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Big Six Playoffs 99Estevan residents got some exercise last week while digging out after the area’s latest snowfall. Snowblowers were blasting snow all over the city, clearing driveways, walkways and parking lots.

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My name is Jersey, I am a male Pomeranian poodle cross. I am almost 2 years old. I am a very happy, bouncy boy all I need is a new forever home.

My name is Ree Roo, I am a female long haired tabby. I am so soft. I am a very affectionate kitty. I like people, children and other felines.

My name is Benny, I am a neutered short haired grey and white cat. I am 3 years old, so I am a lot quieter than some of my young friends here, more settled. I have always been a house cat, so I have good manners.

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Cheers to The Estevan Mercury/Trader Express, Estevan Lifestyles, Regina Leader-Post, and Canada Post...your delivery people have done an amazing job despite the winter weather.

Cheers to the man who volunteered and removed the snow off my house roof for an 89-year-old man. Thank you.

Cheers to the good Samaritans in this city who blow out their neighbours’ driveways and sidewalks, especially to one on Poplar Bay.

Cheers to Christa who volunteered at the Estevan Public Library for two nights to teach us how to knit sashay scarves. The classes were both fun and productive.

Cheers to the Estevan Arts Council who brought in the Jesse Peters Trio this passed Sunday. The performance was outstanding.

Cheers to George for keeping the snow clear at the Torquay border when the call of duty arises, which has been quite a bit this winter. Your prompt and awesome job is appreciated.

Send your Cheer or Jeer to [email protected] or send us a message on the Mercury’s Facebook

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Jeers to Dieppe Crescent for being the only residential street in Estevan that has the snow cleared on a regular basis. We all pay taxes, don’t we?

Jeers to 80 per cent of the people who come onto Highway 18 from the SaskPower Road and never stop for oncoming traffi c. There is a stop sign there. I know you’re in a hurry to get home after work, but I don’t appreciate having to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting you because of your ignorance.

Jeers to having to replace a rim on my car because of a pothole on 13th Avenue.

Jeers to the woman who parks in the middle of the street and blocks the back alleys to let her kids out to deliver newspapers, expecting traffi c to just go around.

Jeers to the kids who deliver newspapers and decide to walk all over my lawn, through snowbanks, pushing snow on to our cleared sidewalks, and then gives me attitude when he’s asked not to.

Jeers to everyone who has been complaining about the snow and cold. It was WINTER in the PRAIRIES in CANADA. What do you expect? And just because it is now spring, doesn’t mean that the snow is going to magically disappear and the 20-degree weather is going to appear.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Resist a confrontation with that irksome person. The matter will soon blow over anyway. Meanwhile, channel your high Arian energy into areas with more positive potential.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The innovative Bovine fi nds a creative way to resolve a sensitive domestic problem by midweek. A former colleague returns with an intriguing business suggestion.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) An unexpected critical statement from someone you trust could catch you momen-tarily off guard. But you soon recover your equilibrium and rise to the challenge.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You might feel you can handle a new project on your own. But advice from someone with experience could help you avoid possibly costly as well as time-consuming obstacles.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Waiting for others to make decisions is diffi cult for the take-charge Lion. But by week’s end, you should hear news that will help you regain control of the situation.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your superjudg-mental side could dominate the week unless you try to keep it in check. Otherwise you risk offending people, including some who are very close to you.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Expect more information to come out about that possible career shift. Meanwhile, your loving concern helps someone close to you get through a worrisome period.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Despite an occasional setback, workplace pressures should continue to ease through most of the week. This would be a good time to plan that long-delayed trip.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) The sage Sagittarian quickly recognizes an opportunity when she or he sees it, especially if it’s one you’ve been planning for. Take aim and go for it.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The Sea Goat’s unique insight guides you as you check out a ques-tionable situation. Your efforts should prove rewarding for you and your many supporters.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You might want to pace yourself a bit more. Rushing could lead to serious slip-ups. Take more time to check out details you might otherwise overlook.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) The best way to resolve those remaining problems is to ask others for help. They’ll be happy to do so, especially when you agree to share the credit for a job well done.

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After a couple of years sticking to the stage, this Estevan native is coming back from the studio with all new tunes.

Chris Henderson’s 2013 is shaping up to be busy, much like the previous year. He has been playing shows, writing and recording a new album, and was recently nominated for a pair of Saskatchewan Country Music Awards.

Henderson’s fi rst release was in 2008, when Follow the Signs hit shelves. He continued his teaching career until 2011, when he decided to devote himself to music full time. That marked the start of his busy schedule. Last year, Henderson played 160 shows, as he began writing for his sophomore album, tentatively scheduled for release this June. The fi rst single will drop March 25.

“2012 was pretty nuts,” Henderson said plainly. “It was my fi rst full year of doing music as a full-time living.”

From show to show, Henderson toured as well, playing with fellow Saskatchewan musicians Blake Berglund and Jess Moskaluke. Grassroots and Cowboy Boots was one of the tours that had a stop in Estevan in early 2012.

“We just did a Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan tour with a couple of runs there,” he said about the tour they did in two parts, running 17 days and 14 days at a time. “Between the two tours, we did 50 shows in 30 days.”

That’s getting close to two shows a day for an entire month and gives Hen-derson’s hectic schedule some perspective.

“We were doing lots of two-a-days, and lots of school shows in the af-ternoon and a show in the eve-ning. It got pretty crazy, but it was good.”

In the spare moments he does have away from the road, Hender-son tries to fi t in a little bit of writing when he can.

“I’ve also been in the middle of recording the next album that will to be coming out here as well.”

He said last year he took on a bunch of tasks he hadn’t done in the past, like maintaining his own website and doing video editing. While that takes some time away from his music, it allows him to be very independent from a business sense.

“I’m just fi nding ways to be more of a do-it-yourself musician as much as possible,” said Henderson.

Headquartered in Regina, that’s where he has been re-cording his latest album, after making his debut in Nashville.

“The last time I went down to Nashville and did it there, and it was bing, bang and done in a week. This time we’ve just been picking away at it in Regina at a studio called B-

Rad Studios,” said Henderson, noting it’s owned by his guitar player. “It’s been really nice to work at home and work at a different pace, where you can kind of be a little more creative with it rather than just trying to get it done.

“In Nashville, they have a system where in two or three days, you can record all the music for an album, and then come back and do your vocals. They’re very much in a regimented system down there. It’s great because it gets done very quickly and the players are amazing down there. That part’s wonderful,” said Henderson. “Doing it this way has just allowed for more of that personal touch on the record, more of my input and more of my producer’s input rather than just letting the players do what they do.”

He’s happy with fi rst album, and the process he went through, but has also enjoyed the change of pace that a Prairie winter inspires.

“It’s been long overdue,” said Henderson about releas-ing his new single.

The last single he released from his debut album was in 2009 and he released a Christmas song in 2010. This is his fi rst step back onto the airwaves since then.

“It’s nice to be able to get back in the game and get something current out there.”

He has been slowly integrating new material into his live shows. Playing regular gigs in Regi-na, he said there are people who already know the lyrics to upcoming single that he regularly mixes in to the set.

With nomi-nations for Best Male Vocalist and Rising Star, he said it’s his voice he uses to identify himself.

“ I t ’s a l -ways nice to be recognized by your peers in the industry. I always try to take the attitude that awards are awards; they

are what they are,” said Henderson. The nomination isn’t based on a province-wide vote, but a

tally based on the few hundred members of the Saskatchewan Country Music Association. When they give an affi rming nod in his direction, he appreciates that his work is recognized.

“Blake, one of the guys I was touring with, his forte is writing. He’s a storyteller. I’ve always felt that my forte is my singing voice. Lord knows I’ve never been known as a guitar player or anything like that. I do write, and that’s important part of what I like to think of myself as an artist, but most people over the years have told me it’s my voice that distinguishes me, whatever that means.”

The awards gala will be held on April 27 at the Dakota

Dunes Casino on the Whitecap First Nation, south of Sas-katoon.

Henderson is planning on another tour in the fall to sup-port to his upcoming release, and he has a few festival shows he is hoping to perform at this summer, including a tentative date in Estevan at the end of August.

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Chris Henderson, following a busy 2012 performing 160 shows,

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Henderson’s fi rst single in more than two years will be released

on March 25, with an album following later this year.

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We often hear about farmland being a fi nite resource in this world of ours.

And of course that is true in regards to acres. Once you minus the mountains, deserts, swamps, lakes, urban sprawl and all the other things that restrict land from ever growing a crop.

But it goes farther than that as we move forward.

Just because land is productive cropland today does not mean it will be tomorrow.

Soil degradation is a real issue moving for-ward. Existing land can lose its productivity for a range of reasons, all relating to effects, which damage the topsoil.

The most obvious of those is erosion, which literally carries nutrient rich topsoil away.

