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The Prince Parkland RHA board of direc-tors received a report on the Region’s qual-ity process and vaccine inventory controls at the regular board of directors meeting on March 27, 2013 in Prince Albert.

The Region’s Public Health Nursing unit has been involved with a provincial project to better manage vaccine safety and wast-age. This has included how the vaccines are ordered and ensuring that they are stored properly (including correct temperature range). This has included: Kanban, a Lean methodology for managing inventory and supply; Multi-site inventory for vaccines; and Continuous temperature monitor-ing of vaccine storage and transportation, which helps reduces waste.

“By focusing on the supply chain we can avoid wasting vaccine and ensure that the vaccine we use is at its most effective,” Wanda Atcheson, Director of Public Health Services, told the RHA board of directors. “We also continually look at how we can best accommodate our clients. This has meant later-day or drop-in clinics, which has improved access to our services.”

Atcheson said the Public Health team is focused on addressing issues identifi ed by the Accreditation Canada Roadmap, which compares Prince Albert Parkland to na-tional standards.

Among the areas identifi ed as requiring attention for public health are: Information systems required for record keeping; Re-view and updated the public health team’s communications strategy; Regular surveil-lance to understand community health sta-tus, health conditions, and health threats; and The public education surrounding im-portant public health issues.

The Accreditation Canada process did say that the Region’s public health services does good work with community partners to promote activities that are based on public health priorities to improve com-munity health and well-being.

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Sturgeon River Nordic completes 2012-13 race season

Submitted by Joan Jeffery

It was such a long season! Our first on snow practice was October 23, 2012. Unfortunately, a few races and events were cancelled and postponed due to the cold temperatures in January and February; however, skiers did attend races in La Ronge, Flin Flon, Saskatoon and Regina.

The highlight of our early season was attendance at the World Cup of Nordic skiing in Canmore, AB in December.

Not only were our skiers rubbing shoulders with the best cross-country skiers in the world, they were participating in a high performance training camp as well.

There were 30 young skiers from all across Saskatchewan involved in the camp and Sturgeon River Nordic had the largest contingent in the group.

Sturgeon River Nordic Skiers got the opportunity to meet some of the Russian World Cup racers and learn about So-

chi, Russia, the 2014 Olympic Games site. They received posters, signed cards and warm handshakes from the young Russians.

A great accomplishment for many of the club members was participating in the annual Saskaloppet in La Ronge. Seven of the race team completed the 35 kilometres.

Our season ended off with the ever popular School Ski Championships held in La Ronge March 22nd. Both our Ju-nior and Open Relay teams won the school banners. The last Sask Cup race followed on Saturday, March 23, again with good results.

A club potluck was held March 24th to bring our club mem-bers together to close off an unusual winter, but full season.

The next dry land training camp will be in Waskesiu, June 1, 2. Many skiers want to keep skiing as long as the snow lasts. By the look of things, that could be for some time!

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PA Parkland board learns about

efforts to enhance quality and

inventory controls for vaccines

March 24, 2013, Bill Jeffery of Sturgeon River Nordic was presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. This recognizes his outstanding contributions to sport in Saskatchewan. Bill is pictured here with his wife Joan and sev-eral members of the SRN race team. Left to right: Jeff Wilson, Joan Jeffery, Michael Fraser, Anna Sigurdson, Jenna Beaulieu, Evan Beaulieu, Bill Jeffery, Alex Wilson, Ryan Potts, Amy Larson, Taryn Moe, Hannah Miller.

Coach Bill Jeffery awarded Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal

THE SPRING THAW IS ON ITS WAY!!!Be sure to monitor your dwelling and yards to keep melting snow and ice from causing damage to your property and belongings.

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The Shellbrook Public Library is excited to announce the arrival of two very valuable tools to its arsenal of information. In April join Laura Lepard again as she continues to offer health presentations, this time with a focus on diabetes and the Library would like to remind parents that Friday morning Story Time is on and is open to all comers.

Because of the high interest throughout the trials held in December 2012, during the fi rst week of April, Ancestry Library Edition (a subscription-based genealogy research website with billions of records online) and Consumer Reports (a magazine and on-line database that rates and recommends thousands of products and services) will be joining the Wapiti Regional Library’s data-bases. Keep an eye on the website at www.wapitilibrary.ca for an announcement once

the databases are offi cially available. Ances-try Library Edition will be an in-library use only database but Consumer Reports will be accessible from your home computers. The databases are a collection of resources from world newspapers with Library Press-Display, to health with Health & Wellness Resource Centre, to mechanics with Small Engine Repair Reference Center, and more that are accessible to library patrons. All you need is your library card and a PIN to act as your password. If you are not already set up with a PIN, visit your local library to set one up today.

On Tuesday, April 9th at 7:00 pm Laura Lepard will share materials from Doctor John McDougal and Mary McDougal as they discuss diabetic connections with diet. Doc-tor John McDougal is a board certifi ed in-

ternist, author of eleven international best-selling books, and medical director of the 10-Day Live In McDougal program in Santa Rosa, California.

Mary McDougal is a nurse, educator, and co-author of nine bestselling books. She directs all food oriented activities at the program and has created over 2500 reci-pes. Visit their website www.drmcdougall.com to learn more and sign up for their free newsletter. Lepard will share her story and family’s experience with a whole-plant based diet and serve up insulin-responsible refreshments.

Story Time continues to sail forward fol-lowing the “Anchors and Sails” reading program on Fridays at 10:30 am. With the healthy mixture of vowels and consonants presented, every new letter sound increases

the number of words that can be read. If you are interested in volunteering your time to read or do crafts, please contact Alanna at 306-747-3419.

The Library continues to offers free com-puter and Internet access to the public even with the cancellation of the Community Ac-cess Program (CAP) in March 2012. Would you like to bring back funding and keep public computer access for everyone? Drop on by the Library to sign a postcard to the Prime Minister.

Shellbrook Library hours are Monday 2:00pm - 6:00pm, Tuesday and Wednes-day 2:00pm - 8:00pm, Thursday 2:00pm - 6:00pm, and Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm. Weekly library hours are determined annu-ally by materials checked out; the more ma-terials checked out, the better.

There has been a new scam that has been occurring in Saskatchewan and the RCMP’s F Division Economic Crime Program would like to inform the public and advise them on how to better protect themselves from falling victim to this new scam. In this scam, the vic-tim’s e-mail account is compromised.

The suspect(s) then use the information that is located within the various folders in the e-mail account to compose an e-mail to the vic-tim’s fi nancial institution asking them to wire money from their account to another bank ac-

count. There have been incidents where the e-mail has been acted upon by the fi nancial institution and money has been sent to the suspect(s) bank account.

The best way to protect yourself from this scam is to protect your e-mail account. You can do this by:

· Creating strong passwords and chang-ing your e-mail password every 6 months.

· Be careful in clicking on links attached to e-mails you receive. If you don’t know who sent the e-mail don’t click on the link.

· Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date.

· Be cautious when logging into your e-mail account from untrusted computers. This is any computer that you don’t maintain yourself. These computers could have keylog-ger technology installed on them which would give up your password to your e-mail account.

· Be cautious of what personal and fi -nancial information you include in an e-mail.

Fraud Awareness is part of a national crime prevention campaign to increase Canadians’

awareness of and knowledge about different types of fraud in order to help citizens to not become fraud victims. RCMP Saskatchewan’s “F” Division Economic Crime Program has offi ces in Regina and Saskatoon. Their role is to reduce the impact of economic crime on Canadians by maintaining the integrity of our economy through public education, crime pre-vention, and enforcement.

To better educate yourself with this scam and others, please visit www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams or www.antifraudcentre.ca

Success on the GED test is now just clicks away for adult learners in Saskatchewan. In striving to provide more adult learners throughout the province with a high school credential and basic technol-ogy skills, Saskatchewan is partnering with GED Testing Service to now offer the GED test on computer. The prov-

ince is the fi rst jurisdiction in Canada to offer the new test-ing format.

“We are delighted to bring the new computer-based testing format to our GED students,” Economy Min-ister Bill Boyd said. “The new computer-based testing method provides a quicker and perhaps a more success-

ful means to pursue the skills development necessary to participate in the province’s work force and build a re-warding life and career.”

“We’re looking forward to introducing computerized GED testing at all SIAST lo-cations,” SIAST President and CEO Dr. Larry Rosia said. “Ultimately, both learn-

ers and employers will benefi t from a more effi cient GED testing process – the fi rst group from a speedier transi-tion into post-secondary, and the second from access to a more highly educated work force.”

Since last year’s launch in the U.S., more than 40,000 computerized GED tests were delivered across 43 states with positive results for test takers. GED Testing Service found that adults who tested on computer had an 88 per cent pass rate compared to 71 per cent for those who tested on paper.

In addition, adults who tested on computer complet-ed their exams in fi ve-and-half-hours compared to just over seven hours on paper. Adults who tested on com-puter were also 59 per cent more likely to retake a failed test and remain in the GED testing program.

“Moving the GED test to computer helps adults dem-onstrate necessary basic technology skills and makes their testing process easier and more effi cient,” GED Testing Service President Randy Trask said. “We are so pleased that Saskatchewan is our partner in this important endeavor.”

Several new services will streamline the testing pro-cess and benefi t adult learn-ers who often need to move

very quickly into jobs or training programs. These benefi ts include:

•Online scheduling and registration that is available 24/7;

•More testing fl exibility for test takers as they can choose when and where to take their test;

•Instant unoffi cial score reports; (faster results mean adults can apply for jobs or immediately begin studying if they need to retake a sub-ject area); and

•Enhanced test security.

he computerized test will initially be offered at SIAST Wascana Campus in Re-gina and is expected to be available in all testing cen-tres across the province by January 2014, with some transitioning in the com-ing months. The GED test on computer is the same test currently offered on paper and pencil. The test is ad-ministered in person at an of-fi cial GED testing centre and is not available online.

For information visit www.economy.gov.sk.ca/ged.

E-mails hacked, and money taken from victim’s bank account

Saskatchewan first to offer computerized GED testing

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-by Erl SvendsenBy the time this goes to print, I’m hopeful that no more

snow has fallen and that the big melt has at least begun. This is the perfect time to start getting ready for the year ahead – it’s what I consider the twilight time between win-ter and spring that can last as little as a week or two and as long as a month or more. This winter has already dragged on far too long, so who knows how long we have before we’re in the full swing of things.

Here are a few activities to keep you occupiedif you’re chomping at the bit to do some gardening:

1. Equipment maintenance: get your lawn mower and rototiller tuned-up now to avoid the rush. While you’re at it, have the mower blades sharpened. Sharp blades dam-age the lawn less, promoting healthy lush growth.

2. Tools: clean your hand tools, remove rust and sharpen. Use an axe fi le to put a new edge on your shovels and hoes. For tools like pruners that require a fi ner edge, use a sharpening stone.

3. Lawn care: there are a couple of issues here. First there is the chance of snow mold. As daytime temperatures rise, snow mold grows just under the snow layer, feeding off the grass. Severe infestations can kill out patches of your lawn. As a homeowner, your best bet is to rake out the snow as it becomes more manageable. This speeds up the thaw-ing process and physically disturbs the mold. Wear a dust mask to avoid inhaling mold spores if you’re susceptible to breathing issues. Take care not to damage the sod with overly vigorous raking. The second issue, especially in a year like this, is standing water. Standing water for more than a week or two is a problem not just for lawns but also trees and perennials. If you can, direct the water away from your yard with a ditch or pump it out to the street.

4. Tree and shrub care: before your trees and shrubs leaf out, remove dead, damaged, rubbing or diseased wood. In the case of overgrown shrubs, remove up to one third of the oldest branches (thickest stems with darkest brown

bark) to rejuvenate. If you’ve had trouble in the past with aphids, leaf rollers, mites, or scale insects, consider spray-ing your woody ornamentals with a horticultural or dor-mant oil spray before leafi ng out to control. Horticultural oil is a fairly benign product, working by literally suffocat-ing the eggs or overwintering insect stage rather than by killing with a toxic substance.

5. Perennial care: after the snow has gone and the beds are somewhat dry, cut back your perennials and re-move dead and decaying leaves. You can put the organics in the compost provided they weren’t diseased last year (e.g. don’t compost hollyhocks if they were infested with rust). You want to get this done before new growth starts; orna-mental grasses and chives are especially early growers.

6. Mulch: apply fresh compost or other organic mulch to preserve soil moisture and moderate soil tempera-tures during the growing season.

7. Seeds: order or purchase seeds for the upcoming season. It’s not too late to start seeds such as peppers. Hold off on tomatoes: they only need a 4 or 5-week head start.

8. Vegetable garden: As soon as the soil is dry enough, rototill your garden to loosen and warm up the soil. This will also bring overwintering pests and weed seeds to the surface to dry out or get picked off by our feathered friends. But if you rototill when it is too wet, you will end up with compacted soil – and a muddy mess. Consider adding or-ganic matter like well-rotted compost or manure. The com-mon wisdom of waiting until the May-long weekend to seed or transplant seedlings applies to tender or chilling sensi-tive plants like tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, corn, potatoes and the like. What you can plant as early as mid-April in some year (maybe not this year with all the snow still about) are peas, carrots, spinach, beets and radishes for an early harvest.

This should keep you busy now for the next month or so. Happy Spring!

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Getting behind the wheel of a car can be scary at times, depending upon weather, traffi c and where you are head-ed. There is relatively not too much stress in taking a drive you have taken hundreds of times before, like to the corner store. But calculateme.com tells you that 23% of auto accidents occur less than one mile from home, and 29 % occur between two and fi ve miles from home.

There are many hazards inher-ent in driving a car, such as road conditions, visibility, traffi c con-gestion, noise, traffi c lights and signs of all kinds.

So, we can all agree that driving can be dangerous. My question is, why must people make it far more dangerous than it needs to be?

Without further ado, here is a list of my pet peeves about driving.

The fi rst on everyone’s list, as it is on mine, is drinking and or drugging and driving. Anyone who does not know how danger-ous and just plain stupid this ac-tivity is, is probably brain dead or under the age of two.

Moving on, in no particular or-der, another pet peeve involves winter driving. After a snowfall, people, please remove all the snow

from your vehicle before taking it on the road. It is very frustrating, not to mention dangerous, to drive behind

you. You see, despite the sunshine and lack of clouds in the sky, I am driving in the midst of a blizzard with near white out conditions. Why? That is all the snow coming off your vehicle that you were too lazy to remove. Who cares about the chunks of ice that fl y off and break my windshield. That’s what insurance is for, right?

The cousin to this peeve, of course, is only scraping just enough ice or snow from your windshield to see out

the front. Do you really need to see what is around you on the road? I guess you don’t need to know that an am-bulance, fi re truck or other emergency vehicle will need to get by you when seconds count. You also don’t need to see those young kids crossing the street on your right when you turn into that intersection at the same time.

Lights and turn indicators. Yes, all vehicles are sup-posed to have them. While most do, the problem is many vehicles do not have operators that are knowledgeable in their existence or how to make them work.

Let’s start with lights. They not only allow you to see in the dark, they also allow others to see you in the dark. That is quite a concept, seeing and being seen. Having lights on 24/7 saves lives around the clock.

High Beams on a car are used for seeing farther and better on a dark road. Why some people insist on driving with them on 24/7 is a mystery and downright danger-ous. Please use them wisely, and stop blinding me need-lessly. California law states - Your high beams have to be dimmed within 300 feet of following another driver and within 500 feet of an oncoming driver, not 3 and 5 feet respectively.

Turn signals are fun things. They can broadcast a driv-er’s intentions, or they can broadcast a driver’s distrac-tions. Please use them. It is very annoying to fi nd out all of a sudden that you are turning into my path, or out of my way without any warning. Please drive safely!

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Paul Martin CommentaryThis is one of those statistics that doesn’t make it

to the top 10 list very often but every once in a while it gets noticed. The metric in question is bankruptcy.

In broad terms, this particular measure has the potential to provide a bit of a barometer for which way the economy is going…bankruptcies on the rise – where consumer or business – probably signals some problems.

But the latest f igures on this one are go-ing in a completely different direction. The number of businesses that went bankrupt in December in Saskatchewan was zero, nil, nada.

It’s not very often we can say that and, while this will be painful for statisticians trying to f igure out their percentages it also a sign of considerable strength in the over-all economy.

Similarly, on the consumer front the num-ber of personal bankruptcies was down about 22 per cent to 69 declarations in De-cember. And when compared to previous years this is a big change as we usually have between 10 and 12 business or farm bankruptcies monthly and more than 100 on the personal side.

***If you’re interested in being a landlord, Regina is

the place to be.The Regina office of Commercial realtor Avison

Young has just released a market analysis for the province and it shows the Queen City continues to la-bor under the tightest conditions in the country – in every category.

The report shows office space with a vacancy rate of less than 1.5 per cent. Industrial is 2.5 per cent. In the retail sector it is 3 per cent and the residential rental vacancy is one percent, the lowest of the major

cities in the province and in the nation.And all of this despite a f lurry of new construction

in every segment.The Saskatoon market is also tight but conditions

are not quite as severe as in the provincial capital. This is especially notable in the office market where

Saskatoon has roughly three per cent of its f loor space currently available, roughly double the Regina number. The vacancy rate in the Saskatoon industrial market is 3 per cent slightly higher than Regina’s while re-tail is comparable at three per cent.

***It is starting to look like the Saskatchewan

economy is f inding a state of equilibrium.After six or seven years of significant

growth, fueled by investment in everything from resource industry expansion to new plants and thousands of housing starts, the pace of growth appears to be settling into something a bit more modest.

