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“It’s very important to make Melville an attractive place for physicians.”

- Mayor Streelasky

By Lin OroszGrasslands News

Melville and area residents are fortunate in having continuous, top-quality health care, the annual meet-ing of Melville and District Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee (MDPRRC) was told.

And MDPRRC, a volunteer organization launched a dozen years ago, with several members that represent area municipalities along with other groups, aims to provide “uninterrupted medical support and services to the residents of our district…” MDPRRC president Walter Streelasky told the meeting July 11.

According to information presented at the meeting, 11 urban and rural municipalities have contributed to MDPRRC – which has attained non-charitable status – in 2018 by way of a $3 per capita levy. In past years, nearly 20 municipalities contributed.

The total collected from the levy in 2018 was $18,838. The City of Melville as the municipality with the largest population provides the most funding -- $13,686 last year.

In an interview following the meeting, Streelasky told the Melville Advance the Recruitment and Reten-tion Committee the support it receives from surround-ing municipalities is essential.

“It’s important to have our Recruitment and Reten-tion Committee recognized by the different municipal-ities in our area. They provide us with a $3 levy and we in turn work very hard to retain the doctors we have and also to recruit (new doctors).”

The ongoing objective, Streelasky explains, is to have five full-time doctors working in the community. In fact, a fifth doctor, Dr. Rania Ibrahim, began prac-tising out of the city’s Aurora Ross Medical Clinic last month.

“What we decided as a committee 12 years ago…when we received our right to serve as a non-profit corporation…In those 12 years we were able to provide physicians in this community which in turn provides for services in those various communities like the area of Neudorf, Grayson, Goodeve, Ituna, Melville and so on.”

Because of the stable physician complement, the modern facilities at St. Peter’s Hospital and the overall processional health care environment, citizens from beyond this health care region are seeking medical services in Melville, Streelasky says.

The funding MDPRRC receives from municipal con-tributions has been spent in a number of ways includ-ing providing temporary housing accommodations and

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Recruiting newphysicians still a top priority

By Scott SavardGrasslands News

With the wild weekend of people coming to Mel-ville for one of Canada’s largest minor baseball tour-naments, the community pool took advantage and held a fundraiser to help raise money for a new pool.

While the pool sees many visitors especially during the summer months, it has been decided years ago that a new pool would be beneficial for the community,

“For years we have been trying to raise funds to-wards a new pool facility for the community. This weekend we also have the big ball tournament. It’s a busy time for the city where we get lots of people in and out and are looking for activities to do between games and with families and it would be an awesome week to throw it. All of the funds that we raise will go towards our new pool,” said Assistant Supervisor Therese Olynyk of Melville’s Community Pool.

Olynyk explained that they held a variety of fun activities during the past weekend, from dunk tanks, bouncy castles, Jenga and even gave out prizes during a game of puck retrieval.

“Kids dive in the pool for a puck and it will have a

specific number and if the number matches the raffle item, you win it. It’s $5 for a puck and you get to go and pick your puck,” she added.

“We have had incredible support from the com-munity; we’ve had Canadian Tire, Royal Drug Mart, different massage therapy places, honestly so many places. All the supporters are from Melville and the surrounding area.”

The money that was raised during the weekend of July 13 and 14 will go straight to getting a new pool basin. With the current pool, they are losing water and the only way to stop that at this point is by attaining the new basin.

“We will keep our pool house, the change rooms and the staff room, but we want to change our pools basin, the actual pool itself. We want to make it zero entry, which means you walk into it from the ground and it progressively goes down,” Olynyk explained.

“It will just be newer and better because our pool has been through a lot and it has damages, so we are losing lots of water here and there. We want to get a good upgrade to save the money in the long run and a better community pool that people can go to with families and have a good summer.”

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funding for recruited physicians to get established.

But MDPRRC’s mission goes beyond the financial sphere, Streelasky says. The committee helps new recruits transition into the community, and in-troduce them to the social aspects here whether it’s the schools for their chil-dren’s education or the golf course for their recreation.

“We try to provide all those things that would make their environment here in Melville and area very comfort-able and we hope we’d be able to retain these physicians for a period of three years (or more),” Streelasky says.

A portion of the meeting was de-voted to a presentation by Dr. Johan van Zyl, a long-time Melville physician and a member of the committee. He’s also served for several years as an as-sessor under the province’s Saskatch-ewan International Physician Practice Assessment (SIPPA).

The SIPPA program, in short, is de-signed to ensure doctors who want to practise in the province have a certain standard of medical skills and knowl-edge.

Van Zyl says there’s a growing trend among doctors who travel to Saskatch-ewan from other parts of Canada to en-gage in the SIPPA program. That trend suggests that after they’ve passed the assessment and fulfilled the require-ment to practise in Saskatchewan for

three years, they often leave to practise in other provinces.

“They make ‘sorties’ to Saskatche-wan” but are attracted to larger centres like Toronto or cities in Alberta: “I see a lot of difficulty in seeing keeping phy-sicians in Melville in the future.”

It’s under this scenario that the work of MDPRRC becomes increasingly important in retaining physicians, Streelasky says.

“In the past there was a long-term commitment (from physicians) to com-munities. Our Recruitment and Re-tention Committee is working in that direction.”

An important facet to recruiting and retaining doctors is providing them with a suitable work environment, Streelasky says. Currently three of Mel-ville’s five physicians practise in the Aurora Ross Medical Clinic, a facility owned by MDPRRC. The remaining two work out of a privately owned clinic.

MDPRRC has grappled with Aurora Ross issue. In 2012, MDPRRC hired an engineering consulting firm to do an assessment on the clinic keying in on architectural, electrical, air quality and other issues, Streelasky says. The ensu-ing report indicated bringing the clinic up to standard would cost more than $600,000 and pointed to a new facility as being a better option.

MDPRRC considered various op-tions, ranging from building a new,

community-owned clinic to having a private operator provide a facility to leasing space in an existing facility. It was determined a new, communi-ty-owned clinic was the best option in terms of recruiting and retaining phy-sicians. Because a community-owned clinic wouldn’t be a for-profit venture, physicians could be provided with lower rental costs.

While a location for a new clinic has been determined, there’s been no action taken because of the lack of funding, says Streelasky.

“The difficulty is we just can’t seem to get a foothold of what we need to do. We receive funding from the different municipalities. That basically works in

support of recruitment and retention of our physicians. When it comes to money beyond that, we just do not seem to have that and we’ve tried differentapproaches, we’ve talked to different individuals.”

Streelasky says finding a replace-ment for the Aurora Ross -- a facility he describes as “tired” -- is still a high priority for MDPRRC.

“It’s very important to make Mel-ville an attractive place for physicians and that means their work-site environ-ment and we know we have difficulty with attracting people to (the AuroraRoss) site so this is something our com-mittee is trying very hard to progressupon,” concluded Streelasky.

