren-dan Proctor. “I’d like to sit down with a neutral third party, a mediator who is able to guide the discus-sion and see if we can come to a reasonable reso-lution.” The matter has been ta-bled until the February 22 council meeting.

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retention pond on proposed Parcel E.PUBLIC INSPECTIONAnypersonmayinspecttheresolutionattheTownOffice,located at 301 Railway Avenue, in the Town of Dalmeny, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM (closed between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM) on Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays.Any person who wishes to object to the proposed alterationmayfileawrittenobjectionwiththeAdministrator, stating clearly the reasons for their objection, before February 12, 2016.PUBLIC HEARINGCouncil will hold a public hearing on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 7:20 PM at the Town Council Chambers to hear any person or group that wishes to comment on the proposed boundary alteration.Issued at the Town of Dalmeny this 7th day of January, 2016.

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“She’s lucky to be out and alive. By the time we got up there, there was literally nothing we could do. It was too far gone already.” Hamoline said when the Hawman’s came by to talk with firefighters, they were in shock. “Mitch kept say-ing, ‘I’ve never had a house burn on me before’.” And Santana was more con-cerned about the memo-ries lost – baby pictures and baby books - than what was under the Christmas tree, things that couldn’t be re-

placed.” They were also concerned about their animals. “There were a few cats. I think they may have lost a cat, a ham-ster, and maybe a bunny or two,” said Hamoline. Firefighters managed to save a bit of property. They were able to pull a lawn mower and a tractor that were parked outside out of the way. Hamoline said as volun-teer firefighters they are not trained to investigate the cause of the fire. But they

did rule out a Christmas tree which is the number one cause of a fire at Christ-mas. The tree was artificial with no lights. For firefighters, it was gut wrenching to see what the family went through. Hamo-line heard a comment from one of the kids that went something like, ‘Where’s Santa Claus going to find us now,’ or ‘I hope Santa still comes.’ Santa did come, in the form of massive support from the community. The Aberdeen Christmas Mir-acle group stepped up in a big way, with a social media campaign requesting vir-tually everything a family might need to set up a new household. A 10:00 a.m. ap-peal on Christmas morning generated a bedroom full of items by 6:00 p.m. A spokes-person for the group said the family is now living in

Vonda where a house has been provided. The outpour-ing from the community has been overwhelming The group was offered the use of a house under con-struction to hold donated items. It’s been set up like a store and the family can come and ‘’shop’ for what they need. Hamoline wasn’t con-cerned about being dis-patched on Christmas Eve. “That’s what we volunteer for. We all had family func-tions and you just drop it and you go.” “Santana and Mitch were apologizing to us. They were sorry we had to be out there. And my response was, my time is not worth what they lost. Sure, I lost a few hours with my family but I’ll get that back. They lost far more than that. We just do our job and hope we can help.”

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Due to the lack of snow the second An-nual Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Snowmobile Ral-ly has been resched-uled for February 20, 2016. Rally organizer Colton Inglehart said the date is the only change. The rally will get underway at the Brian King Centre in Warman beginning at 9:00 a.m. More information can be

SIDS Awareness sled rally rescheduled

obtained by calling Colton Inglehart at 306-291-7952or by e-mailing [email protected] . The event is also online at Facebook - SIDS Rally Saskatoon and the website is www.sidsral-lysaskatoon.com .

The Prairie Spirit School Division (PSSD) Board ap-proved an application to the Ministry of Education for emergent funding for struc-tural work at Clavet Com-posite School. The application was ap-proved at the board’s meet-ing on December 7. The school’s gym mezza-nine and resource centre are both currently closed until structural restoration can be completed. Tempo-rary shoring has been in-stalled to keep the drafting lab open until permanent structural restoration is complete. The Board’s appli-cation is for emergent fund-ing, which is designed by the Ministry of Education for unexpected projects that are too large to be funded with the school division’s annual repair budget.

PSSD 10th ANNIVERSARY In 2016, Prairie Spirit will mark its 10th anniversa-ry. The school division was formed through the amalga-mation of three smaller school divisions. The official date of amalgamation was January 1, 2006

VAN PURChASE OKAYED The Prairie Spirit School Division (PSSD) Board ap-proved the purchase of 15passenger vans for Blaine Lake Composite School and Leask Community School. These two vehicles will be purchased with government grant funding. Prairie Spirit received two provincial gov-ernment grants of $150,000 annually, designed to sup-port partnership work be-tween school divisions and local First Nations commu-nities. These Invitational Shared Services Initiative (ISSI) grants recognize and provide financial support for collaborative work that