Many of us will be familiar with pictures of great clouds of dust billowing over the landscape in the 1930s. It was blowing topsoil that contributed to the era being known as the “Dirty Thirties.”

Things were not so much better here on the Canadian Prairies in the 1980s either. Land blew. Topsoil fl owed into ditches with rain runoff.

Topsoil, which takes years to build from crop residues, was being lost every time rain was heavy or the winds blew too hard.

The good news, at least here, is that farm techniques have evolved to the point where

topsoil conditions are actually improving. That was the message from University of Saskatch-ewan Professor Jeff Schoneau when he spoke in Yorkton recently.

Schoneau credited two major changes in how farmers approach cropping as the reason for the improvement.

The fi rst is a more diversifi ed cropping rotation. For decades, basically from the time land was fi rst broke until the 1980s, most farm-ers on the Prairies focused production on cereal crops. Wheat was king, barley the prince, and oats the fi ll-in when needed. And, of course, in some areas durum was important, and rye was grown as well.

All were cereals.Yes, there were acres of rapeseed and fl ax

and a few other options, but they were minor acres.

The development of canola, with its unique oil profi le, put an oilseed crop into almost every farm rotation in a matter of years.

The realization farms here could success-fully grow pulse crops also changed rotations. Saskatchewan farmers were quick to grow acres of lentils and peas, and that trend may continue as new soybean varieties are making that crop more viable.

Pulse crops in a rotation are particularly good because the crops can fi x nitrogen so that the crop actually aids the soil nutrient profi le.

Of course crop rotations are ultimately infl uenced by prices. Acres naturally gravitate to crops with the highest potential for profi t, so at present are skewing hard toward canola.

Still, as Schoneau noted, the more diverse a rotation, the better it generally is for the soil.

The bigger impact though, was the devel-opment of direct seeding technology.

The ability to seed directly into stubble still standing from the previous fall had two major impacts on farming. First, it allowed farmers to continuous crop. Summerfallow is all but nonexistent these days, and without the need to rest fi elds with summerfallow, more acres are available to production annually.

And more importantly in terms of soil health, the stubble and its root system are a built-in shield to the effects of other water and wind erosion.

Such adaptations to farm techniques to protect the topsoil we have is critical, and in that area, producers here have been leaders.

We hear a lot about those pesky four-letter words, but there is one three-letter word I try to use as often as I can.

It’s the fi rst rule you learn on day one of improv class, and while I was abysmal at improv in Grade 10 drama, the Yes Rule is one I like to follow everyday. When someone says, “no” in an improv bit, the act falls fl at and nobody has anywhere to go. When you say, “yes,” op-portunities blossom.

You will fi nd yourself in places you never thought life would take you when you refuse to refuse.

Before coming to Estevan, I was working in a factory doing electrical work. Every day I was running wires through studs, connecting switches and outlets, putting ceiling fans to-gether, running wires through ceilings, running those into interior wall switches, connecting them to lights, insulating walls and stapling aspenite, encasing RV units, and routering out windows and doors.

It isn’t the worst job I’ve had, because apple picking is the worst job I’ve had. For those wondering, apple picker was a title I held after graduating college with an impeccable grade average and industry experience under my belt. It was a pretty bleak two weeks. Early mornings in October, with a 10-minute drive down the highway, bleary-eyed and consumed by misery at the thought of another day in the rain, climb-ing ladders, plucking apples from the stem, fi lling a basket and dumping them in the bin.

Travelling to a job you hate can make you do strange things. I recall spitting swear words into the steering wheel of my 1998 Dodge Neon during early morning drives to the orchard when

it was raining. The thing that made my day, and made me

glad I said, “yes” to the apple picking job at the orchard, was lunch time. We would go into the boss’s house and eat lunch. It was owned by an older couple and she would have homemade soup, made from scraps from the day before. She always offered us a bowl and every day it was the greatest soup I’ve ever had. Just for that soup, I’m glad I said yes to that job for two weeks.

Saying yes got me to Estevan, and it has become I place I’m happy to be able call one of my homes, even though it’s so far from my family and many of my friends.

Though I really had no choice but to accept the job when the Mercury called, I could have graciously denied the opportunity. I could have stayed in Ontario, running wires, installing ceil-ing fans and working in orchards, nurseries or greenhouses, waiting for my chance to get back into Ontario’s fl edgling media world.

It’s not just about work. Saying yes helps you meet people and get outside your comfort zone. The more you do it, the larger your com-fort zone gets.

My friend Nick, is one of those friends that everyone has. He’s the one who can chat away

with a stranger forever. We’ve joked that when Nick was growing up, there were 48 hours in the day, because he had his hands in everything as a kid, he’s an athlete, a musician and someone who likes Einstein.

I’ve learned to follow Nick wherever he goes. If we’re hanging out at a cottage and there are some people a couple of doors down the lake, he’ll suggest we just go over and hang out with them. I know to just follow him.

He has an innocent way of approaching people and simply saying, “Hey, I’m Nick. Mind if we hang out with you guys?”

Nobody ever says no, and they probably can’t because he is that seamlessly charming, but by saying yes to following him two cottages over to meet some new people and have a drink, I am now on an adventure I wouldn’t otherwise be on. All thanks to saying yes.

It’s far too easy to say the opposite, and it’s much less rewarding. Yes is a word of op-portunity. We should all be saying it as much as we can. It opens doors.

I don’t ever say, “no” to a friend regardless of how inconvenient their situation is. It just means I will help a lot of people move when I could be golfi ng.

I am not experienced or intelligent enough to be considered wise, but were I to dole out any shred of wisdom, I would suggest everyone ex-ercise their adventurous side whenever they can.

By saying it, I’ve earned experience, friends and an appreciation for an unknown but surpris-ing future. I have that one three-letter word to thank for it. Let me know what you owe the word “yes” by e-mailing [email protected]

We all owe something to one word

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After seeing this talked about in an oth-erwise paranoid documentary, I’d really like to see an effi cient, global mass transit system.

The term global village is only going to grow more and more poignant in the future as we become even more dependent on the global society. What that’s going to mean is that we’re going to have to be even more connected to our fellow villagers on the other side of the world.

The documentary I saw envisioned a rail system of supersonic trains, vacuum tube trains, which they allege we have the technol-ogy for now. Travelling at 4,000 miles per hour, using magnets and moving beneath the oceans, this transit system could get you from New York to Shanghai for your morning business meeting and back in time for a New York slice at the end of the day.

Currently, maglev trains have produced a top speed of just under 400 miles per hour. The as yet unbuilt vactrains move with magnets and levitation, like the mag-levs, but can theoretically travel much faster. Hopefully, we can turn these theories into practice.

These systems would be expensive to implement and build, once we actually got the technology properly tested, but a man can dream. A Chinese university is developing a vactrain that could reach speeds of 620 miles per hour, and that can maybe be put into operation in 10 years. It’s probably just a small jump from there into the 4,000-mile range anyway.

These trains appeared in Fahrenheit 451 and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Sure, it’s science fi ction, but at some point science fi ction just blends into the world we know. I hope it’s sooner rather than later.

— Jordan Baker

There are the old standards: world peace, the end of hunger, the end of war and a cure for cancer. I’d love to see all of those achievements in my lifetime.

But I’m realistic. World peace would be great, but I’m not sure it’s possible due to many factors, like human nature. There’s a rumour that cancer has been cured, but the cure hasn’t been made public because the “cancer industry” brings in too much money. If that’s the case, it speaks to

a horrible condition of humanity – I really hope it’s not true. Regardless, I don’t expect a cure for cancer in my lifetime. I’m hopeful, but I don’t think it will happen.

Personally, I’d like to see a cure for multiple sclerosis in my lifetime. MS is a debilitat-ing disease that can affect people of all ages, and here in Canada, we have the highest rate of MS in the world.

Strides have recently been made toward fi nding a cure. Liberation treatment may or may not be the cure, but it has already improved countless lives. Liberation treatment has people talking, and has governments moving toward making fi nding a cure for MS a priority. This is partially why I think this is a realistic goal in the next 80 years. I think we’re on the cusp of fi nding the cure to MS and improving the quality of life for millions of Canadians.

I’d love to see every beauty pageant girl’s dreams come true during my lifetime, with an end to poverty, disease and the start of world peace. However, I don’t think it’s going to happen. A cure to MS is an achievement that genuinely makes me hopeful, so fi ngers crossed for that.

— Tonaya Marr

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Easter isn’t far away, which is awesome. When I still lived at home, Easter meant a visit from the Easter Bunny and a chocolate egg-covered house on Easter morning. I loved waking up and knowing that I would be spending all day eating chocolate and no one could tell me not to.

