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A number of Estevan residents received a surprise on Tuesday when two moose went on a walk through the city.Local conservation offi cers and police managed to direct both animals out of town with no incident. For more on the story see Wednesday’s Estevan Mercury.

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Jeers to the company that clears snow for Hillcrest school. You had all weekend to plow, why then would you wait until 4:30 a.m. Monday morning in a residential area? So much for a peaceful sleep.

Jeers to the lack of snow removal. The streets are a mess and now the forecast is for more snow. What are they waiting for, spring? The intersections are a disgrace. Did the sanding truck break down? Whoever is in charge needs to re-think the plan for making the streets safe to drive on.

Jeers to two years of ignored phone calls regarding the water leak at Fifth Street and Ninth Avenue. This winter the sidewalk is sinking and the curb is crumbling. The crack in the street where the water seeps out is getting wider.

Jeers to the lack of fl yer deliveries to the 200 block of Spruce Drive for the last two weeks. Might be nice to get to get some fl yers delivered sometimes. Also it might help to get them on a Thursday night, instead of Friday night when the stores are just about to close.

Jeers to the persons who take shortcuts delivering mail or fl yers through our yards instead of using the sidewalks. Why bother keeping the sidewalks clean if they prefer not to use it anyway?

Jeers to the poor snow removal around handicapped parking areas. Just because the road is clean doesn’t mean the person should have to crawl over to the driver’s side because they can’t get out of the passenger door as the sidewalk is two feet high with snow.

Cheers to the SMILE Van drivers. They are courteous, effi cient and always drive safely.

Cheers to all the ladies who volunteer as leaders for Path Finders, Girl Guides, Brownies, and Sparks. Keep up the good work!

Cheers to the people who put up and care for the outdoor skating rinks. Thank you for your hard work.

Cheers to the woman and daughter who showed up with snow shovels just as I was about to clean a three-foot drift in front of my double garage doors Saturday morning.

Cheers to the gals who braved snow up over their knees to deliver our paper on Saturday morning.

Cheers to the family center for providing a warm place for our little ones to play. We’re glad you’re a part of the community.

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A new regional water system could be the way of the future for communities along Highway 39.

Nine municipalities are working together to inves-tigate the possibility of a new water system, drawing on water from the Rafferty Dam Reservoir. The idea has been kicking around municipalities in the south-east for a couple of years now, but it hasn’t been until recently that groups were able to act on it. Coming to the forefront in the spring of 2011, the idea was put on the back burner as the area dealt with rising water levels from spring fl ooding.

Allan Hauglum, Mi-dale’s mayor and chair of the Rafferty Regional Water Committee, is the driving force for the proposed proj-ect and said the time was right to bring the proposal back to his neighbouring councils in late 2012.

“It was a thought in Midale because of our water supply, and we needed more water. We need to treat more water,” said Hauglum, who noted his town draws from Rafferty and the water is good quality. “If we want to grow, for economic develop-ment or whatever, we need more raw water supplied into our treatment plant, plus we need to upgrade our treat-ment plant to make quality potable water.”

He said the plan started

small, with a couple of towns and RMs, involved, but then the idea expanded to incor-porate the RM of Cymri, as well as the villages of Macoun and Halbrite.

The City of Estevan, RM of Estevan, Weyburn, RM of Weyburn and Hitch-cock are also sitting on the water committee with two representatives each.

“Everybody fi gures it’s an excellent idea to go with a regional waterline,” added Hauglum.

Kevin Sutter, manager at the Estevan Water Treat-ment Plant, said demand in the city is not an issue yet. A reservoir is being added for 2013, and the local util-ity can supply water for upwards of 15,000 people, leaving plenty of wiggle room under Estevan’s cur-rent population.

A feasibility study is the next step, and the commit-tee has selected JR Cousins Consultants Ltd. to complete the report. Hauglum said it will take about six months to complete, and they are expecting to have the fi nal report from the study in late August or September.

“When they’re all done, we’ll be sitting down, the nine municipalities, and see-ing who wants to be involved with it or if it’s going to go ahead at all,” said Hauglum.

He noted nobody is tied down to the project. Even those who don’t wish to move forward with the group can use the study for an individual project if they want to do something themselves, he said.

“Our biggest interest is looking into the future,” said Sutter. “Water supply is very closely linked to economic diversity and the ability for an area to grow. We are defi nitely going to see what this feasibility study shows us and what is indeed fea-sible to supply water to the whole region. The City of Estevan wants to keep all their options open.”

Hauglum is excited at the possibilities of the new waterline, because of the need for his town to add capacity so they can grow.

“We need to treat more water to grow,” he said.

Sutter said Estevan is getting involved in the early stages, not because of a need to grow the city’s infrastructure, but because of a curiosity. He said they have an idea of what they will need 10 years down the road, but looking ahead 50 years is something they would like to see.Regional ⇢ Pg 3

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The Energy City can expect more bands com-ing through town as the After Dark Concert Series is revamped to incorporate a late-night second side dubbed After Hours.

