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Volume 103, No 18 Serving The Last Mountain Area Since 1908 Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Publishers Lance and Vicki CornwellBox 340, Nokomis, SK. S0G 3R0Times

Last Mountain

On Thursday, March 4, the Nokomis / Drake bantam hockey team (white jerseys) battled the Lanigan team (black jerseys) in a league playoff game at the Nokomis Rec Centre. The game resulted in a second win for Lanigan against Drake / Nokomis which made them the ultimate winners of the best of three series. More photos in the Sports Section (page 8). Photo by Dennis Simpson.

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SaskTel will invest $239 million in its Saskatchewan network in 2010. Residential and business customers in communities across the prov-ince can expect improved and expanded SaskTel services as a result of this latest major capi-tal investment. “Since 1987 we’ve invested more than $3.5 billion in our network,” SaskTel President and CEO Robert Watson said. “This year’s network invest-ment will help to ensure that Saskatchewan’s best network is current and competitive well into the future.” Highlights of this year’s investment program include: $88 million to continue con-struction of a new $172 mil-lion wireless network, which is the next evolution of GSM technology; full coverage, similar to today’s digital cel-lular coverage, is anticipated to be available in 2011; $48 million to continue the Ru-ral Infrastructure Program to deliver 100 per cent high speed internet coverage and to build 55 new cellular tow-ers to improve wireless cover-age across the province within three years; plans to reach 100

per cent high speed Internet coverage in 2010 following the launch of high speed Inter-net service from private sector partners RFNow and YourL-ink in 15 communities; $17 million to expand and improve its existing wireless network, including the addition of new digital cellular sites across the province, scheduled to be complete in 2011; $31 million to expand the rural broadband. This includes upgrading the rural backbone infrastructure to provide an enhanced trans-port network that will upgrade existing basic high speed In-ternet service (from 1.5 Mpbs to 5 Mpbs download speeds) in more than 200 communi-ties by the end of 2010; and evolving SaskTel’s leading-edge MaxTM Entertainment Services – MaxTM is a full-featured digital television ser-vice with more than 190 digital TV channels, 42 HD channels, Digital TV Recorder, High Speed Internet, Video-on-De-mand, Pay-Per-View and Lo-cal on Demand. SaskTel will also invest approximately $7 million in MaxTM this year to expand the service to new communities.

Statistics on urban hous-ing starts for February 2010were released last week andthe numbers show a remark-able improvement from lastyear. There were 211 urbanhousing starts last month,up from 89 in February2009, an increase of 137 percent. Saskatchewan had thesecond highest percentagechange among Canadianprovinces, according to theStatistic Canada numbers. Urban housing startswere up by 199 per cent inthe first two months of 2010to 485 units, compared with162 units in the first twomonths of 2009. Saskatch-ewan had the highest per-centage increase in the na-tion in this time period. InSaskatoon, housing startswere up by a whopping405 per cent in the firsttwo months of 2010 com-pared to the same periodlast year – from 57 to 288starts. Housing starts in Re-gina were up 112 per centfrom 77 to 163 in the sameperiod. Single family homeconstruction in February2010 totalled 129 units, upfrom 83 units in February2009. Multiple units wereup 1,267 per cent from sixto 82 units during the sametime period, February overFebruary.

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As winter winds down to its inevitable end, and the warmer weather helps the snow pack into cut-able chunks, these children at Bulyea School have re-discovered one of the timeless joys of warmer winter days: snow fort building. This fi ne example of a shelter against the cold wind and well-directed snowballs was built in the school yard over a period of several days. More pictures and information on 0.

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‘Giggles & Grins & Mommy Wins!’ Play dates at Strasbourg Tiny Tots and Helping Hands Day Care Inc. the fi rst Wednesday of every month, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Cost $10/session. While parents enjoy a well deserved break, the children will be experiencing creative play, socializing with other children and having fun! Pre-registration is required by calling 725-3321. 14&18&22&26p

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Bulyea Rustlers Ladies Diamond Night (Back to the 80s), Saturday May 8, 2010 at Strasbourg Memorial Hall. Happy Hour – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Supper – 7:00 p.m. En-tertainment to follow. Prizes available for best dressed in-dividual and group. Tickets $30.00 each. For tickets con-tact Colin McLeod at 725-2097. 18-19c

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This winter, the students of Bulyea Elementary School have spent their outside free-time very creatively. They always fi nd some kind of fun game to play and lately they have been building snow houses. One snow house is re-ally big with two rooms and a chair and table and a few other household items found inside. They have also been working on a smaller house. The pressure is on as the BGS skating rink is now pretty well done for the year as it was a very wet last skat-ing session for the students of the BGS fi gure skating club. The club closed out the skat-ing year with one last family skate and supper for the mem-bers of the skating club was purchased by the fi gure skat-ing club. The only nice thing about this is that it means spring is really here! I know that many children have lots of new memories from all the fun things that happened this winter.

- Corri Gorrill

The girls work away at building up the walls of their house.

Some of the children hang out in the second room of the snow house.

Photos submitted byCorri Gorrill.

Winter fun in Bulyea

on this day

in history

March 16, 1964:

The Beatles hit‘Can’t Buy Me Love’

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As I looked about to fi nd a suitable message, I came across this one given by the Evangelist Billy Graham to a small gath-ering in Charlotte, North Caro-lina. I’m sure you will agree it provides food for contempla-tion. This is his short speech: “I’m reminded today of Al-bert Einstein, the great physi-cist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the ‘Man of the Century’. Ein-stein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t fi nd his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there, so he looked in his brief-case, but couldn’t fi nd it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t fi nd it. The conductor said, ‘Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.’ Einstein nod-ded appreciatively. The con-ductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket. The conductor rushed back and said, ‘Dr. Einstein, Dr. Ein-stein, don’t worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sure you bought one.’ Einstein looked at him and said, ‘Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don’t know is where I’m go-ing’.” Having said that Billy Gra-ham continued: “See the suit I’m wearing? It’s a brand new suit. My chil-dren, and my grandchildren are telling me I’ve gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion. You know what that occa-sion is? This is the suit in which I’ll be buried. But when you hear I’m dead, I don’t want you to immediately remember the

Ministerial essagesuit I’m wearing. I want you to remember this:‘I not only know who I am....I also know where I’m going’.” “Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.”