This was evidenced in the latest update from the economists at RBC Royal Bank who are now predict-ing Saskatchewan’s economy will expand by 2.9 per cent this year.

That’s down a half point from an earlier estimate of 3.5 per cent but still better than what the bank’s says we saw last year.

This report points to a slight pull-back in construc-tion for its decision. This slowdown in capital invest-ment, the fuel that has lifted the economy for the last half dozen years, will be offset by continued strength in agriculture and a rebound in the potash sector.

Despite the downward revision, RBC says the key drivers of the national economy remain the three prairie provinces which are out-pacing the rest of the country.

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There is no doubt that the federal Con-servative government has been farmer- and rural friendly.

Solid rural support is why the Conserva-tives have captured 12 or 13 of the 14 Sas-katchewan federal seats for the past decade … and it is also why the Conservatives are fi ghting tooth and nail to preserve the pres-ent split urban-rural federal ridings in this province.

This is not a product of some enduring love for the cities or even a refl ection of the Conservative MPs’ sincere belief that split urban/rural ridings are more refl ective of Saskatchewan nature.

The Conservatives are confi dent they’ve got the rural vote sewn up _ a reasonably safe assumption, given the size of their wins in predominately rural ridings like Cypress Hills-Grasslands, Yorkton-Melville, Moose Mountain or Kindersley-Lloydminster.

Knowing that they will get three-quarters of the rural vote (as the Saskatchewan Party generally does in provincial elections) gives the Conservatives incentive to want keep split rural-urban ridings where powerful rural support dilutes New Democrat or Lib-

eral support from the cities.

This is not to say that Conservative ru-ral support hasn’t been earned. Philosophi-cally speaking, the Conservatives better refl ect the older, more conservative views of rural people on issues both social and eco-nomic. And give the Conservatives credit for dispensing with

massively unpopular long fi rearm registry brought in by a Liberal government and sup-ported by the federal NDP.

Even the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly as a single-desk seller was far more popular than residents of the cities realized.

Votes to keep the CWB monopoly on wheat and barley mostly refl ected those who were allowed to vote _ retired farmers/land-owners and smaller producers. They did not necessarily refl ect those producing the most

wheat and barley, thus most restricted by the single-desk selling rules. Perhaps not everyone in rural Saskatchewan opposed the CWB monopoly, but many rural resi-dents did see it as inherently unfair. At the very least, it tapped into the streak of inde-pendence in rural people that are often frus-trated with government making their tough way to earn a living even tougher.

That said, this is not the only personality trait of the rural voter.

There is also a sense of sharing in rural settings that’s founded on the need to help a neighbour or even a stranger who may be struggling in sometimes harsh and isolated rural settings.

And it’s in this year’s federal budget where the Conservatives may fi nally have crossed the line into becoming less rural-friendly.

Actually, it probably started in last year’s budget that saw the demise of 112-year-old shelterbelt program at Indian Head, the community pasture program and 100s of jobs in the federal Agriculture department and Canada Food Inspection Agency.

In isolation, farmers and rural folks might be able to rationalize that the need for shel-

terbelts is a thing of past with today’s direct seeding techniques and increasingly valued farm land. And bureaucrat jobs aren’t al-ways seen as a farm/rural issue.

But even very right-wing farmers and ranchers benefi t from having trees around their yard sites. And they certainly value of CFIA inspectors when they insuring that lax safety standards at giant packing plants aren’t grinding the beef industry to a halt.

Now, add in the eagerness of the federal government in this budget to extract itself from all farm safety net like AgriStability.

The rural-friendly Conservatives have ridden on their reputation of being more in-tune with rural/agricultural Canada. But while it’s one thing to end despised urban-based policies like the long gun registry, it’s quite another to take away things from which rural people benefi t.

Again, there are those who will see the end of CWB monopoly as anything but a bad thing. However, ending other support pro-grams or safety nets may be less welcomed.

And it may even put a strain on the Con-servatives’ relationship with rural voters.

Fed budget strains relations with rural Sask.

MURRAY

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Dear EditorThere is no commercial in the Media on the pro-

vision on Economic Action Plan terms providing for “a comprehensive risk management frame work for systemically important banks” which may place the bank deposits, the assets, of individuals at risk.

Members of Parliament are in their constituen-cies. Consider asking your Member(s) whether they are aware that the Economic Action Plan 2013 will implement a comprehensive risk management frame-work for Canada’s systemically important banks; a framework through which a bank in difficulty “can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital.” Right here. The “certain liabili-ties”, as in Cyprus, potentially being the deposits of customers.

This information came to my attention only today through the enclosed article. This provision has not, to my knowledge, been considered by our Canadian Media.

This post is sent to you for the information provided and for consideration of action on your part. Action should you share the opinion those who may be af-fected ought to be made aware of this portion of the Economic Action Plan that may directly affect them.

Yours very truly,Joe Hueglin,Member 29th Parliament Niagara Falls Riding

Dear Editor

I congratulate the media for restating for at least the 100th time that Indian Band Operated Schools are not funded as well as provincially-run schools. I believe this to be generally true, and I’m sure there is no one in our society that thinks this is a satisfactory state of affairs.

On the other hand, and again for the 100th time, given the propensity for many Chiefs and Councils and beholding Indian Band administrators to mis-appropriate, not account for and even pocket money entrusted to them for their bands, does anyone have

any suggestions how governments or anyone else should handle more money for Indian Band Operated Schools?

Dr. Dennis Hall, M.Ed. (admin) Ph.D. (EDPA)Former Teacher and Principal of DIAND and Band

Operated Schools Saskatoon

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Report from the LegislatureEveryone has a role to play

when it comes to potential fl ooding this spring, and that includes our government. To that end, Premier Brad Wall has appointed a special cabi-net committee to oversee the province’s preparations and response to potential spring fl ooding. In addition, we have designated $182 million in the Growth and Financial Secu-rity Fund to cover potential costs. Several ministries have already committed resources to fl ood preparation. For ex-ample, Ministry of Govern-ment Relations and the Water Security Agency have been holding meetings in at-risk regions. At those meetings, they are providing informa-tion and advice on what to do to prevent and respond to fl ooding. Water levels at the

Rafferty and Alameda reser-voirs continue to be lowered. And the Ministry of Highways is taking stock to ensure there are enough road building ma-terials, culverts and bridge

replacement components and machinery, culvert steamers and trailers fi lled with all the necessary equipment. Mu-nicipalities that need help can contact the Ministry of Government Relations to get fl ood supplies, equipment and assistance. Emergency sup-plies and equipment available include:

• Sandbags;• Sandbag machines;• Pumps;• Hoses; and• Barrier systems.Information on how to keep

you and your family safe, in addition to local contacts and information about fl ood pre-paredness, is available on-line at www.gr.gov.sk.ca/fl ood.

On March 20, 2013, our government announced its sixth consecutive balanced

budget. Overall, reaction to the “Balanced Growth” 2013-14 budget has been positive. From praise for being the only balanced budget in Canada to kudos from municipalities on revenue sharing and the sin-

cere thanks from the group that was the driving force behind the province’s fi rst transition home in 25 years, our government is humbled and honoured that this year’s budget refl ects the priori-ties of Saskatchewan people. Through controlled spending that improves quality of life, invests in infrastructure and supports our growing econo-my, we will keep the Saskatch-ewan Advantage.

Not surprisingly, one of the groups that just doesn’t seem to get it is the Offi cial Opposi-tion. This year’s budget intro-duces a new uranium royalty structure that will attract new investment in mines and in-crease jobs for First Nations in the north. But the NDP refuse to say whether they support this important initia-

tive. New opposition leader Cam Broten was asked several times whether he supports these changes and the new opportunities they create, but he refused to take a position. Northern leaders, though, know where they stand. The Mayor of Pinehouse supports the changes to the uranium royalty structure. The CEO of the Athabasca Basin Au-thority says the changes will lead to new mines and ex-pansions. And the owner of Northern Resource Trucking, which is 70 per cent aboriginal owned, said the changes are just what his industry needs. They mean more jobs, more training and infrastructure – what the north needs. The only person that doesn’t seem to get that is the NDP’s new leader.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYTOWN OF BIG RIVER

is receiving applications for Maintenance Assistant - Summer Employee position.

Successful applicant will: • be available to work a 40 hour week from at least May 1st to August 31, 2013;• provide 2 pt photo id and a driver record (ab-stract);• assist in daily duties under the supervision of qualifi ed maintenance personnel.

Forward resumes by 1:00 p.m. April 12th, 2013 to: Town of Big River

by mail at: Box 220, Big River Sk S0J 0E0 by email at: [email protected]

by fax at: (306) 469-4856 or in person at: 606 1st St North.

For more information please contact the Town Offi ce 306-469-2112.

Only those called for interview will receive notifi cation of results.

Brokenness The psalmist said a”

broken and a contrite heart I will not despise. One preacher used to pray ‘brake me Lord, brake me.’ Maybe a strange pray for some but this pas-tor understood that God uses broken things. When Mary anointed Jesus it says in Mark Gospel “she broke the jar and poured (the perfume) over His Head.”Mark 14:3 I love the story that Pastor Matt Woodley tells; He tells the story of a lady called There-

sa. She said “ after marry-ing the man of her dreams, [Theresa] dropped into the abyss of a deep depression. Everything went dark in her mind and body. She even started writing her obituary. Three years ago I would have had plenty of answers and solutions for her. I would have been so clever and powerful. But now I could only sit with her in her pain. We prayed. I didn’t know what to do, didn’t have any answers, so I said, “Theresa, I have no idea what to say, so could

we just read the Psalms?” Then I read Psalm 77, an agonizing psalm of lament, and I went home. I left feeling utterly powerless, and I sure didn’t think that I made her feel bet-ter. The next week another leader of our church vis-ited Theresa. She was still suffering intensely, but when the leader asked if he could pray for her, Theresa said, “Yes, but before you pray, please read Psalm 77. I’ve been clinging to it all week. It’s my lifeline

to God.” Apparently when we read Psalm 77 in ut-ter powerlessness, God showed up in her life with power. Pastor Woodley adds: “At times the best, most powerful and most useful way to love someone is to get to the end of my-self. I admit that I can’t fix or change you. My words and my advice won’t heal your brokenness. But I can be with you, and we can go together to the Father.”

Agape, Dave Bodvarson Pastor, SPA

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NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLL

Notice is hereby given that the Assessment Roll for the Rural Municipality of Canwood No. 494 for the year 2013 has been prepared and is open to inspection at the Offi ce of the Asses-sor from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the following days: Monday to Friday, April 5 to June 5, 2013.A bylaw pursuant to Section 214 of Th e Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.

Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her assess-ment is required to fi le his or her notice of appeal, accom-panied by a $50.00 appeal fee per roll number which will be returned if the appeal is successful, with the Assessor at R.M. of Canwood No. 494, Box 10, Canwood, Saskatchewan, S0J 0K0 by the 5th day of June, 2013.

Dated at Canwood, Saskatchewan, this 5th day of April, 2013.Lorna Benson, Assessor

R.M. of Leask No. 464NOTICE

ASSESSMENT ROLLNotice is hereby given that the Assessment Roll of the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 for the year 2013 has been pre-pared and is open to inspection at the offi ce of the Assessor from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mon-day to Friday from April 5, 2013 to June 7, 2013.

A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of Th e Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.

Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her assess-ment is required to fi le his or her notice of appeal with Th e Assessor, R.M. of Leask, Box 190, Leask, SK, S0J 1M0 by the 7th day of June, 2013.

Dated at Leask, Saskatchewan, this 5th day of April, 2013.

Riannon NelsonAssessor

AGRICULTUREAGRICULTUREApril 5, 2013 www.shellbrookchronicle.com Shellbrook Chronicle 7

Some areas should have been left as wetlandsWetlands have long been something farmers have

struggled with.In the past the struggle was straight forward, revolving

around how to effectively eliminate them from a field.A wetland was simply acres which could not be plant-

ed, and that was seen as a detriment to a farm operation.There were of course reasons for that view, beginning

with the quota system of delivering grain which used to be based on delivering an amount of bushels per culti-vated acres.

It was a system which really forced Prairie farmers into setting the plow to hundreds of acres of land which would have better been left as wetlands, riparian areas, or woodland.

The quota system may have changed, but wetlands are still being drained from fields based on economic fac-tors.

When grain and oilseed prices are high, as they are today, farmers reasonably want to grow the maximum bushels, and so they seek to claim every acre possible.

In low prices it comes down to maximizing bushels to maximize returns, and that again means wanting every

acre possible in production.Then there is the pressure of ever

larger equipment.Things such as potholes, sloughs,

and even shelterbelts and tree bluffs become problematic in the face of ever larger equipment. Manoeuvring around potholes with a 60-foot-plus cultivator is not something farmers want to be doing.

So there have always been good reasons for farmers changing the landscape, but draining wetlands, while perhaps positive for an indi-vidual farmer, it is not good for the

overall health of the land.Ducks Unlimited Canada research scientist Pascal Ba-

diou told a Prairie Flood Management and Mitigation Seminar in Yorkton the loss of natural wetland is having an effect of water quality on the Canadian Prairies.

"Globally we have lost 50 per cent of the world's wet-lands in the last 100-years," said Badiou, who added in

the Canadian Prairie region an estimated 90 per cent of naturally occurring wetlands have been lost.

Badiou details that wetlands protect waterways fur-ther downstream from taking on the full effect of nutri-ent load leeching from a larger area because of drainage.

The wetlands also offer additional storage in extreme rain and melt events, he said.

So there are now more stringent rules regarding new drainage projects. That is good for a watershed, but begs the question if a slough is good for a wider area, should not that area pay the farmer something for maintaining a wetland he could drain and farm.

Badiou said he wasn't sure farmers maintaining the status quo should be compensated, but it would seem if you legislate that you can't drain then society should pay some compensation.

It is a debate which scares government based on the cost they might face, when you hear Badiou talk about Lake Winnipeg being the sickest lake in the world, and nutrient load from the land being the culprit. What is the cost of such damage? In that context, paying farmers may be a small price to pay.

CALVIN

DANIELS

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Re-evaluating things yet?Grains are signifi cantly

lower to start the month of April and the second quar-ter, following the U.S.D.A’s bearish stocks report on March 28th. Corn stocks were more than 400 mil-lion bushels higher than expected, pushing the grain limit down minutes after the report. As such, the Chi-cago Mercantile Exchange expanded the limit move on corn from 40 cents to 60 cents henceforth. With the bearish stocks report, the grain complex is at or close to their pre-drought levels. While weather is likely to be the focus for the next few weeks in the markets, this report undoubtedly forced many to re-evaluate their price levels.

Despite a stronger U.S. dollar recently, at these lower prices, international

demand will likely pick up. Notably in China, increasing consumption and decreas-ing production and/or qual-ity of both corn and wheat are unbalancing supply and demand. For wheat, India would seem like a logical choice to import from but the quality is questionable and India refuses to drop their prices to where global marketplace is at. Wet con-ditions in northeastern Chi-na have affected the quality of the corn crop there, lead-ing to suggestions that Chi-na will have to import a re-cord amount of corn. While new corn supplies are be-coming available via South America, I wish anyone luck getting any grain out of there in under two months.

Specifi cally, Bunge’s CEO, Alberto Weisser, expects it to take over six more months

to get Brazil’s soybean crops to point. Add in the fact that the corn harvest is about halfway done, the infusion of new grain into the port/logistical quagmire is a new nightmare in itself. None-theless, in what some are calling a very rare move, the fi rst shipment of Argentine corn arrived in the US last week and may not be the last. It’s also reported that close to one million tonnes of Canadian corn has been shipped into the U.S. this year, the large majority of it from Ontario. However, lower U.S. domestic prices may lead to ethanol plants and other end-users stay-ing in their own yard to fi nd supplies.

Undoubtedly, there will be more supplies come fall as the U.S.D.A. is predict-ing near-record crops for both corn and soybeans on 97.3 million acres and 77.1 million acres respectively. While total wheat acres are expected to decline, plant-ed spring wheat land will increase. However, colder spring temperatures are making some question how the U.S. winter wheat crop is looking as it comes out of dormancy. Positive rains though in many areas across the U.S. wheat belt have the wheat bears growling pretty loudly (i.e. larger crop = lower prices).

With these colder spring temperatures though, planting intentions come into question, specifi cally, whether it’s possible to get in a soybean or canola crop.

While most are hoping to get into the fi eld in the next few weeks here in Western Canada, the lack of a snow-melt (and subsequent wet land) will defi nitely post-pone things. This in mind, cold temperatures toare expected to fi nally ease by mid-April as the atmo-spheric roadblock that has kept the door open for cold air to drain from the Artic

and into Canada and the US, is closing. Good to have your gameplan ready once it’s go-time.

To growth,Brennan TurnerPresident, FarmLead.comBrennan Turner is origi-

nally from Foam Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from

Yale University and then playing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in fi nance before starting FarmLead.com, a risk-free, transparent on-line grain marketplace. His weekly column is a summa-ry of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Break-fast Brief. He can be reached via email ([email protected])

R.M. of CANWOOD NO. 494EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Public Works SupervisorTh e Rural Municipality of Canwood No. 494 requires the services of a qualifi ed

Public Works Supervisor to provide assistance to the Foreman of the Rural Municipality beginning May 15, 2013.