I also loved Easter books.The holidays of my childhood were made

even better by the revival of the seasonal chil-dren’s books my mom stored with our holiday decorations. When it was Halloween, Mom brought out books about Wanda the Witch, or the Barenstein Bears and their trick or treating adventures. At Christmas, she pulled out The Little Match Girl, which always made me cry and my favourite book about Barnabey the mouse, who had Christmas adventures. The Barnabey book was scratch-and-sniff and every time I catch a whiff of peppermint or fi r tree, I’m taken back to when I was small enough to sit on the couch and listen to Mom read the tale to my sisters and me. Kendelle, Janay and I also used to battle over whose turn it was to scratch the scented page. Oh,

the memories.It’s been a long time since I sat down

with any of our old holiday children’s books. I know that before my parents moved to their new house, my mom asked my sisters and me to help her weed through our thorough library of children’s literature. I kept putting the chore off, because 1) I am lazy and that did not sound appealing; 2) it’s hard to think about donating favourite reads from when I was a kid.

I really hope all of the holiday books made the cut and are lost somewhere with all the unpacked boxes. I work this Easter weekend, so I won’t be able to personally check. But there’s something genuinely special about those books and the tradition we had of reading them together.

When I was old enough to read them on my own, I’d usually disappear to a corner of the house with a stack as soon as Mom unloaded them from storage. It was like revisiting friends

every year. It was seriously awesome.Someday, in the distant, distant future,

I’m going to force my own children to love those holiday books, and new holiday books that I’m super excited about getting to buy (a new reason to buy books – yes!). They aren’t going to have a choice. We’re going to sit down and read them together and the stories in the pages will be a part of the tradition my mom instilled with me. No one will be texting (because four-year-olds seem to have texting mastered), no one will be watching TV (unless The Bachelor is on, then maybe) and everyone will get a turn to scratch the scented pages, because that’s the best thing ever.

I guess what I’m trying to say, in the most drawn-out way ever, is being read to as a kid is amazing. I’m so thankful to my mom, and every other relative who heeded my demands and read me books. It is great being old enough to play cards with the grown-ups now, but the time spent reading was the best by far.

Tonaya Marr can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @TonayaMarr.

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As I pack up to leave a photographers’ convention in Las Vegas, one trend I noticed is at top of mind: Apple is everywhere down here.

At the end of the con-ference, which had at least 12,000 people attending it, I totalled up the number of PC laptops I saw over three days. It was a pretty easy number - one.

That’s it. One. As in, “One is the loneliest num-ber that you’ll ever do.”

Of all the presenters with their laptops on the podiums, all the attendees quietly typing notes, all the people sitting in the lobby punching out e-mails, only one person had a Windows PC. The iconic grey alu-minum of MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs were everywhere.

In greater numbers were the iPads. Some were bareback, with no case. But every colour of the rainbow could be found in case de-signs. Trade show vendors offered iPad cases where you could vacuum-seal a photo onto the back (trés chic!). When it came to hundreds of tablets fl oating around, I think I saw all of

three that weren’t iPads.Stepping into an el-

evator, if you found eight people would be stand-ing there, fi ve would be hunched over, looking at their phones in their hands. Of those fi ve, four would be iPhones, in an even wider variety of cases. The hands-down favourite, however, was the OtterBox Defender, the tough as nails case that my wife and I both use to protect our own iPhones.

This overwhelming preference for Apple ex-tends to the various pod-casts I watch about photo techniques. You never, ever see presenters on Creative-Live.com using PCs.

For creative types, which would include pho-tographers, Apple has long been the favourite. Part of this is the esthetic (“Oooo, pretty!”), and part of it is the mindset. Apples tend

to just work, and haven’t required as much technical expertise to keep going as PCs in the past. I think it’s a left-brain, right-brain thing. Creative types would rather pay through the nose for an Apple product because they can’t wrap their heads around the PC ecosystem.

It also goes back de-cades to Apple’s strong sup-port for desktop publishing and photo editing.

What was also clear was Apple’s utter failure in battery design. With progressive versions of the iPhone, Apple has made a big deal about shaving off a millimetre or two here or there, making the device as thin as possible. This also means they have reduced the size of the battery, much more than they should have. There were several times where my fully charged bat-tery did not make it through

a 12-hour day, never mind 24 hours. Every power out-let you saw in the conven-tion centre lobby had two white Apple iPhone charg-ing cubes plugged in, and two people sitting beside it. This trend was not only visible on the three fl oors of the convention centre, but also all the way down the 200-yards or so of hallway connecting it to the hotel. Every 20 feet there were another two people sitting, charging their iPhones.

Since the vast, vast majority of iPhone users put a substantial protective case on their investment, what difference does shaving that extra millimetre off the phone make, anyway? No one ever sees a sexy thing iPhone in the wild.

If you want to make friends at one of these events, bring a multiple cord charger and several cords. Then you can just stake out the nearest power plug and have an iPhone charging party. BYOB, please.

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NationalSHILO, Man. - A now-retired soldier

convicted for his role in a deadly training exercise in Afghanistan has avoided jail.

A military judge pointed to former warrant offi cer Paul Ravensdale’s “stel-lar” career Tuesday as he issued him a six-month suspended sentence, fi ned him $2,000 and demoted him to sergeant.

The prosecution had asked for four years in prison.

But Col. Mario Dutil said Ravensdale was failed by his superiors when he was put in charge of both leading the exercise and making sure everyone was safe.

“Warrant Offi cer Ravensdale should

not have been put in this situation,” said Dutil.

“He was left alone by his chain of command and put in a terrible situation.”

Ravensdale, 43, was leading a test of anti-personnel mines near Kandahar city three years ago when one misfi red and shot hundreds of steel ball bearings in the wrong direction.

Cpl. Josh Baker, 24, was killed and four other soldiers were injured.

Ravensdale was convicted on four charges, including breach of duty caus-ing death.

***OTTAWA - Canada’s top soldier says

the armed forces have no fat left to cut ahead of this week’s austerity budget.

But Gen. Thomas Lawson told the Senate security and defence committee he understands that militaries around the world are being forced to operate with less money.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budget on Thursday is widely expected to make substantial cuts across government, and the Defence Department and Canadian Forces won’t escape unscathed.

Lawson, who took over last year as chief of defence staff, said the military already runs a lean operation.

“I would like to think that there was fat in the armed forces,” he said Monday. “I don’t think there is.”

“What we fi nd as we squeeze (is) that there is very little fat,” he added later.

Still, the governing Conservatives will be looking to shave off a little more.

A leaked army planning document, obtained by The Canadian Press, says land forces are bracing for a big hit on operating and maintenance on top of existing budget cuts.

Those cuts will slice into the army’s ability to train for operations in the jungle, desert and mountains.

***And thus began a tale that saw a

spectacular jailbreak, a gunfi ght between police and fugitives, and news media from multiple countries chronicling Foray’s unwanted adventure.

The pilot was ordered to land on a tower above the provincial jail. Once there, his passengers pulled some rope out of a backpack and let it tumble out toward the ground level below, Le Roux said.

InternationalHARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s

electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 per cent of voters cast a ballot in favour of a referendum on a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of human rights and a curb on presidential powers after a decade of political and economic turmoil in the southern African nation.

A new constitution was a key demand of regional mediators who forged a shaky and acrimonious coalition between Zim-babwe President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, after the last violent and disputed national polls in 2008.

All main political parties had called for a “Yes” vote in the referendum.

Judge Rita Makarau, head of the state electoral commission, said Tuesday that just over 3 million Zimbabweans voted for the draft constitution and 170,489 voted against. Spoiled ballot papers were not factored in to the fi nal results of votes cast by less than 50 per cent of those eligible to vote in the referendum.

The 170-page draft constitution has now to be submitted to the Zimbabwe parliament for approval, a procedural formality, before President Mugabe is asked to sign it into law.

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On March 15, the Arcola-Kisbey Combines put a stop to the perennial Big Six Hockey League championship final be-tween the Midale Mustangs and Bienfait Coalers.

The Mustangs and Co-alers have faced off against each other for the league title for the last few years. With the Coalers waiting for their final opponent of the year, having swept the Redvers Rockets in the semis, it was up to the

Combines to overcome the Mustangs.

Midale won the fi rst two games of the best of fi ve series, before the Combines came back to force a fi fth and fi nal match. Last Friday in Midale, Arcola-Kisbey had little trouble toppling the Mustangs in a defi nitive 5-0 victory.

The Combines fin-ished the regular season in fi fth place with a 9-11-1 record, while the Coalers were coming off a domi-

nant season of 19-2-0. The Combines haven’t won a Big Six title since 1998. The Coalers are looking for their third straight champi-onship, which would also be the 13th in the team’s history.

The fi nal series started Tuesday night in Bienfait, but with the Combines coming off their semifi nal high, the Coalers burst their fellow contenders’ bubble early in game one.