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RAYMORE & PUNNICHY BRANCHESMonday, March 22

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GOVAN BRANCHTuesday, March 23

Supper at 6:30 p.m. • Meeting at 7:30 p.m.Govan Town Hall

NOKOMIS BRANCHWednesday, March 24

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As Canada and China mark the 40th anniversary of diplo-matic relations, the Canadian Wheat Board is celebrating nearly 50 years of trade with the economic giant. Over that time, China has imported more than 120 mil-lion tonnes of western Canadi-an wheat and barley – enough to make 279 billion loaves of bread and 55 billion bottles of beer. “As Canada and China mark a major milestone in diplomatic relations, the CWB is proud of its role in helping to forge a relationship between both nations,” says Ward Weisensel, CWB chief operating offi cer, who has just returned from Beijing, where he visited major customers. “We signed our fi rst long-term trade agreement with China in 1961, and today China contin-ues to be a major customer of western Canadian grain.”

CWB commemorates 50 years of trade with China Wheat trade between the two nations began during a period of famine in China, and the CWB became one of the fi rst foreign businesses to deal with the new People’s Republic of China. The wheat trade is widely recognized as a major foundation of Cana-da-China relations. While wheat continues to play a major role in the CWB’s relationship with China, ex-ports of malting barley have now become a signifi cant part of the trade. China is the world’s largest beer producer, brewing more than 43 billion litres a year. By comparison, about two billion litres are produced annually in Canada. China is also the largest im-porter of western Canadian malting barley, importing an average of 386 000 tonnes per year over the past ten years. In addition to increased beer consumption, growing

affl uence in China has created a niche-market for premium wheat fl our. The CWB is par-ticipating in a unique brand-ing initiative with the Guch-uan Food Company, in which dumpling fl our made from Canada Western Red Spring wheat is being distributed in

bags and gift boxes designedjointly by the CWB and Gu-chuan. The CWB has maintainedan offi ce in Beijing since1994, one of only two CWBoffi ces located outside ofCanada.

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Crop insurance favours some crops Grain producers now have their individual specifi cs for the 2010 Saskatchewan Crop Insurance program. This information is one of the factors to be considered when mak-ing spring seeding decisions, especially in regions where moisture is a concern. It’s been a dry winter across the Prairies. In fact, according to the precipitation maps published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, it’s been record dry in some regions –in particular northeastern Alberta and north-western Saskatchewan. This is a lot bigger issue in the west than the east. The soil moisture map compiled by soil scientist Les Henry shows that anything east of a line from about North Battleford to Moose Jaw went into the winter in good shape. West of that line, including almost all of Alberta, there’s very little soil moisture reserve. You don’t have a crop failure in March, April or even May for that matter, but the dry areas are going to need more than aver-age precipitation to produce an average crop. There’s an increased probability that pro-ducers could end up making crop insurance claims. This year’s crop insurance program is much kinder to some crops than others. While yield coverage doesn’t usually change dramatically from one year to the next, the insured price levels for each crop can swing widely. These base prices, as they’re called, were determined by a federal price forecast made in December 2009. Most crop prices have been softening since then, so some of the base prices look pretty attractive relative to what the marketplace is likely to deliver.

On wheat, durum, barley, mustard and fi eld peas, the insured prices are close to cur-rent price levels. However, canola has an in-sured price of $9.07 a bushel, which is a fair bit above the current market. Flax is quite attractive as well at $9.65 a bushel. Canary-seed has a crop insurance price of 19 cents a pound, a cent or two above the current price. On lentils, crop insurance is using a price of 26 cents a pound for the large green class and 27 cents on red lentils. Current lentil prices are higher than that, but new crop bids are scarcely over 20 cents. Rather than the base price, producers can choose a Variable Price Option or an In-Season Price Option. The Variable Price Op-tion uses a July 2010 price forecast and the insured price can increase or decrease by as much as 50 per cent in relation to the base price. The In-Season price option uses a six month average of prices from September 2010 to February 2011. It too can increase or decrease by a maximum of 50 per cent as compared to the base price. The base price would seem to have a strong probability of being the highest of the three on the aforementioned canola, fl ax, ca-naryseed and lentils. What does all this mean to a producer? Ev-eryone’s numbers will be different, but here are a couple examples from my crop insur-ance contract. Even though I’m not in a traditional canola growing region, my crop insurance guarantee for canola grown on stubble (land that was cropped last year) is approximately $150 an acre. This is nearly $40 an acre higher than my guarantee for oriental mustard, another oilseed cropping option. For fi eld peas, my guarantee is less than $100 an acre. For both lentils and kabuli chickpeas, two other pulse crops, the guaran-tee is well over $200 an acre. Hopefully, there will be substantial pre-cipitation and everyone will grow a crop that yields well above their crop insurance guarantees. But if a production problem does materialize, there are some obvious winners and losers when you look at crop insurance coverage.