Th e R.M. of Canwood No. 494 is a progressive municipality located northwest of Prince Albert. R.M. 494 serves a population of approximately 1425 people and includes 27 townships with a strong agricultural base and is surrounded by many lakes. Th e municipal offi ce is located in the Village of Canwood, 75 km northwest of Prince Albert. Canwood off ers a full range of services including a Pre K-12 Grade Community School, library, curling rink, skating rink, health clinic and pharmacy and beautiful Regional Park with a 9-hole sand green golf course. Ideally you have a strong administrative background with technical skills in offi ce management and machinery inventory controls. As the assistant, you are responsible for the overall operation of the Public Works crew and asset management, in accordance with the objectives set by Council, while providing information to the Administrator for grant applications, budgeting, and long-term planning.Th e successful candidate must have knowledge and experience with:

• Microsoft Offi ce programs;• Budgeting;• Job Costing; • Long-term asset management reporting, and equipment operation;• Equipment Operation

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume, a covering letter, three work-related references, and salary expectations to the following address by no later than April 19, 2013:

Rural Municipality of Canwood No. 494Box 10, Canwood, SK

S0J 0K0Fax: (306)468-2666

Email: [email protected] more information about the R.M. of Canwood No. 494, please call 306-468-2014.We thank all who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

$2,300 raised for the Canadian Diabetes Assoc.8 Shellbrook Chronicle www.shellbrookchronicle.com April 5, 2013

By Johnny JohnsonOn March 2nd we had

a successful; snowmobile rally raising $2,300 for

the Canadian Diabetes Association. Forty sleds attended the event.

Johnny Johnson has

now raised over $3,000 for his next event which is 50% of his goal of $6,000,

The Shellbrook Hospi-tal Auxiliar y held their March 26th meting at the Red Lion. It was a luncheon meeting with 8 members present.

Easter Tea at the Nurs-ing Home March 28th at 2:30 p.m.

Joanne Stene wil l buy

8 Easter l i l ies for the tables. Two li l ies wil l go to the hospital.

Volunteer Tea is on April 16th at 2 p.m. at Parkland Terrace.

Volunteers needed to take residents to Quilt Show April 12th, Cameo Tea April 19th and lunch

at the Red Lion on April 25th.

May 13th Mother’s Day Tea at 2:30 p.m. Auxil-iar y is supply ing lunch.

No Sunshine report.Joanne gave the f inan-

cial report.Next meeting is on

Tuesday, May 28th.Back row, fi rst place, Eddie Strelau, Dean Bahnick (stand in for Andy Johnson) third place, Shawn Strelau, second place. Front, Kirra Bahnick

Shellbrook HospitalAuxiliary meeting

The University of Saskatchewan has been awarded $3.8 million from the Canada Foundation for Innova-tion (CFI) for three projects totaling $9.5 million that will help solve economically significant agricultural and health problems and enhance the global scientific lead-ership of the Canadian Light Source on campus.

New state-of-the-art equipment will support, for ex-ample, work on cold-hardy winter wheat, designer mol-ecules to boost plants’ natural defenses against disease, and development of a compact light source to comple-ment the national synchrotron at the U of S.

“These major CFI investments will provide the tools that these outstanding research teams need to help increase food production, protect human health, and advance key areas of inquiry in energy and materials science and information technology,” said U of S Vice-President Research Karen Chad.

“Their innovative work in two U of S signature areas—food security and synchrotron sciences—will enhance our strengths and build powerful collaborative ties with universities and research institutions across Canada.”

U of S chemistry professor and Canada Research Chair Soledade Pedras leads a 10-member campus team that will conduct wide-ranging research with global impact

using new and upgraded instruments at the Saskatch-ewan Structural Sciences Centre. The CFI will provide $1.6 million toward the $4 million total cost.

The team includes two other U of S Canada Research Chairs—Ravi Chibbar and Mirek Cygler—as well as sci-entists from the Colleges of Agriculture and Bioresourc-es, College of Arts and Science, and College of Medicine.

The research will include developing cold-hardy win-ter wheat to dramatically increase production on the Canadian Prairies, and producing designer molecules called paldoxins which are natural substances that pro-tect plants against disease and promise to reduce pesti-cide use.

Other members of the team will explore how bacteria cause disease and how they develop resistance to antibi-otics. The hope is to develop strategies to overcome mul-tiple drug resistance in diseases such as tuberculosis.

The other two CFI-funded projects both involve syn-chrotron-related technology.

The CFI will contribute $1.6-million toward the $4.1-million total cost of installing two advanced X-ray microscopes for the spectromicroscopy beamline at the Canadian Light Source (CLS).

With the upgraded microscopes, a team led by U of S associate professor of chemistry Stephen Urquhart will have enhanced capability to examine novel materials and surfaces such as nanomaterials and semiconductors with a sensitivity only possible with synchrotron tech-niques.

the additions are expected to advance work in areas such as automotive fuel cells; medical implant technol-ogy; nanomaterials for new sensors and catalysts; and magnetic materials used in digital storage technology.

Urquhart’s team includes U of S Canada Research Chair Ingrid Pickering as well as three CRCs from other institutions. The 10-member team brings together re-searchers from the U of S, CLS, University of Alberta, Université Laval, University of Manitoba, McMaster University, the Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Victoria, and Western University.

In another CFI-awarded project, Emil Hallin, U of S adjunct professor of physics and CLS director of stra-tegic scientific development, will lead a team that will explore a new way to produce high-energy, high-quality light that has some of the advantages of synchrotron light combined with those available from lasers.

Such light allows researchers to study molecules at very short time scales—for example to observe chemical reactions while they occur. This capability promises to open up a whole new realm of photon-based science.

To support this leading-edge work, the CFI will pro-vide $543,000 toward the $1.36 million total cost of building an experimental endstation for a laser wake-field accelerator facility (LWAF) to be located at the Ad-vanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) in Varennes, Québec.

Using powerful lasers and plasmas (the same phase of matter that makes up the sun), LWAFs are essentially very compact accelerators that provide affordable, high-performance next-generation light sources. As with syn-chrotrons, light from LWAFs is extremely useful in a wide range of research—from materials science to medi-cine and environmental sciences. LWAFs also offer the advantage of portability in situations where it isn’t pos-sible to bring samples to a synchrotron.

The six-member team behind the project is made up of members from the U of S, the CLS, the University of Al-berta, and the Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique, and includes one CRC.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation provides up to 40 per cent of project funding for research tools and in-frastructure, with the balance made up by partners such as the provincial government and universities.

“Research and innovation is a forceful driver of growth in our communities,” said CFI president and CEO Gilles Patry. “This funding will allow a talented group of re-searchers and students to create the solutions, products and ideas Canada needs to prosper.”

UPCOMING FARM AUCTION SALEBarry & Carolynn Moule

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Tractors: 970 case $3000.00 spent on power shift rebuild less than 100 hrs. ago; 886 International c/w 580 Allied Loader $2900.00 spent on new clutch and hydraulic drive about 150 hrs. ago. Bucket & bale forks; 580 Case Indus-trial c/w FEL & PTO gas; Combines: 914 International (new drive belts fall of 2012, cost just over $500.00); 410 Massey SP (engine excellent); Swather: #210 International 15ft.; Tillage: 12ft. & 10ft. Cockshutt high wheel drills; 15ft. CCIL Disker c/w seed box; 30ft. Diamond Harrows c/w draw bar; 14ft. Med. Duty Tandem Disk 20” blades; Haying Equipment: #851 New Holland round Baler; #276 New Holland Sq. Baler; Trucks: 1997 Dodge 4x4 ½ ton (gas); 2001 Dodge 4x4 ¾ ton (gas); Livestock Equipment: 2003 Bergen 14ft. Stock Trailer c/w bumper pull, full mats, window covers, very low miles, orig. tires approx. 70% tread remaining always been kept clean. Original owners; Livestock Show Equipment: Full sized custom made trim chutes; Augers: 2 grain augers 1 c/w 2hp electric motors; Recreational: 18ft. Springbok Boat 140hp Chev. In-board c/w trailer, (engine needs to be reinstalled); 19ft. Prowler bumper hitch camper c/w fridge,stove,furnace, bathroom, pressure system, dual batteries, microwave, new tires, hot water tank; 8ft. Okanogan slide in truck camper; Yard and Shop Equipment: New Holland manure spreader; Degelman (reel type) rock picker; selection of hand tools; Antique & Collectibles: Large double pedestal oak offi ce desk; Electric cream seperators (1 fl oor & 1 table models); Silver plate side table c/w 2 milk glass lamps; A forty year collection of over 350 sets of salt & Pepper shakers, some are very unique and valuable; Household: Meat Slicer; Chord organ, etc.; Comments: Th is sale has a large selection of items to choose from. Please watch for upcoming Ads and websites for more details!

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Saskatchewan Seniors Association newsSSAI has just completed its 7th Annual 5 Pin

Bowling Tournament held here in Prince Albert and what a great time it was. Nearly 300 people, bowlers and family, joined together in the Minto Rec Cen-ter to have a great time, both bowling and visiting friends. The winners of it all came from Canwood, the second place went to a team from Prince Albert and the third place went to Rosetown. A team from Rosetown has been placed in the top three I believe ever since the tournament started. Congratulations to them all and more congratulations to all those who came from far and near to attend. The Mayor of Prince Albert, Gregg Dionne was at his very best when he addressed the huge crowd at the evening banquet and the Police Chief, Troy Cooper graced it all by opening the tournament. He declined to throw the f irst ball so two ladies well into their nineties did the job for him and one of them produced a strike. How’s that for a great start to this years tournament.

Responsibility comes in all phases of our lives and recently there has been a great deal of talk about education or lack of education and how it af fects the lives of young people and I completely understand that. Hearing about young people that are unable to obtain an education is really not good news but at the same time its hard to reconcile that with see-ing young people walking around the streets and the Malls during the time they really should be in school.

Are they all taking a break at the same time or are they not comfortable with the discipline required to attend school and to learn what they need to know in order to get on in life.

Don’t parents and the children themselves have a

responsibility to take what is being offered, espe-cially in large urban areas?. May be they already have surrendered to the prospect of the easy!! life of social service handouts.

Its quite a lot dif ferent from a seniors’ perspective of their young lives when school was cut short when they were old enough or big enough to work on the family farm. What a prize graduation from grade 12 was then!.

There was promise of more low cost housing for low income people but no talk about affordable and accessible housing for seniors in this years budget as presented by the Minister of Finance. This is a prob-lem that will not be going away soon as more and more seniors are forced to vacate their homes in ru-ral Saskatchewan because of the lack of health care and move into the larger urban centers. More espe-cially so as STC has decided under the leadership of the previous Minister of Health to remove some of the rural bus routes, stranding many people, includ-ing seniors to f ind their own way to the available medical services that they need.

Convention is coming up soon in June and as of to-day there are no resolutions, at least not in my mail box. Which means we are all either satisf ied with the governments efforts on our behalf or we are all just too busy to take the time to write them and sub-mit them.

Annual meetings are just around the corner and as usual I have been invited to v isit a lot of the cen-ters around the province and it will also be the time when elections for off ice are going to be held. We are no dif ferent from any other large organization that depend on volunteers to help run them, they are

always hard to f ind. Every year we get a little older and every year we f ind it more dif f icult to remember our own names, never mind taking charge of a senior center, but we do need you.

When you all have decided who is going to be the lucky ones then please let the SSAI provincial secre-tary know so that she can correct all the paper work she has to do. Also don’t forget to forward the mem-bership dues to the provincial treasurer so that she can make all the necessary changes in order to bal-ance the budget

This years guest speaker at convention will be the Honorable Ralph Goodale, MP for Wascana constit-uency and also the deputy leader of the Liberal Op-position..

This will be the time to be able to hear from one of the real great orators presently in off ice so register as early as possible for a seat at convention.

The other slots for speakers and presentations are f illing up and I can promise you a lot of interesting speakers are lining up to chat with you all.

Its also going to be election time for some of the executive board, one of them being the President for SSAI so this will be the year when you get to either raise your voice or your hand to help decide who is going to lead the Association over the next two years.

Who ever it is I am sure they will continue to work hard to ensure that the voices of all seniors across this great province will be heard.

Until then keep active and stay healthy and be kind to each other. Smile and the whole world smiles with you.

Len Fallows. President SSAI

Sturgeon River Nordic completes 2012-13 race seasonContinued from page 1

Members of the School Ski Championship Open Relay Team Champions Ryan Potts, Anna Sigurdson, Hannah Miller and Evan Beaulieu pose with their Ban-ner, which is now on display at WP Sandin High School.

Members of the School Ski Championships Junior Relay Team Champions Ales Wilson and Jenna Beaulieu pose with the new banner, which is now on display at the Chalet.

Skating in the Circus10 Shellbrook Chronicle www.shellbrookchronicle.com April 5, 2013

From Left to right, Emmalynn Lamotte, Erika Stene and Mya Cyr performed one half of the big wheel during the Circus, the end of season Skaing show by the Shellbrook Skating Club. Photo: Tom Pierson

Kacy Campbell, left, and Mya Cyr work in tandem to the music. Photo: Tom Pierson

Erika Stene, left, and Emmalynn Lamotte were well versed and well rehearsed as they skated through their energetic routine at the Shellbrook Arena March 24th. Photo: Tom Pierson

The Hula Hoopers skated in circles with their hoops acting as props during the Shellbrook Skating Club’s Circus March 24th. Photo: Tom Pierson

Jessica Sharron, left, and Emilia Gillies go through their routine without missing a beat at the Circus March 24th.

Photo: Tom Pierson

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Lion may sleep tonight, but there were no signs of sleepiness with this pride of lions during the Circus, Shelbrook’s skat-ing Club show March 24th. Photo: Tom Pierson

Her hair was fl ying as Ashlyn Schmitz did sev-eral jumps during her Circus routine.

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Town crews are busy fixing water breaks

Shellbrook Town workers were working on opening access to a valve on 1st Avenue at the northwest cor-ner of Main Street. The aim was to turn the water off so a water main leak on Main Street could be re-paired. Photo: Tom Pierson

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Seniors wrap up curling season

Jim McComas presented the trophy to the Gerald Lanes team, who defeated the Wilf Lindenbach team for the “A” event championship in the Senior Wind-up Bonspiel held March 25, 26 and 27 at the Shellbrook Curling Rink. From left to right: Jim McComas, Gerald Lanes, Skip; Gilbert Jouan, Third; Edna Cooper, Second; Wayne Pringle, Lead. Photo: Tom Pierson

The Eileen Chappell Team defeated the Harold Gray Team to win the B Event in the Senioe Windup Bonspiel March 27th. Left to right: Jim McComas present-ing the plaque to Skip Eileen Chappell, Larry Ferster who subbed for Amund Ottersin, Third; Marion Miller, Second; Pat Sonntag, Lead. Photo: Tom Pierson

The Wilbur Grayston Team defeated the Arnold Gunderson Team to win the C Event in Shellbrook’s Senior Windup Bonspiel March 27th. Left to right: Jim McComas presented Skip Grayston with the trophy; Sylvia Savage, Third; Lin-da Svendsen, Second; Bob Dowes, Lead. Photo: Tom Pierson

The Over 80 Award at the Shellbrook Senior Curling Wind-up was present-ed by Eileen Chappell to Van Coats, who also received an Honorary Lifetime Membership. Photo: Tom Pierson

The Murray Cameron Team defeated the Lynn Harper Team to win the D Event in the Shellbrook Senior Wind-up Bonspiel March 27th. Left to right: Stella Jones, Lead; Jennette Clark subbed for Edith Turner, Second; Bruce Harper, Third; Murray Cameron, Skip. Photo: Tom Pierson

PUBLIC NOTICERural Municipality of Big River, No. 555

Public Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 207 of the Planning and Development Act, 2007 that the RM of Big River No.555 intends to pass a bylaw to amend the RM of Big River No.555 Zoning Bylaw as hereinafter provided.

It is proposed to amend the RM of Big River No.555 Zoning Bylaw as follows:1. Th e Zoning District Map, referred to in Section 5.2 of Bylaw 6/99 is to be amended to rezone from AR – Agriculture Resource District to RR – Resort Residential District the following lands:

(a) In the NW-35-56-08-W3 all that land identifi ed and shown within a bold dashed line on the sketch which appears as part of this notice.

PURPOSETh e intent of the bylaw is as follows:

1. To provide for an area to be used for resi-dential purposes.

BYLAW INSPECTIONTh e bylaw may be inspected by any interested person, at the RM Offi ce on any judicial day between the hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Cop-ies are available to persons at a cost of $1.00.

PUBLIC HEARINGTh e public hearing originally scheduled for Wednesday March 20th, 2013 has been re-scheduled to 3:00 p.m. on the 15th day of April, 2013 at which time any representations respecting the bylaw will be considered by the Council, in the Board Room at the Big River Community Centre at 606 First Street North, Big River, SK. Council shall hear any person or group of persons or person acting on their behalf, who wish to make a representation. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal offi ce before the hearing.

Issued at Big River this 22nd day of March, 2013.Donna TymiakRural Municipal Administrator

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Skill-wise, Datsyuk has few peersEven though these

words are running dur-ing the week of April 1, we’re not fooling when we say Sidney Crosby has competition as the best player in the Na-tional Hockey League.

Hall of Fame hockey writer Jim Matheson wrote recently in the Edmonton Journal that Crosby was the best player in the game but that the “best of the rest” was Pavel Datsyuk of Detroit Red Wings.

Hmmmm! After watching both of them play a few games this year, here’s where I stand on this com-parison: 1. Crosby; 1A, Datsyuk. This is not to knock Crosby by saying he might have a hockey equal. Sid the Kid is un-doubtedly among the best eight to 10 players of all time and at last glance, he was 20 points ahead of Datsyuk in the scoring race, but hockey is more about piling up points.