It took just 36 seconds

for the Coalers to get on the board, and that marked the beginning of a disastrous opening fi ve minutes for the Combines. The Coal-ers went ahead 2-0 at the 1:39. A third goal came at 3:21, and by 4:38 of the fi rst period, it was 4-0 Bienfait, and Combine goaltender

Stephen Norris was pulled from the between the pipes.

Sheldon Wyatt entered the crease to close out the night. The move slowed but didn’t stop the bleeding and the Coalers made it 5-0 at the midway point in the fi rst period.

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The best-of-seven se-ries continued Thursday night in Arcola, while game three will go tonight in Bienfait, before Sunday’s game back in Arcola.

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• It was Pulitzer Prize-winning Ameri-can novelist Pearl S. Buck who made the following sage observation: “All things are possible until they are proved impossible, and even the impossible may only be so as of now.”

• If you dread trying (and too often fail-ing) to pair up socks on laundry day, you’ll be glad to know that your anguish is not unrecognized: May 9 has been designated National Lost Sock Memorial Day.

• Progress is not always universally embraced. In 1825, a magazine called The Quarterly Review scoffed, “What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?”

• If in your studies of history you never

ran across the Anglo-Zanzibar War, don’t feel educationally shortchanged; most people have never heard of the confl ict. In 1896, the pro-British sultan of Zanzibar, Hamad bin Thuwaini, died, and his succes-sor, Khalid bin Barghash, did not look as favorably upon the British Empire. Because a treaty signed 10 years earlier stated that any candidate to attain the sultancy must receive the approval of the British Consul, the British viewed Kalid bin Barghash’s accession as an act of war. The sultan bar-ricaded himself in his palace, but the superior numbers and fi repower of the British quickly defeated the embattled sultan. How quickly?

The battle lasted all of 40 minutes, making it the shortest war in history.

• There are those who wonder if beloved actor Tony Curtis, with more than 100 fi lms to his credit, would have been quite as suc-cessful if he hadn’t changed his name. His given name, Bernard Schwartz, just doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

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As Canada’s best curlers prepare to de-cide eight months from now which teams to send to Sochi, Russia in 2014 for the Winter Olympics, a changing of the curling guard might be happening right before our eyes.

The 2013 Canadian Scotties was won not by the favourite, Jennifer Jones, or another household name, Kelly Scott, but by 23-year-old Rachel Homan of Ontario.

Two weeks later, the Tim Hortons Brier was held in Edmonton and while the pre-competition question was Martin, Stoughton, Howard, or maybe Gushue, the answer turned out to be Brad Jacobs, 27, of Northern Ontario.

Homan and Jacobs? This was Wayne Gretzky not winning a scoring title in the 1980s. This was Secretariat showing up as an also-ran in 1973, or Babe Ruth popping out to short in 1927.

Brad Jacobs? Rachel Homan? Really? Curling fans were somewhat aware of

Jacobs before he won the Brier by hammer-ing Manitoba’s Stoughton in the fi nal. This year was his fourth consecutive Brier (with one playoff appearance to his credit), but he and his muscular crew of third Ryan Fry,

second E.J. Harndon and lead Ryan Harndon (Jacobs’ cousins) were ranked no better than fi fth going into the week-long event.

One would think winning the Brier would make Jacobs a favourite for the aforementioned Olympic berth, to be de-cided this December in Winnipeg, but in actuality, the Brier champs have yet to nail down a spot in the eight-team competition. Only three men’s rinks - Martin, Stoughton and Howard, who else? - have qualifi ed so far. Winning the world championship, which starts later this week in Victoria, would go a long way to putting the Jacobs’ foursome into the trials, but otherwise, he’ll have to win a couple more bonspiels this spring, or win the single berth available from the pre-qualifying competition in November to get in.

While Jacobs may not have a berth in the trials yet, the RBC account manager has a bit more money to play with. The Sault Ste. Marie rink received $40,000 for win-ning the Brier, is eligible for $144,000 in funding from Sport Canada over the next two years, will pick up $40,000 for training and competition expenses from Canada’s “Own the Podium” program and - this will buy a lot of coffee - $10,000 for wearing the Tim Hortons crest at the worlds.

They might give it all up in exchange for four round-trip tickets to Sochi.

• Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle, after Dennis Rodman returned from a visit to North Korea, only to have that country later threaten to nuke the U.S.: “Dennis Rodman has shown much growth over the years. Once he was known as a team-wrecker, but now he is a planet-wrecker.”

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “A survey says that March Madness costs businesses $134 million each year in lost wages from people watching games while at work. Even new Pope Francis I says he isn’t doing a thing on the job until Notre Dame is eliminated.”

• R.J. Currie of sportsdeke.com: “A new

study says after age 60, we begin losing our sense of smell. For fans enduring the Maple Leafs championship drought, at least they don’t stink like they used to.”

• Another one from Currie: “A brawl reportedly broke out at a New Hampshire retirement centre during a bingo game. It was like a hockey fi ght, except with more teeth.”

• Scott Feschuk of Sportsnet Magazine: “(Winnipeg) Jets signed Olli Jokinen and Alexi Ponikarovsky, meaning they’re set at ‘fl oater’ for years to come.”

• Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “Affi rm-ing that reality TV has run out of ideas, ABC has a new celebrity-diving series, Splash, hosted by Greg Louganis. Divers will include Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh, who presumably will bring back the can-nonball and rabbit-punch and kick other contestants.”

• Adam Rank, NFL.com: “There is a small part of me that believes John Harbaugh was forced by his parents to trade Anquan Boldin to his little brother after beating him in the Super Bowl.”

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NationalRIGA, Latvia - Canada’s Rachel Homan picked up a

critical victory at the world women’s curling champion-ship on Tuesday, hitting a draw with her fi nal throw of the game for a 7-6 win over Italy.

“It was a great last judge by my front end and a great team end,” Homan said. “We made eight shots that end, so it was good.”

A loss would have sent the Ottawa skip back to the .500 mark and signifi cantly weakened her playoff chances. Instead, she’ll take a solid 4-2 record into the evening game against powerhouse Sweden.

Italian skip Diana Gaspari opened the scoring with a pair but Homan answered with a deuce of her own in the second end. Canada scored three points in the fourth and led 5-4 at the break.

Homan added a single in the eighth before Italy tied the game with a pair in the ninth.

In other afternoon games, China’s Bingyu Wang handed Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson her fi rst loss of the tournament. She defeated the 2012 world champion-ship silver medallist 6-4.

***The Montreal Stars are chasing a Clarkson Cup

three-peat. The league-leading Boston Blades intend to thwart that bid.

The rivals are the favourites to win the championship tournament of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, starting Wednesday in Markham, Ont.

The Brampton Thunder and the Toronto Furies round out the four-team tournament.

The Blades joined the CWHL in 2010 and look to become the fi rst U.S.-based team to win the Clarkson Cup.

“It’s pretty clearly Montreal and Boston are the top two teams,” Thunder forward Jayna Hefford says.

“Boston fi nished in fi rst place in the league, but they’re very close those two teams. Depth-wise they’re really strong, both of them.”

The Clarkson Cup trophy, ensconced earlier this month in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, was do-nated to women’s hockey by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in 2006.

***Hayley Wickenheiser says a knee injury that kept

her out of the Canadian university women’s hockey championship fi nal will not prevent her from playing in the upcoming women’s world championship.

Canada’s all-time leading scorer was among the 23 players named Monday to the roster for the 2013 women’s world championship April 2-9 in Ottawa.

Canada is the defending champion after beating the host U.S. in overtime in last year’s fi nal in Burlington, Vt.

Wickenheiser “tweaked” her knee in the CIS semifi nal March 9 while playing for the University of Calgary Dinos.

She was unable to play the following day in a 3-2 loss to the University of Montreal in the championship game.

“If it was the Olympic gold-medal fi nal, I think I would have played, but I just couldn’t take a risk with world championships coming up,” the Canadian team captain said Monday.

“I just didn’t feel 100 per cent safe at that moment. I tried, but I couldn’t risk it.”

The forward from Shaunavon, Sask., said she skated Monday and will join her Canadian teammates for pre-tournament preparation March 26 in Pembroke, Ont.

InternationalMINNEAPOLIS - The NFL has agreed to pay $42

million as part of a settlement with a group of retired players who challenged the league over using their names and images without their consent.

The league will use the money to fund a “common good” trust over the next eight years that will help re-tired players with an array of issues including medical expenses, housing and career transition. The settlement also establishes a licensing agency for retired players to

ensure they are compensated for the use of their identities in promotional materials.

“We look forward to building an unprecedented new relationship with retired players that will benefi t everybody, especially those who need extra medical or fi nancial assistance,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday in a statement issued by the league.

The settlement could improve the frosty relation-ship between the NFL and many of its retired players who have felt left behind as the league has exploded in popularity over the last decade. Former stars like Mike Ditka, Jim Brown and others have lobbied hard for more help dealing with retired players’ mounting fi nancial diffi culties and medical expenses, and for a bigger role in negotiations of labour agreements.