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Solid Waste Management is a big topic and a recycling program is one small component, yet it is an important component. You may be aware that the Province of Saskatchewan has been reviewing expectations for municipal landfi ll operations in recent years for the entire province, not just Melville. This has led to the Melville landfi ll being at risk of closure. Recently, we submitted an operating plan for the Melville landfi ll to remain open, however it will mean that we need to operate diff erently than in the past. The proposed operating plan does assume the diversion of recyclable material, which is currently around 600 metric tonnes per year. We anticipate answers about the proposed landfi ll operating plan sometime later this year. In the meantime, old habits die hard! Gone are the days where it is acceptable to simply bury or burn all of the solid waste (garbage) that everyone produces. Simply put, solid waste management is under the microscope across the entire province. “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” has been a common theme for the past 30+ years and consumers have come to expect recycling programs to be in place. The available markets for the sorted and baled product have been volatile over this same time frame and more recently, the markets have completely bottomed out. With a few exceptions, we in Canada have been in the habit of shipping recyclable material elsewhere (primarily overseas) for processing. Recent national and international news headlines confi rm that has come to an end with some material being returned to Canada. What does that mean for the Melville recycling program? We partner with Rail City Industries Inc. (RCI) to operate a depot/drop off recycling program. RCI sort, bale and ship the material. In the past there has been some revenue generated from shipping material. More recently that revenue stream has virtually disappeared. The value of cardboard for example, which is the highest volume of material, has dropped to $0/metric tonne (MT) plus shipping costs of $36-$37/MT. Newsprint material is -$20/MT plus shipping. While some material such as tin, offi ce paper and #2 color still has some value at $120-$160/MT, this material is a very low volume. Mixed plastic and plastic bags is now being rejected and has no current value. RCI experienced an operating loss of $67,000 on the recycling program for their year ending March 31, 2019 and project a loss of $100,000 for the year ending March 31, 2020. The largest contributing factor to these losses is the collapsed market value of the recyclable products combined with shipping costs. The current environmental levy of $4.50/month/household is collected from residents and directed to RCI to cover the cost of the recycling program. Unfortunately, that levy now only covers about half of the processing cost. This is not fi nancially sustainable for either RCI or the City of Melville. We have worked with RCI, the Province of Saskatchewan, and have reached out to a number of other communities to look for alternative solutions. Unfortunately, there are no immediate alternative solutions. We have also considered the costs of implementing a curbside recycling pick up service and the total estimated costs of this would be in the range of $16-$20/month/household. There are benefi ts to diverting a larger volume of material from the landfi ll. However, with the current market volatility and an unknown future for recycling in Canada, it does not appear to make sense to consider expanding the recycling program at this time. Alternatively, we could discontinue the current recycling program. This would result in approximately 600 metric tonnes of recyclable material currently being diverted from the landfi ll, returning to the landfi ll. This option would risk potential approval of continued landfi ll operations, may lead to landfi ll closure and subsequently increased costs due to hauling solid waste a greater distance. In order to maintain the current recycling program, Council have authorized an increase in the environmental levy from $4.50 to $9.00/month/household, eff ective September 1, 2019. I/we know that people will not be happy about this increase, and we welcome your thoughts and ideas on alternative solutions. Innovation with local solutions would be the ideal!

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Holding an open house for Melville Railway Museum was a success on July 13. The venue saw over 50 customers and even had a couple that stopped in during their cross-country trip from To-ronto.

Hannah Williams, who works at the museum, said the reason for the open house was to capitalize on bringing peo-ple in from the Minor Baseball Tourna-ment since the baseball diamonds are located by the museum.

While the open house was a great way to walk in and check out the neat equipment that was used years ago, peo-ple can still call in and set up a tour.

“We are open every day; we just ask people to call us and we come down and we can do a tour and open the museum because we aren’t there all the time. Our regular hours for calls to do tours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day,” Wil-liams said.

The next open house will be held on August 19, when they will be celebrat-ing the 100-year birthday of the train engine that is located at the museum.

Visitors from TorontoBrenda and Nigel Wells took time to check out the Railway Museum on their way through Melville during their cross country trip.


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Taking Crown dividends makes no sense

It is becomming a tradition following the Calgary Stampede that there will be yearly controversy over allowing chuckwagon races to continue. With horses often injured and then eutheniced, people are com-plaining that the activity should be discontinued.

Criticism by people stating things such as – ‘I do believe that the public who pays for tickets to attend these events are extremely desensitized to the suffer-ing of animals. They have not made the connection that when they buy a ticket, they are essentially pay-ing for the risk of horse death’ or ‘This is inhumane and as much of a sport as bear baiting. Time to end it’ – shows the intense reaction to the news of the death of the animals.

Other people make comments to justify the sport such as – ‘I worked in a barn for three years. These horses are looked after better than anything or anyone for that fact. We didn’t get to eat our meals, shower or sleep ‘til the horses were all looked after and tucked in for the night. If it wasn’t for the chucks giving these horses a second chance … the horse market and auction markets would be way overpopulated.’ or ‘A horse needlessly died in a pre-

ventable accident. That’s the story, folks. Let’s focus on what can be done to prevent the accidents. I am not in favour of a ban on the event but would like to see if there is anything that can be done to prevent the accidents. Electronic alarms when the teams get too close?’

The fi rst time chuckwagon races were held as a spectator sport was at the 1923 Calgary Stampede. How the sport originated is unknown.

The sport can be very dangerous for wagon driv-ers and outriders as well as the horses. A search on Wikipedia showed me there have been fi ve human deaths related to the Rangeland Derby at the Calgary Stampede. Three occurred between 1948 and 1971, one of which was a spectator struck by an outrider’s horse, and two occurred in the 1990s; an outrider in 1996 and a driver in 1999.

What criteria draws the line to deem any sport too dangerous to continue to be held? Do we eliminate every sport where there may be risk of an injury? After all, we are still watching race cars and their drivers crash and burn for the enjoyment of the en-thusiasts’ dollar.

Would any owner of a team in the chuckwagon races intentionally run his horses to death to win a race? Personally, I don’t believe so.

The offi cials for the chuckwagon races at the Cal-gary Stampede work closely with the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Calgary Humane Society staff to ensure that the horses are fi t enough to endure the race. There are large fi nes and ultimately an end to any owner participating that is found to be in fault of the regulations.

Accidents do happen. The owners of the teams know that animal injury and death are a normal element of any ranch or farming operation. Critics counter that chuckwagon racing is simply an adren-aline sport.

All rodeo events could be considered adrenaline sports. All sporting events are adrenaline induced. To imply that the owners of the chuckwagon races don’t care about their animals and race only for the adrenaline rush is enough to cause a controversy in any given year. The controversy is – where do we draw the line on safety in any event?

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Chuckwagon races cause controversy again

By Murray MandrykPolitical Columnist

Saskatchewan’s Crown cor-porations made $541 million in 2018-19, according to the Crown Investment Corp. (CIC) annual report.

Let us consider that from a number of perspectives.

The first perspective is that owning healthy Crowns is not always something Sas-katchewan government always wanted.

One of those healthy Crowns is SaskEnergy, which cele-brated is 30th year in existence by declaring earlier this month $166 million in net income – enough to provide government with a $60-million dividend and small rebates for those wanting to install expensive energy-effi -cient furnaces. (More on those dividends in a moment.)

But think back 30 years ago to when SaskEnergy was noth-ing but a subsidiary of Sask-Power.

In the spring of 1989, Sas-katchewan was in a pitched bat-tle between those who were for and those who were against pri-vatization – a battle that makes the worst of today’s political rhetoric seem passionless.

“I expect as much noise and bell-ringing and hollering as you’ve ever seen,” then-Pro-gressive Conservative premier

Grant Devine said 30 years ago as he unveiled his agenda to sell off SaskEnergy. “This is (the NDP’s) Alamo. This is their Waterloo. This is the end of the line for them. This is it.”

Of course, the rhetoric from the then-NDP opposition was no less severe.