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Brad Wall isn’t exactly a farm boy. He does share a farm boy’s love of tinkering with cars and motors. And he truly loves coun-try and western music. It’s a love affair that goes back to before his attempt to estab-lish Canada’s Country and Western Hall of Fame in his hometown, Swift Current. Today, he has an even deep-er connection with his talent-ed son, Colter, on the brink of what might very well be a fantastic career as a Country singer now being compared favourably with a young Johnny Cash. (Evidently, Col-ter has inherited his mu-sic talent from his mother, Tami.) Even his hometown town has grown into a city with most of the amenities of ur-ban life. But whether or not you want to consider Brad Wall a farm boy or a country boy is of less consequence than what he has done for rural Saskatchewan. Not before or since Grant Devine; a farmer/ranch-er and doctorate in agricul-ture who loved, lived and em-braced every aspect of rural Saskatchewan life; has rural

happen to my life health wise or family wise ... But I can say I will not be leaving for federal politics. I read the Toronto Star on-line that stated, emphatically, that I am taking French les-sons. Postmedia: Are you taking French lessons? Wall: No! No. No. And I’m not running. That would seem relative-ly definitive, yet the rumours persist. But even if Wall does not run federally, he may not choose to run again in 2020, making this his last cam-paign, anyway. So the question then be-comes: Is there a viable rural MLA to replace him? After all the Saskatchewan Party is losing strong rural stalwarts like Ken Krawetz and June Draude who would have been likely leadership candidates at one point. And it has already lost Lloydminster’s Tim McMil-lan to Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. More likely candidates are Jeremy Harrison, Dustin Duncan and Jim Reiter. However, it is a problem a few years down the road from now.

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guage skills can be acquired and Wall that would have no other choice than to deny any federal aspirations on the eve of an April 4 provincial elec-tion. Now factor in the delay of the Conservative federal leadership race to 2017; per-haps time enough to give Wall some breathing room between the provincial elec-tion and a leadership bid. Some even contend this was done for Wall’s benefit. Opinion polls do show Wall running second to Peter MacKay as the full-time suc-cessor to Stephen Harper, so the temptation will be there. For his part Wall has done nothing to fuel the rumours, instead choosing to generally laugh them off. Consider his response to the question I posed to him-myself in year-end interview you can read in today’s news-papers: Postmedia: The rumours about you running federal-ly will not cease. Can you of-fer the Saskatchewan public the guarantee: If you become premier on April 4 again, you will be premier for the next four years? Wall: I can’t do that be-cause I don’t know what will

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University of Guelph © 2015 Distributed by Troy Media *Editor’s Note: While the following article deals specifically with Ontario’s new Municipal Property Assessment Corpora-tion, the process of assessment is similar in all provinces Property assessment may not be sexy on the surface, but it is important. And a birds-and-bees look at the process is revealing. My father helped prepare me for adulthood by telling me a ver-sion of the birds and the bees. I needed to know that the process

that brought me here was far more interesting than birthing myths like the white stork. The stork definitely did not deliver property as-sessment in Ontario. It is far more complicated than that. So let’s take a revealing look at the process, as the province gets ready for the birth of a new era in 2016. In 2016, the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC) will provide an updated assessed value for nearly five million properties in Ontario. If you own property, you’ll want to know a bit about how MPAC does it’s job and what that process creates. The property assessment process provides key in-formation - the DNA if you will - that enables mu-nicipalities to set and collect taxes in order to pro-vide public services. The data that MPAC transforms into assessed property values comes from the interplay of buyers and sellers of property in Ontario. Their interplay is generally private. However, their mutual inter-actions result in property sale prices that are pub-lic. MPAC uses these prices - typically those in your neighbourhood - to help determine the value of your property. But MPAC doesn’t set tax rates. It determines the value of each property and that, when summed across all properties, identifies the value of the

property tax base for each municipality. The tax rate is set by various levels of government at an amount that covers the costs of providing municipal services and other expenses. Simplifying the matter a great deal, if the costs of providing government services each year are $10 and the value of the total property tax base was $100, the tax rate would be 10 per cent or 10/100. This simple example doesn’t address ad-ditional details like the fact that the education portion of the tax bill is set by the province. Importantly, the assessment process is revenue neutral. Sup-pose, for example, property values appreciate so that now the to-tal tax base is $200. If the municipal budget stays at $10, the tax rate will fall to five per cent or 10/200. In other words, the level of revenue gathered by the government isn’t determined by assess-ment. The assessment process enables a tax system that redistributes wealth in a progressive manner. The amount you pay in proper-ty taxes will depend on how your property appreciates relative to the value of the average property in the area. Those whose prop-erty values increase relative to others will pay relatively more in property taxes, all else equal. The assessment process is critical to determining these relative changes. However, MPAC doesn’t do it alone! The assessment process is governed by a whole host of legislative rules like Ontario’s As-sessment Act. Finally -- and this may be cause for a cold shower -- you can as-sess what MPAC does in the privacy of your own home! All prop-erty owners can register to obtain information on their property and surrounding ones at https://www.aboutmyproperty.ca/. (Note: Saskatchewan property owners can also see property as-sessment values using the Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency (SAMA) website at www.samaview.ca .) Understanding the process, and seeing the results, should re-veal for property owners just how assessments - and taxes - are created. And make it clear that no stork is involved.

