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4 Last Mountain Times • Monday, March 30, 2020 • Check out the all new lmtimes.ca Run – March 23 & March 30 Town of Strasbourg Summer Student Employment (2) Full-Time Public Works Positions • Must have valid Driver’s License • Two (2) full-time seasonal positions • Monday to Friday work schedule • Depending on age of applicant and school schedule, work availability from beginning of May to end of August • Duties include: grass cutting, whippersnipping, painting, street repair, tree and park maintenance, garbage pickup, and other duties as assigned Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2020 Send resume and cover letter indicating availability to: Town of Strasbourg c/o Jennifer Josephson, Administrator Box 369, Strasbourg, SK S0G 4V0 strasbourg@sasktel.net or drop off at #1-200 Mountain Street Not all that apply will be contacted for interviews. OPPORTUNITY Subscribe to LMT Buy online: www.lmtimes.ca Call: 306-528-2020 Last Mountain Times Box 340, Nokomis, SK S0G 3R0 Please enclose the correct funds Paid Subscription $50. 00 Name________________________ Address______________________ ____________________________ New Renewal Service Writer - Raymore, Sk We are a growing 8 store John Deere dealer organization in Saskatchewan. This is your opportunity to be a part of the growth and establish an exciting, stable career with competitive wage structure, excellent benefits, and career path potential, backed by the best support in the in the industry all while enjoying the quality of life that comes with living in Raymore! Duties include interacting with customers on their service needs: opening, maintaining, and closing of repair work orders, and assisting in preparation of service quotes. We are looking for someone who: • Is self motivated, driven to serve customers needs. • Has above average interpersonal, communications and computer skills. • Would enjoy working in a positive SCE team environment. Experience in the farm industry is a definite asset Please apply by email to: watsondrew@southcountry.ca Position closes March 21, 2020 RM of Mount Hope No. 279 PUBLIC NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the RM of Mount Hope No. 279 intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 2/2011, known as the Zoning Bylaw. Intent: The proposed amendment will increase the maximum allowable site size that can be subdivided from a quarter section for non-residential sites in the A - Agricultural District. Affected Land: The proposed bylaws will affect all land within the A - Agricultural District. Reason: The reason for the amendment is to accommodate a proposed agricultural subdivision in NE-4-30-21-W2 and allow for the subdivision of larger sites throughout the A-Agricultural District. Public Inspection: Any person may inspect the proposed bylaws at the RM office during normal office hours. Copies of the bylaws are available at cost. Public Hearing: Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 at 8:00am. The public hearing will be held at the RM office located at 119 Main Street, Semans, SK. Any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaws is welcome to attend or to submit comments to the undersigned at the RM office prior to the meeting. Council will consider all comments received. Issued at the RM of Mount Hope No. 279 March 17th, 2020 Ashley Greenshields, Administrator LAST MOUNTAIN Dave Degenstien - Former Owner/Editor Linda Degenstien - Boss Numero Uno Dan Degenstien - Sales / Acting Editor Lori Degenstien - Admin & K9 Unit COVID-19 will change how we buy food, forever Convenience now has a different meaning. It’s less about saving time and more about survival and safety COVID-19 will redefine grocery shopping and food service. Convenience now has a different meaning. It’s less about saving time and more about survival and safety. Before the crisis, barely anyone Sylvain Charlebois ordered online and many Canadians wondered why someone would ever order food in that fashion. But many things are changing – rapidly. The in-store shopping experience, for one, is changing quickly to meet the new standards. Most grocers have reduced shopping hours to give employees a rest and allow stores to be thoroughly cleaned, from counters to carts, cashiers’ machines to self-checkout counters. Plexiglass barriers at checkouts are being installed. Grocery stores are now expected to be as clean as hospital operating rooms. That comes at a cost. Grocers are also limiting the number of people in stores at any time and getting customers to shop within a limited time. This is shopping under pressure for the betterment of society. Grocers basically don’t have much of a choice. And grocers need to pay employees more to work under these conditions. While 500,000 Canadians got laid off last week, Loblaws and Metro announced pay increases for employees. For many years, the industry wanted to make the in-store experience more pleasant, less stressful. COVID-19 is changing all of this. According to a report released by Dalhousie University this week, only 24 per cent of Canadians are comfortable with the idea of grocery shopping. So more than three-quarters of Canadians see the grocery store as an inherent risk. Selling to someone who is concerned about their own health as they visit your facility isn’t good for business. Retailing has always been the most hazardous part of the entire food chain, given that everyone has access to the products, unlike farming or processing. So Canadians are applying risk self-management. As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, nine per cent of Canadians are shopping for food online for the first time, according to the same Dalhousie survey. That may not seem like many people but keep in mind that 1.5 per cent of all food sales were