“April 21, 1989 (the day the SaskEnergy privatization bill was introduced) will be re-membered as a day of bitter betrayal,” then-NDP leader Roy Romanow said.

Well, we all know how things turned out. And today it would be hard for even the most hard-line conservative to argue that they haven’t turned out for the better. Having Crown corpora-tions supplying our most basic needs like heat, electricity and telephone/internet services has allowed Saskatchewan to develop a successful, modern economy.

But this takes us back to the success of today’s Crowns … or more specifi cally, how the Sask. Party is utilizing that success.

Upon announcing the fi nal CIC 2018-19 results, it was learned that $256 million of that $541-million accumulated profi t of CIC Crowns would be going to the government as “dividends” to help offset their existing defi cits.

That, by the way, would in-clude, $6 million came from the last $30 million of sold assets

for the Saskatchewan Trans-portation Company.

Of course, there are those who will now argue the only point of having public owner-ship of healthy Crown utilities is for them to help with govern-ment fi nances.

However, that was a wrong-headed argument when NDP governments used to make it and likely even worse coming from the Sask. Party now.

For starters, it has been the Sask. Party government’s ar-gument for months now that a carbon tax on gasoline to sup-posedly deal with future envi-ronmental problems is simply wrong.

Premier Scott Moe and com-pany may be right that the car-bon tax – at least as proposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government – is ineffective.

But is imposing a federal carbon tax on Saskatchewan people any more unfair than its provincial government hitting them with severe yearly elec-trical utility rate hikes when you are taking that money and moving it to general revenue fund coffers?

Why are we not instead using those Crown profi ts to provide rebates to consumers who are hurting as much from utility costs as pump prices?

Or better yet, why let theutilities like SaskEnergy and SaskPower keep their sur-pluses so they can better deal with their own pressing infra-structure needs?

Doesn’t that make infi nitely more sense than the Crownsborrowing money for capital infrastructure at high interest rates?

And wasn’t moving to sum-mary fi nancial statements sup-posed to stop the nonsense of playing shell games with your hard-earned dollars?

It’s great to still have prof-itable Crowns, but how we are now using those profi ts leavesmuch to be desired.


Public Works and Planning Services Director An-drew Fahlman is excited about getting approval for a new sewer truck that will be a significant upgrade to their current truck, which was made in 1992.

The importance of the new truck is significant in helping reduce sewage backups and also gives Fahl-man’s crew a safer way to clean the sewer systems.

“We can safely excavate the ground and find those underground utilities without sticking a shovel in the ground or a backhoe and damage the line or putting my guy’s lives in danger,” Fahlman explained. “The unit has numerous functions in regard to that, where we can safely excavate the ground and make sure our sewers are clean and don’t backup.”

With the truck that is currently being used, Fahl-man and company have had to pay a substantial amount of money to repair the truck over the past seven years. The new truck should avoid those costly

repairs.“We have spent $84,000 over the last seven years

since I have started here in 2012. We bought this ma-chine used from California,” he said.

Fahlman says it’s important to replace aging equip-ment. In the extensive research he has done, he’s found ways to cut costs including savings on equipment that will no longer be needed. The truck is expected to be available next spring after customizations has been completed.

“It’s such a custom-built truck that we have to buy it separately; we are going to be putting this on a Freightliner so the cabin chassis will be built by the Freightliner manufacture; that’s going to come off the assembly line in approximately October. That will be sent on to Chicago where the truck will be cus-tom-built there on site. We probably won’t see this truck until next spring because it’s such a long pro-cess,” Fahlman added.

“Every aspect of this truck is newer; technology has come a long way. Before I started in the city, I was in the Vac business for a number of years. This type of unit is my specialty.”

When Fahlman started working in the city seven years ago the average age of the equipment was 34 years old. The normal age for equipment for most cit-ies is 10 years from city sizes like Regina to Nipawin.

Council approved the price for the truck at $577,863 The city will receive $20,000 for trading in the old truck and get a GST reimbursements for an additional $26,029.


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It’s A Strange WorldThings have gone downhill for a cyclist who

has been ordered to pay $168,000 for hitting a yoga instructor who was crossing a street while looking at her cellphone. Gemma Brushett, 28, was knocked unconscious by cyclist, Robert Hazeldean, who was biking on the busy road in London, back in 2015. Hazeldean, a landscape de-signer from France, was understandably unhappy with the court’s ruling in favour of Brushett. I could not determine if she was in a crosswalk or not. That would make a difference to me. Hazeldean says the ordeal has been a personal nightmare and raises concerns for other cyclists who ride on roads with distracted pedestrians. On top of paying all the legal fees, the judge also ordered Hazeldean to pay Brushett $7,000 in damages. If he had had insurance, his legal costs would have been limited to $11,270. He urges cy-clists to take out insurance.

Finders are not necessarily always keepers. A Vancouver man was arrested after trying to claim someone else’s convertible sports car as his own. The owner of an open-top convertible called police to report that a stranger was sitting in the driver’s seat and refused to leave. The perp stated that the vehicle was now his. Officers were forced to use a bean bag shotgun on the man’s legs, which allowed officers to move in and arrest the 36-year-old. Police will pursue charges of crimi-nal mischief.

The Irish woman, who last year married a 300-year-old pirate ghost named Jack, has an-nounced they are breaking up. “If a well-adjusted couple like these great kids can’t make it, what chance do any of us have?” asked Kaseberg. “Ap-parently, Jack wants to start seeing other crazy women.

A Manitoba teen told police he was in desper-ate search of a bathroom when he was stopped for driving 170 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. The 16-year-old told authorities he had “too many hot wings and needed a bathroom.” That may have, in fact, been true but the RCMP didn’t find the reasoning that funny. There was no pity (and there shouldn’t have been) as he was issued a $966 speeding ticket, along with a $203 fine for driving without a supervising driver, as required under Manitoba’s graduated licensing laws.

“Santa Monica cops raided a cocaine party,” reported Argus Hamilton. “Six arrested for pos-session of plastic straws.” We do have strange priorities at times.

A Chinese teen’s love of bubble tea went straight to her hips … literally. A 14-year-old girl from Zhejiang was sent to hospital after suffering from five days’ worth of constipation. Appar-ently, the blockage was caused by the tapioca “bubbles” found in bubble tea. A CT scan of the girl’s midsection showed about 100 undigested tapioca balls lodged in her abdomen. The doctor did not believe that she had only one bottle of tea, and sent her home with laxatives. It can be difficult for some bodies to digest the tapioca be-cause it’s made of starch.

James Alex Fields Jr. pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, but immediately pleaded for mercy in the hope of avoiding a life sentence. The federal judge in a Charlottesville courtroom was not swayed, and the 22-year-old white suprema-cist will spend the rest of his life in prison for driving his car into a crowd of people at a neo-Nazi rally in 2017, killing Heather Heyer. Fields was sentenced on federal hate crime charges, and he still has to be sentenced on separate state charges, even though he has already received 29 life sentences, one for each of the federal hate crimes to which he pleaded guilty.

A woman whose birth name is Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck is now Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck. Dr. Vandyck, 46, has refused to change the name, despite lifelong external pressure to do so. She has now earned her PhD in education leadership from Wisconsin’s Cardinal Stritch University. As a sideline, she works in real estate and uses the name “MP Vandyck” on her signs to prevent teenagers from stealing her ‘For Sale’ signs. Despite her very unique name, Dr. Van-dyck says that she doesn’t drink Pepsi and has never tried smoking weed.