Brown called the settlement a “landmark for those who really need it.”

***LONDON - Former England striker Michael Owen

will retire at the end of the Premier League season, con-cluding the 16-year career of a once-prolifi c forward that was launched by a World Cup wonder-goal in 1998 but dwindled following a barrage of injuries.

The 33-year-old Owen scored 40 times in 89 England appearances, including a memorable solo goal from the halfway line in a World Cup knockout match against Argentina that announced him on the world stage as a precocious teenager. He is fourth on the country’s all-time scorers list behind Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker and Jimmy Greaves.

Known for his explosive pace and predatory fi nish-ing, he was the European Player of the Year in 2001 and scored 220 club goals during stints at Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and, most recently, Stoke.

Injuries have taken their toll on his body, however, and he became a shadow of the nippy striker who de-stroyed defences in his prime.

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Q: The antique door to our bathroom is solid oak. Unfortunately, it’s no longer closing straight -- the door latch is lower than the hardware on the frame. It’s also scraping the fl oor when it’s opened and closed. How can we repair this? -- Cliff, West Hartford, Conn.

A: Fixing this problem can be as simple as adjusting the hinge pins of the

door, or as complex as resetting them (which isn’t too complex, it’s just a two-person job).

Sticking, dragging doors -- or doors that won’t close completely -- can have a number of causes. In newer houses, a door’s hinges might have been placed in-correctly, or the mortise of the door might not be deep enough (or too deep). Checking the depth of the mortise is simple: run a fi nger along the hinge leaf that’s set into the door. If the leaf isn’t fl ush with the wood, the trouble may lie there. The new wood might have swollen slightly, as well.

Because you’re in an older home, the door probably opened and shut for years with no problem, meaning the hinges are (or were) set just fi ne. However, the door frames of aging homes typically settle

as time passes, and the frame could be slightly warped. The hinges also might have worked loose.

The fi rst (and easiest) fi x is to check all the hinges -- tap them down into place if necessary -- and tighten the screws holding the hinges to the door. If a screw won’t tighten down, remove it, insert a wooden toothpick (or several) into the hole, and reinsert the screw.

If the door still sags, try putting a shim between the bottom hinge and the door. Remove the door completely from its hinges (this is where that second per-

son comes in handy). Then, unscrew the bottom hinge leaf from the door. Using the leaf (the fl at part) as a template, cut a piece of noncompressible cardboard, particle board or sheet brass (available in various precut sizes at the hardware store) to match. Punch out screw holes in the same area as on the leaf. Lay the shim against the door fi rst, then fasten the hinge leaf to it. Rehang the door and check the fi t.

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After a thorough drenching in pecan-coconut butter sauce, this moist vanilla cake spends a couple of minutes under the broiler to achieve a brown, bubbly glaze.

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt3/4 cup milk2 tablespoons milk6 tablespoons butter or margarine3 large eggs1 cup granulated sugar1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract1/2 cup packed light brown sugar1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease 9-by-9-inch metal baking pan. On waxed paper, mix flour, baking powder and salt.

2. In small saucepan, heat 3/4 cup milk and 2 tablespoons butter on low until butter melts and milk is hot.

3. Meanwhile, in small bowl, with mixer on medium-high speed, beat eggs and granulated sugar until pale yellow, about 5 minutes, scraping bowl often. Beat in vanilla.

4. Transfer egg mixture to large bowl. With mixer on low, alternately

beat flour mixture and hot milk mixture into egg mixture until smooth, scraping bowl often. Pour batter into pan.

5. Bake cake 35-40 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Place pan with cake on wire rack while making topping. Preheat broiler.

6. In 2-quart saucepan, heat brown sugar, cinnamon and remaining 4 table-spoons butter and 2 tablespoons milk on medium until mixture boils, stirring often. Remove from heat; stir in pecans and coconut. Spread over hot cake.

7. Place pan with cake in broiler 5-7 inches from source of heat and broil 1-2 minutes, until topping is bubbly and browned, rotating pan for even brown-ing. Cool on wire rack, about 1 hour. Serves 12.

• Each serving: About 280 calo-ries, 12g total fat (6g saturated), 72mg cholesterol, 235mg sodium, 39g total carbohydrate, 1g dietary fiber, 4g protein.

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It may look like a pile of garbage, but that is hardly the case. Teacher Kathryn Stallard watches as student after student at Hillcrest School brought forward bags and boxes of paper to be recycled. Hillcrest became a green school on March 17 and the collection of paper was its 100th project.

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RadiothonThe St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation Radiothon was held at the Estevan Shoppers Mall on Wednesday. Callers pledged donations to the foundation, and some students stopped by to make donations from their school.

Jessica Shebaylo-Lajoie and Nelly Fast

Roxy Blackmore

Christine StephanyCandace Smyth and Bob O’Connor

GoingGREENCelebrity Golf Tournament

Hosted by: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Signature Service with all proceeds going to the Kinsmen Club of Estevan.

Buy the following people and golf with them and sponsor a hole:

$100 Per Person• Includes supper

• Does not include cart

• Maximum 120 people

• Must reserve by May 10th

MAY 24 - NOON — For more information or to register:

1309 - 400 King Street | 306-634-5900www.facebook.com/BHGREestevan

Geroy Simon— hole 6

Roger Aldag— hole 5

Wes Cates— hole 9

Don Narcisse— hole 10

Scott Schultz— hole 12

George Reed— hole 14

Gene Makowsky— hole 18

Jeremy O’Day— hole 17

Chris Zsarka— hole 15


For The Kids

TRACTORSJOHN DEERE 8450 4WD TRACTOR WITH PTO; JOHN DEERE 4440 2WD TRACTOR WITH JOHN DEERE 725 FELHARVEST EQUIPMENTJOHN DEERE 9500 SP COMBINE; JOHN DEERE 930 RIGID STRAIGHT CUT HEADER; JOHN DEERE 930 FLEX STRAIGHT CUT HEADER; JOHN DEERE 25 STRAIGHT CUT HEADER TRAILER; 30’ WESTWARD DIESEL 7000 SP SWATHER & MACDON 960 HEADER; 36’ JOHN DEERE 590 PT SWATHER; MARTIN 400 BUSHEL GRAIN WAGON; POLY DRUM SWATH ROLLER; KALTEICH AIR REELSEEDING, TILLAGE & ROLLERFLEXI-COIL 5000 AIR DRILL & FLEXI-COIL 2320 AIR CART; 39 FEET, 9” SPAC-ING, DOUBLE SHOOT, DUTCH SIDE BAND OPENERS, TOW BEHIND AIR TANK, FLEXI-COIL 320 3RD TANKJOHN DEERE 680 AIR SEEDER & JOHN DEERE 787 AIR CART; 33 FEET, DOUBLE SHOOT, PAIRED ROW WITH SHOVELS, TINE HARROWS, GRANULAR KIT, TOW BEHIND 170 BUSHEL AIR TANK, 4 METERING ROLLERS

50’ DEGELMAN STRAWMASTER 7000 HEAVY HARROW WITH 3255 VALMAR, 40’ DEGELMAN 7640 LAND ROLLER; 30’ BUSH HOG TANDEM DISC; 15’ HINIKER 6800 SUB-SOILER; 55’ BLANCHARD HARROW PACKER BAR;GRAIN STORAGE & HANDLING3 – FRIESEN 40 TON HOPPER BOTTOM BINS; WESTEEL 3800 BUSHEL HOPPER BOTTOM BIN; WESTEEL ROSCO 4000 BUSHEL BIN ON CEMENT FOR SALVAGE, WESTEEL 350 BUSHEL HOPPER BOT-TOM SEED BIN, BRANDT 10 X 70 SWING AUGER; SAKUNDIAK 7 X 51 AUGER & HONDA 24HP ENGINE; SAKUNDIAK 8 X 45 AUGER & 10HP ELECTRIC MOTOR; BATCO 1314 HYDRAULIC DRIVE TRANS-FER AUGER; NEUERO 8120 GRAIN VAC; LABTRONICS ELEVATOR MOISTURE TESTER; 5HP AERATION FANS; HYDRAULIC DRILL FILLTRUCKS & GRAIN TRAILER1975 DODGE 600 SINGLE AXLE GRAIN TRUCK; 1986 GMC 1500 4WD SIERRA PICK-UP TRUCK; 1976 IH CARGOSTAR FIRETRUCK WITH 8,600 KM, 40’ 1978 LOADMASTER TANDEM AXLE GRAIN

TRAILER; SHOPBUILT PINTLE HITCH FIFTH WHEEL DOLLY CONVERTORRECREATION2006 GULFSTREAM CONQUEST 26RLS TRAVEL TRAILER WITH SINGLE SLIDE; 2012 POLARIS RANGER 500EFI UTV WITH ONLY 320 KMS; 1995 POLARIS 4X4 SPORTSMAN 400 QUAD; PROGRES-SIVE SHOTGUN SHELL RELOADER; LARGE QUANTITY OF SHOTGUN HULLSYARD EQUIPMENTDEGELMAN 3500 10FT DOZER BLADE; JOHN DEERE EZ TRACK Z425 ZERO TURN MOWER WITH 85 HOURS; JOHN DEERE 318 GARDEN TRACTOR WITH ROTO TILLER; SINGLE AXLE TRAILER WITH 185 GALLON POLY TANK & HONDA 2” WATER PUMPMISC EQUIPMENTJOHN DEERE SIDE DELIVERY MOWER; ALLIED BALE ELEVATOR; LINCOLN 225 AC WELDER;125 GALLON SLIP TANK & ELECTRIC PUMP; CATTLE OILER; WINDCHARGER TOWER; PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE

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Q: I am not a collec-tor but have managed to accumulate several older perfume bottles, which I purchased at garage sales in the Chicago area. There are

four I think could be valuable: “La Prairie” by Waterstone, “Nanette,” “Aluria” by Lucretia Vanderbilt, and “Paradise for Two.” Are they worth keeping, or just more clutter? I think I probably paid a few dollars each for them. -- Sandra, Naperville, Ill.