conducted online before the crisis. That percentage had already begun to grow Publications Mail Agreement No. 40012083 Proud to be Serving You Published on Monday, 48 weeks per year 103 – 1st Ave. W. P.O. Box 340 Nokomis, SK S0G 3R0 306-528-2020 editor@lmtimes.ca CCNA NEWSPAPERS CANADA We acknowledge the fi nancial support of the Government of Canada. Thanks Canada. higher but COVID-19 will likely accelerate the pace. In the United States, some changes are already happening. Downloads of Instacart, Walmart’s grocery app and Shipt increased 218, 160 and 124 per cent respectively last week over a year ago. Grocers are already having difficulty keeping up. COVID-19 is different in many ways to other disruptive events in our lives. But humans are creatures of habits. So it takes time to change our ways – especially with food. COVID-19 may provide the time needed to change how we purchase food. Public health officials believe social distancing could last for months. This isn’t your typical storm, where lives are disrupted for a few days, or a week or two. A period of months can be enough to create habits, such as shopping online. With crises and disruptions come opportunities for the food industry to adapt to changing consumer needs more quickly. Over the last few years, the industry has slowly gained an online presence to counter the Amazon menace. But it was all about Amazon. Now, purchasing online is all about safety. Before Amazon, foot traffic was the one metric grocers looked at carefully. Those days are long gone. COVID-19 is a powerful reminder of how fragile business models can be. The circumstances are similar in the food service industry. Restaurants either served patrons in-house or delivered by managing delivery crews. Food delivery apps changed all that – and even more Canadians are using them since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. COVID-19 has the potential to be as disruptive to the food retail and service industries as the Green Revolution was to agriculture. The Green Revolution made agriculture more adaptable to modern food consumption trends. Since its beginning in the 1950s, the globe has five billion more occupants and the percentage of people who are food insecure has dropped significantly. The Green Revolution made the entire sector more efficient, smarter, and more immune to threatening diseases and other socio-technological threats. The Green Revolution has been far from perfect but consumers have all benefited from it, whether we recognize it or not. Food distribution through different technologies won’t be perfect either but it will make food distribution more compliant to our modern reality. When brick-and-mortar location becomes secondary, a business’s path to success in food distribution changes dramatically. The transition from traditional agriculture, with inputs generated on-farm, to the Green Letters and Commentaries Policy We encourage and appreciate submission of Letters to the Editor and Commentaries to Last Mountain Times. A few guidelines: keep your letters and commentaries short and to the point; even though we tend to correct spelling and grammar, don’t assume that we will: a well-written letter or commentary is more credible. We reserve the right to edit out inappropriate, or slanderous material, or to refuse to publish, at our discretion, certain material. ALWAYS include your name, address, phone number, email address, etc. in your submission: we DO NOT publish anonymous material. If you feel compelled to comment on a published letter or commentary, please send your comments along: we may or may not publish them. -Last Mountain Times LAST MOUNTAIN EDITORIALS, LETTERS & OPINIONS continues on page 9 Contact our nearest community correspondents Nokomis: 306-528-2020 Semans & Raymore: 306-746-7662 Southey/Earl Grey: 306-535-6777
RCMP REPORT 11 charged under the Saskatchewan Public Health Act after pursuit in times of COVID-19 On March 27, 2020, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Loon Lake RCMP responded to the report of a suspicious person who was knocking on the door of a residence in Loon Lake, SK. At the residence, Loon Lake RCMP officers received a description of a vehicle associated to the suspicious person, a stolen black 2000 GMC Yukon SUV, and immediately requested nearby detachments to be on the lookout for the suspect vehicle. Meadow Lake RCMP located the suspect vehicle going north on grid Road 699. Loon Lake RCMP and Pierceland RCMP joined Meadow Lake RCMP to follow the suspect vehicle. Police officers attempted to stop the vehicle. The vehicle did not stop. Instead, while fleeing, the occupants of the vehicle threw a number of items out of the window of the vehicle. Police officers picked up one of the bags that were thrown and found several firearms inside. Police officers continued to follow the vehicle, which turned west on Highway 55. At different times, several occupants of the vehicle jumped out of the running vehicle. They were all intercepted one by one and taken into custody. Police officers continued to follow the suspect vehicle as it turned south on a grid road, went into a ditch and stopped. The remaining occupants of the vehicle fled into a bush. Police officers arrested 2 occupants of the vehicle at the scene. The last occupant of the vehicle was tracked into Last Mountain Times • Monday, March 30, 2020 • Check out the all new lmtimes.ca the bush by a Meadow Lake RCMP Police Service Dog and arrested. Police officers were able to recover a number of firearms, a quantity of narcotics and an assortment of stolen property. The accused who have been released must follow strict conditions in line with provincial COVID-19 isolation protocols, including: staying inside an approved residence for 24 hours a day for 14 days and immediately notifying the