At a grad ceremony at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, valedictorian Nataly Buhr didn’t follow her pre-approved speech and is in trou-ble. Off-script, she thanked her counselor for teaching her to fend for herself and her teachers for instructing her on resourcefulness by not informing her of scholarships until the due date. Most personal was the shout-out to the unnamed teacher for helping students learn about the dangers of alcoholism, by being “regularly intoxi-cated during class.” That would not be good!

Keep reading between the lines… until next time.

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Paul and Judy Kono-topsky never would have imagined what started out as a hobby “picking up the odd things here and there” more than three decades ago would lead them to launching a business in Melville cen-tered on antiques and col-lectibles.

The couple, owners of Cornerstone Retail and Treasures in Melville, opened the business seven years ago following their move from Coro-nach, Sask. where they lived for 21 years.

And over those seven years, the finding, buy-ing and selling of items ranging from exquisitely crafted silver tea sets to century-old dressers – and everything in between – that’s been a learning experience as well as an enjoyable journey.

“If it looked good, we bought it,” Paul told the Advance, of the pastime that started some 35 years ago with an interest in old cameras, particularly the kind that featured bel-lows.

“But now, over the years, you learn that con-dition means a lot. Con-dition is everything. We learned condition, condi-tion, condition. Also, it could be 100 years old but it might not be worth (as much) as something from, say, the 80s because the 100-year-old item (is easy to acquire) but some of the others (from the 80s) aren’t, Paul explains.

‘You learn as you go. It’s experience – and ex-pensive lessons. Hey, anything worthwhile is a little costly,” he laughs.

And where do the Konotopskys find their “ treasures”. Because they travel a lot, they can keep their eyes open to any number of sources includ-ing a “super, duper” flea market in Saskatoon. As they’ve become familiar to the public, they’re also approached when there’s a family move afoot.

“People ask us to come – they’re moving mom or granny into a home and they ask us to come and look and make them an offer. So we do that, some we get, some we don’t.”

Garage sales don’t range high on their places to search, largely because they don’t have the time but also because the com-petition to find special ar-ticles can be a challenge. And they aren’t inter-ested in buying sight un-seen off the Internet.

Tastes in collectibles can be quirky sometimes. For example, a sought-af-ter item when they began collecting was anything stamped with a ‘Made in Occupied Japan’, the period after the Second World War when the

United States occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952. After Japan became inde-pendent, explains Paul, there seem to be a move-ment among the Japanese citizenry to destroy items emblazoned with the ‘Made in Occupied Japan’ label. Thus, as those items became scarce, their col-lectability increased.

There are certain items that have an on-going attraction for col-lectors including coal oil lamps, old whiskey jugs with different manufac-turers’ names on them.

Kids’ toys are also pop-ular, particularly those made of tin.

While many collect-ibles are bought just to be admired and as con-versation pieces, there are those who see the utilitarian value in what the Konotopskys have to offer.

“We’ve got quite a few younger people looking for dressers and chests of drawers because they’re made of solid wood. The new stuff is just made of sawdust and spit. You

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It’s been said necessity is the mother of invention and John Gray can attest to it.

Gray, 65, retired from the Rural Mu-nicipality of Stanley at the end of the June but his legacy at the R.M. lives on.

During his 16 years as an operator, the Melville resident spent several win-ters creating attachments to improve the job for grader operators.

The highlight for him is a grass sweeper he invented using parts from old hay rakes to help clean grass off the sides of the grid roads.

“The mowers bring the grass up on the road and when we come along with the grader, the blade catches it and the grass bunches up and makes a heck of a mess,” explains Gray.

“I figured there had to be a way to solve this problem so I thought of an old hay rake and started gathering pieces and finding a way to attach it to a grader.”

He admits nothing like it existed so he made a mockup first, then attached it to the grader and gave it a test. The rakes use the grader’s hydraulic sys-tem and works in conjunction with the blades so operators can do two jobs at once. The grass is collected and set back down in the ditch while the oper-ator grades the roads.

It also allows for farmers who bale the grass to collect more, in turn, keep-ing the road allowances cleaner.

Although he was laid off for the first

few winters, Gray says, the workload increased enough later on to stay work-ing year-round which gave him down time (when it wasn’t snowing) to work on his inventions.

“We were having issues the first summer because it wasn’t reaching far enough into the ditch so I added a third

wheel and that allowed us to get the grass further (away from the road).”

With the changes, the attachment proved beneficial enough that he built a second one to outfit the R.M.’s second grader.

He also designed a different plow for pushing snow in the winter.

The new graders come equipped with v-plows on the front end but, Gray says, they are too heavy to push be-cause they are on skids and while some snow winds up in the ditch the other half ends up still on the road.

“You can buy one-way plows but they’re about $30,000. So I asked the R.M. council if I could use an old blade to build a plow and they said sure.Again I had no plans to build from so there was some trial and error until we got all the bugs worked out.”

Gray did receive help from his co-workers on these projects and ad-mits the camaraderie is one of thethings he’ll miss now that he’s retired.

Gray, who grew up in the Invermay area, moved to Melville in 2003 when his wife, Marilyn got a job in the city.At the time he was building roads withhis brother-in-law at Waldron. He got laid off in the fall and, as part of un-employment requirements, he appliedat the local rural municipalities where he was hired (by the R.M. of Stanley).

Operating heavy equipment was his life – he drove a cat for the first time when he was 12 years old.

“My dad was a grain buyer who worked for the local R.M. on weekendsdriving a cat scraper. I used to hang out with him on weekends. One day during his coffee break, I hopped on the cat and started digging.” They weredigging a dugout near Margo.

Gray also ran his own heavy equip-ment for 11 years doing custom work; sometimes building roads. That road-work helped him during his tenure at the R.M.

“Driving buggies, building roads; re-ally helped me grading roads (because) I had a better understanding of how theactual road structure works.”

Now that he’s retired Gray isn’t sure what the future holds. He has offers towork for private companies and is also building his own ultra-light airplane. But, for now, he’ll take one day at a time.

“It’s definitely different – I neverknow what day it is,” he chuckles.

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are still making sauerkraut, they’re still making wine so crocks will still be a thing.”

Striking a deal with a buyer, Paul says, is often just a matter of attitude on the buyer’s part. He points to a sale he made last week in which a lady wanted a kid’s desk. After a few questions, Paul was able to narrow it down to exactly the kind she wanted: “I had one over in the other building so I sold it to her. (She) was great to get along with – just good people,” and the connection they made resulted in both buyer and seller walking away pleased with the deal.’

One of Paul’s most memorable deals involved an old slide projector vintage 1920s that came with 150 glass slides. He bought it from a Manitoba acquaintance and later sold it to a Regina man for $400. He later saw it listed by that buyer for $1,700: “But I was happy, I made a couple bucks on it.”

And that’s the nature of the business, says Paul.“I’ve bought at a pretty good deal but what my idea

of what that item was (worth) was not like somebody else’s idea. I can’t say I’ve really lost money at it but I haven’t made any either. I guess the worst case was breaking even,” Paul chuckles.

Stories circulate about the incredible items peo-ple find at garage sales or thrift shops that result in

financial windfalls for the buyers. Take for example the 1905 Tiffany Peacock mirror purchased for $2 thatwas later appraised by Antiques Roadshow at $25,000.Or the sweater of legendary NFL coach Vince Lom-bardi purchased in a thrift store that’s been valued at $43,000; or the Declaration of Independence reproduc-tion from 1820 that a Tennessee man bought for $2.48 but sold for $477,650.