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Martensville volunteers spread Christmas cheerBy TERRY [email protected] For over two decades, fire-fighters in Martensville have been helping spread Christmas cheer to families in difficult circumstances. Every year, just before Christmas, hampers filled with food items and gift vouchers are packed by vol-unteers in the Martensville Fire Hall. The hampers are delivered discreetly to fam-ilies on a confidential list the following day by a small team of firefighters in un-marked vehicles. “Christmas is often a very difficult time for many peo-ple,” said Lieutenant Larry Sigfusson, a long-time mem-ber of Martensville Fire Rescue (MFR) and coordi-nator of the MFR Christ-mas Food Hamper program. “We deal with all kinds of trauma cases throughout the year, and we see the ef-fects on people; so it’s very rewarding to be able to give something back at Christ-mas time and bring a few smiles to their faces.” Sigfusson said the pro-gram began 22 years ago and has been going continu-ously ever since. “We wanted to do some-thing for our communi-ty, because our communi-ty has been so supportive of us,” said Sigfusson in an in-terview on Tuesday, Decem-

ber 22 at the fire hall. “We felt it was really important to do that; to give back to the community, because we live here. We’re citizens and members of the communi-ty and everybody is impor-tant.” Sigfusson said suggestions for families in need of the hampers are received from churches, schools, city em-ployees and community ser-vice organizations. “It’s all completely con-fidential,” said Sigfusson. “Every circumstance is dif-ferent, and we don’t judge anyone. It could be a fam-ily facing financial diffi-culty, or it could be a case where someone has cancer

or a very serious illness, or they’ve lost their job. “It’s all about letting them know that someone cares.” The number of families receiving hampers varies from year to year, said Sig-fusson. “Some years the num-ber of families on the list is only seven or eight. We’ve had as many as 22 families one year. This year we’re de-livering 17 hampers.” Sig-fusson said this year, a to-tal of 66 people, including 32 adults and 34 children un-der the age of 18, will re-ceive food and gifts donat-ed by individuals, schools, businesses and non-profit organizations.

Boxes for donations are set up at Martensville City Hall and the schools in the city. “The donations come from all sorts of people,” said Sigfusson. “It’s also heartwarming to see all the folks come out and help pack. It’s a community event, we just kind of organize it.” The planning for the food hamper drive be-gins in earnest in Octo-ber, and gets very busy by

mid-November, said Sigfus-son, noting it all culminates just before Christmas with the packing and delivery of the hampers. While dozens of volun-

Members of the Martensville Marauders Midget AA hockey team pack food hampers at the Martensville Fire Hall on Tuesday, December 22

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teers, including firefighters and their families, scouts, cubs, members of the Mar-tensville Marauders Midg-et AA hockey team, and oth-ers packed cardboard boxes with food items on Decem-ber 22, Sigfusson and fel-low firefighter James Taylor went over the details of the distribution plan for the fol-

lowing day. Taylor is gradu-ally taking over the role of coordinator of the program as Sigfusson devotes more time to care for his wife, who is currently taking treatments for a rare form of cancer. “This is still something that is very close to my heart, and I don’t anticipate

Emergency Response teams being organized in WarmanBy TERRY [email protected] When a disaster happens, people are eager to help out. But to be effective, volun-teers need to be organized. “When something big hap-pens, everybody shows up and says, ‘I want to help’,” said Randy Meginbir, Emer-gency Measures Organiza-tion (EMO) Coordinator for the City of Warman. “But if it’s not organized, people could go into areas that are dangerous, and if they don’t know what’s going on they could end up getting hurt and become victims them-selves. “That overloads the sys-tem as well, because now these volunteers are also among those who need help.” Meginbir says the solution lies in a community-based model currently in wide-spread use throughout the United States. Roughly 2,600 Community Emergency Re-sponse Teams (CERT) are active in cities, towns and villages in every state; and all of them operate under

the auspices of the US Fed-eral Emergency Manage-ment Agency (FEMA). He is hoping to set up a similar team in Warman, and while it will be mod-eled on CERT and use sim-ilar training modules, it won’t have that name be-cause FEMA can only certi-fy teams in the US. Meginbir said an informa-tional open house is slated within the next few weeks in Warman to explain the program and recruit po-tential volunteers from the community. “I’m really excited about this initiative,” said Megin-bir. “It’s the first of its kind in western Canada.” Meginbir said the commu-nity response teams are a proven success in the Unit-ed States. “The CERT model was de-veloped out of a situation that happened in Los An-geles in 1985, when a major earthquake occurred,” said Meginbir. “At that time, the scale of the disaster was so huge that the police, fire-fighters and other emergen-

cy responders were so over-whelmed there was no way they could handle every-thing all at once. “It was mass chaos.” Meginbir said the idea for clearing debris.” Meginbir said FEMA ad-opted the system and stan-dardized the training and certification on a national scale. Membership in CERT teams in the US ranges from a high of 16,000 members in LA to as few as a dozen trained volunteers in small towns. “The teams are trained by certified instructors in eight or nine basic areas like first aid, how to use a fire ex-tinguisher, how to shut off natural gas valves to dam-aged houses, that sort of thing,” said Meginbir. “Let’s say a tornado or plow wind comes through the area and takes out multiple homes in Warman, for example. If you are trained, you could look at a damaged structure and be able to mark it as un-safe so the firefighters and rescue personnel would be aware of that.