Kevin Hursh is a consulting agrolo-gist and farmer who lives in Saskatoon and farms near Cabri, SK. He can be reached [email protected]

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Recent visitor at the Hilton Hughes home was June Reid of Medicine Hat. She also visited with Judy Dumanski who was in hospital in Saskatoon. Lil James was in Winnipeg to visit with her son Fischer and his family. She also spent a couple of days in Regina at the home of her son Walker James. Get well wishes to Judy Du-

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Correction: In the February 23 news I had named Mr. Wil-liams as the principal of Drake Elementary School when in all honesty it is Mrs. de Gooijer. The Watrous Warriors Pee-Wees were at Drake to play the Drake Canuck PeeWees and won 9 - 4. Dalton Sucky for Drake scored two goals, Dayton Waithman of Dafoe scored one goal and Ty Hal-brooke had the fourth goal. The Watrous coach is Chris Schmidt. On March 4 the Drake Ca-nucks won 6 - 3 over the Da-vidson Cyclones in Davidson. On March 6, the Drake Ca-nuck Midgets lost to Arbor-

fi eld Zenon Park 2 - 1. Scoring for Drake Canucks was Con-nor Mutch assisted by Hayden Francis. I had a good visit with Janice Attfi eld at the hockey game. We attended school in Lanigan some years ago. March 7, the Davidson Cyclones were to our village and lost 8 - 4 to the Drake Ca-nucks. Scoring for Drake were Evan Folden, Scott Ruedig, Mel Angelstad, Chad Bartel, Brad Toews, Dean Ewen, Tay-lor Watt and Reilley Dutchak. Assists were by Reilley Dutchak (2), Evan Folden (2), Nick Kalnicki (4), Mel An-gelstad, Chad Bartel, Taylor Watt (2) and Jordon Schindel (2). Shots on goal were 39 - 38 for Drake. Derek Eberle received the top defenceman award in the league. Derek wears #27 for the Drake Canucks. There was a shoot out after the Davidson Cyclone game March 7. Winning top spot was Brennon Ewen. Jordon Schindel captured second place and Rick Toman claimed third spot. The Eston Ramblers were in Drake to play the Drake Canucks March 9 and Drake lost 8 - 5. Rick Toman had two goals and one assist, Taylor Watt had one goal and four as-sists, Jordon Schindel had two goals and Derek Eberle had four assists. Herb Friesen attended a bull sale in Calgary last week and in the near future a new bull will be added to the Friesen herd. By the time this is printed Gordon and Diane Siegfried will have moved into Drake and be living in the former Ru-dolf Bartel house on Francis

Street. Scott and Erica Thielle were the previous occupants. Lane Wiebe and children of Beechy, SK, were here to visit Marie and George Fast and Donna and Herb Friesen and family. Husband Kelly Wiebe was on a trip on a bus to Mexico. Thinking of Jake and Ruth Sawatzky and Nikki Dermody, daughter of Shelly and Greg, son-in-law of Phil and Diana Chamberlin. Could this March be simi-lar to the 1953 spring when there was still some snow mid-March and all gone by the end? The weather was nice until Mother’s Day and my dad’s birthday the 10th of May when we were blessed with a foot of snow and roads were blocked. After a glorious sum-mer and a mild fall we were blessed again with a severe snow storm a week before Christmas. On March 7, I met a couple from Liberty at the hockey game. Faye Anderson is the news reporter for Liberty. On the front page of the March 9 issue of Last Moun-tain Times, there was a picture of the Bulyea and Strasbourg Girl Guides who had built an ice sculpture to form ‘100 years.’ It appears to me there are sixty or so ice cream pails of ice in the sculpture. What a great idea. The Saskatchewan Pavilion at the Vancouver Olympics served bison burgers, pero-gies and saskatoon berry tarts. They were a special treat to large numbers of people. Saskatchewan residents and others have donated $82,381,983 to Telemiracle since 1977. All money raised

stays in Saskatchewan to as-sist people with special needs. It is indeed a miracle how Sas-katchewan people continue to contribute in spite of the Haiti quake where the federal gov-ernment matched Canadians’ contributions. March 8, 1994, the wheeled suitcase with collapsible tow-ing handle was patented. On March 19, 1896 tipping hats began. In 1862 the United Stated was fi rst to issue paper money. We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. - David Bower

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729-3014 The curling season is slow-ly drawing to a close with the Bulyea Seniors Bonspiel held on March 10 and 11. Seven rinks entered and everyone appears to be having a great time as the season winds down. Always lots of fun and laughter at the rinks discuss-ing the good, the bad and the not so nice shots that we all tend to make from time to time. Our Bulyea Lions rink – the Keith Flavel rink – is heading off to Hudson Bay to curl for the Provincial Champions. Good luck guys and gals, make us proud and bring home the trophies. Hope everyone is enjoying watching the water run and the above zero temperatures. The nicest part of March is the days are getting longer so daylight sooner and lon-ger daylight hours after the working folks get home, so they can enjoy the evening as well.

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Students and staff from Canada’s only Aboriginal uni-versity were pleading with the federal government last week to restore funding, saying the school will run out of money by the end of March if some-thing doesn’t change. In February, both the fed-eral and the Saskatchewan governments announced they would not renew about $12.2 million in funding to the First Nations University of Canada because of governance and fi -nance concerns at the Regina-based institution. Last week, the Saskatchewan First Na-tions Chiefs agreed to change the management structure of the school so that funding could be administered through the University of Regina. Professor Randy Lundy, the

The Sask Party government has appointed nine members to the new provincial agency aimed at recruiting and retaining more physicians to rural and urban Saskatchewan. As well, a market-ing campaign has been launched, aimed at retaining University of Saskatchewan medical students and recruiting expatriate physi-cians. Announced in December, the physician recruitment agency will act as a one-stop point of contact for physicians seeking to set up practice in Saskatchewan. It will also enhance and co-ordinate re-cruitment efforts across the province, working closely with health regions and communities to address their need for physicians. The marketing campaign takes a fresh approach to recruitment and includes a component whereby University of Saskatchewan students serve as ambassadors among their peers, promoting the benefi ts of practicing medicine in Saskatchewan. The campaign also includes popular social media such as Fa-cebook, You Tube and Twitter to sell Saskatchewan to physicians and medical students on the benefi ts of staying in Saskatchewan. Over the next four years, the physician recruitment strategy has committed to: increase the number of University of Saskatchewan medical students and residents exposed to training opportunities outside of Saskatoon by 25 per cent; increase the number of U of S medical graduates establishing in practices in Saskatchewan by 10 per cent; reduce the annual turnover of physicians in Sas-katchewan to less than 10 per cent; and increase the percentage of Canadian-trained doctors working in Saskatchewan by 10 per cent.