It happens, Paul says, but it doesn’t happen often: “At least not to me; I’m still here, aren’t I”, Paullaughs.


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MAYOR’S CORNERWhat a memorable July 1 Canada Day birthday

party! Our Centennial Park was filled to capacity with visitors, families and entertainers all gath-ered in celebration of Canada’s 152nd birthday.

We are very fortunate to live in this wonderful land of peace, freedom and opportunity. July 1 also recog-nized a host of events and activities on Main Street. Thank you to all who contributed and participated in these festive events.

Pole bending and barrel races occurred at Melville Agri-Park on June 23 despite challenging mois-ture conditions.

As of June 24 we are pleased to welcome our fifth physician, Dr. R.

Ibrahim to our community. The July 5-6 weekend saw an interprovincial

9-man football challenge between Team Saskatch-ewan and Team Manitoba. This challenge initiated by John Svenson consisted of some 35 Grade 12 football graduates from each province, which, after a week of hard practice, took part in the Challenge Cup. Hats off to John, his coaching assistants, the 70 plus football players that were billeted by our citizens and the large crowd that cheered Team Saskatchewan on to victory.

On June 27 Melville Comprehensive School graduates celebrated the completion of high school. These young citizens will now move on in pursuit of a wide range of opportunities. We wish them well as they embark on their life journey.

We extend a warm welcome to Scott Savard who has taken on the news reporter role for the Mel-ville Advance.

The 2019 edition of the Vacation Guide has now been distributed throughout Southeast Saskatche-wan, which highlights events and activities of our community. This booklet would serve as an excit-ing summer experience planner.

This past week I was invited to a party of a former resident of Melville. The entire Yachyshen family gathered to reconnect and celebrate their time growing up in our city. A very heart-warming event.

Did you know that from 1867 to 1983 July 1 was known as Dominion Day in Canada. In 1983, by an Act of Parliament, July 1 became celebrated as Canada Day?

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Saskatchewan country-singer Jess Moskaluke is once again receiving accolades from the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) after receiv-ing four nominations for 2019 CCMA Awards.

The 29-year-old Langenburg singer, who last won Album of the Year and Country Music Program or Special of the Year, has been nominated for four Canadian Country Music Association awards this year. She is a finalist for Female Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for her song Camouflage, Songwriter of the Year for her song Save Some Of That Whiskey, and Country Music Program of the Year for her album A Small Town Christmas.

“This kind of news has, and will always completely blow me away. The best part of my job is the fact that I get to travel the most beautiful country playing to the most beautiful people. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do,” Moskaluke posted on her Facebook page following the nomi-nee announcement.

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The Songwriter(s) of the Year final-ists are Brett Kissel, Seth Mosley, Brad Rempel for the song Cecilia (performed By: Brett Kissel); Gord Bamford, Bart Butler, Brice Long for the song Down (performed By: Gord Bamford); James Barker, Todd Clark, Gavin Slate, Tra-

vis Wood for the song Keep It Sim-ple (performed By: James Barker Band) ; Corey Crowder, Jess Moskaluke, Jared Mullins for the song Save Some Of That Whiskey (per-formed By: Jess Moskaluke).

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Two directors who worked on Moskaluke projects are also nominated for Video Director of the Year awards. Two of the five finalists are Ben Knech-tel for Save Some Of That Whiskey and Wes Mack for Camouflage.

Since 2014, Moskaluke has won six CCMA awards and been nominated 24 times, including an astonishing nine nominations in 2018.

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South East Wolfpack going to WesternsBy Scott Savard

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After nine years of growing women’s softball, the U19 South East Wolfpack softball team has won their first ever provincial championship which has solidi-fied a spot in Westerns which will be held in Stettler, Alberta on August 2 to 5.

Tori Stelmachowich is one of four girls that will be representing Melville at Westerns. It’s been a long journey and hasn’t always been the best experience, especially in her early years of softball, but Stelma-chowich passion for the sport is more alive than ever.

“I started in tee-ball. I was really young and then I played up until I was about 9. Then I quit; I hated the game. I didn’t know anything about it. I would run to third base instead of first. I would get hit in the face with pitches. I was so uncoordinated and just hated the game,” Stelmachowich mentioned.

“One day I saw all my dad’s trophies and medals from softball. I was like what is this, so he told me about it and I thought ‘OK, I will try it again, I’ll try it out for my dad’. Ever since then, I think I was 11 years old when I got back, and I have played ever since then.”

The Wolfpack had a phenomenal year after play-ing together for a lengthy period of time before the team reached their peak with age and skill. In previ-ous years the team didn’t have all the right tool sets, but with the commitment from players and the will to learn, they find themselves in a good position to make a splash at Westerns.

“This team has been around for a while; I think 8 or 9 years and Melville never really had a provin-cial team, not many girls really wanted to play. So we joined up with Wapella girls, Moosomin, and White-wood. Now there are girls from Kenosee, Carlyle; there is one girl from Duff and Lemberg. There are a whole bunch of girls who love the game and didn’t have any provincial teams and wanted to continue. We joined as one big team and that’s what we are,” she explained.

“I have been playing with this team for 8 years and we have never won a championship; we have always come close. We would get second place or we wouldn’t have really enough pitchers and some would kind of burn out in the final game. Years’ back our team was made up of a lot of first-year players and underage. So you can play midget for three years; so that means our underage were finally mature enough to play midget instead of being an AP (Affiliated Player). So this year all of our girls were of age; I think one maybe wasn’t. It boosted our self-esteem a little bit going in and this year we just completely demolished.”

Still, to this day, Stelmachowich looks up to her father Matty. He has been a great influence while not pressuring her into the sport but is very proud of her accomplishments. She hopes one day when she has kids they will continue the family trend of playing ball.

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Seattle’s Ryan Moormeier wants back next year


Seattle is approximately 1,815 kilome-ters away. If you were to drive it would take you 20 hours, or by plane around four and a half hours. That’s the dis-tance Ryan Moormeier had to travel to play for the Millionaires’ ball team.

Mils head coach Mike Green was one of the factors that helped Moormeier, or “Moo” as his teammates call him, choose Melville as his Western Canadian Base-ball League (WCBL) team. It’s been a journey for him as he almost decided to call it quits after high school.

“After high school, I was done, didn’t want to play. I just didn’t want to go to school anymore. I had an opportunity to play for coach Green at North Dakota Col-lege, I took it and I thought that was it. I had a chance to go to Bismarck, so I did that. When Garnet (Keller) called me about late February and asked me if I wanted to come to Canada and play, I had to call my mom and talk to my coaches. Once I got it all figured out, I was more than happy to come out here and play. Play for coach Green again, get to play with Sam Cassel again who I played with at school,” Moormeier explained.

During his time Moormeier has proven that he can be used in every sit-

uation. He can pitch, he can hit and play whatever position he is asked to play. It has proven useful as he acts as a Swiss Army knife bringing skills in a variety of situations, which is something he prides himself on.

