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Craik, Davidson, Obituary

Schollar, Glen

The family of Glen Schollar announces his passing at the Davidson Health Centre on August 23, 2018. Glen was born on the family farm near Craik, Sask. on March 23, 1930, one of six children born to Arthur and Ethel Schollar.

Glen was raised by his parents to work hard and to help others—values he lived by for his entire life. Family was also a very important part of Glen’s life. He loved family reunions, Schollar Lunch or just visiting at the house.

Glen is survived by his wife Eleanor, by their children Mike (Diane), Blair (Sue), Garth (Dianne) and Donna (Rick); by grandchildren Christopher (Ashlyn), Justyn (Mandi), Shireen, Colton (Miranda), Kayla (Darcy) and Shane and by great-grandchildren Hayden, Rail, Rory, Milo, Emmett, Madison and Emmett.

A graveside service was held at the Craik Cemetery on Monday, August 27, 2018. A memorial reception followed at the Davidson United Church.

Arrangements were entrusted to Hanson’s Funeral Home, Davidson.

Davidson

Hit and Run driver sought

A vehicle smashed into Keepers Restaurant shortly after 11 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3. No one was inside when it happened.

DAVIDSON—The search is on for a four-door sedan that crashed into Keepers Restaurant in Davidson late last Monday night and then drove off.

The car caused extensive damage to the building, when, at 11 p.m., Sept. 3, it smashed through a plate-glass window and destroyed some of the structure around it.

“It looked like he was going to slow down and then he accelerated into the building. The driver backed out, almost immediately and took off,” Marcia Palmer said.

Palmer works at the Shell and had seen the footage captured by the business’s security cameras.

The footage shows a four-door sedan drive in from the north end of the parking lot and then go towards the building as if to park, except it doesn’t stop. After crashing through the window, the driver puts the car in reverse, backs out and drives away.

Palmer said they were able to see the license plate but couldn’t make out the number.

The video was shared on social media by a Shell employee. A comment with the posting states, “We think it’s maybe a 2011 silver Chevy Impala.”

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Craik

Work begins to restore Craik’s drinking water

 

Four, brand new pressurized vessels arrived in Craik last Thursday. They will be installed as part of the new water treatment system.

CRAIK—The long-anticipated upgrades to Craik’s water plant have begun.

Work to install a new water treatment system, a sapphire integrated biological reverse-osmosis membrane (SIBROM), began Aug. 27.

Craik will continue drawing water from the intake at the Arm River dam east of town.

Divers will be out there this week to upgrade the intake screen. This project is intended to allow the community to draw water without as much risk of floor bed silt entering the system, says Craik’s water plant operator Kevin Gilby.

Black and MacDonald has been contracted to do the mechanical and electrical side of the upgrade. Last week they removed half of the existing sand filters in the treatment plant.

Because the process creates more demand on the remaining filters, Gilby said, the work was scheduled to start after summer when peak water use tapers off.

At present, 25 per cent of the Mainstream system is off-line as it is being partially decommissioned.

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Davidson

Oldtime Football

We found another gem! Since it’s football season, we thought we’d do a throwback to the guys who have gone before. If anyone recognizes any of these athletes in the picture, we’d love to hear from you. Please call The Davidson Leader at 306-567-2047 or email davidsonleader@sasktel.net.