While Crosby wheels around the ice with gus-to, setting up linemates for highlight reel goals and making incred-ible individual plays at breakneck speed, Dat-syuk operates at a con-trolled slower pace, a Baryshnikov with the puck.

In a crowd, no one con-trols the game like Dat-syuk, an 11-year NHL veteran who was picked in the late rounds of the 1998 draft. Using deft moves in tight spaces, employing the slickest feet in the game, Dat-syuk seemingly plays keepaway with the puck when the mood strikes him. He’s like a magi-

cian.And while

he’s the Red Wings’ top of-fensive threat, he’s also among the very best in the entire league when it comes to de-fence: He has won the Frank J. Selke award for defensive forward of the year award three times, a prize Crosby will likely never contest.

Don’t get me wrong: If an NHL general manag-er were picking a team from scratch right now, Crosby would be his No. 1 pick because he’s only 25 and Datsyuk is 34. But for sheer skill in 2013, Datsyuk takes a back seat to no one. Both Crosby and Dat-syuk are riding up front.

Those two are among five or six players in the NHL who are in-dividually worth the price of admission (Ste-ven Stamkos, Jonathon Toews, Taylor Hall and P.K. Subban are others that come to mind) but for my money, this year, right now, I’d pay as much to watch Datsyuk as I would Crosby.

Unfortunately, this might be the last year NHL fans get an oppor-tunity to watch the mir-acle man in action. The Russian star so enjoyed playing in the KHL dur-ing the recent lockout that he’s reportedly planning to return to his homeland next year.

KHL on TSN, any-body?

• Greg Cote of the Mi-ami Herald: “True story:

There is a high school base-ball player in Boca Raton named Fen-way Parks. I don’t find that strange. What if Sally Field had named her son Wrigley?”

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a football scholarship to Duke. Question: Who’ll be the only dad invited to the frat party?”

• Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald: “The Rose and Sugar Bowls could be semifi-nal contests in the 2015 college football playoff. A doctor with smell-ing salts was standing by when Rose Bowl of-ficials were informed they're now basically a play-in game.”

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “Tennis great Jennifer Capriati has been charged with stalking and punch-ing her ex-boyfriend on Valentine’s Day. Ap-parently that is the last time she takes roman-tic advice from John McEnroe.”

• R.J Currie of sports-deke.com: “According to marine biologists, many sharks take a break each spring to focus on eating, having sex and swimming in warm wa-ter. If we're talking San Jose Sharks, you can add golf.”

• Currie again: "A New Yorker is selling an ul-tra-strong coffee called Death Wish, which car-ries the warning 'many sleepless nights.' Hey, it's cheaper than Mets tickets."

• Among the things a driver doesn't want to hear over his team ra-dio during a race, as presented by Graham Rahal on CBS's Letter-man show:

— "Why aren't you an-swering my texts?"

— "Dude, you're going the wrong way!"

• Comedian Argus Hamilton, on sports' most celebrated love-birds sharing a mutual interest in skiing: "Lind-sey Vonn is a seven-time world champion, and three Thanksgiv-

ings ago, Tiger Woods set a new world's record in the men's downhill."

• Blogger Bill Little-john, on the senior hockey team in Laurel, Md., called the Gerihat-ricks: "In the champi-onship game, the coach got doused with a cooler of Boost."

• Headline at TheOn-ion.com: New NASCAR

Rules Change Designed To Cut Down On Con-stant Honking.

• CBS's Craig Fer-guson, on the NCAA tournament: "I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the politically correct police haven't made us change March Madness to 'early spring psychosis.'

• Comedy writer Alex

Kaseberg: “Convicted dog-fighter, Michael Vick, had to cancel his book tour after outrage from dog lovers spread. Vick’s autobiography is titled ‘Finally Free.’ Much better than his first title, ‘Old Yeller Had It Coming.’

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Rural Municipality of Big River, No. 555Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the RM of Big River, No. 555 intends to adopt bylaws pursuant to Section 207 of the Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 6/99 known as the Zoning Bylaw and Bylaw 6A/99 known as Th e Basic Planning Statement.

INTENT1. To provide defi nitions for Modular Homes and Park Models.2. To clarify the defi nition of Mobile Homes.3. To provide for regulations and standards for a new zoning district being a PM – Park Model District.4. Th e proposed zoning bylaw amendments will rezone specifi c lands within the NE-36-56-7-W3 and SE-1-57-7-W3 as follows:

a. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to PM – Park Model District all of Phase 1A;b. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to RR – Resort Residential District all of Phase 1;c. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to RC – Resort Commercial Dis-trict all of Parcel C;d. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to HC – Highway Commercial District all of Parcels A and B;e. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to PM – Park Model District-H, as shown in Phases 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A, 11A;f. to rezone from AR - Agriculture Resource District to RR – Resort Residential Dis-trict-H, as shown in Phases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

5. Th e proposed Basic Planning Statement amendment will expand on Lakeshore Devel-opment to included Park Model Districts and criteria by which they may be considered.

AFFECTED LANDSLands within the NE-36-56-7-W3 and SE-1-57-7-W3 as shown within bold outline on the fol-lowing map.

REASONTh e reason for the amend-ments are to:

1. Provide new and clarify existing defi nitions.2. Provide for a new zon-ing district “PM – Park Model District” where Mobile Homes and Park Models would be permit-ted on a titled lot.3. Provide regulation and standards for a new zon-ing district “PM – Park Model District”.4. Provide objectives and policy for a new zoning district PM – Park Model District.

PUBLIC INSPECTIONAny person may inspect the bylaw at the RM Offi ce on any judicial day between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Copies are available at a cost of $2.00.PUBLIC HEARINGTh e public hearing originally scheduled for Wednesday March 20th, 2013 has been resched-uled to 3:00 p.m. on the 15th day of April, 2013 at which time any representations respecting the bylaw will be considered by the Council, in the Board Room at the Big River Community Centre at 606 First Street North, Big River, SK. Council shall hear any person or group of per-sons or person acting on their behalf, who wish to make a representation. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing or delivered to the undersigned at the mu-nicipal offi ce before the hearing.Issued at Big River this 22nd day of March, 2013.Donna TymiakRural Municipal Administrator

NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLLVILLAGE OF MARCELIN

Notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the Village of Marcelin for the year of 2013 has been prepared and is open to inspection in the offi ce of the assessor from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the fol-lowing days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Th ursday, from April 8, 2013 to June 11, 2013.A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of Th e Municipali-ties Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her assessment is required to fi le his or her notice of ap-peal with: Th e Assessor, Village of Marcelin, Box 39, Marcelin, SK S0J 1R0, by the 11th day of June, 2013.Dated this 26th day of March, 2013.Leanne McCormickAssessor


OBITUARIES~

Lillie WaterhouseColin SmithSMITH - Colin Howard Lewis Swan Smith

was born August 17, 1979 to Howard and Brenda Smith.

Colin was the baby and only boy with f ive older sisters; Char-lene, Colleen, Pauline, Arlene, and Jolene. He attended school in Debden, SK. Af ter graduating, he worked at various jobs; custom combining, farm work at Richard Anderson, carpentr y with C.C. Cabinet, Bischler’s Pro-duce, in the oil f ield, and eventually plumb-ing at Meg Energy. Co-lin was waiting to go to school for his third year apprentice for plumbing and gas f it t ing. He grew up and continued to live on the family farm in the Park Valley area.

When Colin was young he was a member of a dance group called The Deep Lake Stompers. As he got older he had several interests but he es-pecially enjoyed hunting, quadding and camping.

When Colin was in his mid-twenties he was di-agnosed with diabetes, adapting well to this, go-ing to the nutr it ionist, managed his sugars and took an interest in recipes that were diabetic fr iendly.

Colin was a ver y tough man, had to be liv ing with f ive sisters. He wasn’t only tough but also ver y lov ing. There wasn’t any thing he wouldn’t do for his family. Colin loved his nieces and neph-ews as if they were his own. Some of the kid’s fa-vorite memories where the quad r ides he would give them.

Colin liked to tease and had a keen sense of hu-mor and when he f igured he had gotten something over on you he would give a sheepish lit t le gr in.

Colin was an upstanding man. He was hard-working. It didn’t matter if it was at the work-site or the farm; he always gave all he could and tr ied his best. He was also ver y organized and t idy. When it came to fr iends and family he was always there when they needed a hand. He would always take the t ime to help someone in need. It was these qualit ies that made Colin the loved and respected man that he was.

Colin wil l be dearly missed. He was an amazing son, brother, Uncle and Friend. A lthough he was only in our lives for only a short t ime, it was a blessing. This loss leaves a void in our lives but our love and memories of this amazing man will l ive in our hearts forever.

Colin leaves to cherish his memories: his par-ents, Howard and Brenda Smith of Debden, SK., his grandmother, Ruth Rask of Prince A lbert, SK his sisters: Charlene (Lawrence) Vandal and chil-dren: Landis, Beau and Kenya of Big River, SK, Colleen (Cor y) Wall and children: Kaylee, Mea-gan and Sydney of Big River, SK, Pauline Smith of Prince A lbert, SK, Arlene (Jason) Bischler and children: Cody, Brett, Demer y and Jenaya of Can-wood, SK, Jolene (Randy) Arque and children: Austin and Jayden of Lloydminster, AB as well numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and fr iends.

Colin is predeceased by: his grandparents, Lewis and Evelyn Smith, his grandfather, Swan Rask andhis aunt, Sally Hansen.

A Celebration of Life was held for Colin on Fri-day, Februar y 8th, 2013 from the Big River Com-munity Hall. Colin’s Final Resting Place wil l be where his heart was; The Family Farm.

Those wishing to honor Colin’s Memor y with a donation may do so to the Canadian Diabetes As-sociation.

Email condolences to w w w.beaulacfuneral-home.com will be forwarded to the family.

Delores Beaulac of Beau “Lac” Funeral Home entrusted with arrangements.

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LUTHERAN CHURCHZion - CanwoodSunday School,

Worship Sunday, 9 a.m.St. John’s - Shellbrook

Sunday School, Worship Sunday, 11 a.m.Pastor Doug Schmirler

Parkside, Immanuel11 a.m. - Worship

Pastor Chris Dean------------------------

PENTECOSTAL CHURCHParkside

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

11:00 a.m. Sunday SchoolPastor David Baldock

ShellbrookSunday School 9:45 a.m.Sun., 11 a.m. - WorshipWed., Mid Week Study

7 p.m.Pastor

David Bodvarson747-7235Canwood

10:00 a.m. - Sunday School11:00 a.m. - Worship

Pastor Glenn BlazosekLeask Gospel Tabernacle

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

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11:00 a.m. - WorshipBible Classes 9:45 A.M.

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Wed., 7:30 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer.

Sun., 10:30 a.m. - WorshipPastor Bill

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CATHOLIC CHURCHDebden

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

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

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

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

Eucharist CelebrationsMuskeg

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

Sunday, 3 p.m. St. Agatha’s - Shellbrook

Mass Sunday, 11 a.m.St. Henry’s - Leask

Mass Sunday 7 p.m.St. Joseph’s - MarcelinMass Saturday, 9 a.m.

Fr. Tru Le------------------------

PRESBYTERIANMistawasis

Sunday worship11 a.m.

Rev. Bev Shepansky------------------------

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

407-2nd Ave E, ShellbrookSat., 9:45 a.m. - Sabbath School.

Sat., 11:00 am -WorshipBroadcast on

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SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

Currently meeting in homes on Sunday morning.

and Wednesday evenings.Parkside 747-2309,

Leask 466-4498 Marcelin 226-4615

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Leask - All Saint’s8 a.m. - Morning prayer

Service.9 a.m. Holy CommunionCanwood - Christ Church

2 p.m. 1st & 3rd Sundays Evening Prayer 2nd & 4th Sundays Holy

CommunionMont Nebo - St. Luke’s

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

2nd and 4th Sundays Evening Prayer

St. Andrew’s - ShellbrookSunday, 11 a.m.

Holy CommunionFather Harnish

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Big River1st & 2nd Sundays 1 p.m. - Worship

at Anglican ChurchAll Other Sundays - 10 a.m.

Shellbrook - KnoxSun., 10 am - WorshipPastor Dave Whalley

Regular services, Sunday school and special events will be listed at no charge.

WATERHOUSE - Lil l ie Marie Waterhouse was born on Januar y 10, 1923 in Parkside, SK. to Jonas and Anne Peterson.

She was the third of ten children. She was raised on the fam-ily farm and kept busy cleaning house, milking cows and many other jobs that came with be-ing raised on a farm in a ver y busy household. Af ter school and work-ing a few years she met and fel l in love with the man of her dreams. She married Doug Wa-terhouse on November 20, 1947. They had ten children. As the ob-stacles and tests of l ife came she always kept her faith in God to bring her through each tr ial and He never let her down. God was always #1 in her l ife. Ever y morning no matter how busy, ever yone in the house would have to read a bible verse and say a prayer before starting their day. She was ver y careful about her responsibility as a Mom and all the kids knew that she would be there for them always. She had a big heart and lived a ver y self less l ife.

She worked t irelessly and always had a big smile and hug for al l of the kids. Lil l ie loved kids and she always had a treat for each kid she met. She also made special scrapbooks to give to children she would see. Her smile came from her heart – and to those who knew her- that smile was a l it t le window into the garden of her soul. Her legacy was a simple, quiet, humble life – f i l led with ser v ice to others. Lil l ie passed away as quiet ly and peace-fully as she lived.

Lil l ie leaves to cherish her memor y, her children; Jim (Paula) Waterhouse of Prince A lbert, SK.,Lois (John) Hughes of Shellbrook, SK., Gar y (Janice) Waterhouse of Naicam, SK., Percy (Brenda) Water-house of Parkside, SK., Keith Waterhouse of Park-side, SK., David (Brenda) Waterhouse of Nipawin, SK., Stan Waterhouse of Parkside, SK., her grand-children: Iain (Erin) Hughes and their children, Lil ly and Saw yer; Stephanie (Jef f ) Gosselin and their children, Anna, Jack & Zara; Christopher Hughes, Nathan, Jennifer, Cait lyn & Jayne Water-house, Jaime, Blake& Devin Waterhouse, Isaiah Waterhouse, Melissa (Joe)Schire and their chil-dren, Jacob & Lil ly; Christa& Joey Waterhouse. Her sisters-in-law, Bev Peterson of Edmonton, AB., Marion A ldridge, Calgar y, AB., Margaret Waterhouse of San Francisco, CA., Noylas Water-house of North Batt leford, SK., Special fr iends, Joyce Jupe & Betty Ann Waterhouse and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

She was predeceased by: Her husband, James Douglas Waterhouse, Her children, A llen, Donald, and Richard, Her parents, Jonas and Anne Peter-son, Her siblings, Hannah, Jennie, Nora, Gordon, Elva, Ostr id, Ronald, Kenneth & Sigurd.

The Celebration of Lil l ie’s l ife took place on Sat-urday, March 30th, 2013 at 2:00 pm in the Park-side Pentecostal Church with Randy Nolan as the Off iciant. The Eulogy was done by Lois and Gar y. The Organist was Helen Stene. The Pallbearers were her Grandchildren. The Honorar y Pallbear-ers were “A ll her family and fr iends who have shared in Lil l ie’s l ife.”

Memorial Donations in memor y of Li l l ie may be made to the Shellbrook and Distr icts Health Ser-v ices Project or to the Heart and Stroke Founda-tion.

Lil l ie was laid to eternal rest beside her husband in the Honey wood Cemeter y.

Beau “Lac” Funeral Home was entrusted with the arrangements.

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I would like to thank my family and all who helped in anyway to make my 90th birthday so enjoyable; also to all who came and for the cards and gifts. I will remember always. - Mary Stene

Thank you all for coming to the celebration of life for Mom, Lida

Kabaroff. The fam-ily thanks everyone for the donations to the Riverhill Res-toration Society. A special thank you to Maurice and Gerry Postnikoff of Saskatoon for officiating at the Celebration of Life and his wonderful words of comfort, compassion and humour. We wish to thank the fami-lies and friends from Alberta, Manitoba and Ari-

zona who braved the winter blizzard to say goodbye to Mom. Thank you to the Green Leaf Hutterite Colony for the wonderful meal prepared and served and also to Hawryluk Funeral Home for the car-ing manner in which they orches-trated Mom’s final wishes.- Walter Kabaroff, Audrey Michayluk and families.

MONTIETH - In loving memory of John, who passed away April 6, 1999.Time goes by, but memories stay,As near and dear as yesterday.- Mary, Roy, Glen, Gail and families.

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SCHMALZ - Remembering Charlotte Schmalz – September 9, 1920- April 6, 2010

Past her suffer-ing, past her pain;

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Continued from page 1Other Public Health quality improve-

ment efforts are focused on improving childhood immunization rates, safety for clients and staff, coordinating informa-tion services between provider groups, and ensure regular inspections are oc-curring for restaurants and food services.

Other notes from the regular board meeting include:

• The Health Region has an operating surplus of $761,184 million as of January 31, 2013. With required transfers to the capital account included the Region’s has a deficit of $91,722. Taking into consider-ation cyclical expenses such as utilities, employee benefits and vacation pay ac-cruals, the Region is currently forecast-ing a year-end deficit of $1.6 million. In-creasing sick time usage and workplace injuries are major factor in the deficit projection. Workload issues due to over-capacity at the Victoria Hospital also contribute to the deficit projection.

• The board of directors received an update on capital projects, including the Shellbrook integrated facility, Pineview Terrace Lodge replacement project, Fam-ily Treatment Centre, and the STARS he-lipad.