“I have pitched and hit my whole life, it varies from team to team on which po-sition I play. Spring I played first and I

pitched; here I have played a little bit of everything. In high school, I played out-field. I have always been able to play every position

decently to make sure I can stay in the lineup whatever way possible. When there is a spot open, coach asks me if I can play it and I can

play it,” he said.It’s not easy to find a per-

son who can play every po-sition like the Millionaries have in Moormeier. Luck-ily for the Mils he has al-ready talked with his team and has shown interest in coming back next year with some of his current team-mates in Melville.

“I know a lot of us are already talking about com-

ing back here again next year. Try and keep the same core of the team and bring in more guys. So in-stead of 22 guys, we have 30 guys. Maybe we can

have a bit better of a team next year, have a good season

and make Melville proud,” Moormeier expressed.


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Hot enough for you?It’s a short simple phrase that I’ve probably

heard a thousand times in my 56 years on the planet.

My answer has usually been a resounding yes, not because I don’t enjoy the heat but more so be-cause that’s what summer was all about.

Summer was about playing ball in the park, about swimming at the pool or in the lake and in later years, it was about playing slo-pitch and sowing some wild oats with buddies.

It never seemed too hot to pick up the old ball gloves and play when we were youngsters. We’d travel in station wagons with fake wood stuck on the sides, usually five of us taking our lives in our own hands and riding in the back without seatbelts.

That was one safety feature of vehicles that you’d never see wear out back in the day.

Seatbelts were more of a suggestion than a rule back in those days.

We’d play ball in little towns on fair days and between games we’d take part in a coconut throw or some sort of teacup rides and try to soak some guy in a dunk tank.

During the game we’d spit an endless amount of sunflower seeds and drink water out of one of those R2D2 shaped water coolers with little paper cones for cups.

The water was super cold, thanks to a huge block of ice one of the coaches would have made with a Bell’s Dairy milk carton and in the middle of a ball tournament at Hazel Dell I can assure you, nothing tasted better.

On the bench there was always a lot of chat-ter, unless the game got tense. It was an endless stream of “hum babe,” “attaboy” and “way to go.”

Even though we were kids, we carried the name of the city we came from with pride. We knew we represented Melville and we played our best every time out.

Winning was always important from our standpoint, but it was also important to be good sportsmen. Our best players didn’t play every in-ning of every game. When we rode the bench we supported our teammates and vice versa. It was never about a handful of players, it was about the team.

When we weren’t playing baseball, we’d be at the empty lot beside the Swift’s building, now the site of the Classic Inn, playing games of touch football with kids from several neighbourhoods. It didn’t matter how hot it got, we’d play on.

Afternoons and evenings were spent at the swimming pool with everyone taking their turn on the diving boards.

I don’t want to say we were better than later generations of youngsters, but rarely did any of us get a ride or have our recreation set up by an adult.

We all showed up, we picked teams and we played from morning until dark, with short breaks to scarf down some meals in between and we did it without supervision or urging from our parents.

Summer was when life got interesting.Life wasn’t about what we could do to appease

our parents or fulfill their expectations, rather, it was about forging a path to independence, even though we didn’t even understand what that meant.

We played together, worked together and even fought together at times, but we never pulled back the covers on a summer day and thought it was too hot for us as we rolled out of bed and prepared to look for adventure.

Almost 50 years later, I can tell you we still think we could do those things and when a few old buddies get together, we recall them as if they’d happened weeks ago instead of decades.

That’s one thing about being the boys of sum-mer. You have to be, or at least still have some boy in you if you’re going to be one of them.

I don’t know how much climate change is going to affect things, but we’re probably in for at least seven months of snow next winter.

Go ahead. Ask me again if it’s hot enough for me.

Darcy Gross

Gross MisconductProspects bring out the brooms

By Darcy GrossGrasslands News

The Melville Millionaires found out that winning isn’t any easier the farther west you go.

The Millionaires played six Western Canadian Baseball League contests in Alberta recently and came home with only one victory.

Melville Millionaires 2 at Edmonton Prospects 10 (July 14)The Prospects banged out 15 hits in this game and

scored eight times over a three-inning stretch to rout the Mils and complete a three-game sweep.

The lone member of the Millionaires to do any dam-age offensively was Marquis Irving who notched a cou-ple of singles and scored a run in four trips to the dish.

Tracy Warren drew the starting assignment on the mound and took the loss for Melville, lasting only three innings before being lifted.

Melville Millionaires 3 at Edmonton Prospects 8 (July 13)The Millionaires gave up six runs before getting

on the scoreboard with three in the seventh inning as they fell to the Prospects for the second game in a row.

Melville had 10 hits in this contest, with third bag-ger Braeden Dobbs getting three of them. Mike Ozga chipped in with a two RBI double.

Starting hurler Chris Lacher saw his record slide to 4-3 as he turned in a six inning, eight hit, six run performance to take the loss.

Melville Millionaires 1 at Edmonton Prospects 10 (July 12)The Mils may have seen the writing on the wall

after their first matchup with the Prospects who cruised to an easy triumph, riding the four-hit, seven inning performance by starting pitcher Trever Berg.

Tyler Price got the start for Melville and had trou-ble keeping the Prospects off the base paths, allowing six runs over the game’s first three innings on the way to the loss.

Ozga and Doobs were the bright spots for the Mil-lionaires, with Ozga going 2/3 while Dobbs drove in

his 17th run of the campaign with his only hit of the game.

Melville Millionaires 2 at Fort McMurray Giants 5 (July 11) The Mils outhit their opponents 9-7 in this contest

but had some trouble with the gloves, leading to threeerrors by the visitors.

It was a tough outing for Melville’s starting pitcherChris Paruleski who probably deserved a better fate.The big right hander tossed seven solid innings, allow-ing six hits and four runs, with two of them unearned.

Paruleski gave up a trio of walks and fanned four Giants batters, keeping his earned run average at a sparkling 1.61.

Dobbs notched a couple of hits for Melville while Cody Goggins, Jordan Padilla and Ozga all doubled.

Melville Millionaires 1 at Fort McMurray Giants 8 (July 10)The Giants scored early and often in this game

while the Mils offence sputtered once again.Melville gave up six runs over the first four innings

with Kaiden Zacharias driving in Goggins for the Mils lone run in the top of the second inning.

Tanner Soloman started and took the loss for theMillionaires, lasting five innings, giving up six runs on six hits.

Melville Millionaires 8 at Fort McMurray Giants 7 (July 9)It looked as though it would be a great road trip

for the Mils as they ended their first game in Albertain dramatic fashion, scoring four times in the eighthand picking up the game winning run in the top of the ninth inning.

Luke Summers started for Melville and put in a respectable seven innings of work, allowing five runs on six hits. Chris Lacher gave up a couple of hits inhis two innings of work but was still able to collectthe win.

Zacharias notched his first home run of the seasonand drove in three runs to spark the Melville offence.

Dalton Hroner had a solid game at the plate, going3/5 as Goggins, Dobbs and Jake Green each collected a pair of base knocks.

The Mils are back in action on July 18, with a cou-ple of games with the Yorkton Cardinals. Game one is in Yorkton at 12:05 p.m. and game 2 is slated for a 7:05p.m. start at Pirie Field in Melville.

The Mils then welcome the Okotoks Dawgs to town for games on July 19, 20 and 21 (2:05 p.m.).

After those three games the Mils will host the Brooks Bombers in games on July 23, 24 and 25.

All games get underway at 7:05 p.m unless other-wise noted.

Saskatchewan residents are now able to check out the water quality at their local beaches before making the trek to the shore.