First Nations Universitywoes continue

chair of the First Nations Uni-versity of Canada Academic Council and Diane Adams, president of the First Nations University Students Associa-tion met in Ottawa last Thurs-day with Indian Affairs Min-ister Chuck Strahl to plead their case for reinstatement of funding. Part of the government’s fi -nancing concerns surrounded a $400,000 scholarship fund which was being used inap-propriately. The Saskatchewan Chiefs have already placed senior administration offi cials on suspended leave. The First Nations University of Canada is the only Aboriginal-based, focused and staffed university in Canada. Its main campus is in Regina, with satellites in Saskatoon and Prince Albert.

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Reaction to the Harper Con-servative government’s 2010 Budget was swift and mixed as various interest groups lined up to offer criticism or con-gratulations. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) responded by expressing ‘great dismay’ that the Harper government continues to delay efforts to balance the federal budget. CTF Federal Director, Kevin Gaudet, said “a plan to bal-ance the budget should actu-ally balance the budget and this doesn’t do that. Restraint delayed is restraint denied. Taxpayers have heard similar promises of restraint before. Canadians will believe it when they see it. This government projects defi cits into the fu-ture with no end in sight. At minimum, through 2014-15, Canadians will have suffered through seven years of defi cits. The defi cits of today are the taxes of tomorrow. Canada’s children will be left to pay for this legacy of spending.”

Gaudet was also critical of the government’s plans to rein-state increases to Employment Insurance (EI) premiums ef-fective January 2011, saying, “Until the government makes EI a real insurance program and stops using it as a slush for ‘training’ these increases are tax hikes.” The Canadian Federation of Students complained that the federal budget contains no measures to address record high tuition fees and the stu-dent debt crisis. “Chronic underfunding of Canada’s post-secondary edu-cation system has resulted in skyrocketing tuition fees and record high levels of student debt,” said Katherine Giroux-Bougard, National Chairper-son of the Canadian Federation of Students. “With a record number of Canadians enrolled in college or university, this budget does nothing to help students and their families af-ford an education.” Giroux-Bougard noted that following the economic down-turn in 2008, large numbers of Canadians returned to school for education or retraining. While many families’ savings were depleted by the reces-sion, tuition fees rose for over ninety percent of college and university students. Despite some steps to restore transfer payments earlier in the decade, federal funding for post-sec-ondary education is roughly $1 billion short of 1992 levels when accounting for infl ation and population growth.

Student loans owed to the federal government currently amount to almost $13.5 bil-lion. This fi gure does not in-clude provincial student loan debt or personal debt such as credit cards, lines of credit, bank loans, and family loans. The Canadian Federation of Students is Canada’s largest student organization, repre-senting the interests of more than one-half million students in all ten provinces. The Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce added its voice to the list of those criticizing the budget. “Regulatory duplication and delay continues to be a signifi cant and costly issue for Saskatchewan businesses. Delaying the development or expansion of a mine or any business because of bureau-cracy will hurt the Saskatch-ewan economy and postpone job creation,” noted Saskatch-ewan Chamber of Commerce CEO Steve McLellan. “The Provincial Chamber is pleased with the announcement of the Red Tape Commission in the 2010 budget. Finally, the government may take action to address some longstanding issues. However, while the establishment of the Red Tape

Commission is a positive fi rst step, the Saskatchewan Cham-ber is not looking for the gov-ernment to produce another report that sits on the shelf. We really need to see results from this Commission. Saskatch-ewan’s economy is in a great position and quick action now to get local projects moving faster will make sure we are able to capitalize on a variety of once in a lifetime opportu-nities.”

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The Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce is also supportive of the Federal Government’s efforts to control spending in-creases; however the organiza-tion would have like to have seen more decisive steps to reduce defi cit spending. Canada’s Chartered Accoun-tants gave the federal budget a B-plus grade, saying they are cautiously optimistic. “This is really a wait and see budget,” said Kevin Dancey, spokesman for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accoun-tants (CICA). “We won’t know if this is a successful budget until the government demon-strates that it has the ability to rein in costs.” “It also is a transition bud-get as the government prepares to move away from its stimu-lus spending to restraint. We would have preferred to see the government use a sharper pen-cil to get to a balanced budget sooner,” said Dancey. “While on the right track, it is unfor-tunate that the budget does not indicate when the country will return to fi scal balance as there is not a lot of room for error in the economic forecast.” On the positive side, Cana-da’s CAs welcomed the gov-ernment’s continued commit-ment to cut the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent by 2012. “Over the longer term, as improving fi nances permit, we urge the federal government to further reduce the corporate tax rate to the small-business level of 11 per cent,” said Dancey. “Moving to a single rate would reduce the complexity of the tax system while lowering compliance costs.” The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) took the opportunity to commend the Harper government’s decision to further invest in the Own the Podium (OTP) program, as un-veiled in the 2010 federal bud-get. The budget provides for an additional $22 million to be invested into support of high performance sport for both summer and winter athletes. “This commitment provides the ability to move our pro-grams forward into the future and to help achieve the kind of results at future Games that