The Estevan Art Gal-lery and Museum started the After Dark series about a year ago and after bringing in a number of Saskatch-ewan musicians, they have expanded with the help of Eddie’s Neighbourhood Grill and Bar, just next door. The result will be musicians coming into the art gallery to perform an acoustic set, just as attendees of pervious After Dark concerts are used to, and then the band will move to Eddie’s to play an electric set under the moni-ker After Hours.

The gallery and Eddie’s will host their fi rst joint concert effort when the folk-country styling of Regina’s Black Drink Crier play both sessions on Saturday night, beginning at the EAGM at 8 o’clock.

Amber Andersen , EAGM director, said the partnership with Eddie’s was an obvious one.

“We had been working with Eddie’s,” said Ander-sen. “They actually had catered the Andrew King Art

Musical niche carved with After Dark/After Hours

Dustin Ritter performs at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum last year as part of the gallery’s After Dark Concert Series. Now that the feature is being expanded to include a double performance from musicians, Ritter will be returning to Estevan in March to perform with his with his band.

Auction Soiree we had. Just because of the proximity of it, there’s always something really nice about coming to the gallery and having

the acoustic set. But if you have sitters looking after the kids, it’s always nice to have another musical thing to go to, which is something a little

bit more urban.”She thought that if they

are already bringing the bands to Estevan, it would be nice if there were a way to give them even more exposure to the Energy City. Eddie’s already had an interest in bringing bands in, making it a perfect place for bands to show off another side of their music.

She called After Hours the “plugged in rendition of the same band.”

The concert series has grown, with its audiences fl uctuating, but at the last concert in December, every seat in the gallery’s main room was fi lled.

At first, Andersen thought it might be a little diffi cult to fi nd suitable art-ists for the new format, but said the bands they have approached have no problem performing both acoustic and electric sets.

She noted they are hop-ing to host a new artist each month to perform in both locations for one night.

“For us at the gallery, that’s about the right amount of programming at the gal-lery because we’re so busy with other stuff,” Andersen added.

As the concert series evolves, the organizers are

open to change, so the new format may not be the new format for very long.

Andersen said the EAGM covers the cost of a hotel for the artists who come to Estevan but is look-ing into the option of setting up a billet system as well if people are interested.

“I think it would be an interesting thing for both the artist and the (billet), be-cause that’s part of the charm of coming to a small city.”

In February, After Dark/After Hours will welcome Estevan’s own Third Town Band, while in March, Es-tevan will welcome back Dustin Ritter, who after

playing the art gallery solo in 2012, will be returning with his band. For April, they are looking at bringing in Regina act Indigo Joseph, though the band hasn’t been booked yet.

“I’m really wanting to try and make a niche for Estevan,” Andersen said, as it would be a way to dismiss those who belabour the idea there is a lack of activities in the area. “There is lots to do, but this is us trying to bring in a new wave of people to the gallery.”

All proceeds generated at the EAGM door go to the musicians, while there is no admission for After Hours.

Pg 2 ⇠ “Benefi ts to the City of Estevan, other than the economic diversity that it might bring to the city, would be possibly a secondary supply of water if something should happen,” added Sutter. “There would be that pipeline that we could get water from other areas, although the pipeline would probably be looking at Estevan to supply it not the other way around.”

Sutter said regional water systems have more redundancies, making them

a little more “bulletproof.”How things will work,

Hauglum said they won’t be entirely sure until the study is completed. He said ev-eryone may continue to use their own treatment plants.

“I think everybody will still be using their own treatment plants along the road — anybody that has one — because you’ll still need distribution points in the community,” added Hauglum.

There are already two regional water systems in

the province, as SaskWater operates treatment plants for both the Wakaw-Humboldt and Codette Lake regional potable water systems.

A public forum was held Jan. 23, 2012 in Midale, giving local stakeholders an opportunity to learn more about how water quality and quantity affects their livelihood.

Hauglum expects they will be able to get some sort of grant, particularly because the government is pushing the amalgamation

of water systems as a good strategy for rural centres moving forward.

He noted they aren’t just planning for the next fi ve or 10 years but the next 50 because water is so vital to the future of every community.

“Without water, you’re pretty much at a standstill. Nobody can survive without water. Your community will die if you don’t have quality water. It’ll help every com-munity along Highway 39 and the RMs along the way.”

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PerspectiveJANUARY 18, 2013


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Anybody looking for some fresh live music doesn’t have to wander too far to fi nd it.

An art gallery may not be the fi rst place people look to fi nd new musicians, but the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum has been welcoming up-and-coming acts from around the province for a year now and is looking to expand on its platform. Not only is the gallery teaming up with Eddie’s lounge next door, but they are also looking to offer a new act each month as part of their After Dark/After Hours Concert Series.

The After Hours portion of the se-ries is the newly introduced second half, premiering this Saturday, that allows for musicians to show music lovers two sides of their sound. After playing an acoustic set in the art gallery, they get to head over to Eddie’s and get a little louder in the new setting.

After Dark/After Hours showcases some very talented musicians from all over Saskatchewan, and I certainly love live music. I don’t need to be a fan of a band to enjoy them live. That makes these live performances a great way to be introduced to new music. It’s always best to experi-ence these acts in person.