Starting this week, the Ministry of Health will begin publicly posting the results of the Healthy Beach Monitoring Program, which collects data to monitor and identify trends in water quality and beach safety.

“By having this information easily accessible, pub-lic beach goers can make themselves aware of poten-tial water quality issues and stay safe this summer,” Zoonotic/Environmental Health Consultant Nicole White said. “This will help people make informed decisions about their in-water activities when visit-ing our lakes. It’s important to note that even if poor water quality is reported at a specific location, people can still enjoy activities such as canoeing, sailing and boating.”

This year the program is monitoring 67 public swimming areas across the province - private beaches are not included in this report. Water quality issues such as blue-green algae and poor water quality will be captured in the report and conditions will be desig-nated as safe, caution or swimming advisory.

Reports will be posted at www.saskatchewan.ca/healthy-beaches on Mondays until September.

“It’s important to note that local closures can hap-pen evenings or weekends and may not be immedi-ately reflected in the report,” White said. “Residents are always encouraged to follow notifications posted on the beach.”

Check water quality before swimming

Recreational water is considered to be microbio-logically safe for swimming when single sample result contains less than 400 E.coli organisms in 100 milliliters (mLs) of water, when the average (geometric mean) of five samples is under 200 E.coli/100 mLs, and/or when significant risk of illness is absent.

Green

Yellow

Caution. A potential blue-green algal bloom was observed in the immediate area. Swimming is not recommended; contact with beach and access to facilities is not restricted. Resampling of the recreational water is required.

Red

Swimming Advisory issued. A single sample re-

(geometric mean) of five samples is >200 E.co-li/100 mLs, an exceedance of the guideline value

a cyanobacteria bloom has been reported.

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WCBL Melville Schedule

All games are 7:05 p.m. unless otherwise stated

JULY:18– Yorkton at Melville19– Okotoks at Melville20– Okotoks at Melville21– Okotoks at Melville 2:05 p.m.23– Brooks at Melville24– Brooks at Melville25– Brooks at Melville26– Melville at Medicine Hat27– Melville at Medicine Hat28– Melville at Medicine Hat 2:05 p.m.29– Melville at Swift Current31– Regina at MelvilleAUGUST:01– Melville at Weyburn02– Weyburn at Melville03– Melville at Regina04– Regina at Melville05– Melville at Regina06– Melville at Weyburn

WCBL League Standings

as of July 16East Division W L GBWeyburn Beavers 23 10 -Regina Red Sox 24 11 -Swift Current 57s 22 15 3Moose Jaw ME 20 16 4.5Melville Mils 13 22 11Yorkton Cardinals 3 31 20.5West Division W L GBOkotoks Dawgs 26 9 -Lethbridge Bulls 19 18 8Medicine Hat Mavericks 19 18 8

Fort McMurray Giants 18 18 8.5Edmonton Prospects 19 20 9Brooks Bombers 10 27 17

Melville Slowpitch Schedule

Note: All Games start at 6:30 p.m.JULY 22:Balls N Dolls at The Runs, RP1Staggering Home at Master B., RP2Ramrods at Scared Hitless, RP3Bucksd at Hilite Reel 1, RP4Crushers at Hilite Reel 2, FTChargers at Kahk. Storm, SP1Usual Sus. at Cowesses, SP2Unicorn Stamp., at Breaking B., BSDe-Railed have the ByeJULY 24:Master Batters at D-Railed, RP1Scared Hitless at Balls N Dolls, RP2Hilite Reel 1 at Stag. Home, RP3Hilite Reel 2 at Ramrods, RP4Kahk. Storm at Bucks, FT

Cowesses Cubs at Crushers, SP1Breaking Ballzzz at Chargers, SP2Unicorn Stamp. at Usual Susp., BSThe Runs have the ByeJULY 29:The Runs at Scared Hitless, RP1D-Railed at Hilite Reel 1, RP2Balls N Dolls at Hilite Reel 2, RP3Stag. Home 2 at Kahk Storm, RP4Ramrods at Cowesses Cubs, FTBucks at Breaking Ballzzz, SP1Crushers at Unicorn Stampede, SP2Chargers at Usual Suspects, BSMaster Batters have the ByeJULY 31:Hilite Reel 1 at Master Batters, RP1Hilite Reel 2 at The Runs, RP2Kahke. Storm at D-Railed, RP3Cowesses at Balls N Dolls, RP4Breaking Ballzzz at Stag. Home, FTUnicorn Stampede at Ramrods, SP1Usual Suspects at Bucks, SP2Chargers at Crushers, BSScared Hitless have the Bye

Melville Slowpitch Team Standings

Team W L T PHilite Reel 2 8 0 0 16Ramrods 7 0 0 14Usual Suspects 6 1 1 13Unicorn Stampede 6 2 0 12Scared Hitless 6 3 0 12Chargers 7 5 2 10Staggering Home 2.0 4 4 0 8Balls N Dolls 4 4 0 8Hilite Reel 1 4 5 0 8Crushers 3 3 2 8Breaking Ballzzz 3 4 0 6The Runs 3 6 0 6Kahkewistahaw Storm 2 5 1 5Bucks 2 5 0 4D-Railed 1 7 0 2Cowessess Cubs 1 6 0 2Master Batters 0 8 0 0

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Neighbourly Advice According to EdWhen Ed, my old neighbor from Sas-

katchewan called last week, he wanted to know what I was doing. I told him I was studying the sovereignty of God. He was quick to say that he thought God was no longer sovereign over many or much. I suggested that it is a matter of perception. Maybe folks forget about God unless they want to ask a favor of Him or blame Him. God is in control, but that doesn’t stop us from wanting absolute power for ourselves. We tend to have control issues wanting things done our way, which we think is the only right way there is.

I told Ed that it is from the Bible that we say God is in control or sovereign, as rightful ruler over everything and ev-eryone in the universe. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. God is, above all things and before all things. He is the alpha and the omega, the be-ginning and the end. (Revelation 21:6)

God created all things and holds all things together, both in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible. (1 Co-lossians 1:16) There is no limit to the knowledge of God. (Romans 11:33) God knows all things past, present, and fu-ture. God can do all things and accom-plish all things. Nothing is too difficult or impossible for him to perform. (Jer-emiah 32:17)

God is sovereign, the ultimate source of all power, authority, and everything that exists. God is supreme and worthy of our awe and honor. Ed said that I made God sound like a dictator as one who rules the way he wants. I said there

is an element of truth of God being ab-solute and unrestricted in his authority. Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. (Psalm 115:3)

Earthly dictators and elected rulers may abuse their power and terrorize their citizens, but God rules the uni-verse and our personal lives, with His love, that wants what is best for us and for all. His love for us is balanced with his love for others. He rules in love. His word promises that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him. (Romans 8:28)

Ed said to me, “If you are going to preach on the sovereignty of God, it isn’t going to go well because people re-sent bosses, those who are in control. People want to be their own bosses and their own authority. People want to ex-ercise their free will. People want to have their own way, make their own choices, whether good or bad.”

I agreed with Ed that many people stumble over the idea that God is in total control. They get angry that a sovereign God doesn’t eliminate all evil and suf-fering. They refuse to believe that God can bring good out of evil and suffering. They want a God that they can explain entirely according to their own terms.

Evil and suffering are part of our human condition, we make wrong choices and sin. Sin is met with the goodness and love of our sovereign God. In the brokenness of suffering and evil from sin, Jesus provides help, hope, and the power to turn our bad choices around to His praise.