Canada experienced in Van-couver. This builds a solid foundation for OTP to con-tinue to grow as it needs to in order to help Canadian athletes keep pace with other leading sport nations in the world. The COC, in working through its Foundation and with its cor-porate partners, will continue to build on this foundation to support the commitment and leadership that our govern-ment partners have provided,” spokesman Michael Chambers said. “We’ve seen how success on the world stage can ener-gize Canadians following the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. These Games and Canada’s athletes inspired the nation. They were transformational for Canadians of all ages – true nation-building at its best! We commend the Government of Canada on its decision and its increased support of high performance sport as we col-lectively work towards making Canada a leading sport nation,” Chambers added. With the new budget an-nouncements, the Government of Canada’s commitment to the Own the Podium segment of high performance sport will total $69 million annu-ally, which includes a focus of $22 million for the OTP winter sport program. For summer sport, the government’s sup-port will reach its full range this year at $36 million, setting the table for Canada’s athletes for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An ad-ditional $11 million will be fo-cused on programs supporting both summer and winter pro-grams and high performance development. The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) supports the Federal Budget 2010 and views it as a measured plan aimed at recovery and bringing the defi -cit into balance by 2015. “These continue to be eco-nomically challenging times for our industry, and MAC is encouraged by budget initia-tives aimed at maintaining the course on corporate income tax reductions,” said Gordon Peeling, President and CEO of MAC. MAC is also encouraged that the government is taking the initial steps to further mod-ernize and improve the regula-tory review process for large energy projects and is hopeful that in light of the commit-ments in the Speech from the Throne, there will be further clarity and progress for all re-source development projects. “On balance MAC views the federal Budget 2010 as be-ing appropriate for the times as global economies recover from turbulence,” said Peeling. “We are encouraged by several initiatives mentioned both in the Speech from the Throne and the Federal Budget that recognize the signifi cant con-tribution that the mining sec-tor can make to the Canadian economy.” Based in Ottawa, the Min-ing Association of Canada is the national organization for the Canadian mining industry. Its members are engaged in mineral exploration, mining, smelting, refi ning and semi-fabrication.

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There’s a saying that grow-ing old is not for sissies. Of course sissies grow old right along with heroes, so I sup-pose the saying means they’d do more complaining along the way. Certainly, we have lots to complain about as the years take a toll on our youthful vigour. It’s ironic, for instance, that just when we fi nally have time to take the long, luxurious baths we used to long for, we now take showers because if we sat down in the tub we might not be able to climb out again. And what about the trips we looked forward to when we reached our golden years? Visiting the pyramids can’t be much fun if we’re pushing a walker. It would probably get stuck in the sand. Then there’s the matter of what to pack. We’d need a sep-arate carry-on bag for our medications, and, for many of us, the same items of intimate apparel we used to pack for an outing with the baby. It’s ironic, too, that when there is nothing to disturb our night’s sleep – no crying ba-bies, sick kids or alarm clocks – we end up being our own worst enemy. Sometimes we have trouble getting to sleep as our brain dredges up mem-ories from the past and reels them off like a movie. And once we fall asleep it’s not for long. If it isn’t our blad-

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International Women’s Day celebrated Saskatchewan joined with the rest of the world in mark-ing International Women’s Day on Monday, March 8. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed by the United Nations since 1975. The day is both a cel-ebration of women’s accom-plishments and a reminder of women’s equality issues around the world. “Saskatchewan women make signifi cant contributions

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Construction starts on new Humboldt Collegiate To celebrate the start of construction at Humboldt Collegiate Institute, last week the entire school student body and staff got a virtual look at what their new school will look like as part of the Hum-boldt Uniplex. The new school facility, which is expected to be completed next year, will

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Recent visitors to the home of Earle and Lorna Man-sell were Fay and Walter Bitter of Pasqua Lake/Fort Qu’Appelle. Joyce Braitenback of Sas-katoon spent a few days with her brother and sister-in-law, Lawrence and Linda Beeler and other relatives in town. Hazel Eddy returned home last week from visiting with her sister in British Colum-bia. Ethel Kells had her son Lloyd from Wetaskewin, AB, visit for a few days last week. They spent one day visiting his sister in Regina and her daughter, and Ethel’s grand-son Ryan and his friend. On Sunday, March 7, they enjoyed a lovely supper in Govan with George and Kay-la. Lloyd returned home on Monday, March 8.

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On Saturday, March 6, an early celebration was held for Shirley Kirk’s 80th birthday (actual birthday was March 9) at her son Wes and Diane Kirk’s home in Nokomis. An afternoon of visiting, supper and birthday cake was enjoyed by Shirley as well as family members: Wes, Diane, Kelly and Stacy Kirk of Nokomis; Karen Kirk and Pat Mullins of Stony Plain, AB; Jim and Lorna Greenshields of Saska-toon; Sheila Kirk and Jay Hol-mes of Semans; Ryan, Erin, Sam and Ike Brimacombe of Saskatoon; Michael, Michelle and Adam Yakimchuk of Re-gina; and Doug and Lois Kirk of Regina.

Shirley gave a very nicethank you to her family.

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On behalf of my husband Kyle and myself,I would like to thank Nokomis and surrounding communities for welcoming me into your community and making me feel right at home. I have thoroughlyenjoyed my time here in Nokomis and have made a lot of great friends. My husband and I will be furthering our journey in life in Eston, SK at the beginning of April.

Th ank you again to everyone …I will miss you!!

~ Carrie Hodgson

PS: if you’re ever in the Eston area, stop in for a visit –my door is always open :)

A Sincere Thank You!!

This late model Dodge quad-cab is in need of some se-rious body work after it rolled into the ditch off Highway 20 about 14 kilometres south of Nokomis. The accident occurred early Tuesday morning, March 9 and was like-ly caused by poor road conditions resulting from heavy fog and over-night freezing rain. The driver was not se-riously injured in the roll-over.