“We would also need peo-ple who are trained in the use of chainsaws, for exam-ple, to cut through trees that are blocking streets in order to allow rescue personnel and vehicles to get through to the area of town that’s hard-hit by the storm.” Meginbir, a Warman res-ident who is also a profes-sional firefighter with the City of Saskatoon, said the emergency response teams are not intended to replace the police, firefighters or

paramedics. “They are there to assist, not replace,” said Meginbir. “Their job would be to step in where they are needed. Each team would get their instructions from the EMO. The volunteers on each team would have a ‘gear bag’ with essential tools and supplies that they would keep at their own home and use only in emergency situa-tions.” Meginbir said volunteers for the emergency response

teams should be over 18 years of age. He is hoping to recruit several dozen volun-teers and begin the training sessions this spring. The Warman EMO is holding a practice scenar-io for its Emergency Opera-tions Centre (EOC) on Jan-uary 14. The EOC has a permanent headquarters in the Warman Fire Hall and serves as the command cen-tre for the EMO. The EOC’s first dry run simulated di-saster scenario was in 2015.

not being involved,” said Sigfusson. “But by the same token the situation with my wife could change very quickly, and I don’t want anybody to be left in the lurch; so James has kindly volunteered to take some of the load off me this year and will eventually take over the coordinator role.”

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take the training, and it’s worked out well for the com-munity.” Thompson said the intro-duction of AEDs on a trial basis in Warman in the late 1990s proved to be anoth-er successful program that’s been adopted across the province. Thompson said the cre-ation of the NCPFCA and the introduction of a dedi-cated 310-5000 emergency call number (the forerunner of the present 911 system) in the 1990s were both impor-tant steps toward regional cooperation among fire de-partments. “That’s one thing I’ll miss: the closeness and bond with the other fire departments,” said Thompson. “The fel-lowship, and the friendly ri-valries. We have a lot of fun joking with each other, but when the chips are down, we’ve got each other’s backs. “Joanne Janzen, a council-or with the RM of Corman Park, said it best. There was a fire on her family farm near Dalmeny, and there were four fire departments out there fighting the blaze. She said, ‘you know, with all those fire trucks and all those firefighters, I couldn’t tell who was from where, be-cause everybody was work-ing together,’ And you know, that’s really what it’s all about. “When it comes time to do the work, we’ll get it done, and after it’s done we’ll go back to having some fun. That’s the best part.” With a reputation for a dry sense of humour, an endless supply of jokes and steady stream of witty one-lin-ers, Thompson set the tone for the fire department for many years. “When you deal with trag-ic situations, you need to have a sense of humour,” said Thompson. “Emergen-cy services, whether po-lice, ambulance or fire per-sonnel, have to harness that black humour in order to keep working in that kind of environment. It’s a little hard to explain, but I think humour makes the bad calls a little easier to deal with. It’s part of a bigger support system of talking things through with people who know what you’re going through.” Thompson grew up in southern Saskatchewan, and remembers helping fight a prairie fire with a gun-

ny sack and pail of water in his boyhood home of Tomp-kins. Later, in his teen years in Eastend, he volunteered to swim the river that ran through the town with a firehose to battle a blaze that jumped the river. He was with the Biggar Fire Department for about four years in the early 1970s when he and Norma lived in that community. “That was my first experi-ence with an organized vol-unteer fire department,” said Thompson. “We didn’t have the kind of training or equipment you see now. We had long boots that came up past your knees, long coats, helmets and wool mitts, but other than that you didn’t have a whole lot of protec-tion.” In 1976, they moved to Warman where Norma had accepted a teaching posi-tion. “That was the best thing John Penner ever did, was to hire my wife,” said Thompson. “John was the chairman of the local school board. And then a few years later we burned down his old dairy barn as a training exercise.” The fire hall in Warman at that time was located ad-jacent to the old town office and council chambers, and the earliest fire trucks were all second-hand, custom-modified affairs. “The town bought a 6000-series GM or Chevy

chassis, and we built a wa-ter tank for it,” said Thomp-son. “But we had to cut two feet out of the frame before we started because it was too long to go into the hall. We used that truck for a lot of years and later sold it to Clavet.” A major renovation to the fire hall and town office was done in 1981. The fire hall was expanded to three bays and firefighters were able to use the town council cham-bers for meetings and class-room training. The first planning meeting for a new fire hall was held in 1993, and the fire department moved to the new building on Centennial Boulevard in 2004. “Things don’t happen overnight,” said Thompson. “It takes a lot of planning and careful budgeting.” He credited successive Warman town councils and city councils with support-ing the fire department. Thompson said the new Compressed Air Foam Sys-tem (CAFS) pumper truck that came on stream last summer, along with a new ladder truck and wildland truck slated for delivery in the near future, are a reflec-tion of the growing needs of the community and the re-gion. “When you look at where we’ve come from and what we started with, I’m really proud to be leaving what I’m leaving,” he said.