The Family Treatment Centre is expect-ed to open in April. Planning is under-way for moving into the new Shellbrook facility later this spring, and the Pinev-iew Terrace project is on track to open in 2014. The STARS helipad is waiting further direction from the Ministry of Health. Numerous renovation and main-tenance projects were also highlighted at the meeting.

• An update on the Region’s prepara-tions for the Accreditation Canada sur-

vey (June 2-6, 2013) was provided. The Region will have eight surveyors, who will focus on how the Region is meeting standards for health-care services.

• Volunteer appreciation events are scheduled at the Region’s various loca-tions throughout April. The Volunteer Long Service Awards will be presented on April 4th in Prince Albert.

The next Regional Health Author-ity meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at the Memorial Hall, 109 Main Street, in Blaine Lake. The meeting begins at 1 p.m.

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By Tom PiersonRob Ross is no stranger

to sheep ranching. At the tender young age of 4, his dad brought him a group of fi ve ewes to tend from a trip to Agribition in Re-gina. “That’s how it start-ed,” said Ross. Since then Rob has kept busy working with sheep, both at home and abroad. “I’ve had them pretty much my entire life,” he said. “There’s only been fi ve years since then that I haven’t had any.”

Ross has a small fl ock of fi fteen Scottish Blackface ewes and three rams on the outskirts of Shellbrook. He is one of only four breed-ers in Canada and he is the second largest. He says, “In Canada, they are on the en-dangered breeds list.”

After coming back from the UK where their entire industry is pretty much built on this breed, Ross says, “All the commercial sheep are derived from that breed.”

“I was there (UK) in 2009 and I was an Estate Manager on a large estate, looking af-ter all the farming aspects of it,” said Ross. “They had a fl ock of 7,000 Blackface ewes.”

Ross said, “This particu-lar breed, they’re virtually maintenance free. They kind of look after them-selves. That’s why they are so popular in the hill coun-tries in the UK.”

Known as very hardy ani-mals, they are turned out as yearlings and then only seen twice a year, once for shear-ing them and once for wean-ing the lambs.

Although the meat is mar-

keted and the cottage indus-tries for hand spinners and crafters like the wool from the blackface, Ross says, “Our primary goal with these is for breeding stock. The four of us (breeders) are trying to build the numbers up.”

The wool on the Blackface is desirable because of the longer staple. It is about twelve inches, compared to three inches for other types.

“There’s a few large sheep farms in BC that have 5-6,000 ewes in the moun-tains, and they are very in-terested in the Blackface breed,” says Ross.

If he could by up all the ewe lambs that are avail-able, “we still wouldn’t have enough to meet the demand of those few breeders,” he commented.

Continued on page 10

This group of Scottish Blackface ewes, known as Bell Brow sheep, were enjoying the sunshine and a snack recently at the outskirts of Shellbrook. Rob Ross has a small herd he hopes to double in the next year.

April 5, 2013 Agriculture Edition Shellbrook Chronicle and Spiritwood Herald 3

Safety essential when visiting a farmThe nursery rhyme does not state, “Old MacDonald had a farm

and on this farm there was a bunch of dangerous things.” But maybe it should? Farmers perform an essential service, provid-ing food and other products that consumers commonly take for granted. The inner workings of a farm are something to treat with respect. Most of the families who live and work on a farm under-stand the potential hazards of such an environment. However, individuals visiting a farm may be unaware of these dangers. Un-derstanding farm safety helps keep everyone safe.

According to the organization Kids Health, the age groups at greatest risk for injury on farms are children ages 3 to 4 and teen-agers ages 13 to 14. Most injuries can be prevented, though, with a little education and precautionary measures.

MachineryThere are many different forms of machinery on a farm to help

keep it working effi ciently. These items can pose serious safety risks. Although tractors are the type of farm equipment that causes the most injuries, some adults still think it is safe to allow children to ride along.

Injuries that may result from farm machinery include pinch-ing of clothing or parts of the body, where a person may become trapped in the gears or components of equipment; cuts from equipment that shears crops; bruising or cuts from projectiles thrown by mowers or other fi eld equipment; and crushing or trap-ping injuries from machinery that falls or tips over.

AnimalsPart of the excitement of visiting a farm is seeing and petting

the animals. Although many animals may be docile and domes-ticated, they can still be unpredictable. Animals that are startled by yelling or loud noises also may become restless and dangerous.

Children should understand that animals may unintentionally cause injuries. It may be in a horse’s defense mechanism to kick when it is scared. To avoid such injuries, never approach animals from behind. Also, when baby animals are present, a female may be protective of her brood and go on the defensive.

Another inadvertent injury that may occur is from bacteria or viruses from the animals. Animal feces may contain bacteria, and there may be other microorganisms on the animals themselves. It

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Here are some other precautions that can be taken when visit-ing a farm.

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REGIONAL SERVICES BR ANCHAs of this writing, it looks like the hope of a slow

spring melt is being lowered along with the tem-peratures this week. Since spring weather has not yet touched down in Saskatchewan and there could be more snow to come, producers can look forward to seeding yet again into wet and possibly saturated soils.

Some challenges when faced with a wet spring in-clude poor and delayed germination because of cool soil temperatures, shallow root system development that can interfere with both nutrient uptake and ac-cessing moisture later in the season and, if f looding occurs after plant development, plants will drown due to lack of oxygen. Long term effects of excess soil moisture are mostly dependent on the soil tex-ture. Soils with higher clay content hold moisture and are more adversely impacted than those of light-er texture where moisture can drain, such as loamy or sandy soils.

Best management practices (BMPs) are those sci-ence-based production practices that are sustainable

in the long term while being environmentally sound and economically viable. These BMPs can be used to mitigate the impacts of managing wet soils.

Following are several impacts on soil and plant growth that can occur due to excess moisture along with a BMP that can mitigate effects:

1. Compaction. This is usually due to pres-sure exerted by farm equipment and can impede root growth and prevent the movement of moisture and air through the soil. A BMP to prevent this is pa-tience, that is, wait for soil to dry out before taking equipment onto the land.

2. Reduce Nutrient Availability. Saturated soils are more likely to show losses of nitrogen through both increased volatilization and mineralization, re-leasing nitrogen gas, nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas) and ammonia.

Reduced numbers of beneficial microorganisms can also interfere with phosphorous uptake. A BMP is to follow the 4Rs for optimizing fertilization: the Right Rate of the Right Source at the Right Time in the Right Place.

3. Pests. Weeds, disease and insects will all take advantage of stunted crop growth and change in the microclimateof a f ield. BMPs would include prac-ticing integrated pest management through careful planning and observation of f ield conditions and using a cover crop to break any pest cycles.

4. Crusting. This can happen when the soil surfacedries and soil structure breaks down to prevent penetration of water and air. BMPs would be the use of a cover crop and retention of crop residue.

5. Pasture Damage. When grazing is allowed onwet soils, compaction from animal movement can occur and outbreaks of anthrax are common (bacte-ria can survive many years and thrives in alkaline conditions). The BMP for this is to delay grazing un-til the soil dries out and consider re-seeding for more

severe damage.6. Erosion and Runoff. When this occurs, there

is downstream depositing of sediments and the de-velopment of gullies.

BMPs for reducing erosion are mostly well-known and include grassed waterways, reduced tillage and cover crops, among others.

7. Salinity. Salts in lower soil regions can dis-solve and rise to the surface where they interfere with crop development. BMPs would be to select salt-tol-erant species and use a cover crop.

In general, a BMP that is useful for mitigating im-pacts that can occur on wet soils is the use of a cov-er crop. Cover crops can be spring cereals that are cheap to seed or fall seeded crops such as fall rye or winter wheat. Pulse crops also make an attractive alternative because of their nitrogen fixing ability. Cover crops are usually left in the field to decom-pose, adding back nutrients, and can break disease and other pest cycles.

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Homeowners who spend time tending to their land-scape are increasingly looking eco-friendly ways to maintain their lawns and gardens. Homeowners who once relied on potentially harmful pesticides to craft a lush lawn now prefer ways that don’t leave such a sig-nificant carbon footprint.

Preventing soil erosion is one way to incorporate con-servation into lawn and garden care. Conservation is one of many environmental practices aimed at preserv-ing the planet’s natural resources, which include soil. Preventing soil erosion is easy and can be accomplished in a number of ways.

* Don’t overwater. Some may assume that keeping soil as damp as possible keeps it healthy. However, over-watering the soil can cause runoff that washes the soil away. In addition, overwatering the soil can degrade

it and contribute to erosion. Instead of overwatering, keep the soil moist but don’t overdo it. If you’re having trouble keeping soil moist, consider laying down some mulch, which helps retain moisture and deliver nutri-ents to the soil that keep it healthy.

* Plant trees and shrubs. Trees and shrubs are friends to soil, providing shelter while their roots keep the soil in place and prevent it from easily blowing away on a windy day. It also helps soil from washing away when warm weather arrives and the landscape must be wa-tered on a daily basis.

* Create runoff barriers. Runoff barriers are edges that can be made of brick, stone or other materials that help reduce runoff. Many homeowners install runoff barriers along sidewalks and driveways to ensure the soil does not spill out onto the pavement, but these also

help the soil as much as they help to keep walkways and other areas free of soil and looking tidy.

* Consider leaving some grass around the garden. Tillage is the process of preparing land to grow crops. While many homeowners don’t view their weekend gardening as growing crops, similar principles apply whether you’re growing crops on a farm or just a few vegetables in the backyard.

One such principle is conservation tillage, which means leaving a portion of vegetation in the ground instead of stripping everything away before planting. For home gardeners, consider leaving a small amount of grass around the garden to keep the soil within the garden’s boundaries. It’s a principle similar to install-ing runoff barriers, and it can be just as effective at preventing soil erosion.

Every year various food and nutrition gu-rus, including the National Restaurant As-sociation, professional chefs and members of the American Culinary Federation, come together and share their predictions and support of foods, beverages and cooking practices that will be trendy for the upcom-ing year.

Many of the categories are divided into healthy options for diners looking to im-prove their personal well-being, while other categories run the gamut from fun foods to less-than-healthy dishes. According to what was hot for 2012, the leaders in the ranking

included locally sourced meats and seafood, as well as locally grown produce. It seems more people are interested in sustainable food practices. Factory farming and trans-porting meats, seafoods and produce far distances rely on not-so-friendly environ-mental practices. Fossil fuel emissions are cut dramatically when food doesn’t have to be shipped around the world. Also, healthier meat and seafood products are produced when animals are raised in eco-friendly and conditions because they don’t have to be fattened-up with growth hormones and artifi cial vitamins.

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Prairie farmers know that despite their best efforts, much of their success depends on the whimsical decisions of Mother Nature. The months from May through October can be especially worrying as farmers look to the skies for signs of hail. Hailstones – pea-size to grapefruit-sized balls of ice – can cause signifi cant damage to crops.

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Once a hailstorm passes, an insured farmer can call on his or her insurance agent to re-port the damage. An insurance adjuster will come to the farm, assess the damage and rec-ommend compensation.

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In 17th century, Samuel de Champlain and Gabriel Sagard re-corded that the Iroquois and Hurons cultivated the soil for maize or corn. “Maize (Zea mays), potato (Solanum tuberosum), beans (Phaseolus), squash (Cucurbita) and sunfl ower (Helianthus an-nus) were grown in farmland in North America by the 16th cen-tury. Since 2300 the evidence of British Columbia Squash was introduced to the Region North-wood. Discoveries 500 AD Ar-chaeological showed the corn in southern Ontario.

Eastern Canada was settled long before the West. Immigration and trade messages came later to Rupert’s Land and the North-west Territories. The fi rst immigrants combined European agri-cultural and procedures of domestication Indigenous knowledge of land and animals of the region.

Since 1605, the French Acadians built dykes in the Maritimes for wheat, fl ax, vegetables, and livestock grazing marshes. Milk production is the main contribution of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward, as well as livestock and mixed farms. A small percentage of land is put into service in fruit growing and along the Nova Scotia coastal Northwest. The American Revolu-tion, 1775-1783, and declining food auxiliary outlet authorized by 3100 hectares Newfoundland. In the early 19th century Irish im-migrants began arriving who cultivated the land in Newfound-land. A very small percentage of land is suitable Newfoundland and Labrador for the production of horticultural crops or because there are many forests and Geography of the tundra. The prov-ince has a milk production and farms. After the Second World War, agricultural training is available at the Farm Demonstration Government. The bonuses have been paid for things such as the purchase of purebred bulls, land clearing, agriculture and assis-tance to name a Exhibition few. The processing industry for fi sh feed is the greatest contribution of agriculture in Newfoundland. fi sheries of Newfoundland, Cod supply for most, closely followed by herring, haddock, lobster, rose fi sh, seals and whales. Industry fi shery depends heavily on exports and world conditions.

Agriculture in the West began with garden plots Peter Pond Lake Athabasca in 1778.

Although large-scale agriculture was still many years off, the Hudson Bay Company of traders, gold rush miners, missionaries and crops, gardens and raise livestock. The Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut are covered with the Canadian Shield, and rocky outcrops, the basements of forests in the Arctic, the phases of stone represent the majority geography. It is an area of com-paratively smaller population and not commercially exploited for the most part. Whaling, shrimp, food processing and trapping contribute to food production here.

In New France hops, hemp, and livestock have been introduced 1663. The manorial system of agriculture has been adopted in Quebec. Quebec’s agriculture relies heavily on its production of fruits and vegetables. In 1890, a competition was started to en-courage farmers to improve their farms to the achievement of Agricultural Merit Order. County Contest improvement of farms have been initiated in 1930 involving over 5,000 farms and their evolution over fi ve years. They have interests in livestock and mixed farming and calendar as well. Saint-Hyacinthe operated stations artifi cial insemination from 1951 to the clubs of breeders.

Labour by horse and plow hand. Maize Columbia executed (cereal grains) laws, 1794-1846, has

protected the area British agricultural imports of wheat from British North America. The reciprocity treaty June 6, 1854, devel-oped a trade agreement between Canada and United States have affected the trade of wheat grown in Ontario.

Northern Ontario is mainly tundra and forest zone, while the southern Ontario lands suitable for farming and agriculture in general and geography adapted for grazing and dairy industries. Fruit and tobacco plantations can also be found in southern On-tario. Ontario is the largest producer of cereal mixed, soybeans and shelled corn in the country.

Ontario Farm Lord Selkirk, founder of the colony of Red River harvest of

wheat fi rst time in the western prairies in 1814. Red Fife wheat was introduced in 1868. Swine were brought to the Red River Colony in 1819. The land frontier of southwestern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan have been opened to livestock in the 19th century. Manitoba has a combination of mixed grains, livestock, agriculture and industry mixed in its southern regions. Cattle ranching around Lake Manitoba is also very successful.

Northern Manitoba is composed of large lakes and forest ar-eas. Dominion Land Act of 1872 offered the opportunity to pio-neer farm “prove” quarter section (160 acres acres/65]) in western Canada for a fi ling fee $ 10.00 and three years of improvements combined with residence in the territory.

Saskatchewan has more livestock along its southwestern cor-ner; Grain and crops such as wheat, oats, fl ax, alfalfa, rapeseed (canola in particular) that dominate the Parkland region. cereals mixed dairy farms, mixed farming and grazing points on the cen-tral plains region of this prairie province.

Alberta is known for its rodeos again, and livestock is a major industry. The agricultural industry is supplemented by livestock and mixed agriculture and the wheat crop. Alberta is the second largest producer of wheat in Canada. Cereal and dairy industry also play a role in the livelihoods of farmers in Alberta.

Grain Elevators The open park area extends beyond the three provinces Prai-

ries: Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Canadian production of wheat, oats, fl ax, barley, mainly from this area. Meat processing is the most important industry here, followed by dairy, breweries, industrial and agricultural equipment subsidiary.

British Columbia is covered in mountain regions; its eastern border of the Rocky Mountains. Livestock, cattle ranches, fruit and dairy farming dot the province. Agriculture and fi shing are an industry of small contributions over the shadow of the con-struction and forestry.

Agricultural production in British Columbia has provided the industry gold rush, mining and forestry. Farmers relied on these local markets, following the economic boom and recession of each company respectively. The Association of British Columbia Fruit Growers, “was created in 1889 to promote an export market this commodity. The Canada Agriculture Museum preserves the his-tory of Canadian agriculture.

Agriculture Canada has fi ve major areas of agricultural produc-tion of commodities resulting from farm cash receipts domestic sources and foreign markets.

In 2008, Saskatchewan produced over half the wheat in the Dominion of Canada, combines over more than 9,000 bushels (577,000 metric tons) of wheat. America North led to other con-tinents as the main international producer of wheat total world production. Rapeseed, alfalfa, barley, canola, fl ax, rye oats and other cereals are grown popular.

Wheat is a staple crop from Canada. To help farmers achieve an abundant harvest in a shortened growing season, wheat varieties were developed in the early twentieth century. Red Fife was The fi rst strain was a wheat could be planted in the fall and grow in early spring. Red Fife matured nearly two weeks earlier and was more diffi cult to wheat and other spring wheat. Dr. C. Saunders also experimented with Red Fife, developed and corn Marquis, who was resistant to rust and is mature in 100 days. Other types of wheat are grown durum wheat, Spelt and winter wheat. In re-cent years, Canadian farmers have also begun to cultivate rice be-cause of the increased population Asian in Canada.

The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Recreation was created in 2008 to provide federal funding As regards the global economic crisis. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Adminis-tration Recreation provides farmers with land and water resourc-es such as irrigation, wind erosion conservation and development of small holdings in the water. The agricultural credit program created aa Canadian Farm Loan Act providing for bond and stock lending for agricultural improvements.