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The Sask Party government of Saskatchewan has entered into agreements with several First Nations that will permit them to levy their own on-reserve liquor fees. The Liquor Consumption Tax Administration agreement allows proceeds from liquor fees to remain on-reserve to fund local priorities and will replace provincial taxes for-merly collected on-reserve for alcohol purchases. These fees will stay the same as the tax collected off-reserve by the province, currently 10 per cent, and must apply to all consumers. “We believe there are many benefi ts to these agreements, such as promoting on-reserve governance by First Nations people and providing them with a new and stable revenue source to help fund local pri-orities,” Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer said. The Ministry of Finance developed a pilot project involving liquor taxes over two years ago at the re-quest of the Whitecap Dakota First Nation, host of the Da-kota Dunes Casino. Approxi-mately $180,000 in liquor tax-es per year is fi rst collected by the Ministry of Finance and then remitted to the Whitecap Dakota First Nation to meet

Province signs liquor taxagreements with First Nations

local on-reserve needs. “Having a reliable and sus-tainable revenue stream pro-vides our Council with the ability to spend on areas that fi t the needs of our people,” Whitecap Dakota First Na-tion Chief Darcy Bear said. “As these priorities and needs change over time, it’s critical to have this spending fl exibil-ity.” The latest First Nations to sign this agreement were the Mosquito, Grizzly Bear’s Head, and Lean Man First Na-tion, hosts of the Gold Eagle Casino in North Battleford, in early February. They now join the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Yorkton, host of the Painted Hand Casino, the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Prince Albert, host of the Northern Lights Casino, and the White Bear First Nation, host of the Bear Claw Casi-no, in recently entering these agreements.

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March 17 marks a special day for those of us who are Irish... and those that would like to be! All joking aside, this day is celebrated by peo-ple from all backgrounds in many parts of the world. St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of all that is green and people help to make the day special by wearing something green. This day simply bursts with folklore surrounding leprechauns, good luck and of course the shamrock. The Celts called the shamrock ‘seamrog’ or ‘little clover’ and considered it a sacred plant symbolizing the rebirth of spring. Now I think that for any of us who garden on the prairie, the shamrock is very special to us as it does sig-

nal the ebbing winter and the quickly approaching spring. Identifying what plant is the original Irish shamrock has always been a bit of a puzzle. Many of the Irish still living in Ireland would say it is a four-leaved clover while others consider that is must be a three-leaved clover. No one can agree which plant was picked by St. Patrick; how-ever there are a number of possibilities of plants that are native to Europe and are now naturalized to North America. It could be the European wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) which is often considered the true shamrock or perhaps a type of white clover (Trifo-lium repens), the hop clover (Trifolium procumbens) or

even the familiar black medic (Medicago lupulina). During the month of March we see a number of sham-rock looking plants gracing the shelves in our favourite garden centres and tempting us to purchase them for good luck. They are usually oxalis which is native to Mexico in the higher elevation areas and southern Africa and South America. They grow from tiny bulbs and generally have three or four-lobed leaves. In the landscape, some of the oxalis can become a problem ground cover. Oxalis prefers to be in high light areas. The leaves will close at night and open in good light or sunshine. There are oxalis that will have leaves of red, green or purple with blooms of white, yellow, pink or red. Many of the oxalis we grow would go dormant in the summer if they were grow-ing in their place of origin. If your oxalis is placed in an area that gets too hot it will also go dormant until the temperature drops to an acceptable level.

Celebrating the GreenIf you forget to water them they might also go dormant but if you again begin to wa-ter, new sprouts will appear. If you fi nd that your plant is not blooming it may need a rest, so just cut back on the water-ing and fertilization and let it rest for a couple of months. They are almost impossible to kill but they are susceptible to root rot so be careful not to over water them. This time of year look for the following oxalis:O. regnelli (Lucky Plant) has three or four lobed, triangular shaped leaves. Irish mist is the variegated versionO. triangularis or purple shamrock is a beautiful plant with deep purple leaves and light purplish fl owers. O. deppei (Iron Cross) also has the three lobed leaves but the center of the green leaf is a deep purple. It has white fl owers. Happy Luck of the Irish to you... and may your sham-rocks grow!

Patricia HanbidgeHorticulturist

An online survey of Cana-dian producers conducted by Farm Credit Canada (FCC) indicates that almost nine in 10 respondents (87 per cent) are interested in pursuing at least one agricultural safety training topic. To meet this demand, FCC is investing $100,000 in a fund administered by the Ca-

New safety training fundnadian Agriculture Safety As-sociation (CASA) that will be available to eligible organi-zations interested in creating and hosting agriculture safety training programs. These new programs will ensure farmers have access to more safety training and will increase the number of farm safety train-ers. According to the FCC survey, CASA was the top choice when producers were asked where they go fi rst for information on agricultural safety. “Producers were very up-front about their safety train-ing needs,” says Greg Stew-art, FCC President and CEO. “They told us they value farm safety and that they’re looking for strategies to keep them-selves, their families and their employees safe. Right across the country, producers are ex-pressing an interest in running safer operations.” “CASA is so pleased to partner with FCC to offer funding for enhanced training opportunities,” says Marcel Hacault, Executive Director of CASA. “We’re looking forward to offering trainers the chance to develop new courses. The fund will also give organizations the oppor-tunity to present the training courses producers say they’ll actually use to manage risks in their workplace.”

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The Strasbourg Curling Club hosted a very interesting guest on Monday, March 8. On their regular Monday night curling, Camille Villeneuve from Chi-coutimi, Quebec joined in for a curling game. Villeneuve is on a mission – to curl 700 curling games in different community rinks throughout Canada. He

brought with him a wonderful display of pins and newspaper clippings from his travels across the country. On this evening, Camille joined the Doug Hunter rink and skipped the Hunter team join-ing Warren Jenkins and Elaine Hack; he must be the skip for the games he curls in the different

Camille Villeneuve throws a few rocks before his game in Strasbourg.