Saskatchewan Health Line 811 if they develop symptoms of COVID-19. These are the first individuals the Saskatchewan RCMP have arrested and charged during the COVID-19 pandemic under the Saskatchewan Public Health Act, which renders illegal, since March 26, 2020, “participating in a private gathering of more than 10 people without maintaining a two-meter distancing between people”. Individuals choosing to continue gathering in contravention of the Saskatchewan Public Health Act place the Saskatchewan population, including Saskatchewan RCMP police officers, at risk of exposure to COVID-19. Looking for suspects in theft of vehicle Melville RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance in locating the person or persons responsible for the theft of a dark grey 2009 GMC Sierra in Melville, Saskatchewan. The pickup truck was stolen on Sunday March 22, 2020 at around 9:00 p.m. from a residence in Melville. It has a large sticker that says “Melville Auto Glass” on the rear window. 20041cc2 5 SPORTS Stanley Cup playoffs: why not a one-and-done? It’s the last week of March and fans of the National Hockey League are going stir crazy while the coronavirus rages on, with seemingly no end in sight. The reality? There could be no Stanley Cup playoffs this year And really, with what’s going on in the world, who really cares? On a 0-to-100 priority list of things we need, a Stanley Cup playoff is a solid zero. Still, with no sports going on to satisfy the sports-hungry crowd, that crowd can’t quit talking about sports, or listening to people talking about sports. The sportswriters have to keep writing about sports. The broadcasting panels occasionally get together with big bottles of liquid sanitizer and wipes to talk about sports. When will the playoffs start? Will the playoffs start? Will there be a Stanley Cup winner in 2020? Was firing Don Cherry the right thing to do? What will the new Seattle team be called? Will there be a new Seattle team? Given the situation in Washington State, will there still be a Seattle after all this COVID-19 stuff shakes down and fades away? FROM THE SIDELINES BRUCE PENTON Presently, however, the NHL playoff situation seems to be attracting the most attention from the sports media and fans. A variety of proposals are being suggested, even the most dire one that starts with the letter ‘C’ and ends with ‘ancellation’. One recent suggestion had the NHL playing no more regular season games if and when play resumes, but simply picking the top 24 teams, 12 from each conference, and holding some sort of a mini playoff system — perhaps a one-and-done affair, like the NCAA basketball tournaments, or best-of-three series that will have the desired effect of crowning a champion before training camps are scheduled to open for the 2020-21 season. Personally, I love the one-and-done suggestion. Top four teams in each conference get a bye; the other eight play to eliminate four. Endless overtime. No shootouts. No five-on-five. Once that first round is done, and eight teams are left, only seven games will be needed to decide a conference champ. Then, have the two conference champs play a two-game, total-goal series — one home game each — to determine the new home of the Stanley Cup. Hey, we’re in uncharted waters. There are no scripts that need following. Twelve teams from each conference puts all but one Canadian team — sorry, Ottawa — into the post-season. It just might be Montreal’s best chance to win their first Cup in 27 years. Toronto’s first in 53 years? C’mon, get real, this is the Leafs we’re talking about. Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “At the NFL combine, 364-pound lineman Mekhi Becton ran a 5.10 in the 40-yard dash. When Tom Brady ran the 40 at the combine, he ran a 5.21 at 220-pounds. Becton ran faster with an entire Joe Buck in his belly.” Alex Kaseberg again: “At Kobe Bryant’s memorial, it was revealed Kobe once showed up for his daughter Gigi’s school parents’ day in full Laker uniform with his Olympic gold medal. How would you like to be the dad after that with the Geico-Insurance-Agent-ofthe-Month plaque?” Dallas forward Kristaps Porzingis, to reporters, when asked if the recent Mavs-Pelicans game felt like a playoff atmosphere: “I mean, I wish I had that experience to tell you.” Chris Long, on Twitter: “(Tom) Brady just left Boston on St. Paddy’s day and i believe that’s a hate crime.” Golfer Shane Lowry, on the 2020 Open Championship (from golf.com): “I guess if they do call off the Open, I will get to be Open champion for two years and I will have to go celebrating again.” Headline in the New York Post: “San Juan catches a break, MLB cancels the Mets-Marlins series scheduled for April.” Headine from The Hill: “Major League Baseball officially postpones start of 2020 season. Orioles rejoice they’re officially still tied for first.” At Faux John Madden on Facebook: “Breaking: Dak Prescott’s latest contract demands to include month supply of toilet paper.” From @GaBoy_Shockley on Twitter: “Day 6 no sports. Watching birds fight over worms. Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3-1.” Norman Chad of the Washington Post, on Twitter: “My favourite First-Day-That-Tom-Brady-Is-Not-a- Patriot Stat: He could lose his next 283 starts and still have a better career record than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise.” Comedy writer Brad Dickson: “The XFL has cancelled the rest of its season. Great, the one place where you have groups of 10 or less watching and we can’t go anymore.” Dickson again: “Right now my thoughts are with the elderly. But enough about Tom Brady leaving New England.” Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@ yahoo.ca - Bruce Penton Disclaimer: opinions expressed are those of the writer. 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