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ing’,” she said. She dusted off those dance shoes, went to the audi-tion and made the cut into the 16-strong dance group. The team practices on Sun-days for three or four hours, and does add-on sessions as needed. Mennie said the

Crush will be working hard to solidify their routines be-fore their debut at the home opener. With five dance perfor-mances slated for the open-er, the team may need to be-come quick change artists. The dance outfits for The Crush got stuck at the bor-der and are expected late this week. Mennie said they’ve heard great things about the out-fits from their coach – shoes too! “We can’t wait to surprise the fans with not only our dancing, but our costumes as well!” To get the down-low on how things work, the Crush attended the Rush’s match-up with the Roughnecks in Calgary on January 2. They hoped to get some insight into the timing of the danc-es. The Crush will perform at all home games. But Brad Kraft, of Rush media re-lations, said they’re work-ing with a couple of NFL teams to see if they can get some of their dance teams

to come out: the Seattle Sea Gals, for example. “We’re working around their schedule right now to see if they can make it out,” he said. “It’s just another lev-el of entertainment and en-gagement for the fans.” The Rush is very pleased that TSN3 is broadcasting the game. “That’s huge for us especially with a brand new market, to have it na-tionally broadcast with no blackouts whatsoever,” said Kraft, adding this will def-initely help ramp up the buzz factor right from the start. Saskatchewan has been

The Crush is part of the Saskatchewan Rush, and will ramp up the entertainment level for lacrosse fans at the Rush home opener on January 15

pushing for a new lacrosse team for quite a while from the junior club standpoint and up, according to Kraft. They’ve been really work-ing to get a professional sports team here. “It’s a great game, the fast-est game on two feet, with high intensity, high scoring, lots of fun and lots of enter-tainment value for specta-tors,” he said. Mennie has spread the word to family and friends about her involvement with The Crush and anticipates they’ll be out to watch her. She’s pretty excited to be a member of the Crush, one of

16 ‘dancing queens.’ “I just love that we get go out to perform for so many people, we get to talk to fans and make people smile,” she said. Having the opportu-nity to dance professional-ly here in Saskatchewan is also a big plus. “Before, you had to leave the province to dance pro-fessionally and dance for a team. The Roughriders have a cheerleading team but there’s nothing really for dancers. I’m really, real-ly happy that there’s finally a dance team here that we can be a part of with a pro-fessional team,” she said.

Mykaela Mennie of Warman is a member of the Crush dance team

HIgH-INTENSITY ACTIoNTwo members of the Saskatchewan Rush professional lacrosse team practice at SaskTel Centre during late December in preparation for their opening game. The Rush came from behind to down the Calgary Roughnecks last weekend to win their season opener 10-8. The team has this weekend off and get set to take on Vancouver at SaskTel Centre on Friday, January 15.



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Fort Carlton HoCkey leagueDec 18 Tisdale 3 at Dalmeny 5Dec 19 Tisdale 1 at Shellbrook 6Hague 4 at Bruno 10Dec 20Dalmeny 5 at Warman 6 (overtime)Jan 3Prairie 4 at Bruno 3

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WHeatland HoCkey leagueDec 18Rosthern 6 at Kelvington 5 (overtime)Dundurn at KinistinoDec 19Dundurn at NaicamDec 20Rosthern 7 at Imperial 5Jan 2Lake Lenore 3 at Rosthern 4 (overtime)Dundurn 4 at Allan 5 (over-time)

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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 207 of the “Planning and Development Act, 2007”, that the Council of the Town of Langham intends to consider a bylaw to amend the Zon-ing Bylaw of the Town of Langham, being Bylaw No. 2011-10, as hereinafter provided:

Intent: To add automobile sales, and associated development standards, as a permitted use in the C1 - Community Centre Commercial District. Reason: The reason for the amendment is to allow for a busi-ness to be established within the C1 Zoning District.

The proposed Bylaw may be inspected by any interested person at the office of the Administrator of the Town of Langham at 230 Main Street East, Langham, Saskatchewan, during regular office hours up to and including January 25, 2016.

Public Hearing: On the 25th day of January, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. in the Langham Town Council Chambers, Council shall hear any person who wishes to make a representation respecting the by-law. Written representations received by the town administrator prior to that date will also be considered at that time.

Dated at Langham this 29th day of December, 2015.Jamie Nagy, Administrator, Town of Langham

PubLIc NoTIceProposed Amendement

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Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the Rural Munic-ipality of Corman Park No. 344 intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 9/94, known as the RM of Corman Park Zoning Bylaw.

INTENT a) The proposed Bylaw No. 66/15 will rezone the affected lands from Agricultural District (AG) to Agricultural Residential 1 Dis-trict (AR1). Proposed Bylaw No. 66/15 will provide for separate title for an agricultural residential parcel.

AFFECTED LANDSa) The affected lands are all that portion of SW 03-37-07-W3 shown shaded on the attached map (Bylaw 66/15).

PUBLIC INSPECTIONAny person may inspect the proposed Bylaw at the R.M. of Cor-man Park No. 344 Office at 111 Pinehouse Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, up to 5:00 p.m. until Friday, January 22, 2016.

