DAVIDSON—Husband and wife team Marvin and Marla Dezotell found themselves on opposite sides of the house in the A Event final of last weekend’s 2015 Farmers Bonspiel.
Marvin’s rink of Dave Palmer, Greta Wedrick and Mike Schneider took on Marla’s rink of daughter Raylene Dezotell, sister Marcia Palmer and Laura Church.
Marvin’s rink got the better of Marla’s to finish first in the A Event and Marla taking second.
Ten rinks competed in the Farmers Bonspiel, which has been a winter tradition at Davidson’s Curling Club.
Local agricultural suppliers and businesses support the bonspiel by donating numerous prizes.
Results of the bonspiel are:
A Event: first, Marvin Dezotell rink; second, Marla Dezotell rink;
B Event: first, Graham Shearwood rink; second, Beth Booker rink;
C Event: first, Ken Schneider rink; second Dalton Woodman rink;
D Event: first, Rob Stone rink; second Ryan Shaw.
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Warm weather exposes leaky roof
By Kevin Gilby
DAVIDSON—Town council met Jan. 20 to discuss ongoing and future town business. Items discussed include:
• The town discussed installing two new large bay garage doors on the south side of the town shop in the coming year. The town wishes to install at least one door with windows but may complete both doors budget permitting.
• Richardson International requested permission from the town to upgrade/work on the access road to their grain terminal south of Davidson. The access road, near the Shell service station resides on town property. The town, satisfied that the work would be done to specifications, moved to allow the work to take place.
• Discussion for water and sewage rates was tabled so that administrators Gary Edom and Donna Bessey may prepare their assessment for council’s consideration.
• The town moved to retain 2014 council remuneration rates for the next fiscal year.
• During an Air Cadet’s meeting at the town auditorium, it was reported that the roof was leaking on account of unseasonably warm weather. During the summer, work was done to all of the roofing on the town hall with the exception of the auditorium on account of funding considerations. Councillors noted that the new flooring in the auditorium was not damaged and that they must rush to obtain quotes to fix the auditorium roof as soon as possible. Town Administrator Gary Edom anticipates the cost of the repair work to be approximately $160,000 and that the town will have to secure a loan to complete the work. During the interim, the town moved to ensure that snow on the roof be kept to a minimum.
What is PLEA?
PLEA stands for Public Legal Education Association. PLEA is a Saskatchewan-based non-profit, non-government organization which exists to educate and inform the people of Saskatchewan about the law and the legal system. The program brings volunteers into organizations, classroom, and community to speak on a variety of law-related topics. PLEA produces publications on many areas of the law and makes these available to the public at no charge.
PLEA has just launched a family law website www.familylaw.plea.org. This is primarily a website pertaining to family law but has many links to valuable forms and information.
Dellene Church, B.A., LL.B., will be facilitating “Life After 60” talks in Davidson on Wednesday, Jan. 28 and Thursday, Jan. 29 made possible by PLEA, The Law Foundation of Saskatchewan, the Department of Justice Canada, and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice. The details of both meetings are described on Page 8 of today’s paper.
Cyclones look to move up in league standings
DAVIDSON— The Cyclones beat LeRoy twice last week to improve their record to 8-8 as they make a bid to move up in league standings heading into playoffs.
The Cyclones were in LeRoy last Wednesday where they beat the Braves 6-4.
LeRoy got off to an early lead with a goal five minutes into the first frame. Davidson’s Pat Cey (Ben Wasmuth, Zach Sim) tied it up at 10:31. While on the powerplay, Garrett Dieno, from Kyle Bortis, scored to put the Cyclones ahead 2-1. Carter Smith (Bortis and Rhyse Dieno) scored to end the period with Davidson up 3-1.
The Cyclones came out scoring in the second period after Garrett Dieno (Bortis, Rhyse Dieno) found the back of the Braves’ net. Cey (Cody Danberg, Smith) scored his second goal of the game to give the Cyclones a 5-1 lead. The Braves came back scoring two goals before Derek Allan (Rhyse Dieno, Sim) scored Davidson’s sixth and final goal of the game on the powerplay to put Davidson up 6-3.