A: I found all of your bottles referenced in “The Wonderful World of Perfume Bottles: Identifi cation & Value Guide” by Jane Flanagan and published by Collec-tor Books. According to Flanagan, “Paradise for Two” was manufactured in 1908 by Schaefer-Martin Co. and is worth about $50 with its original box. “Aturia” is from 1938 and sells in the $45 to $60 range. “Nanette,” your rarest bottle,

was introduced in 1950 and often sells in the collector’s marketplace for $175. “La Prairie,” launched in 1993, is worth about $60. All things considered, you made four good investments.

***Q: I purchased a basket for $5 at a fl ea market and am

enclosing a picture of it. I am curious about who made it and what it was used for. -- Betty, Jamestown, Tenn.

A: Sometimes a basket is simply a basket. This is the type of basket often found at import shops. Since they are mass-produced and not signed, your question about who made it is impossible to answer. It is of recent origin, and you probably paid about what it is worth.

***Q: I have a 5-inch-high pitcher signed by Hohr Merkel.

What can you tell me about it? -- Beverly, Lake Lillian, Minn.A: I examined the pictures you sent me, and your pitcher

appears to be from Copenhagen. Pitchers and vases of this

type generally sell in the $15 to $25 range. I was not able to fi nd the artist in any of my reference books.

***Q: I have eight Boy’s Life magazines from the 1960s,

and I am wondering if they are worth keeping. -- James, Hooksett, N.H.

A: Not really, since most of the copies of this maga-zine I’ve seen from this period have been priced for about a dollar an issue.

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Estevan Arts Council

Stars for Saskatchewan

Presents

HENRI LOISELLE &

MARTIN JANOVSKY

Broadway show tunes to music

of the “40s to the “60s, this duo

present a show that is as amaz-

ingly diverse as it is unique!

Friday, April 12, 2013

7:30 p.m.

St. Paul’s United

Church - Estevan

Advance Tickets:

Seniors/Adults $20

Teen $15 Child $7

Door:

Seniors/Adults $25

Teen $18 Child $8

Tickets at Henders Drugs

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The Canadian Federation

of University Women

of Estevan

Present

An International

Women’s Day Event

on

Friday, March 22 - 7:30 p.m.

at the

Small Legion Hall, Estevan

Honouring Twenty Estevan

Women who have

Demonstrated Mentorship

& Leadership in Service

to Estevan Citizens

Speaker: The Reverend Patricia

Wotton

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Funded by the Status

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HOUSES FOR SALE

3-BEDROOM BI-LEVEL Home in Trojan area of Estevan. Corner lot, 2 driveways, large 26’ x 26’ Gar-age. Beautiful yard. Beautiful home - for sale only. Phone 306-461-8167.

HOUSES FOR SALE

HOUSE FOR SALE: Bungalow, renovated, new furnace, floors, windows and doors, siding and in-sulation, new kitchen. 3 storage sheds. Mor tgage $625 month. Asking $130,000. Phone 471-7001. Owner commutes daily to Estevan.

TOWNHOUSES FOR SALE

FINAL PHASE FOR SALE. 55 PLUS ADULT ONLY Ground Lev-el Townhome INFO www.dia-mondplace.ca. CALL 306 241 0123 WARMAN, SK

OUT OF TOWN

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MOTEL Rooms & Kitchenettes available - Craven, Sask., located 20 minutes NW of Regina. Call 1-306-529-7296.

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Modular, Manufactured or RTM homes.

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MOBILE/MANUFACTURED

TWO RTM HOMES Plan 125, 1593 sq. ft., $160,000; Plan 126, 1525 sq. ft., $150,000. Many fea-tures & opt ions. Emai l : in [email protected] Phone 306-493-3089 Saskatoon area. www.swansonbuilders.ca

LOTS & ACREAGES FOR SALE

LAND FOR SALE: Approximately 12 acres for sale, 3 miles west of Stoughton, Sask. Approximately 250 yards north of Highway #13 off grid on west side. No improve-ments. Power available. $50,000. Please contact Dr. Larry Yingst at 1-480 -940 -0440 , o r e -ma i l : [email protected]

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RESTAURANT & GASBAR FOR SALE:

Hwy 5, Margo, SK. Ten mins from Two

Resorts. Semi Parking,40x60 Building, 2x2500

Above Ground Fuel Tanks, Renovated

50 seat Dining. All Equipment Included:Pizza Oven, HP Chicken

Cooker, etc, New HE Furnace, New Water Heater.Reputable Business Absolute Turn Key

MUST SELL.....Asking $139,900.

Phone 1-306-272-7762

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FARMS/ACREAGES

FARM YARD FOR RENT: Close to Carnduff, all-weather road, pow-er, gas, telephone. 40’X60’ Quon-set, 40 ft. storage containers plus more. Suitable for many uses. Phone 480-325-0595.

FARM IMPLEMENTS

FOR SALE: John Deere 7800 Power Quad, MFWD, New rubber, 3 point hitch, 7600 hrs. - $49,000; John Deere 8430 4X4, 1300 hrs. on rebuilt motor, 8 new tires, PTO, Quad Range - $15,000; 1982 IHC 3 Ton Truck, 9 Litre diesel motor, Box & hoist - $10,000; 1995 Dodge Dually 3500, 2W Drive, Au-tomatic, Cummins diesel - $6,000; 1954 GMC 1/2 Ton Pickup, runs well, no rust - $6,000; 7 - 51’ Sa-kundiak Grain Auger/Motor - $2,000; Crown Stone Picker, hy-draulic drive - $2,500; 70’ Flexicoil Tine Harrows - $2,000; 45’ Wilrich Field Cultivator, 5-plex - $2500. Phone 306-452-8520.

FEED & SEED

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LAND WANTED

WANTED: Farmland to cash rent - North of Estevan or near Bienfait. Phone 421-0679.

LAND FOR SALE

LAND AUCTION for Souris River Bison Corp., Saturday, June 22, 9:00 a.m. Selling 2 quarters: RM of Estevan #5 SE 24-1-7 W2 and RM of Coalfields #4 NW 7-1-6 W2. Mack Auction Company, 306-634-9512. PL311962.

LAND FOR SALE: 6 Miles north-east of Bienfait. Power, water, gas nearby. Phone 306-634-4307.

STEEL BUILDINGS / GRANARIES

BIG BUILDING SALE... “THIS IS A CLEARANCE SALE YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!” 20x20 $3,985. 25X24 $4,595. 30X36 $6,859. 35X48 $11,200. 40X52 $13,100. 47X76 $18,265. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneer-steel.ca.

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LIVESTOCK

Best of the BreedsBull Sale

Sunday, March 24 2PMParkland Livestock

MarketLeross, SK

65 bulls on offerSimmental, Gelbvieh,

CharolaisRed Angus, Black

AngusYearlings & Two-year

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the Purebred Breederand Commercial

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WILGENBUSCH CHAROLAIS 10th Annual North of the 49th Bull Sale, Monday, April 1, 1:00 p.m. at the farm, Halbrite, Sask. Selling 20 two-year-old and 56 yearling bulls, most are polled, many red factor, good haired and guaranteed to work. For more info. contact John Wilgenbusch: 306-458-2688 or view videos and catalogue online at: www.wilgenbuschcharolais.com

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DEAR DR. DONO-HUE: I have had heartburn for many years. I take Pri-losec for it, and it works fi ne for me.

My doctor scheduled me for a gastroscope exam. I haven’t had one for quite a while. The doctor who did the scope called me and my family doctor to say that I had changes seen in the biopsy he took. He says I have Barrett’s esophagus, which can turn into can-cer. Naturally, this has me worried.