PUBLIC HEARINGCouncil will hold a public hearing on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers at the R.M. of Corman Park No. 344 Office to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed Bylaws. All written comments received by 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 19, 2016, will be for-warded to Council.

Issued December 23, 2015 at the City of Saskatoon, in the Prov-ince of Saskatchewan.

Adam Tittemore, Administrator

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF ADVANCE POLLTOWN OF RADISSON

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that provision has been made for an advance poll for electors who: 1. are physically disabled; 2. have been appointed as election officials; or 3. anticipate being unable to vote on the day of the election.Voting will take place on TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the Council Chambers of the Town of Radisson in the Administration Building, #329 Main Street.

Darrin Beaudoin, Returning OfficerCouncil considered an application for a Group Care Facil-ity at 523 Cherry Lane on December 14, 2015 during a regularly scheduled meeting of Council. The application was tabled to acquire additional information. Council will be making a final decision on this application at 6:30 pm on January 11, 2016 in Council Chambers at the Warman City Hall, located at 107 Central Street West.

Issued at Warman, Saskatchewan, January 6, 2016.Chris Hilash, Community Planner

Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Warman intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Devel-opment Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw 2006-11 known as the Zoning Bylaw.

IntentThe proposed Bylaw will allow for Bed and Breakfasts as a dis-cretionary use within the R1 Residential District.

Affected LAndThe Bylaw will affect any land zoned as R1 Residential District.

ReAsonThe Planning and Development Department has determined there to be opportunities within the R1 Residential District for Bed and Breakfasts.

PubLIc InsPectIonAny person may inspect the Bylaw at the City of Warman office between 8:30am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday excluding statutory holidays. Copies are available at cost.

PubLIc HeARIngCouncil will hold a public hearing on January 25, 2016 at 6:30 pm at the City of Warman office to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also con-sider written and signed comments delivered to the undersigned at the City Hall. Notice of presenting information orally or in written form must be received by the undersigned a minimum of three working days prior to the hearing.

Issued at Warman, Saskatchewan, January 6, 2016.chris Hilash, community Planner

PubLIc notIceBylaw 2016-02

The City of Warman is currently forming a Municipal Nam-ing Committee. The purpose of this committee is to create and implement a naming database for new streets and parks within the City of Warman. Names will be proposed to the committee to be added or denied entry into the “Names Reg-istry”.

The City of Warman is looking for two members of the local development community (developers, builders, realtors, etc.), and one member of the public to become members of the Municipal Naming Committee.

Please forward all applications to City Hall, or Community Planner Chris Hilash at [email protected] by January 18th. Please include a resume and a completed Municipal Nam-ing Committee Applicant Form to complete your application. Application forms can be found on the City of Warman web-site at www.warman.ca or at City Hall.

Issued at Warman, Saskatchewan, January 6th, 2016.Chris Hilash

Community Planner

FORM N[Clause 55 of the Act]

NOtiCe OF POllRESORT VILLAGE OF SHIELDS

PUBliC NOtiCe is hereby given that:1. A poll has been granted for the election of:

COUNCILLOR: Resort Village of Shields2. Voting will take place on Saturday, the 23rd day of January, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the polling place listed below.3. I will declare the result of the election at the village office on the 25th day of January, 2016, at the hour of 9 a.m.Polling Placethe Community Centre- 8 Procter Dr., Shields, Sask.Dated at Dundurn, Sask. this 21st day of December, 2015.

Jessie Williams, Returning Officer

On Sunday, December 5, the Crown Hill 4-H Beef Club held their annual Cookie Day. This year we met at Hafford School. Cookie Day is when we make cookies to give as a thank you to all of our sponsors and for those who bought our market steers at the Junior Ag Showcase auction in Saskatoon in July. This year we have 25 members ranging in age from 6 to 19 – five cloverbuds, five juniors, nine inter-

Crown Hill 4-H Beef CluB Cookie Day Submitted by Boden Letkeman, Club Reporter

mediates and six seniors. Members are from surrounding areas such as Hafford, Blaine Lake, Leask, Marcelin, Bor-den, Hepburn and Dalmeny. We cut out and decorated gin-gerbread cookies and we also baked chocolate chip and double chocolate chip cookies. All together, we baked 832 cookies. Thanks to everyone who supports us throughout the year!

Amendments to The Sas-katchewan Farm Securi-ty Act, clarifying who can and cannot own farmland in Saskatchewan, have been proclaimed and were slated to come into effect on Janu-ary 4, 2016. “The people of Saskatche-wan provided very clear di-rection during the consulta-tion process,” Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said. “The legislation reflects the views of Saskatchewan res-idents, provides clarity around farmland ownership and gives the Farm Land

New farmland ownership laws now in effectSecurity Board the tools it needs to enforce the rules.” The amendments include: Making pension plans, ad-ministrators of pension fund assets and larger trusts inel-igible to buy farmland; Defining “having an in-terest in farmland” to in-clude any type of interest or benefit (i.e. capital apprecia-tion), either directly or indi-rectly, that is normally asso-ciated with ownership of the land; and When financing a pur-chase of farmland, all fi-nancing must be through a

financial institution regis-tered to do business in Can-ada, or a Canadian citizen. Non-Canadian citizens can still own up to 10 acres of farmland, and exemptions can still be granted for eco-nomic development initia-

tives. These rules were in place previously and will not change. In addition, the Farm Land Security Board (FLSB) will receive new and expanded authority to en-force the legislation.