I remember doing a story on the fi rst After Dark concert, when Regina band Whiskey Manner came to town. The very next night Hedley, performed what is probably the biggest musical event Spectra Place has hosted in its infancy.

It was a nice juxtaposition of the possi-bilities Estevan has for its musical venues.

Whiskey Manner came in and played an incredibly lively set to a crowd that fi lled the art gallery’s main room nicely. The next day, a nearly sold out Spectra Place hosted the popular acts of Hedley, Classifi ed and others.

It was a perfect example of what we could expect from live music in the city’s future.

I thought Whiskey Manner was a great band, and I feel anyone who missed them really was missing out.

But even as someone who doesn’t listen to Hedley, I was impressed by their

performance. Music aside, the band puts on a good show, and that’s something I can appreciate.

It isn’t always a very big crowd that comes out for the After Dark performanc-es, but as somebody who has attended most of them, I can say they are defi nitely worth it. It’s not just about supporting some small and local acts, but it’s genu-inely good music.

These musicians aren’t going to be headlining arena shows anytime soon, but the gallery brings in some very talented and technically sound artists. Estevan isn’t yet the hotspot in the province for all the biggest touring acts. I don’t expect any of my favourite bands will stop here. I don’t even expect them to make a stop as close as Regina, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of music to fi nd in the city.

It’s an overused cliché that many people take for granted or think of local musicians or other creators as subpar. I think those who have yet to attend a con-cert at the art gallery would be surprised at the quality of musicianship that plays in the hall.

They aren’t really musicians I recog-nize, but the spirit of live music is some-thing that’s diffi cult to ignore.

Good music in our backyard

Genetic modifi cation is a topic that has some people involved in agriculture smiling at the possibility of a brighter future, while others shudder that it will shatter consumer confi dence.

While consumers need to stay aware of genetic modification science, it shouldn’t just assume it is a huge spectre of doom.

Science is not inherently disastrous, and agriculture has been relying on sci-entifi c breakthrough since the fi rst cow was domesticated and wheat was planted and reaped.

There is science behind which nu-trients a crop requires in the form of fertilizer.

There is science behind crop breed-ing programs, as there is in terms of freezing livestock embryos, using artifi -cial insemination, and practically every other aspect of farming.

For the most part, the science has been accepted and has proven its worth.

That said, at the time pasteurization of milk was fi rst developed, there was certainly a constituency against it.

Somehow, though, we have come to view genetic modifi cation of crops as a step too far.

It may have to do with the fact the initial efforts in terms of GM crops re-volved around allowing crops to with-stand certain farm protection products rather than offering anything of obvious benefi t to consumers.

Longer term, though, that is where GM technology offers both agriculture and consumers the greatest opportunities.

Certainly when we look at the canola sector, GM technology allowing chemi-cal tolerances has gone a long way to expanding acres and yields - and agro-nomically, that is a good thing.

But the true potential of GM is about plants producing elements that they cur-rently do not.

For example, longer term GM will produce plants with traits that make them increasingly tolerant of solid salts, drought, and frost. Those sorts of changes expand areas in which the

crop will be grown, and in the face of a growing world population, that will be a positive thing.

And then there is the potential to introduce genes into plants, and that will allow the plant to develop low-cost an-tibodies, protein drugs and vaccines for cancers or other diseases. Consider the costs of traditional methods of creating many of the drugs that are already im-portant to a range of disease treatments, and then consider what a plant growing in a fi eld that could be harvested for the same or new drugs could mean?

Is the science without risk?Of course not. We only need to rec-

ognize that uranium allows for healing and bomb creation to know there are pitfalls.

But to not explore the possibilities and work to ensure the positives are the goals science pursues, would be to limit the potential good to mankind.

A changing world dynamic, growing population and declining arable land base will need the potential of GM to meet our basic needs in the future.

We need to embrace the science, although a cautious eye in all things is prudent too.

Science is an old friend of agriculture

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There is a service on-line called Fancy Hands, and it allows for anyone to have their own personal assistant.

After signing up for the

service, your wish is their command, and while it is a paid service, it’s certainly much more affordable than having your own personal assistant on staff. Maybe for the really busy people in this world who can’t shell out an annual salary for a minstrel to do their bidding, this service could be perfect for them.

I have a growing inter-est in craft beers, but the selection is limited in the Estevan. It’s just diffi cult to fi nd something that isn’t bottled by Anheuser-Busch or MillerCoors-Molson. With an online assistant, I could have them fi nd me a place that will ship my specially selected brews to my door. I probably don’t

quite have the wallet for all that, but the convenience of someone else tracking down that information and setting it all up is something that defi nitely interests me.

Personally, I am used to doing things myself and would probably have dif-ficulty trusting someone else to perform these me-nial tasks, even if they are

professional at performing menial tasks. I’m sure after a month of pampering and a couple of jobs well done, I would change my tune.

I could probably use these assistants to set up interviews for me. Maybe they would be better at coaxing someone into a chat. I could even write it off as a business expense

and charge it the Mercury, pending the approval of my superiors.