Horticulture Vegetables Horticulture includes garden crops and fruit is now easier to

grow with the development of plant hardiness zones. Apples, pears, plums and prunes, peaches, apricots, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, loganberry and orchards are numerous and reach commercial size in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, the Niagara Peninsula and Norfolk County of Ontario and the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.

Hazelnuts are harvested in eastern Canada and British Co-lumbia. Maple syrup and maple sugar, maple butter and maple taffy products Quebec along the St. Lawrence. The main market for Canadian maple syrup and sugar are the U.S. potatoes are an abundant harvest Maritime Provinces.

Tobacco is an agricultural product of the tobacco belt in Ontar-io, especially the county of Norfolk, near Lake Erie and Quebec. Sugar beets and sugar beets are harvested in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta.

Viticulture Viticulture refers the culture of the vine. Grapes need a warm

winter, which can be found in parts of the Maritimes, southern British Columbia, and the places on the Niagara Peninsula.

Livestock Prize Bull 115,000 cattle roamed the prairies of South in 1900. Animals

may include the breeding of cattle, also commonly known as cat-tle. Recently, the domestication of bison and elk has launched a new food industry.

The sheep were raised both for wool and meat. beef or pork barns have been a part of growing cattle. Scientists have ad-vanced measures in the Swine Research responsible for intensive pig farming. Domestication of farm animals means that different industries such as feedlots corresponding livestock and meat pro-cessing have also been studied and developed.

Dairy, poultry and eggs

Fowl, poultry, eggs, chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys are part of a system of supply management, ensuring production matches demand.

Dairy production is also called milk production. Butter produc-tion in Canada averaged of 330 million pounds (150,000 tons) in 1940, and the production of cheese between £ 95 million and 208 million pounds (43,000 t to 94,000 t) in the same time. The United Kingdom has received £ 50 million (23,000 t) in 1949.

The Canadian Dairy Commission Act was passed in 1966 by the Canadian federal government

provide effi cient producers of milk and cream with the oppor-tunity to earn a fair return for their labor and investment and pro-vide consumers with a continuous and adequate supply of dairy products of high quality.

Canadian Dairy Commission In the 1970s the system Management has entered into force to

regulate the supply of milk, poultry and eggs to meet consumer demand. Marketing collective guarantees that imports are lim-ited in areas where the product can be provided at home. The fed-eral government imposed pricing policies safeguard livelihoods of producers.

Other In recent years, farmers produce alternative crops that are

economically viable, and among these are organic crops. Hemp and wool sheep are the main areas of fi ber production in Canada. Wool production was average of £ 16.022 million (7267 tonnes) in 1930 and 9,835,000] Books (4461 tonnes) in 1949. Fibre fl ax seed fl ax was exported to the United Kingdom. farmers can supple-ment their income with beeswax and honey and learn beekeeping is supervised by the Branch apiary.

Government Ministries Agricultural The Ministry of Agriculture set out in the British North Amer-

ica Act (BNA Act) of 1867 establishes each province may have ju-risdiction over agricultural concerns and the federal government can also make laws regarding agriculture. Business Newfound-land farm were treated by the Agriculture Division of the Depart-ment of Natural Resources, Confederation.

The BNA Act states that the federal government has the exclu-sive power in coastal and inland fi sheries. The provinces have rts on tidal waters and fi shing practices there only.

Trade Marketing and economic movement of agricultural products

Canada was a different challenge. includes trade within Canada that provide goods provincial and inter-provincial. Support agen-cies and services such the storage, railroads, warehouses, shops, banks all the effects on internal trade. Trade Wheat Bread Basket “of world “or the Canadian prairies are monitored by the Canadian Wheat Board. depression of Canada 1882-1897 has a minimum of 64 cents per bushel ($ 24 / t) from 1893. This period during the administration of Laurier has seen thousands of farms canceled. Wheat prices surged during the War World In 1928, Canada ex-ported large quantities of wheat, fl our, and property. The depres-sion had an impact on Canada than exports fl owed about 40% of their 1928 amount. European markets arrested need to import wheat from Canada, they started growing their own varieties, and World War II events put an embargo on trade towards the Euro-pean markets.

Canada has become more of an industrial entity at the time of the industrial revolution, and less an agricultural nation. After the Second World War in the United Kingdom entered into a contract for large quantity of agricultural products produced such as ba-con, cheese, wheat, oats and barley. After the United Kingdom, the United States is the largest external business partner. Between 1943 and 1953 the average export of Canadian wheat was 347.2 million bushels (9,449,000 t). Three Year Wheat Agreement of 1955, including exports of wheat or fl our to 28 of 44 importing countries, including Germany, Japan, Belgium, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Seed Industry The producers of seed, fi eld inspectors, registered seed estab-

lishments, test plots of seed, seed and retailers are the pillars of seed production.

Industry Snack Food Cereal grains, corn, nuts, oils, potatoes, and seeds are the main

ingredients of snack foods like potato chips, mixed nuts, peanut butter, pork rinds, seeds and snacks.

Industry sunfl ower seeds About 80 per hundred sunfl owers grown in Canada are sold as

seed roasted sunfl ower snack or without the shell for baking. The main consumer is internal. Birdfeed vegetable oils and sunfl ower are the smaller markets are being developed.

Vegetable Industry The edible part of a plant is a vegetable. The vegetables can be

marketed fresh or partially processed fruits and vegetables. The Greenhouse vegetable industry supports the full vegetable farmer fi eld.


Understanding crop rotation in gardensCrop rotation is a sys-

tematic approach to de-ciding which crop to plant where in your vegetable garden from one year to the next. Crop rotation is very important to organic farmers who grow crops on a large scale and of vary-ing importance to home gardeners.

There are general prin-ciples of crop rotation that can help you make these decisions, but in the end, each farmer and gardener devises a unique crop ro-tation plan depending on which crops they grow and in what amounts.

The goals of crop rota-tion are to help manage soil fertility and also to help avoid or reduce prob-lems with soilborne dis-eases and some soil-dwell-ing insects, such as corn rootworms.

Balancing soil fertility Different crops have

different nutrient require-ments and affect soil bal-ance differently. Some, like corn and tomatoes, are heavy feeders that quickly deplete soil nitrogen and phosphorus.

Thus, if you plant corn in the same spot year after year, that plot of soil will

run low on nitrogen and phosphorus more quickly than other parts of your garden will. By changing the location of corn each year, you’ll be able to re-new the plot where it grew the preceding year, so your soil won’t get out of bal-ance.

There are other crops that also use up nitro-gen rapidly. They tend to be the leafy and fruiting crops, such as lettuce, cab-bage, and tomatoes.

In contrast, root veg-etables and herbs are light feeders. Peas, beans, and other legumes add nitro-gen to the soil but need lots of phosphorus.

The general rule of thumb for balancing out soil nutrients is to avoid planting the same general category of crop (root, le-gume, and leafy/fruiting) successively in the same place.

It’s best to follow nitro-gen-fixing legumes such as peas or beans with ni-trogen-loving leaf or fruit-ing crops such as lettuce or tomatoes. Then, follow the heavy feeding crops with light-feeding root crops.

Disease and pest preven-tion

If you have a large home garden, you may want to plan your crop rotation on the basis of plant fami-lies rather than on nutri-ent needs. This can help in your overall program of avoiding diseases and pests, because crops in the same botanical family tend to suffer from the same pest and disease problems.

For example, Colorado potato beetles like to eat potato plants, but they also enjoy feasting on to-mato leaves and eggplant foliage. Since these beetles overwinter in the soil, if you plant eggplant in a spot where you grew po-tatoes the year before, you could be inviting a beetle problem for your egg-plants from the day they’re planted.

Likewise, several serious bacterial and fungal dis-eases overwinter in plant debris in the soil.

Lengthy rotations are sometimes necessary to control chronic soilborne problems. Bean anthrac-nose fungus can persist in soil for up to three years, so a four-year rotation is needed to keep the disease at bay.

The same holds true for such fungal diseases as Fu-sarium wilt and Verticil-lium wilt. A few problems, such as club root, persist in the soil for even longer, so rotation is less useful for controlling them.

Choosing your crop ro-tation plan

If you have a small gar-den, you may not be able to set up an effective rota-tion by crop family. That’s also true if you grow only a few kinds of crops. In that case, stick to a basic soil-balancing rotation.

But if you have a large plot and grow many differ-

ent crops, you may enjoy the challenge of setting up a rotation by crop fam-ily. Refer to the chart on the previous page to learn which crops belong to the same family.

Keep in mind that cov-er crops can be included in a rotation plan to dis-courage specific types of pests and to improve soil. For example, beetle grubs thrive among most vegeta-bles, but not in soil planted in buckwheat or clover.

A season of either crop can greatly reduce grub populations and at the same time will increase soil organic matter con-tent.

Rotating Vegetable Families

Susceptibility to pests and diseases runs in plant families. Leave at least two, and preferably three or more, years between the times you plant members of the same crop family in an area of your garden.

When planning a rota-tion scheme, refer to this rundown of the seven family groups most often planted in vegetable gar-dens along with ideas for rotating them.

Onions, garlic:

Rotate with legumes; avoid planting in soil with undecomposed organic matter.

Carrots, parsnips, pars-ley, dill, fennel, coriander:

Moderate feeders. Pre-cede with any other plant family; condition soil with compost before planting. Follow with legumes or heavy mulch.

Broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauli-f lower, kale, kohlrabi, rad-ishes, turnips:

High level of soil main-tenance required for good root health. Heavy feed-ers. Precede with legumes; follow by first cultivating the soil to expose pests for predation, then spread compost.

Cucumbers, gourds, melons, squash, pump-

kins, watermelons:For improved pest con-

trol, precede with winter rye or wheat; follow with legumes.

Beans, peas, clovers, vetches:

Beneficial to soil; few pest problems. Rotate al-ternately with all other garden crops when pos-sible.

Wheat, oats, rye, corn:Plant before tomato- or

squash-family crops to control weeds and improve soil’s ability to handle wa-ter.

Eggplant, peppers, pota-toes, tomatoes:

Heavy feeders with many fungal enemies. Precede with cereal grain or grass; follow with legumes.

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erated parcel of land where livestock is raised in open pens and crops are hand-harvested when ripe. The reality is that modern-day farms have had to overhaul operations to meet demand and remain competitively priced while adapting to the ever-changing ways tech-nology infi ltrates all parts of life. Each of these factors

present obstacles for today’s farmers.

Rural farming communi-ties are expected to make an effort to integrate modern technology into an industry that has been around for centuries. But such a tran-sition in rural areas, where communications systems may not be as up-to-date as those in urban areas, is not

always so easy.According to the Manitoba

Rural Adaptation Council, a shift from a resource-based to an information-based economy, compounded by the rapid introduction and expansion of new technol-ogy in the workplace, has altered farm operation and the skills in demand. Older workers who have been

schooled in one way of ag-riculture may have a signifi -cant impact on labor supply and the vitality of farming as a career. Younger adults who are knowledgeable in tech-nology may no longer seek out agricultural careers.

Decrease in farming as an occupation

The United States En-vironmental Protection

Agency says that only about 960,000 Americans claim farming as their principal occupation. As that fi gure has dwindled, the average age of farmers continues to rise, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that roughly 40 percent of the farmers in this country are 55 years old or older. This has led to concerns about the long-term health of family farms throughout the United States.

Environmental concernsMany farmers have come

under scrutiny for how farming impacts the envi-ronment. A growing em-phasis on sustainability and conservation has led many people to protest certain farming practices. Pro-testers claim that certain practices, such as raising livestock, can pollute water, while the use of fertilizers and chemical pesticides is bad for the environment. Many farmers, however, have altered their methods to be more environmentally friendly and self-sustainable in the process.

Climate change is another environmental issue farm-ers must deal with. Strong storms and severe droughts have made farming even more challenging.

The ongoing recession of the last half-decade has also affected farmers. In No-vember of 2012, the United States Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics indicated that the unemployment rate within the agriculture, forestry, fi shing, and hunting indus-tries was at 13.6 percent, far higher than the national unemployment rate. As a result, many farm fami-lies have found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place, as rising costs for equipment and technol-ogy are being coupled with decreasing profi ts and rising unemployment.

Further complicating mat-ters is competition from cor-porations and international food producers who have made it diffi cult for family farmers to turn a signifi cant profi t. Many family farmers rely on loans and lines of credit to survive, but thanks to changes in the fi nancial sector that saw banks be-come less willing to extend lines of credit, some farmers are facing bankruptcy.

Though it can be easy for those who do not work in the agricultural industry to overlook the struggles fac-ing today’s agricultural pro-fessionals, a greater under-standing of those struggles and the challenges that lay ahead can benefi t the indus-try and its employees down the road.

Challenges facing farmers today, tomorrow8 Shellbrook Chronicle and Spiritwood Herald Agriculture Edition April 5, 2013

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It was only last year that Ross started with the

Blackface breed. It took him a long time to find them. In fact, he said he drove 1,800 kilometres,

one way, to pick up half his f lock from British Co-lumbia. The Shellbrook area in Saskatchewan, and the province in gen-eral, is known as cattle country. So, when asked, “Why sheep?”

Ross answered, “Cheap-er, and starting to gain a lot more popularity here. We finally have a steady federally inspected plant in western Canada that has a strong export mar-ket.”

A browser more than a grazer, the Blackface is a primitive breed. “They will stand on their hind legs to get the leaves on the trees when they are surrounded by green grass,” says Ross. “They are good for clearing land. They like eating the brush.”Planning for the future“We want to expand,”

says Ross. “I am going to try and buy as many ewes as I can. We are in the process of importing some semen for artificial insemination, some new genetics from Scotland.” He plans on breeding his

ewes in the fall, “so we will have genetics straight from Scotland.”

“Six of our ewes have been graded Elite status by the Scottish breed as-sociation, so we would like to collect embryos from them for embryo

transfer.” For the five year plan,

Ross said he would like to be the North American source for the Elite genet-ics. “Instead of going to Scotland to get them, I would like them (breed-ers) to come to me.”

With the contacts he has made in the UK, Ross knows all the right people to make it happen. With enough genetic variety on hand here in Canada, people will not have to go the expensive route of im-porting from Scotland.

One of Rob Ross’ Blackface ewes got up close and personal with the Chronicle news camera recently. With start-up costs lower than cattle and improved ac-cess to export markets, raising sheep is becoming more popular.

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April 5, 2013 Agriculture Edition Shellbrook Chronicle 11

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Canadian growers are expected to make a return to cereals this year, as high commodity prices and agronomic advantages of a crop rotation take hold. But today’s grower now faces more than just decisions about which herbicides and fungicides will best protect their in-vestment — they also must consider how to manage risks at each stage of growth to truly maximize their returns.

That’s the approach that one com-pany is taking to cereal inputs. Over the past several years, BASF Canada has launched several new agricultural fungi-cide solutions in the cereal market that are tailored to each stage of development to help growers get the most out of every acre.

While many companies offer a range of fungicides and herbicides for cereals, this strategy pairs those critical time frames with chemistries that target spe-cifi c weeds and diseases at each stage of the crop.

It’s a strategy that has given growers something new to think about.

“It’s not just the crop that impacts management strategies; it’s also look-ing at each stage as a new opportunity to protect and to maximize your invest-ment,” says Kristina Polziehn, a Techni-cal Development Specialist with BASF Canada. “You can’t predict exactly how a crop will perform — there are too many ‘what ifs.’ But you can mitigate risks by looking at what tools are available for prevention and management throughout the growth cycle. That’s where BASF is going with its product offering.”

The typical input process follows a similar fl ow to seed the crop, apply seed treatments, herbicides, fungicides, and

then harvest. That same basic cycle is recommended at BASF; however, each product in its portfolio uses different modes of action to dissect each input phase and narrow in on specifi c disease or weed timing for maximum effective-ness.

“We can help growers maximize re-turns by recommending optimal times and rates to spray for specifi c disease threats using different chemistry modes. Twinline followed by Caramba is a good example of this process,” says Polziehn. “As cereal fungicides, they should be ap-plied preventatively to manage disease. We recommend spraying Twinline at the fl ag leaf stage, to prevent leaf diseases, and if conditions are favourable for fu-sarium head blight, we would also rec-ommend an application of Caramba at the fl owering stage. It’s a different way to look at fungicide application.”

The entire suite of BASF cereal prod-ucts is designed to work together at each of the stages of crop development. And the company has been enforcing this strategy for years.

In 2002, BASF launched the only her-bicide-tolerant wheat system available in Canada with the Clearfi eld Produc-tion System for wheat. The system touts cleaner fi elds with such herbicides as Al-titude FX and Heat, but it also promotes herbicides that are tailored to specifi c stages of crop growth, from pre-seed to in-crop and post-harvest. It also gives access to the line of BASF fungicides such as Headline, Twinline and Caram-ba, which have been proven to increase yield while managing tough cereal leaf diseases and fusarium head blight.

“When growers choose BASF, they

choose some of the best products avail-able, and the protection that comes from some of the industry’s most effective fungicides,” says Polziehn.

Growers have also benefi ted from the time-specifi c application. Darwin Kells is a grower and an agronomist from Sas-katchewan who has seen an advantage to using different modes of action for dif-ferent needs on his cereal crops.

“I think one of the key things is that when we look at BASF products, that we do have different modes of action. We aren’t using a shotgun approach,” he says. “We are using the right products, at the right time, on the right crop. There’s the three ‘Rs’ that you really need, and the BASF portfolio has it.”