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The following is thelocal media release for the Warman Detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the week of December 14 – 21, 2015

JUST GO AROUND IT On December 15 at 8:55 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a traffic hazard on Highway 12 near Martens-ville. The caller reported that there was a large an-imal dead on the highway and nearly caused an acci-dent. Police attended and found the animal to be a large rabbit. The animal was not a hazard on the road and was disposed of. There were no charges.

MINOR REAR-ENDER On December 15 at 9:45 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a two-vehicle col-lision in Martensville. The caller reported that they were rear-ended by an-other vehicle. Police at-tended and spoke with the 43-year-old caller. They did not want the other driver charged. There were no in-juries or charges.

HIGHWAY 7 COLLISION On December 17 at 7:05 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a two-vehicle col-lision on Highway 7 near Laura between a car and a

semi. Police attended and found a 46-year-old male from Saskatoon driving the car received minor in-juries and was transported to hospital for his injuries. Charges on this matter are pending.

SMASHING WINDOWS On December 17 at 11:25 p.m. police received a complaint of individuals smashing windows on ve-hicles in a parking lot in Warman. The caller ad-vised that she scared the people away from the area. Police attended and made patrols of the area, but were unable to locate any-one responsible. Investiga-tion into this matter is on-going.

TOOLS STOLEN On December 18 at 12:30 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a theft from a res-idence in the Grandora area. The caller reports that he had a number of small tool items taken. Po-lice attended and took a statement from the caller. Investigation into this mat-ter is ongoing.

WALKING TO OSLER On December 14 at 7:45 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a hitch hiker on Highway 11 near Warman. The caller reported that the male was dressed in dark clothing making him difficult to see. Po-lice attended and locat-ed a 61-year-old male from Osler, who advised that he got into an argument with a family member and de-cided to walk home. He was given a ride back to

his residence. There were no charges.

JUST HANGING OUT On December 14 at 11:00 p.m. police received a com-plaint of two suspicious males near a residence in Martensville. Police at-tended and spoke with the 18-year-old and 22-year-old males who advised that they just got off work at a local business and were just hanging out. They left the area without incident.

SUSPECTED BURGLER On December 15 at 2:25 a.m. police received a com-plaint of a possible per-son inside a residence in Warman. The 36-year-old female caller thought she heard someone inside her residence. Police attended and searched the residence with negative results.

OUTSTANDING CHARGES On December 18 at 6:00 p.m. police received a com-plaint of an intoxicat-ed male outside of a busi-ness in Martensville. Police attended and locat-ed a 50-year-old male and lodged him in police cells on outstanding charges from Saskatoon. He was not injured.

DOMESTIC ASSAULT On December 19 at 9:55 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a domestic as-sault at a residence near Saskatoon. The 51-year-old female reports that she was assaulted by her 51-year-old husband. Police attended and arrested the male and released him on documents for an upcoming court date on Assault charges. The fe-male was not injured.

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WRONG WAY ON HWY 11 On January 1, 2016 at 11:10 a.m. police received a com-plaint of a vehicle travelling northbound in the south-bound lanes of Highway 12 near Martensville. Police made patrols of the area, but were unable to locate any vehicle matching the de-scription provided. There were no charges.

VANSCOY BREAK-IN On December 28, 2015 at 11:40 a.m. police received a complaint of a break and enter to a residence in the Vanscoy area. The caller re-ported that they returned home after being away and found their residence en-tered. A number of small items were taken from the residence. Investigation into this matter is ongoing.

VEHICLE THEFT On December 29, 2015 at 6:15 a.m. police received a complaint of a theft from a residence near Borden. The caller reported that he had his vehicle stolen from his

residence. The vehicle was located a short time later abandoned on the highway. A 32-year-old male from Saskatoon was located a short distance away and ar-rested. He was held in police cells for court the follow-ing day on property related theft charges.

TONE IT DOWN... On December 31, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. police received a complaint of a noisy party in Warman. Police attended the residence and spoke to the owner of the residence who agreed to keep the noise down at the party and shut it down after midnight. There were no charges.

FIRE ON ACREAGE On January 2, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. police received a com-plaint of a fire in a barn on an acreage near Asquith. Police attended along with Corman Park Police Ser-vice. The fire was possibly caused by an electrical prob-lem with the water heater. There were no people or ani-mals were in the barn at the time of the fire. There were no charges.