Will you elaborate on Barrett’s esophagus and what I have to look forward to? Neither of my doctors has suggested a change in medicines. Do you? -- T.M.

ANSWER: Barrett’s esophagus is a change in the kind of cells that line the lowermost part of the esophagus, the part that attaches to the stomach. That change brings with it a chance of further, cancer changes. The risk is quite small, about 0.5 percent per year.

Barrett’s esophagus happens to people who have GERD, gastroesophageal refl ux disease, more popu-larly called heartburn. You take a medicine, Prilosec, that suppresses the pro-duction of stomach acid. Medicines that act similarly sometimes can retard the progression of these cell changes into cancer cells. They most defi nitely control heartburn. Barrett’s also can happen to people who do not have GERD.

The chance of cancer developing depends on a number of criteria. One is the kind of cells that have evolved. If they show low-

grade changes, the likeli-hood of cancer is not as great as it would be if they show high-grade changes. The length of the area involved with these changes is an-other factor in determining the cancer risk.

You must not have had signs that raise the risk for cancer, or the doctor would have recommended imme-diate treatment. About the only thing you need to do is comply with the suggested follow-up scope exams so the doctor can see if any procedures are needed to eradicate these new cells. You don’t have to sit around and worry. You have not received a death sentence.

The booklet on GERD (heartburn) explains this common disorder and its treatments. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 501W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

***DEAR DR. DONO-

HUE: At a recent cocktail party, a nurse admonished me for chewing ice. She said that it indicates an iron defi ciency.

I get blood work done every six months. My doc-tor has never said anything about an iron defi ciency or any other issue. I am 65 and in good health. -- C.H.

ANSWER: The nurse was talking about pica. It’s a craving for materials not considered foods, like ice, clay, starch and dirt, to mention a few. Sometimes it is an indication of iron defi -ciency, but far from always.

In someone like you, who has lab tests done twice a year, you’re not anemic and don’t have pica.

You do, however, have a habit that will ruin your teeth if you don’t stop. Chewing on ice can cause microscopic fractures in tooth enamel, which can become larger fractures.

***Dr. Donohue regrets

that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newslet-ters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

(c) 2013 North America Synd., Inc.

All Rights Reserved

Link between heartburn, cancer

ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL

FOUNDATION(ESTEVAN)

St. Joseph’s Hospital relies on donations to fund

equipment purchases. Your Memorial Gift

honours your loved one and makes it possible for our hospital to continue providing quality care for Estevan and area

residents.A letter will be sent to the

family acknowledging your gift; please include their name and address as well as your own. You will receive an income tax

receipt.

Please send your donation to:

St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation

Box 5000-203,Estevan, SK

S4A 2V6

Phone: 306-637-2474e-mail:

[email protected]

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Easter is upon us, and along with it, an abundance of eggs. Eggs often go on sale at Easter time, so stock up on the typically higher-priced, locally farm-raised eggs or organic, omega-3 fatty acidХnriched eggs.

Local farm-raised eggs come from chickens that were raised on fresh pastures with organic grain. These eggs can have twice as much vitamin E and 2.5 times the omega-3s com-pared with eggs from caged hens. Organic eggs come from chickens whose feed is not irradiated, treated with synthetic fertilizer or pesticides, genetically engineered or made with animal by-products

In general, eggs are packed with protein and are very good sources of ribofl avin, iron, folate, phosphorus, zinc, vitamins B-6, B-12, E and vitamin D. The choline in eggs has been linked with lower levels of breast cancer, and eggs contain vision-saving lutein and zeaxanthin. Contrary to previously published reports, eating an egg or two daily doesn’t raise cholesterol levels.

If you have leftover hard-cooked eggs after Easter, make sure you keep them refrigerated. Hard-cooked eggs make a wonderful snack, are delicious when turned into egg-salad sandwiches, and are a great addition to green salads. They’re also delicious when pickled. Pickled Eggs are a great way to use up leftover Easter eggs.

To make a quick version of pickled eggs, all you need is the juice, jar, lid and spices from a jar of dill pickles. Just peel the hard-cooked eggs and drop them into the jar of pickle juice, making sure the eggs are covered with the juice. The hard-cooked eggs will absorb the pickle juices and fl avors within three days. Keep the pickled eggs refrigerated.

My recipe for Easter Eggs Pickled in Beet Juice turn the eggs a beautiful color. The pickled eggs also are a great addition to an appetizer plate for your Easter holiday dinner or as a protein-rich, low-calorie grab-and-go snack. Have a wonderful holiday!

EASTER EGGS PICKLED IN BEET JUICEPeeled, hard-cooked eggs turn a ruby color when pickled

in beet juice. The colorful eggs also add a punch of fl avor to an appetizer tray or a salad.

2 jars (16 to 24 ounces) pickled beets1 3/4 cups white vinegar or apple cider vinegar1/2 cup white or brown sugar1/2 tablespoon whole allspice or cloves1 stick cinnamon, broken in half1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 purple onion, peeled and sliced thinly8 hard-cooked eggs, peeled1. Drain beet juice into a large pot, reserving the beets, the

jars and the lids. Set the beets aside to use in an appetizer platter (see below) or store in a covered container and refrigerate for another use. Combine the beet juice, vinegar, sugar, allspice or cloves, cinnamon, salt and onion in medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, and stir until the sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes.

2. Arrange 4 peeled, hard-cooked eggs in each beet jar. Pour an equal amount of the hot vinegar and spice mixture over the eggs. Cover tightly. Allow to cool one hour to room temperature. Pickled eggs should not remain out of the refrigerator for more than two hours. Refrigerate to blend fl avors, at least several hours or up to one week. Refriger-ated pickled eggs are best when eaten within 4 to 6 weeks.

TO CREATE AN EGG-CELLENT APPETIZER TRAY:

Dip the small end of the pickled eggs in a little olive oil or mustard and coat the end of the eggs with some chopped dill weed, basil or parsley, or fi nely minced broccoli and carrot slaw or cabbage slaw. Or, for spicy eggs, crust the small end with coarse black pepper and sea salt, or crushed red pepper fl akes or chili powder.

To serve, place chopped slaw, confetti or decorative stones in the bottom of a tall drinking glass or a small vase. Place the large end of the eggs on salad forks and put them in a tall drinking glass or a small vase in the center of a serving tray.

Or, you can slice the eggs or leave the egg whole to serve as fi nger food and place them on the appetizer tray. Arrange a bowl of sea salt, horseradish mayonnaise (or just stir a tablespoon of grated horseradish into a cup of mayon-naise), sliced beets, radishes, pepperoni slices or thin slices of ham. Cover and refrigerate until serving time. Add slices of melba toast, crackers or toasted slices of baguette bread to complete your appetizer platter.

WARNING: Pickled eggs that are stored at room tem-perature can develop botulism. Since the botulism bacteria can be deadly, it’s imperative that homemade pickled eggs as well as store-bought pickled eggs are stored in the refrigerator.

Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cook-book.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook and go to Hulu.com. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis.

(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis

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• Soak your metal tools in Coca-Cola when they get gummed up. It does a great job of loosening the gunk, and after a few hours in a Coke bath, you can practically just brush stuff right off. Makes you wonder about drinking it

... but whatever works!

• If you get the Sunday newspaper, you likely get coupons. Perhaps there are others who would enjoy any coupons you don’t use rather than your recycling them. Ask your neighbors and friends.

• To make a cottage-cheese dip, blend it in your food processor until smooth and add your dip fl avoring packet or season with fl avors

as you would sour cream.

• “You can use a Ther-mos to keep soup warm as a lunch option. Just get a clean funnel for the kitchen and use it to add soup to the Thermos. It makes a good alternative for mixing up your lunch options, especially in cold weather. Before you fi ll the Thermos with your hot food, fi ll it with boiling water and let it sit for a good fi ve minutes. Then empty out the water just before fi lling. The food

will stay hot longer.” -- E.D. in Wisconsin

• If you have a smart-phone (or just a cellphone that takes pictures), there’s a new, novel way of keeping track of printed information: Snap a quick pic. This works for store hours (get the store name in the picture with the hours), receipts, sales advertisements for reference when shopping and much, much more. You can delete the photo when you are done.

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CONSTRUCTION LTD.EXCAVATING, SAND AND GRAVEL • REDI-MIX CONCRETE

Glen Peterson Construction Ltd.

314 - 6th Street, Estevan, SK S4A-2V7

Ph: 306•634•2741 Fax: 306•634•4643

E-mail: [email protected]


is currently accepting resumes for the following part time position at

their Estevan location:

Truck DriversMust be licensed with air brake endorsement capable of driving a tandem

truck or single axle for deliveries. Weekends off .

Company benefi ts available for both positions & salary based on experience

and qualifi cations.