Recently the company further expand-ed its cereal portfolio with the introduc-tion of Insure Cereal — a new seed treat-ment product specifi cally designed to give cereals a head start in disease man-agement including fusarium control, be-fore seeding even begins.

“We are constantly looking for new ways to make growers more profi table, at every stage of the crop,” says Polziehn. “It’s a strategy we think cereal growers benefi t from.”

Kells agrees that the innovative strat-egy works. “I think it will be interesting to see what comes down the pipe in the future.”

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Delays, delays, delays12 Shellbrook Chronicle and Spiritwood Herald Agriculture Edition April 5, 2013

So what’s really going on with this fi ght between Ol’ Man Winter and Mother Nature? Why is spring not here yet? In technical jargon, what we’ve been seeing is a “negative arc-tic oscillation”, which has led to a powerful high pressure block of the Arctic air, ultimately forcing the jet stream there south. The extended cold snap in the northern hemisphere is pushing seeding plans back in the Ukraine, U.S., and Canada & hurting winter crops emerging from dormancy. A perfect example is in Missouri where some places need the soil to warm up 20 degrees F before farmers can even get into the fi elds with their corn planters. Moreover, the most recent U.S. drought monitor suggests that 51% of the U.S. (mostly central & western) is in a state of moderate-to-exceptional drought.

Ultimately, colder-than-normal temperatures across North America continue to keep the precipitation above the ground (and allowing one to get in one last vacation some-where warm if they want to!). Above-average spring runoff conditions are expected in Saskatchewan & parts of Alberta. The slow melt and current cold snap are increasing the odds of another major fl ood in the Red River Valley in Manitoba this spring. With temperatures staying below 0 until this last week of May, the window of opportunity to get that sup-posed one million acres of soybeans planted there continues to close.

While U.S. farmers debate corn vs. soybeans, farmers north of the 49th parallel are considering canola acres. Those that are should be aware of China’s decision last week to re-open their doors to Australian canola after banning it in 2010 due to concerns about blackleg. While Canada is expected to export three million tonnes to China this year, China already bought 300,000 tonnes of Aussia canola within days of the ban being lifted. On the soybean front, Si-nograins (the Chinese state grain agency) is releasing at least one million tonnes of the oilseed into the domestic market to ease supply issues as they wait for South America to get its transportation/logistical act together.

On March 28th, the U.S.D.A. came out with its March 1st

quarterly stocks report and planting intentions in the U.S. and boy was it bearish for old crop supplies. Wheat invento-ries came in at 1.23 billion bushels (expectations of 1.2 bil-lion), soybeans were at 999 million bushels (expectations of 948 million), and corn went limit down immediately after the report as 5.4 million bushels are still available (versus expectations of 4.995 billion). Combined with the U.S.D.A.’s Cattle on Feed report from March 22nd which showed place-ments of animals for fattening down 14% year-over-year, it’s no wondering the market tanked. With less cattle to feed, and more supply available, the price equilibrium intuitively falls.

Further, planted corn land is expected to slightly increase year-over-year to 97.3 million acres, which should help bring back even more supply. This should help the ethanol industry as it continues to source corn from the likes of Can-ada and Argentina! With only 3.6% of the U.S. cars on the road able to use fuel containing higher ethanol blends (E15 & E85) and lower domestic gasoline consumption, the ethanol mandate looks increasingly outdated.

A great, must-read article in The Economist this week (link provided on the March 25th Breakfast Brief titled “Governmental (In)Action”) makes a good point that the mandate infl uences higher food prices both in the US & abroad through the misallocation of agricultural resources and it needs to end. The question to ask now is if the gov-ernment delays any action like the weather is delaying this year’s seeding season.

To growth,Brennan TurnerPresident, FarmLead.comBrennan Turner is originally from Foam Lake, SK, where

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If one of those categories represents a profit opportu-nity for Canadian cattlemen, it could relate to the high end. For example, the Certified Angus Beef brand re-ports sales of its premium brand are up 20% in Canada so far in fiscal 2013 that began last October.

While producers are paid for cattle by the pound, the market is making more and more use of source tracking to determine where the best beef originates. The prom-ise of higher quality premiums and building demand at home and abroad elevates the importance of marbling, or intramuscular fat, in genetics and management.

Dr. Sandra Gruber, who has served for three years as technical consultant with Elanco and the company’s Canada Beef Business, recently addressed the role of marbling from farm to fork.

Q: What does taste mean to consumers, given that most North American beef today is tender?

A: Consumer research indicates “taste” attributes are the most important factors inf luencing beef purchases, ranking it above price, nutritional value and whether the product is organic or natural.

Beef taste can be thought of as a combination of three sensory characteristics: tenderness, juiciness and f lavor. Tenderness is atop that list, but once a consumer’s ex-pectations for tenderness are met, then f lavor moves up as the key to overall eating satisfaction.

Q: How do consumers know if any certain cut of beef will taste good?

A: We can’t accurately predict taste characteristics of beef from specific live cattle, so we assign grades in the coolers of beef processing plants to help sort out differ-ences in the eating quality of the resulting cooked beef.

Among young cattle, the main factor determining Quality Grade (e.g. Prime, AAA, AA, A) is marbling,

which are the small specks of fat distributed within muscle. That grade is assigned to each carcass based on the amount of marbling the camera and grader sees in a cross-section of the ribeye muscle between the 12th and 13th ribs. Although Quality Grade is assessed at the rib-eye, intramuscular fat is also present in other beef cuts throughout the carcass. Of the three primary sensory attributes, marbling is most closely correlated with f la-vor, but it has positive relationships with juiciness and tenderness as well. Here’s why: As beef is cooked, the fat within beef melts and provides a buttery, moist taste. The relationship between marbling and tenderness is slightly weaker than that of f lavor, but it is still the best carcass attribute available to predict cooked beef tender-ness.

Q: Although the markets are starting to pay premiums for higher Quality Grades, the perception of “fat” is often negative. How does the right kind of fat – marbling – get into the beef animal in the production phase?

A: The several types of fat are commonly referred to by where they are deposited within an animal: internal fat around organs, external or subcutaneous that is some-times called fat cover or finish, intermuscular or seam fat between different muscles, and intramuscular fat or marbling within muscles. These types of fat are distrib-uted differently throughout a carcass. For example, cuts from the chuck have more seam fat than those from the round because the chuck is made up of more and smaller muscles.

Earlier studies supported the idea of chronological development starting with internal fat and ending with marbling – and that marbling did not begin to develop until cattle reached a certain level of external fat thick-ness. Modern research suggests marbling deposition is a lifetime event that begins early at a slow and steady rate, and then increases during the finishing phase.

Q: Since marbling increases during finishing in the feedlot, can’t we just feed cattle long enough to reach AAA or Prime?

A: No not necessarily; each animal has an upper limit for marbling, set by its genetic potential. Although we continue to make advancements in genetic technology through tools such as breed EPDs (expected progeny differences) and DNA markers, we still can’t accurately identify the specific genetic potential of each animal.

During the last weeks on feed, external fat is deposited more rapidly than marbling. That means any significant extension of the finishing period aimed at increasing quality grade, can also cause an undesirable increase in backfat.

That can lead to low cutability: the proportion of a car-cass that can be sold as retail cuts will decrease because of the need to trim off extra fat cover.

Q: As consumers – the only source of new dollars in the industry – see beef prices increase at retail and on menu, the product must represent ever greater value for those dollars. What other steps can a producer take to set cattle up for optimum marbling and consumer sat-isfaction?

A: Besides genetics, certain management factors in-f luence marbling as well. For example, studies indicate nutrition or other environmental factors that limit fat deposition during early growth can prevent marbling from being fully expressed at slaughter. The inf luence of health and management continues through the feedlot phase, where the number times an animal must be treat-ed for respiratory illness has been negatively correlated with marbling scores.

Now that the industry widely acknowledges marbling as a lifetime event, it’s important that each sector of the beef production chain recognize how management prac-tices inf luence final beef quality. Although that final call can only be made in the cooler, knowledge of an animal’s management history can provide indications of eating quality.

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Farming innovations deliver positive impact on the economy14 Shellbrook Chronicle and Spiritwood Herald Agriculture Edition April 5, 2013

With more and more Canadians living in cities, there is a growing concern that most people will lose touch with farm-ing advancements.

“Today’s farmers aren’t about denim overalls and pitch-forks,” says Lorne Hepworth, the president of CropLife Canada. “Farming today is very high tech. Farmers rely on GPS systems, modern machinery, innovative chemistry and cutting-edge biology.”

A recent study reveals that the investment in advanced science and technology in the agricultural sector has big im-pacts throughout the economy.

For example, nearly $1 billion in additional off-farm eco-nomic activity is generated because farmers use pesticides to protect their fruit, vegetable and potato crops. And farmers realize a benefi t of about $1.7 billion in additional revenue. The same study shows that more than half of the $10 billion

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By Dave HyndmanAsk anyone. There are

three seasons in a farmer’s year: Seeding, Harvesting, and Curling.

Ask anyone but a farmer.Ask anyone but a cattle-

man, especially.Ask Ryan Conacher, a cat-

tleman who will sneak a few games in over the course of a winter.

“There’s just no time,” he says.

Small wonder. Conacher runs a cattle operation that currently features about 300 cows waiting to calve, another 200 calves born last year, and a small pen of about 30 cows await-ing their fi rst calf. Many of those 200 will soon be shipped.

And, for the second time, a group of about 70 calves that he has purchased in hopes of fattening up over the spring and summer, to be sold in the fall.

“I did pretty well on that, so I thought I’d try it again,” he says. He intends to feed them for now, and then put them out to pasture as soon as he can.

He’ll put them all out to pasture, when he can. This winter has been harder than most, given the amount of snow the area has had. It has stayed longer than usu-al, and started sooner than usual, too. It started so soon, in fact, that it caught his silage equipment out in the fi eld.

Normally, he feeds silage and hay to his herd, but this year he is depending more on feed pellets to replace the silage.

He owns eight quarters and has six more on lease. He has hay-share agree-ments on another 1,800

acres and rents about 500 more.

Ryan’s day starts about 7:30 am, when he begins by spreading out rations of hay throughout the nine pens that hold his cattle. Typi-cally, he will go through 12-16 large round bales a day. He made 4,000 hay bales last summer.

“I hope I have enough,” he says. He fi gures he needs 2,000 bales alone to make up for the silage lost because he “didn’t get it off.”

Where is the silage? “It’s under the snow, still

standing,” he says. “The deer got it.”

He’s hopeful that he can get a wildlife damage pay-out from SGI, but he’ll have to wait for that.

After the bales, the cattle get their daily feed of pel-lets.

He buys the pellets lo-cally, usually from the Co-op or R & L Feeds and will make three trips daily with fourteen fi ve-gallon pails of pellets in the bucket of his front end loader – plus one trip with a half dozen pails for the recently-calved cows kept in the barn.

Typically, he is helped by his father, Roy. And Roy is a typical old farmer. He has passed the operation on to his son, but keeps his hand in it by contributing in any way he can around he place.

And when the operation – feeding time, at least – involves driving the trac-tor into nine different pens, opening and closing gates, keeping cattle from exiting the pen while the gate is open, having an extra body is a big help.

Sometimes the help comes from Ryan’s 12-year-old son, Taylor.

“He gets frustrated,

though,” Ryan says about his son. “Says ‘All I do is open and close gates.’ I say ‘Look how much time you’re saving me!’”

“But now that he is in 4-H, he seems to under-stand his contribution bet-ter.”

With the help, feeding is usually fi nished by about 11:30, time for a couple of small jobs before lunch.

A variety of tasks keep him busy for the afternoon, things like treating sick cattle, checking on them, checking watering bowls, chopping ice, vaccinating, castrating.

“You name it,” he says.One major task is digging

out bales. He has to keep a road plowed out so he can get to them, and he likes to have a three-or-four day supply close by and easy to get to. He’ll spend a bit of his afternoon moving those bales.

He has been known to spend some long hours, though, gaining access to the bales, especially this year when there has been so much snow.

“I’ve had a few nights where I worked until 4:00 am,” he chuckles. “The wife didn’t like it that much.”

And what does he do in his spare time?

“Get fi rewood.”And he butchers some of

his own cattle, too, using a slaughterhouse that he has equipped over the years.

During calving season, he has a more watchful eye while he does the daily chores. As the cows calve, he likes to move them into smaller pens, where he can keep an eye on their prog-ress. Also, the ones still waiting are still grouped together, and he can keep an eye on their progress as well.

He doesn’t like to move a cow into the main herd un-til she’s at least three years old. The fi rst-calvers are kept together in one pen so he can keep a closer eye on them.

He recalls one year in which there was a storm, and he went out with a wag-

on looking for new calves. “Anytime I saw a lump,”

he says, “I gave it a little kick. Sometimes it was a mound of snow, but lots of times it was a calf. We put it on the wagon and then took them all to the barn. We saved a lot of calves that year.”

He has plans for some im-provements. He has weld-ed 38 steel frames that he’ll set up for a “work area”.

“And I want to build some windbreak panels,” he says.

The welding comes natu-rally, since in addition to being a cattleman, he is a journeyman welder.

So, why give up a lucrative and rewarding career as a welder to be a cattleman looking after 500-600 head of cattle?

“I don’t know. Crazy, I guess, he says with a chuck-le. And then adds: “I like the life.”

But he does admit that sometimes you feel like you’ve worked for nothing.

He planted about 900 acres of crop last year. Canola, wheat, and oats. It was only his second year putting in a lot of crop, and he’s liking it.

“I may downsize cattle, go more into crop,” he says. “Enjoy life a little better.”

And what does he do to enjoy life right now?

Curling, of course, and hunting. Skidoo, especially rallies, and fi shing.

And his family, although he admits to wishing he had more time to spend with them. He’s happy, though, that Taylor is at an age where the two of them can do things together, like the above. And Taylor is in 4-H and archery.

His girls are fi ve and two.He and wife Larissa took

the kids to Disney World last year, and they spend time camping and taking swimming lessons in the summer.

And as for curling? Well, he made it for the Open Bonspiel this year.

“And we’re doing the Medstead Open,” he says.

Hardly what you’d call a full season.

Feeding his herd of nearly 600 head of cattle and checking for signs of new calves being born are daily features of Ryan Conacher’s mornings.

Ryan Conacher doesn’t get to curl much, but he will squeeze the Open Bonspiel into a busy work sched-ule.

Ryan Conacher and his dad, Roy, load the bucket of the front-end loader with feed pellets. (Said Roy: “If I’d known the reporter was coming, I’da dressed up a bit.”)


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Planning canola seeding rates involves more than using what worked last year, or using what a neighbor uses. With canola seed at prices up to 11 dollars per pound and grain selling for 13 dollars a bushel, a miscalculation can be costly.Calculating seeding rates should be done on an individual basis and should be adjusted according to seed size and the risks associated with each producers seeding operation. The recommended target plant populations for canola are 80 to 100 plants per metre square. The other information produc-ers need to calculate canolaseeding rates with are: the thou-sand kernel weight (TKW) and the expect emergence rate.

The TKW is printed on the seed tags for each lot of canola seed and is expressed in grams. The range of hybrid canola seed can be from 3 to 7 grams per TKW and is not specifi c to variety. Seed size is impacted by the environment and is specifi c to each lot of seed. When looking for seed sources this year be aware of seed size and adjust seeding rates ac-cordingly.Table 1 shows the impact of seed size on potential seeding rates.

The expected emergence rate is the rate at which the cano-la you plant comes up as seedlings. In other words, if the emergence rate is 100 per cent then we would expect every seed we plant to come up. Canola Council of Canada has found that emergence rates with canola on average range from 40 to 60 percent with an average of 50 per cent. This means that roughly half of the seed that is put in the ground will emerge under normal conditions. Factors that can affect the emergence rates include seeding depth, wind speed of airseeder, amount of seed placed fertilizer, and soil condi-tions such as temperature and moisture.

Increasing the seeding depth can reduce emergence rates. Seeding canola shallow at less than one inch is critical for faster and more uniform emergence. Another factor to con-sider is the airfl ow setting used with your airseeder. Higher airfl ow can cause the canola to crack as it hits various parts

of the seeder as it moves through the hoses and manifolds. Not only can the air speed have an affect but the equipment can cause some cracking or damage to the seed as it passes through the seeding systems. Checking the seed as it comes out of the opener before you seed your fi eld will allow you to make adjustments and give you the confi dence that the seed is of sound quality going into the ground. You can check the seed by removing one or two hoses from the openers and placing a sock over the hose while you are setting your seed-ing depth. The sock will collect the seed and allow you to judge whether your equipment or airfl ow are causing any damage to the seed. Visual inspection of the seed should al-low identifi cation of cracking of the seed.

Another factor to consider is the amount of seed placed fertilizer. To fi gure out how much fertilizer you can put safe-ly with the seed you need to calculate the seedbed utilization (SBU) for your seeder. SBU is the amount of seedbed over which the fertilizer has been spread. In other words it is a refl ection of the relative concentration of the fertilizer in the seedrow. The calculation for SBU is width of spread coming out of the opener divided by the row spacing multiplied by 100. For example, if the opener spreads the seed and fertil-izer over one inch and the row spacing is 12 inches the SBU would be 1 / 12 x 100 = 8.3 per cent. The wider the row spac-ing and the narrower the spread the more concentrated the fertilizer is with the seed and the lower the allowable limits. Applying fertilizer above the recommended safe rates can negatively affect plant stands which reduces the emergence rates.