In the third period the Braves scored their fourth goal, shorthanded, to narrow the gap but it wasn’t enough and the Cyclones and their goalie Brady Willner got out of LeRoy with a 6-4 win.
This victory came after a Jan. 9 game against LeRoy in Watson with Davidson’s Kyle Bortis scoring the game winner in a shootout.
After scoring 4 goals in the first period for a 4-2 lead, the Cyclones were silent in the second period, allowing the Braves to take the lead. Davidson was down 8-4 heading to the midway point of the third period and the game seemed all but lost. Derek Allan scored his second goal of the game to revive the Cyclones and give them some hope. As the minutes wound down, Carter Smith (from Allan) scored to put Davidson within two. With seconds on the clock, goalie Mark Zoerb pulled and the extra attacker on the ice, Allan got his third goal of the game to put the Cyclones down by one. With 17 seconds remaining Smith, from Brett Ward, scored the tying goal to send it into overtime. A scoreless OT forced the shootout with Davidson’s Cey, Derek Allan, Smith and Bortis scoring for the win.
The Cyclones played league-leading Drake at home Friday and then travelled to Lanigan Saturday to take on the second-place Pirates. Davidson’s final league game is this Saturday in Watrous.
Recycling rates are on the rise
DAVIDSON—The cost of recycling is going up for Davidson ratepayers this year.
In this month’s newsletter that accompanies water bills the Town of Davidson notified residents of increases in recycling fees.
Commercial recycling customers who use the metal Loraas bins are hardest hit by the increase and will see their recycling fees more than triple. For example, the fee charged for a 4 cubic yard bin that is emptied monthly will go from $17.75 to $59.85 per quarter as the town tries to cover the costs of providing the service.
In November Davidson town council approved a resolution to increase commercial recycling rates.
Mayor Clayton Schneider said when the program started council decided to subsidize commercial users for the first year because the commercial tax rate is 30 per cent more than the residential rate.
“Then, for whatever reason, the commercial rate was never adjusted. Now that our contract with Loraas has been renewed, council made the decision to adjust the commercial rates to where it should have been all along.”
This had cost the town about $12,000 per year.
In its letter to ratepayers, the town states, “We realize that this will be a substantial increase, but the Town of Davidson can no longer afford this subsidy. In fact, the bin fees are closer to what the actual costs should have been since the program began.”
The new rates, outlined in the newsletter, are the first increases since the town contracted with Loraas Disposal Services for recycling three years ago.
Rates for the blue rollout carts, used by residences and some commercial enterprises, will have a more modest increase from $16.35 per quarter to $18.65.
Last fall, Loraas notified the town in the fall that it was changing its service rates “due to an adjustment for Consumer Price Index”. Effective Jan. 1 the service rates for recycling carts would be $5.55 per month and the rates charged for the steel bins would go to $4.45 per cubic yard.
To read more, please see the Jan. 19 print edition of The Davidson Leader.
Giant vessel bound for mine
DAVIDSON—Another big piece of mining equipment made its way past Davidson on Highway 11 last Wednesday, bound for the K+S potash mine near Bethune.
A giant crystallizer, fabricated by JNE Welding of Saskatoon, left the city Jan. 6 for a three-day journey to Bethune.
Crystallization is a process used to obtain industrial grade potassium chloride and involves mixing potash with hot water while agitating it at very high temperatures.
The crystallization unit that passed by Davidson weighed 330 tonnes and was 10.1 metres wide, 56.7 m long and 11.6 m high. SaskPower crews were on hand throughout the trip to either push up power lines or briefly cut them so the load could clear them.
Power was out briefly Wednesday in the Davidson area for about 10 minutes between 2 and 2:30 in the afternoon.
The large vessel spent Wednesday night in Davidson before setting off Thursday morning on the final leg of its journey to the K+S mine site.
This was the second large piece of equipment to pass by Davidson.
In November a gigantic evaporator made a similar journey to the K+S mine.