The only thing I re-ally do like doing is plan-ning travel. Just requesting someone to set up fl ights, organize pickups and drop-offs, and make sure all my bags arrived properly would be little weight off my mind.

— Jordan Baker

What would you have a personal assistant do for you?

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. I feel like I have so many stupid responsibili-ties that I’d be thrilled to hand off to some poor, willing person.

The obvious f i rs t choice is all my household chores. My personal assis-tant would keep my apart-ment clean, wash dishes and do my laundry. I’d also really like it if she thought up healthy meals and then picked up the groceries. I like to cook, though, so she wouldn’t have to double as my personal chef.

I’d also put her in charge of emailing public relations people. I under-stand that they have a job to do, just like I do, but I hate swimming through protocol and lame proce-dures just to score a fi ve minute interview. It would be really nice to have a personal assistant to take care of all the pre-interview set up, so I can breeze in and just worry about my question line.

I think it would be cool if my personal assistant looked kind of like me, so she could go to functions that I’m expected to attend. Like my boyfriend’s rec hockey games. It turns out that no one ever wants to join me in sitting through 60 painful minutes of mediocre hockey played

by aging men. So I could dress my assistant up in my jacket, sit her in the stands for the game, and thenswap in to meet my boy-friend after and compli-ment on his athletic prow-ess that I didn’t even watch.

It’d be nice for some-one to step in and take over the menial chores in my life, but I really shouldn’t be complaining. I’m 21.I have very few respon-sibilities and watching crappy hockey games aren’t the worst thing in the world. When I’m work-ing full time, own a homeand am forced to haul children to watch hockey games, then I think I’ll honestly start complaining and looking for an assistant to hire.

— Tonaya Marr

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For those who don’t know, throw pillows are those pointless little pil-lows that sit on beds, couches, chairs, window seats and basically any location where a person could relax in comfort for a period of time.

Throw pillows are intended to give the illu-sion of comfort. If you stack 50 on your bed, your bed transforms from an ordinary place of rest to a supposed mountain of

fl uffy comfort. It’s diffi cult to resist the desire to throw oneself onto a bed of throw pillows, similar to how it’s impossible not to want to play in a pile of leaves, or splash around in puddles.

However, throw pil-lows are dangerous. And pretty freakin’ useless.

Consider: Are throw pillows actually comfy? No. Throw pillows are the high heels of the pillow world. High heels make your legs look thin, long

and sexy, while throw pil-lows make your bed look like a feather-fi lled dream. Neither heels nor throw pillows are comfortable

though, and they often leave you fi lled with regret and unexpected pain. Plus they’re an illusion: Your legs aren’t that skinny and

your bed is pretty average, I’m guessing.

Also like heels, the nicer a throw pillow looks, the lower the comfort level. I’ve launched myself onto a comfy looking bed, only to be jabbed in the eyes by beads sewn onto throw pillows, or have my skin brutally torn away by sequins.

Throw pillows are like a mirage in the des-ert, providing you with an imagined comfort that disappears when faced with the truth.

Another simile: Throw pillows are like that guy/girl across the room that you’ve never met. Good from far, but far from good.

So people buy dozens of throw pillows at infl ated prices to stack whimsically around their houses. They cover their sofas and beds with them, and they look pretty and decorative. But

what happens when you want to use that sofa, or sleep in that bed? The throw pillows are tossed onto the fl oor. They’re discarded, and so make rooms look cluttered. And then the pillows get dirty, only to be placed back on the beds and sofas once they are no longer being used.

It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s time to stop. Don’t we have better things to spend our money on that four-cor-nered false-front of doom? Is it time to demand real comfort instead of mass-produced monstrosities that serve no real purpose?

It’s time to take a stand – who’s with me?

Tonaya Marr won-ders if this might be her most random column yet. If you want to weigh in, send Tonaya an e-mail at [email protected] or send her a tweet @TonayaMarr.

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I’m watching a progress bar intently on my computer screen. One day in, and it’s only one-third through. Once it’s complete, I will breathe a little easier.

The progress bar is for my very recently installed computer data backup pro-gram, Crashplan. It will, I hope, give me some piece of mind.

For years I’ve been per-forming without an adequate net. Sure, I kinda had back-ups of my computer fi les. But nothing was cohesive, it wasn’t automatic, and I had three copies of some things, and one copy of others. It was a mess.

For a guy whose living depends on the fi les on his computer, this can be a real distressing situation if you think about it.

There’s one inevitable fact. All electronics die at some point. More impor-tantly, all hard drives die. SARCAN is full of dead computers.

Think about that for a second. All your photos you’ve been taking for the last several years (nine in my case) are all on one or more hard drives. All your kids’ baby pictures, school plays, Christmases with grandpar-ents, holidays - they’re all on your hard drive. When was the last time you went to a lab and printed 36 pictures like you did when you had a roll of fi lm?

I have two large Rub-bermaid tubs full of prints and negatives from prior to 2003, when I switched to digital photography. Since then, not so much.

In addition to photos,

there are important fi les like taxes, letters, and in my case, everything I’ve written for newspapers in recent years.

So the idea of a hard driver failure can, and has, kept me up at night.