Strasbourg stop on quest to 700 curlinggames in different communitiesCamille Villeneuve from Chicoutimi, curls game 676 at Strasbourg Rink

communities. The Strasbourg curling evening was the 676 rink he has curled in; he came from Lumsden and was on his way to Craik next. He has been travel-ling on his own, in his camper van, throughout Canada for 13 years, during the spring and fall. No small feat for a young man of 82 years! During his younger

days he played hockey and wasin goal. He didn’t start curlinguntil he was 38 years old. It seems that Camille Ville-neuve will accomplish his goal,maybe even this year! We willwatch and see if he makes it intothe Guiness Book of World Re-cords and see Strasbourg as oneof his stops!

Visiting the Strasbourg Curling Club on Monday,March 8, Camille Villeneuve from Chicoutimi,Quebec, curled with the Doug Hunter rink.Pictured with Villeneuve (left) are (left to right)Hunter, Warren Jenkins and Elaine Hack.

Doug Hunter visits with Camille Villeneuve before game number 676 begins.

Pictured to the left and above: Some of the pins and other memorabilia Villeneuve has collected from across the country on his quest to curl 700 curling games in different rinks.

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In the eyes of many Ca-nadians, Sidney Crosby of-fi cially ascended the stair-case to the hockey throne where Wayne Gretzky sat for many years when he scored the overtime goal to give Canada a gold medal in men’s hockey at the 2010 Olympics. But while it’s generally acknowledged, Gretzky had no Canadian peer while he was the undisputed Great One of hockey, Crosby has a few other players knock-ing on the Kid’s door. Hall of Fame, meet Jon-athan Toews. The native of Winnipeg has generally fl own un-der the hockey radar and skating in the shadow of Crosby, who began getting national attention before he even started playing junior with Rimouski in the Que-bec Major Junior Hockey League. But Toews is no novice either, when it comes to the international stage. He was the undisputed star of the Canada’s 2007 World Junior team when he kept

Toews shines in Olympic backgroundscoring, scoring and scoring again in the semi-fi nal shoo-tout against the U.S. en route to Canada winning the gold. At 21, Toews is one year younger than Crosby, who has a Stanley Cup to his cred-it to sit next to his gold med-al in the trophy case. But at the Vancouver Games, it was Toews, not Crosby, who led the Canadian team in scor-ing, with eight points. It was Toews, not Crosby, who led the high-scoring Canadians in plus-minus rating. And, perhaps the most remarkable stat of all: Toews was not on the ice for a single goal scored by the opposition in the entire tournament. He plays offence, folks. And he plays defence, too. Arguably, he was Canada’s best hockey Olympian, de-spite the Sports Illustratedcover shot of Crosby, the Kid’s talk show appearances and the Gretzky compari-sons. True, Crosby has a Stanley Cup and Toews doesn’t, but that could change as early as this year, as the Winnipeg-ger’s Chicago Blackhawks

have emerged as an NHL powerhouse and a genuine contender. Toews may be underap-preciated by the typical Canadian hockey fan, but there are 29 general manag-ers in the NHL who would drool at the thought of ac-quiring his services for the next 15 years or so. Four years from now, in Sochi, Russia, when the Olympians next gather, it will be Crosby and Toews leading the Maple Leaf charge again. And don’t be surprised if, once again, Toews leads the way to gold. • Tim Keown, ESPN.com: “The Olympics weren’t a referendum on the importance of hockey any more than Boise State’s football success is a refer-endum on the importance of fake blue grass. The Olympic showdown with Canada combined nation-alism, proximity and high stakes in a way the NHL can’t match. It brought a lot of people to their TV sets because it was unique,

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dramatic and rare. Unlike Thrashers-Blue Jackets, which is traditionally none of the three.” • Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel: “As Americans, we should all take this op-portunity to congratulate our friends in the Great White North for their thrill-ing hockey victory over the Red, White and Blue in the Olympic gold medal game. Let’s face it, the gold meant much more to Canada than it would have meant to us. Canada will treat the hock-ey medal as a national trea-sure and display it proudly; we would have just stuck it on a closet shelf some-where, right next to our dusty 2003 Pan American Games rhythmic gymnas-tics trophy.” • David Whitley, Fan-House: “If the NFL ran the Olympics, 33 million Ca-nadians might have jumped into the Bering Strait on Sunday. Instead of Sidney Crosby scoring to beat the U.S. for the hockey gold medal, the game would have been decided by the faceoff. First team to con-trol the puck wins! Over-time rules are not quite that

bad in football, but they’re obtuse enough that some-thing should be done. The good news is the NFL is considering it. • Among the top 10 signs you might have Winter Olympic withdrawal, from CBS’s David Letterman: “You exercise on Nordic-Track with a rifl e strapped to your back.” “Turned your closet into a ‘kiss and cry’ area.” “You’re curling on your patio with a Swiffer and a fruitcake.” • Comedy writer Alan Ray, on the difference be-tween Olympic speedskat-ing and an NBA game: “The starting offi cial is usually the only one in the arena with a gun.” • NBC’s Jay Leno, on why Gatorade dropped Ti-ger Woods as an endorser: “He was seeing at least fi ve other sports drinks.” • Lorne Chan of the San Antonio Express-News, on why MC Hammer might be tempted to take up curl-ing: “He doesn’t care about being an Olympian, he just wants his pants to come back in style.” • Two in a row from Scott

Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Seconds after the end of (the gold medal) hockey game, fi ve million Cana-dian women hopped into fi ve million pickup trucks and drove to Vancouver to propose to Sidney Cros-by. And their fi ve million boyfriends shrugged and popped open another Mol-son, eh?” “That Sidney Crosby... in the TV close-ups, did you notice the middle-school mustache? He’s going to be one tough customer once he goes through puberty.” Care to comment? Email: brucepenton2003@ yahoo.ca

Disclaimer: the opinionsexpressed are those of the writer.