PHONE HARASSMENT On December 28, 2015 at 3:55 p.m. police received a complaint of harassing phone calls in Osler. The fe-male caller reported that she received a large num-ber of phone calls from a male she previously had a relationship with. The fe-male did not want the male charged, but rather spoken to and warned about his ac-

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DANGEROUS HITCHIKING On December 28, 2015 at 7:40 p.m. police received a complaint of a person in dark clothing hitch hik-ing on Highway 11 near Warman. Police attended and located an 18-year-old male. He was given a ride to Saskatoon and dropped off at a safe location. There were no charges or injuries.

LANGHAM ASSAULT On January 4, 2016 at 1:50 a.m. police received a com-plaint of a female stand-ing on the side of Highway 16 near Langham with visi-ble wounds. Police and EMS attended and found that the 31-year-old female from Langham had been assault-ed earlier by her 35-year-old boyfriend. Police attended the residence and arrested the male and released him on documents for an upcom-ing court date on assault charges. The female re-ceived minor injuries.

CONTACT YOUR RCMP If you have informa-tion regarding this or any other crime, please con-tact Warman/Martensville RCMP at 306-975-1670/306-975-1610 or if you have infor-mation and you wish to re-main anonymous in your reporting, please contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submit a tip via their website: http://sask-crimestoppers.com/ or text in a tip: TIP206 + your tip to CRIMES (274637).

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Be part of theGazetteCLARK’S CROSSING

Clean grain boosts farmers’ incomesBy TERRY [email protected] When an area farmer harvested his crop last year, he discovered that thousands of migrating Canada Geese left some unwanted deposits during a stopover in his field. All those goose droppings didn’t help mat-ters when it came to marketing the grain. The solution? Cleaning the grain on a grand scale. “We cleaned 18 semi-loads of grain and got all that junk out,” said Toby Baerg, who op-erates a custom grain cleaning plant on his 4,000-acre family farm at Mennon, halfway between Dalmeny and Hepburn. “Before it was cleaned he couldn’t sell it. But once it was upgraded there was no problem.” Cleaning grain to market standards, and cleaning seed for next year’s crops are a long-standing tradition on the century-old family farm. Baerg’s grandfather started it in the 1930s on a modest scale with a hand-operated machine. His father, Henry, also used to clean seed for their own operation and for neighbours, until about ten years ago. “That’s when our equipment got so old that we just decided to quit,” said Baerg. “But when my son, Brandon, wanted to get started on a career, we decided to build this plant as a sideline business on the farm. “We’re in the process of becoming fully li-censed so that we can clean seed up to Cer-tified standards. There are a lot of rules and regulations that have to be followed.” Baerg said while cleaning “common seed” varieties is relatively straightforward, other varieties of grain that are covered by Plant Breeders Rights legislation are more restric-tive. The bottom line, though, is that the clean-ing process improves the farmers’ bottom line. Baerg said as farms have gotten larger over the last few decades, it’s more challeng-ing for producers to clean their own grain and seed. “Elevators used to clean a lot of grain but there aren’t that many elevators anymore,” he said. “There are commercial seed grow-ers that also clean seed, and there are mobile cleaners, but a smaller, dedicated plant like this has advantages because it’s less expensive for the farmer. It’s also less hassle because there’s no mess left on the ground near the bins, which is the case with mobile cleaners.” Baerg invested considerably in the seed cleaning plant on his farm, building almost all of it himself with his son’s help. He pur-chased state-of-the-art machinery manufac-tured in the US through a Saskatoon-based firm. The electrical wiring for the many monitors, cameras and motors was the only component of the operation that was con-tracted out to a family-owned firm from Hague. The electrical room is separate from the rest of the operation for safety reasons, as grain dust is highly-flammable. The elec-trical room converts incoming 600-amp, sin-gle-phase power to three-phase power for running the large and small motors for each machine. The operation features a 60-foot digital scale that allows fully-loaded semi-trailers to be weighed. Baerg said one of the key machines in the operation is the gravity table, which cleans the grain to a very high standard. The cleaning process involves dumping the grain into a large bin, where it is moved via a series of augers and belts to machines that screen out the impurities including weeds and foreign matter. Strategically-placed met-al screens allow seeds of certain sizes to fil-ter through. Compressed air is also used to separate lighter chaff from the seed. The speed of the machines can be regulat-ed to ensure steady flows through the sys-tem. “It’s automated to a large extent, but we still monitor everything closely as it’s work-ing,” said Baerg. “Once everything’s set for the load that’s going through, we just keep an eye on it and make small adjustments as necessary.” Baerg said it takes six to eight hours to clean out the system completely when switching from one variety of grain to anoth-er. “It has to be 100 per cent clean to avoid any contamination,” he said. “You want zero kernels from on variety to the next.” The plant is capable of cleaning all types of grain, from wheat, oats and barley to faba beans, flax, peas and lentils.

Toby Baerg and his son Brandon operate a custom grain clean-ing operation on the family farm at Men-non. Baerg’s grand-father began clean-ing seed on the farm on a modest scale in the 1930s. Last year, Baerg built the high-ly-efficient half-mil-lion dollar shop and purchased custom seed cleaning equip-ment.



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Clark's Crossing Gazette - January 7, 2016