Some learned people feel a proper strategy is this: unless data exists in three different places, it doesn’t exist at all. Preferably, that means at least one of those places should be off-site, in case of fi re, burglary, fl ood-ing, power surge, etc.

With this in mind, whenever I’ve bought exter-nal hard drives, I’ve always bought them in pairs, with the idea of backing up to one, and then mirroring it (having an exact duplicate) to the second. But I have fi lled drives so fast over the years, that method never seemed to work out. By No-vember, I had eight external drives, and nothing properly backed up.

When I built a new computer last fall, it was built with the three places concept in mind. First of all, inside the computer is a four-drive RAID, a redundant array of independent disks. Confi gured as a RAID-5, it means every piece of data is spread about and stored to two of the four disks so that if one should die, the data still exists on the other

three. You simply replace the dead disk. The RAID gives me six terabytes of usable storage, of which two-thirds is already used from nine years of professional and personal photography.

Building the RAID allowed me to clear off two three-terabyte external drives. By themselves, they cannot back up the entire RAID, so each has to take half.

This is currently being done with a backup program called Crashplan. Crashplan is a subscription-based ser-vice that makes its money by offering a cloud service, meaning I can back up my fi les to an online server and retrieve them via the Internet should something bad hap-pen, like a fl ood. The backup is currently on its third day, and will likely take another two to fi nish, since it runs in the background.

For a few thousand Microsoft Word documents, cloud storage is pretty easy. I’m currently backing up 978,000 fi les, a large portion of which are huge. Without a fi breoptic Internet con-nection, I estimate it would take me about two years to upload all this.

That’s why Crashplan, and other services like it, will send you a hard drive to copy your initial backup

to, and then you courier it back to them. Nothing beats the bandwidth of a three-terabyte drive via UPS. After that, adding additional fi les is done online whenever your computer is not busy.

Once this is all accom-plished, I further plan to buy a few more external drives - at least three terabytes each, and copy my RAID to them

as well. These will then be stored at a friend or family member’s place, should my house burn down and Crash-plan goes out of business.

Most people don’t need a backup system so elabo-rate. They would be well served by picking up a $150 three-terabyte USB 3.0 drive tonight, hooking it up to their computer, and copying

everything to it, then unplug-ging it. Done. At least that would give you a fi ghting chance when, not if, your main computer’s drive dies.

Then you, too, can sleep better at night.

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A-R-S. Let’s go Cougars!The University of Re-

gina cheerleading team is hoping that chant will help lead them to a big W-I-N at a world championship event.

The 27-member team is heading to Florida for the International Cheer Union World University Cheer-leading Championship next weekend.

“We’re going to be the only team there representing Canada, so it’s really excit-ing especially since there’s going to be good representa-tion from the U.S., as well as some Asian countries and (Australia),” said head coach Thomas Rath.

The Regina team got to this point by winning the small coed division at the Canadian National Univer-sity Cheerleading Champi-onships in Brampton, Ont., in December.

It was the Cougars third national title following wins in 2008 and 2010. They came in second in 2009 and 2011.

They’re literally head over heels as they prepare to face the world.

“It was actually quite a shock,” said Carley Weis-beck, who is in her third year with the team.

“We weren’t expecting it. We weren’t really aiming for it really. Just coming off of the high of winning nationals and just to keep feeling such an elation, it was amazing. We’re all so excited.”

Weisbeck said the team has been training all year, three times a week for three hours of practice.

NationalMONTREAL - An

extended January thaw in parts of Quebec and Ontario has put a major dent in the outdoor hockey season. But an increasing number of municipalities, responding to fl uctuating temperatures, are now using artificial refrigeration to keep their skating rinks frozen through the winter months.

Unseasonably mild weather and rain over the past few days in Montreal has turned the city’s outdoor rinks to slush. The only ones with a hope of remaining operational are equipped with cooling systems below

the ice, including several built with the help of a local charity.

“We wanted to make sure we could maximize the use of the rinks,” Genevieve Paquette, executive director of the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation, said of the decision to use artifi cially-cooled ice.

“We realized when we started in 2007-2008 that there were a lot of issues with regards to the weather.”

The charity has helped build four rinks around the city, with another one soon on the way.

Another Montreal neighbourhood, West-mount, has set up an ar-tifi cial outdoor rink as a temporary replacement while its new arena gets built. The rink is operational up to about 8 C.

***TORONTO - The for-

mer top brass at Nortel were found not guilty Monday of falsifying fi nancial records as part of what the Crown alleged was a widespread, multimillion-dollar fraud at the fallen Canadian technol-ogy giant.

Ontario Superior Court

Justice Frank Marrocco ruled the Crown did not meet the burden of proof and dismissed charges against ex-CEO Frank Dunn, ex-CFO Douglas Beatty and ex-controller Michael Gol-logly.

The three had pleaded not guilty of manipulating the balance sheets at Nortel Networks Corp., between 2002 to 2003.

“I am not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Frank A. Dunn, Doug-las C. Beatty and Michael J. Gollogly deliberately misrepresented the fi nancial results of Nortel Networks Corporation,” Justice Mar-rocco said in his ruling.