Now that the hockey and curling seasons are over for the year, you won’t be seeing all those sports ac-tion photos taken by Dennis Simp-son in upcoming spring and sum-mer issues of the Last Mountain Times. (Perhaps we can get him in-terested in golf and baseball!!) The staff here at the Times extend a sincere “Thank You!!” to Dennis for all his photographic contributions over the past many months, and we look forward to publishing some of his scenic photographs while we wait for hockey and curling season to roll around again.

Bantam League PlayoffsNokomis / Drake vs Lanigan

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Lanigan Bantams won the league playoff series.Photos by Dennis Simpson.

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Craswell family rink wins Strasbourg Annual Bonspiel

The Strasbourg Annual Bonspiel was held March 4 through March 7 at the Strasbourg Curling Club, with ten teams competing. The David Craswell team defeated the Keith Flavel team in the fi rst event fi nal. Pictured above is the Craswell family team: (left to right) Annie Craswell substituting for Sawyer, Allan Craswell, Gerry Craswell and skip David Craswell.

In the second event, the Ken Hogbin team defeated the Darryl Kerr team. Pictured left to right: Helen Thompson, Gerald Munholland, Floyd Pieper and skip Ken Hogbin.

The Orva Kelln rink was victorious in the third event de-feating the Glen Thompson rink. Pictured left to right are: Ruth Heintz, Rita Kerr, Terry Myers and skip Orva Kelln.

Skip Doug Hunter and his team of: (left to right) Deb Fies-sel, Jim Jamieson, and Doug defeated the Marvin Kelln team in the fourth event. Missing from the picture Bernice Scott.

The William Derby School Junior Girls Curling Team won silver at Districts in Raymore on February 6. Pictured with their medals are: (left to right) Lorne Hilderman (coach), Nicole Adelman, Kendi Danbrook, Julia Edwards, Teigan Trew and Lorne Gottselig (coach). Submitted by Elaine Adelman.

WDS Junior Girls Curling Teamwin Silver at Districts

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Sidney Crosby’s miss-ing stick and glove from the Olympic gold-medal game on February 28 have been locat-ed, and it turns out they never were in danger of showing up on Ebay. According to a Hockey Can-ada announcement on March 10, Crosby’s equipment was not stolen, it was simply mis-placed in all the excitement and celebration following the game. Crosby’s game-winning stick was located as part of a shipment heading to the Inter-national Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Rus-sia, and the missing glove was found by Team Canada mem-ber Patrice Bergeron, who located the item after it was unintentionally placed in one of his equipment bags. Reebok Canada had posted a $10,000 reward for the stick after Cros-by’s equipment disappeared.

Stick and glove found

Sidney CrosbyPhoto courtesy of Hockey Canada.

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Dear EarthTalk: What’s better for the lo-cal ecology, sewers or sep-tic tanks?

T.H.Darien, CT

You probably won’t have much choice as to whether that home you’re thinking of buying is on sewer or septic. Most likely it’s a done deal, unless the neighborhood is presently all on septic but is considering a petition to the town to switch to sew-ers (in which case you can usually agree to hook up or stay put). There are pros and cons to each in regard to the en-vironment. Both types of systems are designed to handle and treat so-called ‘blackwater’ (wastewater from toilets) and ‘graywa-ter’ coming from our sinks, showers, dishwashers and laundry machines. On-site septic and community-wide sewer systems work in similar ways, utilizing micro-organisms to fil-ter out bacteria, viruses and other disease-causing pathogens before releasing the cleansed water back into the environment. In general, most people prefer to be on a shared sewer system if they have a choice, as the burden of keeping the system running smoothly falls on the local government, which presum-ably has the money and ex-pertise to ensure that waste-water is properly treated across the region. Also, in a shared sewer system, waste-water is whisked away to a centralized treatment facil-ity; anyone who has ever experienced a septic system backup on their property can appreciate what a bene-fit off-site wastewater treat-ment can be. Another advantage to a shared sewer is that such systems are usually built to withstand heavy loads and can better accommodate pe-riods of heavy precipitation or storm surges that might overwhelm smaller, poorly conceived or maintained home-based septic tanks,

which are by virtue of theirsize and the laws of phys-ics more prone to overflowand send contaminants intonearby surface and groundwaters. Septic systems havetheir proponents, though,who say that a profession-ally designed, installed andmaintained system shouldhold up in even the big-gest of storms. The Univer-sity of Minnesota Extension(UMNE), which publishesthe useful online “SepticSystem Owner’s Guide,”says vigilance is key: “Theonly way to guarantee effec-tive treatment is to have atrained professional ensureadequate unsaturated andsuitable soil exists belowthe soil treatment area to al-low for complete wastewa-ter treatment.” When homeowners don’ttake care of their septic sys-tems properly, though, theycan become a nuisance forthe surrounding ecosystem.Wastewater that is not prop-erly treated can contaminatesurface and groundwaterand threaten public health.According to UMNE, im-properly treated sewage canbe the culprit behind thespread of hepatitis, dysen-tery and other diseases re-sulting from pathogens indrinking water, while alsocompromising the purity oflakes and streams. Addi-tionally, flies and mosqui-toes that are attracted to andbreed in wet areas wheresewage reaches the surfacecan also spread disease. Improperly treated sew-age can also lead to in-creased nitrates in localwater supplies, which isdangerous for infants, preg-nant women and those withalready compromised im-mune systems. In and aroundlakes and streams, this in-flux in nitrates can lead toplant growth out of whackwith the local ecosystem’sability to handle it, resultingin oxygen-free ‘dead zones’devoid of marine and ripar-ian life altogether.

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Most people, given a choice, prefer to be on a munici-pal sewer system, as the burden of keeping it runningsmoothly falls on the local government. Proponents ofseptic systems, however, say that a professionally de-signed, installed and maintained system should performjust fi ne. When homeowners don’t take proper careof their septic systems, and wastewater is not properlytreated, it can contaminate surface and groundwater andthreaten public health. Pictured: A home septic systemunder construction.Photo by Trish Thornton, courtesy Flickr.

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