Soil conditions at seeding time can also impact emergence rates. Canola prefers temperatures above fi ve degrees Cel-sius for quick even germination. Temperatures below this optimum reduce the speed of germination and increase the time to emergence. In fact, under cold conditions such as two degrees Celcius the time for those seeds to germinate and emergence can double compared to those seeder under warmer conditions. Warmer soil conditions is why canola seeded later comes up quicker and often has a higher per-cent emergence than canola seeded very early in the spring.

If you are planning to seed early under cool conditions then use lower emergence rates to compensate.

Once you have your TKW and have decided on what the emergence rate to use for your operation we can calculate actual seeding rates.To calculate actual seeding rates take the target plant population (ie., 80 plants per metre square), multiply by the TKW (ie., 4.5 grams) then divide by expected emergence rate (ie., 50 per cent): 80 x 4.5 / 50 = 7.2 kg/ha. To convert to pounds per acre multiply by 0.89. Table 1 pro-vides examples of seeding rates based on TKW .

For more information on seeding canola or other ag-ronomics please contact your local agronomist, Regional Crops Specialist or the Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377.


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After 36 years of farming, Jim Gowland says he’s seen the industry go through an incredible evolution. Today, he’s un-equivocal in his feelings about the current state of agriculture in Canada: “It’s probably one of the most vibrant industries on the face of the earth right now,” he says and points to a similar enthusiasm among his fellow crop farmers.

Gowland, who grows more than 2,000 acres of corn, soy-beans and wheat, is a strong advocate for technology. He’s been using GPS and auto-steer technology for at least fi ve years. He also grows biotech corn and employs pesticides when neces-sary. “These are tools that we use to maintain plant health and eliminate stresses so our crops can be more successful,” he says.

For the last fi ve years, 100 per cent of the corn Gowland has planted has been genetically modifi ed. He says biotechnology has proved to be an invaluable tool in the battle against weeds and diseases. “We wouldn’t do it any other way now,” he con-fi rms.

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Gowland says technologies like pesticides and plant biotech-nology help farmers control the risks that are inherently part of farming, “Biotechnology, for example, can help crops make better use of nutrients and water.” He is excited about the po-tential of drought-tolerant crops.

People often underestimate just how technologically ad-vanced agriculture is as an industry. “My son is a nuclear oper-ator and he says there’s more computer power in my tractor to-day than there is in a nuclear reactor. That’s pretty incredible.”

While these tools help add to a farmer’s bottom line, they also help produce a quality product. “I’m a consumer, my friends and family are consumers, I want to produce a product that is good for all of us,” says Gowland summarizing. “Not only have the technological advances in farming been good for farmers, they’ve been good for society as a whole.”

Volunteer canola can be a very diffi cult weed to control in any situation, let alone when millions of seeds are left on the ground at harvest.

Dubbed the $1-billion wind by some, strong gusts up to 100 kilometres per hour were responsible for standing crop losses as well as rolling swaths last fall that shattered canola and led to signifi cant seed loss. In fact, according to the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan, an estimated 70 million bushels of canola seed were left behind, accounting for up to $1 billion in yield losses.

“Those winds were strong enough to scatter seed to neigh-bouring fi elds, so volunteer canola will be a major concern this spring,” says Robert Hornford, Technical Specialist at BASF Canada ”Volunteer canola will also have different growth stages than the seeded canola crop, causing manage-ment issues for herbicides and fungicide timing.”

Volunteer canola can be diffi cult to control. Weed seed can survive in the top few inches of soil for up to three years, making volunteer canola a threat for follow crops where it can compete with nutrients in the soil to rob yield.

Hornford recommends growers consider several steps to mitigate yield loss due to volunteer canola in any crop this spring:

• Manage early weeds –Scout fi elds in early spring to evaluate a herbicide application that can eliminate volun-teer canola early. Adding Heat herbicide from BASF Canada to an early glyphosate application before cereals and pulses has been shown to help manage volunteer canola.

• Rotate systems – If growing canola this spring, you may want to consider a different system. As part of the Clearfi eld Production System for canola, growers gain access to such herbicide innovations as Ares — it controls

tough grassy and broadleaf weeds, including non-Clearfi eld volunteer canola.

• Apply a fungicide – For canola, diseases such as blackleg can overwinter on volunteer canola to affect future canola crops. Applying a broad-spectrum fungicide such as Headline at herbicide timing can protect against such dis-eases when used preventatively.

“Volunteer canola from shatter can cause signifi cant prob-lems in future crops, and farmers are going to need to man-age that risk this spring,” says Hornford. “Growers should look for products and systems that offer new modes of action to gain fl ushing control of volunteer canola — it is the most effective way to manage the threat.”

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Particulate matter, also known as particle pollution, is a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liq-uid droplets. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, particulate matter is made up of several compo-nents, including acids like nitrates and sulfates, organic chemicals, metals, and soil or dust particles. The EPA notes that particle pollution includes inhalable coarse particles with diameters larger than 2.5 micrometers and smaller than 10 micrometers and fine particles with diameters that are 2.5 micrometers and smaller. That’s incredibly small, especially when considering a single human hair is roughly 70 micrometers in diameter. Inhal-able coarse particles are those typically found near road-

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Particles that settle in water can contaminate lakes and streams or negatively impact the nutrient balance in coastal waters and large river basins. When settling on land, particle pollution can deplete nutrients in the soil and damage farm crops and sensitive forests. What’s more, fine particles are a major cause of haze in national parks and wilderness areas.

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Innovation is a necessity for farmers who have to pro-duce more food to feed the growing world population. In fact, farming is one of the most technologically ad-vanced industries out there today.

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Today many farmers choose to plant seed that is

coated with an insecticide to protect it from insects. Before modern day seed treatments came along, an entire fi eld would have to be sprayed to protect a crop from hungry insects. With a seed treatment, much less product is used because it is applied directly – and only – to the seed.

“There are both economic and environmental ben-efi ts to treated seeds. They

provide better protection for crops, and the seeds are planted directly in the ground, which means ben-efi cial insects and vegeta-tion in the surrounding area are protected,” says Pierre Petelle, vice-president of chemistry at CropLife Can-ada.

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through seed treatment, but farmers also benefi t from disease protection thanks to the presence of fungicide on an even broader assortment of seeds. Combined, these treatments allow farmers to plant their crops earlier in the year and get better yields.

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Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced further op-tions to help federal community pasture patrons assume op-eration of their community pasture.

“We have been 100 per cent clear from the start that pa-trons of these pastures are the priority for our government,” Stewart said. “We have been talking to and meeting with patrons on a regular basis and we are working to be fl exible in order to make this transition a success.”

Patron groups will have the opportunity to either lease or purchase their pasture. If a patron group chooses to lease, the provincial government will offer a 15 year lease term.

In addition, the provincial government will provide use of fi xed assets to patrons at no cost, provided patrons perform regular maintenance. These assets include fences, dugouts and cattle handling facilities. Patrons also have the option to purchase these improvements at zero per cent interest over the term of their lease, if they wish to do so in order to gain equity.

The sale of these assets to patrons posed a signifi cant in-crease in costs in some pastures and the federal government has indicated they will be transferred to the provincial gov-ernment at no cost.

Funding of up to $120,000 per patron group is also avail-able to assist with the costs of establishing legal entities, de-veloping business plans and accessing training.

Ten federal community pastures will transfer to the pro-vincial government and to patron operation for the 2014 grazing season. The remaining pastures will be transferred to patron operation by the 2018 grazing season.

“Patrons have been working with the province toward as-suming operations of their pasture,” Saskatchewan Cattle-men’s Association Director and federal pasture patron Larry Grant said. “We appreciate the fl exibility and options being provided to make this transition successful.”

“The majority of patrons are also pasture managers and environmental stewards on their own ranches and recog-

nize this is an opportunity for them,” Saskatchewan Cattle-men’s Association Director and federal pasture patron How-ard Toews said. “We recognize and appreciate the province’s commitment to patrons, as well as the time, effort and fl ex-ibility allocated to assist with this transition.”

“Cattle producers have proven their environmental stew-ardship, are the best managers of land, and are best suited to make decisions regarding the future of these pastures which they have been grazing for decades,” Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association President Harold Martens said. “We know this transition is a signifi cant process and we ap-preciate the provincial government’s commitment to work-ing with patrons to make it a success.”

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Driving down the high-way you see the familiar orange sign with a worker on it. Do you slow down immediately? Maintain your speed until you see workers? How fast should you be going and when can you speed back up again?

When construction sea-son begins this spring, Saskatchewan motorists will see improved signage in highway work zones, en-suring that the speed lim-

its are “black and white”. “We’re making it ‘black-

and-white’ for drivers,” Highways and Infrastruc-ture Minister Don Mc-Morris said. “With the introduction of the new signage, all drivers need to do is follow the signs for the safety of our workers and for their own safety, so we can prevent future tragedies.”

When a driver first en-counters the highway work

zone, they will see an or-ange sign with a black im-age of a worker on it and a tab that identifies “Work-ers Present”. This will be followed by a black and white speed sign of 60 km/h. At this point the driver must legally slow to 60 km/h, no exceptions. The black-and-white sign is a regulatory speed sign, like all speed signs across the country, indicating the legal maximum speed.

A driver will know they are approaching the end of the work zone by a sign that says “End of Work Area” followed by another “black-and-white” regu-latory sign that indicates the driver can resume the posted maximum speed limit.

The new signage is one of many measures that are being taken to clear up confusion and keep workers and drivers safe in work zones. Others in-clude:

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•Rumble strips and gates that alert the driver that they are entering a work zone. These were implemented last fall and will be placed on major construction projects on the province’s busiest highways. The devices are intended to improve driver awareness and attention in work zones.

•Photo radar - the im-plementation of photo ra-dar in some work zones later this year.

“We need these new signing measures, plus ed-ucation and enforcement, to make a real change in driving behaviour in the work zone,” McMor-ris said. “Motorists need to know that speeding in work zones is a very seri-ous offence.”

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Caring for freshly sodded lawns26 Shellbrook Chronicle and Spiritwood Herald Agriculture Edition April 5, 2013

Sod, sometimes called turf, can quickly turn a barren landscape into a rich, thick carpet of green. Homeown-ers hoping to revive their lawns commonly turn to sod as the quickest means to do just that. However, once the sod has been laid down, few homeowners may know how to keep it looking its best.

Sod is real grass that is grown on special farms. It is generally grown locally to avoid long transport times that could dry out the product. Sod is typically sold in squares or rolls of grass that come with the roots and soil already attached. There may be some sort of thin backing material on the sod to keep the grass blades to-gether.

Many homeowners turn to sod when growing lawn from seed becomes problematic or too time-consuming. Seeds can be blown around in the wind or be eaten by birds and other animals before they have a chance to germinate.

Sodding a lawn is a major investment, costing as much as $1 per two-foot square. Depending on the size of your lawn, this can be a costly job even before adding the cost of additional supplies, such as soil, fertilizer and tilling equipment. Many homeowners who install sod want to ensure their investment lasts. Here are the main ways to care for and protect sod until it is fully established.

* Once the sod has been laid down, the lawn should be thoroughly soaked with water. Most experts recommend soaking it to a depth of 6 inches.

* It is important to establish a watering schedule to keep the sod moist. Water the sod to a depth of one inch every other day for the first three weeks to enable the roots to securely establish themselves in the soil.

* Water the sod every other day unless the weather has been very warm. After four weeks you can generally go up to five days without watering as long as you transi-tion slowly. The sod will change colors if it is not getting

enough water. Never let the lawn turn yellow, otherwise you may have to cut out dead spots and re-sod.

* Wait two to four weeks before mowing the sod. Keep the lawn height to around two inches to ensure that it won’t scald in the sun.

* After two months of established sod growth, aerate the sod to keep the soil from being too compact and to enable oxygen and nutrients to get into the soil.

* Keep children and pets off of the sod while it is es-tablishing itself.

* Fertilize the lawn every 50 to 60 days, beginning in March and ending in October.

* Inspect the sod for pests, which may include insects or problems like fungi or weeds. Treat accordingly with products designed to remove pests.

Using sod to establish a lush lawn is a fast, albeit more expensive option to sowing seeds. After a few weeks the lawn will be thick and secure.

Farming isn’t what is used to be. In fact, Saskatchewan farmer, Cherilyn Nagel, says farming may be one of the most technologically advanced sectors of the economy.

“Farmers use technology all the time. We use GPS to make sure that when we’re seeding, spraying or harvesting, we’re doing it as effi ciently as possible by reducing overlap,” she says. “In the last couple of decades, we’ve also seen dramatic improvements to the quality of seed available to us, as well as to in-puts, like pesticides, that we use to en-

sure our harvests are robust.”Dr. Stephen Yarrow, vice-president

of plant biotechnology at CropLife Can-ada, agrees that there is a lot of innova-tion available to help farmers improve their yields and farm in ways that are better for the environment.

“One example of how science has im-proved things on a whole range of levels is conservation tillage. When a farmer plants a herbicide-tolerant canola, for instance, the ability to control weeds without tilling the soil helps to improve overall soil quality.

“When soil is not tilled it is better able to resist wind, so the soil doesn’t blow away, it’s better able to absorb moisture, which helps plants to grow,” he explained.

“Plus, because the stubble from the harvested plant is left to decompose in place, additional nutrients are added to the soil as the plant materials decom-poses.”

Over 70 per cent of Canadian farm-ers currently use conservation tillage practices.

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Premier appoints special cabinet committee to deal with flooding

Premier Brad Wall appoint-ed a special committee of cabinet ministers to oversee the province’s preparations and response to potential spring fl ooding.

Government Relations Minister Jim Reiter will chair the new committee. Reiter is also the Minister responsible for the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP). Other ministers on the fl ood-ing preparedness committee will be Environment Minis-ter Ken Cheveldayoff, who is also Minister responsible for the province’s Water Secu-rity Agency (WSA), Highways and Infrastructure Minister Don McMorris and Agricul-ture Minister Lyle Stewart.

Reiter said preparations to deal with the spring melt and potential fl ooding problems are well underway.

In addition to the $182 mil-lion designated in the Growth and Financial Security Fund to cover potential fl ooding costs, several ministries are preparing for the possibility of spring fl ooding.

Throughout March, the Ministry of Government Re-lations and the WSA held a

number of meetings in at-risk regions, providing more than 200 communities with infor-mation and advice on mitiga-tive actions they can take to prevent and respond to fl ood-ing. Individuals are encour-aged to make plans and take steps to protect their property from fl ooding.

“If you require informa-tion or assistance to do this, contact your municipality or band offi ce directly,” Reiter said. “Local contact informa-tion and information about fl ood preparedness and keep-ing yourself and your fam-ily safe can be found at www.gr.gov.sk.ca/fl ood.”

Over the past two years, the WSA has provided more than $25 million to assist in the construction of 580 permanent works to prevent fl ood damage.

Water levels of the Rafferty and Alameda reservoirs con-tinue to be lowered in prepa-ration for the spring runoff.

The Ministry of Highways is preparing for potential fl ooding by ensuring road building materials, culverts and bridge replacement com-ponents are on standby, and

machinery, culvert steam-ers and trailers fi lled with all of the necessary equipment are ready to go. There are 15 emergency fl ood trailers with 150 portable lighting stands, 5,000 signs and markers, 500 sets of barricades, 25 400-gallon water tanks, 30 pumps, 100 night fl agging kits, 750 barricade lights and 30 steamers.

“We know that even with the best local response plan, communities can be over-whelmed by a fl ood,” Reiter said. “In these instances, the provincial government is ready to assist communities through response, recovery and fi nancial support to as-sist Saskatchewan people.”

Municipalities that need help will be able to secure fl ood supplies, equipment and assistance by contact-ing Government Relations. Emergency supplies and equipment available include sandbags and sandbag ma-chines, pumps, hoses, barri-er systems and small genera-tors. In the event of a major fl ood, assistance to commu-nities will be prioritized based on levels of risk, emer-

gency response teams will be increased and PDAP staff will be available to assist. WSA staff are also available to pro-vide technical advice to assist communities and individuals facing fl ood threats.

WSA will provide daily up-dates to its fl ow forecasts if fl ooding situations develop. The forecast will be available at www.wsask.ca/Lakes-and-Rivers/Provincial-Forecast/.

“Everyone has a role to

play,” Reiter said. “I strongly encourage each individual to take active measures to safeguard their property and families, so we minimize the impacts of fl ooding as much as possible.”

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The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) has called on Library and Archives Canada to use its legal authority to cat-alogue and archive the library holdings, documents, and other artifacts of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) contained in its downtown Winnipeg of-

fi ce building and its offi ces in Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, China, Vancouver, and Regina.

Bill Gehl, a Regina area wheat and durum producer and chairperson of the CWBA said “we have reports that in spite of a preliminary assess-ment by Library and Archives

Canada substantial portions of the CWB’s library and archives have already been picked over or put in the trash including very valuable market analysis information, and we fear that documents, customer gifts, and other antiquities relevant to the Friends of the CWB class action law suit are being lost.” Gehl went on to say “this is completely unacceptable and we have asked Library and Ar-chives to redouble their work to document and preserve the remaining documentary heri-tage of our Wheat Board for Canadians.”

Referring to ongoing legal action Gehl said “we fully sup-port the recently fi led Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board class action law suit to recover the value of our Wheat Board which was seized and national-ized without compensation by the Harper Conservatives.”

Gehl concluded “the Library and Archives of Canada Act gives Library and Archives Canada both the legal respon-sibility and authority to imme-diately take possession of the documents and other archival material of our farmer owned Wheat Board and we expect them to make a priority of do-ing so in spite of the fact their budget has been substantially reduced by the Harper Conser-vatives as a part of their project to cripple the Canadian state.”

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