“Therefore, I fi nd each of them not guilty of counts one and two in this indict-ment.”

The verdict comes nearly a year after one of the largest criminal trials in Canada’s corporate history began.

The men each faced two counts of fraud — one count of defrauding the pub-lic and one count of defraud-ing Nortel Networks Corp. They were accused of par-ticipating in a book-cooking

scheme designed to trigger $12.8 million in bonuses and stocks for themselves at the once powerful Canadian technology giant.

All three were fired in 2004.

InternationalPARIS - Holding aloft

ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thou-sands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French presi-dent’s plan to legalize gay marriage and thus allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children.

The opposition to Pres-ident Francois Hollande’s plan has underscored divi-sions among the secular-but-Catholic French, es-pecially more traditional rural areas versus urban enclaves. But while polls show the majority of French still support legalizing gay marriage, that backing gets more lukewarm when chil-dren come into play.

The protest march start-ed at three points across Paris, filling boulevards throughout the city as dem-onstrators walked six ki-lometres (3 miles) to the

grounds of France’s most recognizable monument. Paris police estimated the crowd at 340,000, making it one of the largest dem-onstrations in Paris since an education protest in 1984.

“This law is going to lead to a change of civili-zation that we don’t want,” said Philippe Javaloyes, a literature teacher who bused in with 300 people from Franche Comte in the far east. “We have nothing against different ways of living, but we think that a child must grow up with a mother and a father.”

Public opposi t ion spearheaded by religious leaders has chipped away at the popularity of Hollande’s plan in recent months. About 52 per cent of French favour legalizing gay marriage, ac-cording to a survey released Sunday, down from as high as 65 per cent in August.

French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that law has no provisions for adoption or assisted reproduction, which are at the heart of the latest debate.

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The Bienfait Coalers continued their offensive onslaught last weekend with a pair of wins in particularly dominating fashion.

The Coalers hosted teams on back-to-back nights as they welcomed Carnduff Red Devils Jan. 12 with an 11-2 victory, followed by a 9-4 win over the Redvers Rockets. The Coalers have scored a whopping 101 goals while allowing only 35 in their fi rst 14 games this season.

The offensive output has boosted Lorne Tyts-landsvik, Brennan Wrigley and Chris Hammett to the top three scoring spots in the league so far, with teammate Riley Tetrault also representing the Coal-ers as a top-10 scorer.

Between the pipes, the Coalers’ Jackson Walliser leads with a 2.45 goals-against average, pushed only by Midale’s Tanner Erickson who sits just back in second sporting a

2.45 GAA.The Arcola-Kisbey

Combines also found their scoring touch last Saturday night when they travelled to Redvers. The Combines’

7-5 victory leapfrogged them ahead of the Rockets in the standings, bumping them up to fi fth place, just behind the Red Devils. They each boast 13 points,

but the Red Devils have a game in hand.

In other action from last Saturday, the Midale Mustangs shut out the Wa-wota Flyers 3-0 and the Ox-bow Huskies lit the lamp nine times to the Carlyle Cougars’ two.

A pair of games that were scheduled for Tues-day night between the

Huskies and Flyers, and Red Devils and Combines were postponed.

Midale travelled to Redvers on Wednesday night, but the results were unavailable as of press time.

The Coalers are back in action on Saturday when they travel to Arcola.

The Combines will

play the Mustangs this Friday, and the Flyers will take on the Rockets. In other action this weekend, the Rockets will host the Cougars, while the Red Devils will welcome the Flyers.

On Sunday, Midale will head to Carlyle and Oxbow will play in Carn-duff.

Coalers offence keeps clicking in second half

BIX SIXBIX SIX STATS STATSBig Six Hockey League Top Scorers

Team Goals Assists PointsLorne Tytslandsvik Bienfait 16 16 32Brennan Wrigley Bienfait 17 14 31Chris Hammett Bienfait 11 13 24Ben Brown Wawota 6 15 21Taysen Holt Oxbow 7 13 20Dan Moriarty Carnduff 6 14 20Raymond Cugnet Arcola 13 6 19Riley Tetrault Bienfait 10 9 19Jordon Miller Redvers 12 6 18Cale Louden Midale 4 14 18

Carlyle Cougars captain Kelly Currie looks up the ice for a forward pass during Big Six Hockey League action in Bienfait earlier this season. The Cougars have struggled so far this year as they sit in last place with a 2-9-1 record, four points back of the Oxbow Huskies with two games in hand.

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OK, so this column’s self-imposed moratorium on writing about the Na-tional Hockey League is now over, since the two sides have agreed to a col-lective bargaining agree-ment and a 48-game 2013 schedule was scheduled to start Jan. 19.

Questions, anyone?Will the fan come

back? Vic Rauter of TSN tweeted that all the people who said they would boy-cott the NHL are those without tickets; those with tickets will come back. He’s probably right. You can take hockey away from Canadians, but you can’t take the ‘Canadian’ away from a hockey fan north of the 49th parallel.