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Rollover injures driverBy Wade WalzGrasslands News

An area truck driver was taken to hospital with unknown injuries follow-ing a single vehicle rollover on Highway 247 late Tuesday, July 16.

The driver lost control of his Ken-worth tandem axle water truck exiting a curve on the Sakimay First Nation while heading east towards Crooked Lake. The truck, partially loaded with potable water, left the highway in the south ditch and rolled upside down coming to rest halfway down the em-bankment against some trees. The trees prevented the truck from rolling com-pletely down and onto the road which runs adjacent to lakefront homes.

Melville RCMP guarded the truck until Yorkton’s Baillie Boys Towing ar-rived on scene to collect the vehicle. The highway remained open until then but was closed to traffic for approximately two hours while the tow company ex-tracted the truck.

Baillie Boys owner Dallas Baillie and his sons Skylar and Kalin worked to-gether using a 16-ton and 25-ton wrecker to pull the truck upright then slide it up onto the highway.

It wasn’t without challenges as the truck’s brakes were not set when they arrived which meant one of them had to crawl into the wrecked cab and dyna-mite the truck’s air brakes so it wouldn’t roll backwards down the embankment. Once on its wheels the brakes then had to be released to pull it up and out of the ditch. In addition, the water in the tank had to be drained to eliminate the extra weight.

It took several attempts to get the truck completely out of the ditch as they had to stop several times and re-position to the tow trucks and cables.

The co-ordinated process ended when they loaded the truck onto a flatbed semi and hauled it to their home base in Yorkton.

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deceased. All claims against the above estate, duly verified by statutory declaration and with particulars and valuation of security held, if any, must be sent to the undersigned before the 12th day of August, 2019.

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Melville and District Food Bank have what some would call a great problem. With over-stock and new ideas filling the foodbank, it’s time for an upgrade to a bigger facil-ity.

According to Colleen Gorecki, President of the Melville and District Foodbank, her clients’ needs have outgrown the storage space and the only way to move throughout the building is by moving sideways down aisles.

“Right now, we are trying to get into a larger facility, which is the old liquor store and with that we need the commu-nities help because it’s a community project. We are in a 600 square foot facility which we have outgrown,” Gorecki ex-plained.

With the number of communities involved and the amount of prod-uct, the food bank simply needs a bigger space.

A new facility would allow ideas that are in the works to be managed and carried out. Some of the ideas are to have a com-munity kitchen to help teach clients how to cook and get the best nutrients out of their food, amongst other teaching resources.

“With our expansion, we need a new facility; we are putting our com-munity kitchen in there; we need more storage space. We plan on put-ting budgeting classes in, couponing classes in, parenting classes and put in whatever to help our community be a better community than what we already have,” she said.

City Manager Ron Mc-Cullough has worked in

various provinces and cities and hasn’t seen a foodbank like the one lo-cated in Melville. He said the foodbank goes well above what others have in his experience. With so many families getting support, it’s important to have the best services available and to continue the growth.

Currently the food bank is serving over 500 families in Melville and district. Out of that, ap-proximately 300 families are from the community of Melville. McCullough says much of its growth is largely indicative of a sluggish economy.

“Saskatchewan had ex-perienced a bit of a boom – now you got a softening of the market and soften-ing of employment. Not suggesting Saskatchewan is a bad place to be but it’s just going through a bit of a bust right now,” McCullough explained.

With the sluggish econ-omy, McCullough says the foodbank is essential

in continuing to support those who are already using the facility and oth-ers who may need it later on. There is a saying that goes “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to catch a fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Colleen and her staff are trying to do the latter of the quote. A new facility will help create that.

“When that happens there tends to be a growth in demand for various services. What the food bank is finding is that in roughly about 10 per cent of the people that need the food bank, perhaps there are other skills that could be taught to help them,” McCullough men-tioned.

“A new facility would create an opportunity to have a community kitchen which is a part of the vision and it’s not about a soup kitchen per say, it’s about teaching skills of cooking.

Not only will they

teach people how to cook but the goal is also to teach people how to get the best nutrition out of it and increase their food security McCullough said.

To make this idea a reality, the food bank is looking for the communi-ties help in raising money for the down payment on the new facility. If they get 450 people to donate $120, which could be $10 a month, the dream can become a reality.

Colleen Gorecki from the Melville and District Food bank can be con-tacted by email [email protected] or call 306-728-4955.


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27th Annual Heritage DaySUNDAY, JULY 21 - Bangor, Sask.

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For 364 days a year, Bangor, like villages across the province, tends to be a quiet, serene little place content to carry on with the humdrum of daily life.

But on the 365th, that changes when folks from near and far gather for what’s become the biggest, most fun-filled event of the year, Bangor Heritage Day.

Set for Sunday, July 21, Bangor Heritage Day – as the name implies – takes attendees back in history vie antique and classic cars and trucks, and vintage farm machinery that tell the story of how life used to be in the area.

Brian Jones, an organizer of Heritage Day, says the event has proven very popular since the first one was held more than a quarter century ago.

“It began with a lot of neighbors, farmers in the area around Bangor. We had a meeting, got together and decided we better have a Heritage Day. We did that in ’92 and had our first in ’93,” Jones told the Advance.

“There are about six of the original families still involved (in the organizing) and we’ve got another four or five new families so we got anywhere from 10 to 12 families involved.”

The highlight of the day is the parade which fea-tures heritage autos and farm machinery and gen-erally draws 40 to 50 entries a year although in 2011 – Bangor’s 100th anniversary – the parade featured 100 entries.

The day starts at 9 a.m. with a breakfast held at the grounds with the canteen opening at 11 a.m. At noon, parade entries start to assemble with the parade begin-ning at 1 p.m. led by a Legion color guard and a RCMP officer. And it’s not only folks from the Bangor area who enter their autos or tractors. In fact, the majority are from other communities.

“We got quite a following of people from Church-bridge, Dubuc, Stockholm and lots of surrounding areas. Our parade is probably 25 to 30 per cent local and the rest come from surrounding towns,” Jones explains, adding his own entry is a 15 horsepower Al-lis-Chalmers B tractor built in 1948 or 1949.

At a downtown location, an announcer will call the “play-by-play”, providing a brief bio of each entry that includes names of the owners and descriptions of the entry, Jones says. The parade generally lasts 45 min-utes to an hour.

History buffs can also visit yesteryear through ex-hibits in the school that has two classrooms and two cloakrooms. One cloakroom is a church display for items from the closed Anglican and United Churches, Jones says, while the other is a washroom.

“The north classroom is a model of a schoolroom of the 1950s and earlier. The south room displays artifacts and photos from Bangor and district – class pictures, choir, sports teams, Bangor village, school districts, auction posters, reference to Morris Rodweeder … and collections of military clothing, old furniture and tools. There are church pews and tables and chairs.”

As well, there are activities, contests and games for kids after 2 p.m. A stooking/threshing exhibition in which adventuresome folks can try their hands at pitching sheaves into a threshing machine is planned along with a “slow tractor race” in which tractors are lined up and the tractor that can run the slowest with-

out stopping or stalling is declared the winner.At 5 p.m. supper is held and caps the day.While organizers and the public enjoy the day with

anywhere from 200 to 300 people turning out, Jones says how long Bangor Heritage Day will continue is anyone’s guess.

“It’s a thing that’s getting harder and harder to do. We go year by year,” Jones concludes.


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