Interested applicants can fax resume to

Brian at Wood Country at 634-8441 or email

resume to [email protected]

No phone calls please.

Career Opportunities

is currently accepting resumes for the following positions at their Estevan location.

Yard & Warehouse personnelPart & full time positions available. Forklift and lumber experience would be an asset. Willing to

train the right candidate.

Comprehensive health package available & salary based on experience and qualifi cations.

Interested applicants can fax resume to Brian at Wood Country at 306-634-8441 or email resume to

[email protected] phone calls please.


or on facebookwww.facebook.com/EstevanMercury

Book Your

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today!

Call634-2654

We are currently seeking people to work in building maintenance, electricians, human resources, equipment operators and truck drivers. We offer a great wage and benefits, a pension plan second to none, stability and a tremendous opportunity for advancement into leaders!For further information, please contact Human Resources, 1102-4th Street, Estevan, SK S4A 0W7Email - [email protected]

Join our teamat the City of Estevan!

• Tired from working 12 hour or longer shifts?• Working without a day off for long stretches?• Sick of working weekends and evenings and missing all the fun?

• Missing your sports, kids sports or other events?• Can’t stand to miss another important family function?• Worried about stability and long term career?

We are seeking people that have a willingness to learn and want a chance to show what they can do. We work at rock concerts, hockey games, clear snow, operate Zambonis, skid steers and heavy equipment. We make a difference to your friends, family and neighbors every day!

P o s i t i o n s A v a i l a b l e

Aim

HIGHPlant / Field Operators (2) Steelman, SK

Plains Midstream Canada has immediate openings for two Plant/Field Operators at our facility in Steelman, SK. These positions will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and minor maintenance activities at the processing plant and surrounding gathering system.

Qualifications:

operations is an asset

Permanent residency with an 80km radius of the facility is a condition of employment.

For a detailed job description, please visit: www.plainsmidstream.com

Apply to: [email protected]


13034AT00

Counter/WarehousePerson

required immediatelyfor local Electrical Distributor

We offer top wages and a benefit package.

Forward resumes to:Mail: Box 1518, Estevan, Sk S4A 2L7

Fax: 306-634-8028Email: [email protected]

Career Opportunities

Book Your

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Please Recycle This Paper

is looking for a

Carrierfor Poplar, Pine, 200 Block of Spruce,

300-400 blocks of Henry St. 100 papers.

If interested please call Gayle

634-2654

Kelly Panteluk Construction Ltd. has a full time

OFFICE ASSISTANT position available in Estevan, SK. KPCL is looking for someone who communicates very well, self

motivated, organized, and conscientious, pays attention to detail and willing to follow directions

accurately. The successful application will assist with payroll data entry so knowledge of payroll

would be an asset yet willing to train on the job, as well as general office duties including, but not

limited to answering phones, filing, running errands, etc.

• Microsoft Excel and Word experience is an asset. Experience with

web based application would also be an asset.

• A valid driver’s license is required.

KPCL offers competitive wages, with overtime paid after forty hours per week.

This position may require overtime hours to be worked.

Forward your resume by email, complete with references to:

[email protected]: Jo-Ann Panteluk

No Phone Calls Please

Seniors, Adults, StudentsThe Estevan Mercury is looking for a substitute carrier

for the Estevan Mercury and Southeast Trader for two

weeks, last week of April and first week of May. The

routes are in the Hillside area.

For more information please call Gayle

306-634-2654

If interested please call Gayle at The Estevan Mercury

634-2654

is looking for a

Carrierfor Willow Park Greens (Ambassador)

for delivery of the Mercury on Wednesdays.Earn $52.50 each week.


CareerOpportunities

See career ads online! www.estevanmercury.ca

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LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!


Receive $10 off any 2013 classes with the purchase of an EAGM membership!

118 - 4th STREET | HOURS: Mon to Fri 10:00am - 6:00pm | Thurs 10:00am - 9:00pm | (P) 306 634 7644 | (E) [email protected] | (W) www.eagm.ca

Portrait Photography

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to learn basic portrait techniques including

the demonstration of using existing light, modifiers (reflectors) and some simple hardware

store lights. Equipment will be supplied.

WHEN: Tuesdays, April 16 and 23 (2 weeks)

TIME: 6:00 - 8:00 pm

COST: $20/person (participants may provide their own camera)

INSTRUCTOR: Brian Wright Call Karly @ 634-7644 to register!

BEGINNER PHOTOGRAPHY

The Art of Pencil Crayons

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to learn the very basics of drawing with

pencil crayons, using vibrant colours and shades. Participants will work from photographs for

inspiration.

WHEN: Tuesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 (4 weeks)

TIME: 6:30 - 8:30PM

COST: $100/person (materials included)

INSTRUCTOR: Kayla Hanson Call Karly @ 634-7644 to register!

DRAWING IN COLOUR

Adult Art Classes Winter/Spring 2013

Basics of Painting

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to learn the very basics of acrylic painting

by creating a still life painting. Participants will create a color wheel, and learn how to mix and

apply paint that will be used on their paintings. Terms, techniques and tips will be explored.

WHEN: Wednesdays May 8, 15, 22, 29 (4 weeks)

TIME: 7:00 - 9:00pm

COST: $150/person (materials included)

INSTRUCTOR: Judy Swallow Call Karly @ 634-7644 to register!

BEGINNER PAINTING

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE ESTEVAN ARTS COUNCIL? “promoting the arts in OUR community”

For COMPLETE details visit:www.estevanartscouncil.com and/or call 306.634.3942


Week of March 18, 2013

Full Time Truck Driver Full Time Truck Driver Position AvailablePosition Available

1A License required and oilfield safety 1A License required and oilfield safety tickets are an asset.tickets are an asset.

FULL TIME MECHANICFULL TIME MECHANICWill accept school training or by experience.Will accept school training or by experience.Competitive wages and health plan available.

Fax resume to 455-2433 Fax resume to 455-2433 or emailor email

[email protected]@sasktel.net42-tfn

Also requiredAlso required

Arcola, SK • (306) 455-2429

Lanigan, Saskatchewan – NDT TechnicianProcor Limited has an opening for a NDT Technician at its rail car repair facility, located approximately 12 kilometers southwest of Lanigan, Saskatchewan. Procor operates a state-of-the-art wheel shop and repair facility for Canpotex to service their 5,000 car

company with twenty-two (22) repair locations across the country.The successful candidate will be a motivated, self-starter who is eager to learn and grow with an industry leader at this new facility. Procor is offering a very competitive hourly wage for this position. Hourly wage to be based upon experience.Principal duties in this position are as follows:

Perform ultrasonic and magnetic particle testing on railcar wheel sets and axlesVisual inspection and gauging of wheel sets, bearings and axlesMaintain and calibrate UT and MT equipmentResponsible for ensuring documentation for wheel sets is

Operation of overhead and jib cranesPreparation of wheel sets for demounting and mounting of bearings

1 may be considered depending on experience hours attained)Exceptional safety and quality awarenessStrong mechanical aptitude The ability to work well independently or in a team environmentCustomer service oriented

Effective communication and organizational skills

program for all of its employees. The regular working hours for this position are: Monday to Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 10 hour shifts. Please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] or fax to: 1-888-413-2904.We thank all applicants for their interest in Procor Limited, but only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.

CHECK US OUT ON THE WEBCHECK US OUT ON THE WEBwww.estevanmercury.cawww.estevanmercury.ca

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIESSweeper Operator

Join our Public Works Team at the City of Estevan. Permanent Full-timeDuties include: • Operate and maintain street sweeper • Maintain assigned tools and equipment • Complete logs, records, and reports • Operate additional vehicles and equipment as required (skid steer, loader, tandem trucks) • Perform other duties as assignedEducation as required:

Grade 12 or GED EquivalentValid class 3 driver’s license with air brake endorsement

Experience: 250 hours operating equipment such as loader, skid steer, and tandem trucks

Contact: Human Resources City of Estevan 1102 Fourth Street Estevan, SK S4A 0W7 Ph: 306.634.1842 Email: [email protected]

TENDERSThe City of Estevan invites tenders to provide “2013 Traffi c Paint Tender”

Specifi cations are available at the Legislative Services Business Division – Main Floor – City Hall. For further information regarding this tender please contact Dana Skjonsby, Stores

Foreman : 634-1836, Fax 634-1818.

Interested parties are invited to respond by forwarding sealed envelopes marked “2013 Traffi c Paint Tender ”

Mail to the following by 2:30 PM, Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

Legislative Services Business DivisionMain Floor 1102 4th Street

City of EstevanEstevan, SKS4A 0W7

Public opening of tenders shall take place at 2:30 PM, March 26, 2013 C.S.T, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

SASKATCHEWAN LOTTERIESCOMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM

City of EstevanLeisure Services Division701 Souris AvenueEstevan, Saskatchewan, S4A 2T1306-634-1880leisure.offi [email protected]



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