What will Vancouver Canucks do about their goaltending situation? It appears as if Roberto Lu-ongo, he of the long-term, expensive contract who found himself on the bench behind Cory Schneider in the playoffs last year, will be in either a Maple Leafs or Flyers uniform this year. The best bet is probably the Leafs, who are accustomed to paying big bucks for over-the-hill castoffs.

What should the own-ers next move be? Would fi ring Gary Bettman be too harsh?

Can anyone remember what happened last year in the NHL? Oh, yes, the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup. Really. No we’re not kidding. The Kings are the defending NHL champions. You can look it up.

Which rookie will have the biggest impact in the NHL this year? Players from three Cana-dian teams, if you must know. Nail Yakupov, the No. 1 overall draft pick of the Oilers, is the real deal. Sven Bartschi, who played a few games with the Flames last year, will break through in a big way this season; and Alex Galchenyuk, an American citizen with a Russian name (his parents are Rus-sian) playing for a Quebec team (the Canadiens) is reportedly as good as, or better than, Yakupov. He went No. 3 in the draft but might have gone No. 1 had he not missed most of last season with an injury.

The biggest winners now that hockey is back? The players? The owners? The fans? Hardly. Big-

gest winners are TSN and Sportsnet, who fi nally get to show some revenue-producing hockey instead of just talking about it. Not watching the games is how you can boycott, if you must, but you probably won’t. You’re Canadian, remember?

• Tweet from @Mur-rayRempel on the morn-ing it was announced the NHL lockout was over: “Resounding thud heard as Byfuglien drops off the couch spilling bowl of ice cream and begins fever-ishly doing pushups.”

• Greg Cote of the Miami Herald: “Seven NFL coaches were fi red, including the Eagles’ Andy Reid and the Bears’ Lovie Smith. Reid quickly signed with the Chiefs and Or-egon’s Chip Kelly report-edly (interviewed) with the Browns. Apparently, both men are tired of winning.”

• Alabama football coach Nick Saban, asked what he has done with his four NCAA championship rings: “I just put them on the coffee table for the recruits to look at.”

• R.J. Currie of sports-deke.com: “A New York Daily News report says Tim Tebow will ask the Jets to trade him. Given his current value, the deal may list him as a prayer to be named later.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Attention, track-and-fi eld buffs: The Nude Olympics begin Jan. 20 at Maslin Beach near Adelaide, Australia. Events include sack races, Frisbee throwing and — everyone’s favourite — the picket-fence hurdles.”

• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com, after Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said leaving “is not an option” — then in-terviewed with the Eagles: “Maybe Brian can stop by the confessional on his way out.”

• T N T ’s C o n a n O’Brien, on why he had no desire to watch this year’s BCS title game: “I was home for the holidays, so I’d had quite enough of

the Fighting Irish.”• Comedy writer Jim

Barach on why Lance Arm-strong is having trouble owning up to illicit drug use: “He just isn’t used to backpedaling.”

• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel says the Jacksonville Jaguars should go ahead and sign Tim Tebow and not be afraid of the “circus” that might follow: “I say what the heck is wrong with the circus? The circus is fun. And that’s more than you can say for the Jaguars during their last decade of mundane irrelevance. Give me a circus over a cemetery.”

• Headline at Sport-sPickle.com: “Report: NHL owners and players still not in agreement on when next lockout should be.”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, mulling over suggestions the Baseball Hall of Fame should have a “character clause.” “Can you imagine

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if it had a character clause? It would be Barry Manilow, Taylor Swift and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir … Ty Cobb, on an average day, broke seven or eight Commandments

before breakfast.”• R.J. Currie again:

“The L.A. Lakers say Dwight Howard is out in-defi nitely with a shoulder injury. Probably from years of carrying a chip on it.”

• Comedy writer Jer-

ry Perisho on Twitter: “Kobe Bryant can’t get a break. First the Lakers get trounced, then his divorce gets cancelled.”

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January 22, 1992

Ed Hallett, left, with young Dan look on as Rod Dixon and son Brad scan the sports card selection offered by Hallett at the fi rst ever Sports Card show and sale sponsored by the student council at the Estevan Comprehensive School.

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NationalJarome Iginla was held

out of practice with a groin injury, Scott Gomez was sent home and Roberto Luongo’s status was still up in the air.

It’s one day into the ab-breviated NHL season and Canada’s teams are already having to deal with thorny issues.

The Montreal Cana-diens made a big splash as soon the season got underway Sunday, sending underperforming centre Gomez home for the rest of the season.

The move by new general manager Marc Bergevin will allow the Ca-nadiens to buy out Gomez’s contract in the summer and clear US$7.3 million in salary cap space for next season.

With the Canadiens still working on signing restricted free agent de-fenceman P.K. Subban the cap relief was necessary.

“With where the cap is going to be next year, we had to buy out Scott’s contract and the safest way to do that without risking him being injured was to send him home,” said Bergevin. “It’s the rules we have to play by.”

Canadian bobsledders fi nish ninth in GermanyUnder the new collec-

tive bargaining agreement signed Saturday, teams will be allowed two “amnesty” buyouts next season to help reach the cap. However, if a player is injured when the buyout period begins in July, he cannot be bought out.

Canadiens fans have been urging the team to dump the 12-year NHL veteran, who is popular with his teammates but whose production has dropped alarmingly from his best seasons with the New Jer-sey Devils in the early to mid-2000s.

***KOENIGSSEE, Ger-

many - Lyndon Rush piloted the Canada 1 four-man bobsleigh to a ninth-place fi nish on Sunday at a World Cup bobsled event.

Rush, of Humboldt, Sask., drove the Canada 1 crew — Jesse Lumsden, of Burlington, Ont., Calgary’s Lascelles Brown and Ot-tawa’s Cody Sorensen — into into the top-10 with a two-run time of one minute 38.76 seconds down the 1,435-metre track.

Russia’s Alexander Zubkov and his crew of Alexey Negodaylo, Dmi-try Trunenkov and Maxim

Mokrousov won the gold with a time of 1:38.06.

The Germans thrilled the thousands of fans that lined the oldest track in the world by winning the silver and bronze medals.

It was a solid outing for the Canada 3 sled driven by Justin Kripps of Summer-land, B.C. The brakeman at the 2010 Olympics teamed up with James McNaughton

of Newmarket, Ont., Nick Carriere, of Rockland, Ont., and Sam Giguere, of Sherbrooke, Que., to place 12th at 1:39.15.

The Canada 2 sled piloted by Calgary’s Chris Spring and pushed by Tim Randall of Burlington, Ont., Saskatoon’s Ben Coakwell and Edmonton’s Neville Wright were 21st in their opening run and did not

qualify for the second heat.International

MELBOURNE, Aus-tralia - Novak Djokovic shelved the conventional preparations for a while, warming up for a shot at a third consecutive Australian title with a bit of week-end hit-and-giggle and a Gangnam Style dance with Serena Williams.

That was for kids’ day,

when thousands of people fl ocked to Rod Laver Arena to see 2012 Australian champions Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka hitting in a just-for-fun match with players including past champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams, a cast of human-sized cartoon characters and a marching band that played the tune to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Putting A Face To All The Names

The Estevan Junior Band

The Band Played OnThe Band Played On

Putting A Face To All The Names


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• 3:00 p.m. - Paddle Bats and Balloon Covers at Estevan Public Library

• Energy City Film Circuit - MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN - 4 pm at the Orpheum Theatre

• Stars for Saskatchewan - COULOIR (Harp & Cello) - 2:30pm at St. Paul’s United Church

Ground Hog Day• 6:00 p.m. Stack Your Shelf With Style at the Estevan Public Library

• 6:00 p.m. Ovarian Cancer Awareness at the Estevan Public Library

• 6:30 Kool-Aid play dough kits at the Estevan Public Library• 1 - 4 p.m. - Public Swim at the Souris Valley Leisure Centre - $3 for children 3-12

• 1:30 - 2:45 - Family Skate - Icon Centre

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• 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 pm - Quilting 101 with Eileen McKersie - held in the craft room at the Leisure Centre - Pre-register with the Estevan Arts Council

• 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 pm - Quilting 101 with Eileen McKersie - held in the craft room at the Leisure Centre - Pre-register with the Estevan Arts Council

• 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Drawing for Teens/Adults with Cheryl Andrist - held in the craft room at the Leisure Centre - Pre-register with the Estevan ArtsCouncil

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Junior BandSpruce Ridge School hosted a concert for the Es-tevan Junior Bands on Jan. 14, welcoming families and friends to see the elementary students per-form. Students from Spruce Ridge, Pleasantdale and Westview performed a number of different songs and styles in various arrangements.

Estevan Junior Band

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TENDERSThe City of Estevan invites tenders to provide “2013 Fuel and Lubricant Tender”Specifi cations are available at the Legislative Services Business Division – Main Floor – City Hall. For further information regarding this tender please contact Dana Skjonsby, Stores Foreman : 634-1833, Fax 634-1818.

Interested parties are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “2013 Fuel and Lubricant Tender ”

Mail to the following by 2:30 PM, Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

Legislative Services Business DivisionMain Floor 1102 4th StreetCity of Estevan, Estevan, SK

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Public opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, February 12, 2013 C.S.T, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.The City of Estevan invites tenders from Equipment Dealers to purchase a new Riding Mower. For more information and a complete list of specifi cations, please contact Gloria Johnson, Parks Manager at (306) 634-1816. The City reserves the right to accept the tender proposal that best meets its requirements and the lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. You are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “Riding Mower Tender” to the following by 2:30pm, Tuesday January 29, 2013.Leisure Services

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Opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, January 29, 2013 C.S.T., in the Conference Room at the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

2013 Discount on Property TaxesEffective in 2013, discounts on the School portion of Property Taxes will not be offered as per Provincial Government directives.The City of Estevan will offer a discount of 2.5% on the City Property Tax Portion for payments made in full based on the 2012 levy until January 31, 2013. There will be no further discounts offered after January 31st. For further information, contact Tim at 634-1813 or Trina at 634-1811.

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Power Tech Industries Ltd. in Estevan is seeking an experienced office administrator for a

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