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Murray Winston Peddle
May 20, 1943 – March 18, 2013
It is with great sadness and some relief that we announce the passing of Murray Winston Peddle on March 18, 2013.
Murray was the best friend and husband of Shirley and together they have three children Michelle, Kevin and Wanda. Murray was born on the family farm outside Cupar on May 20, 1943. He was the youngest child born to George and Ethel. He was a precious blessing to his parents and his brother John, who was 22 years old when his baby brother was born. As a child Murray was an excellent trumpet player and often played O’ Canada for the radio broadcasted hockey games in the area.
Murray and Shirley met in grade one at the Cupar School and they were together for 64 years at the time of his passing. They were married on July 28, 1962 and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last summer. They began their married life in Regina, where their daughter Michelle was born in April of 1963. Then in the next 16 months came a move to Radville and then Shaunavon where son Kevin was born in September of 1964. They followed this with a move to Melville, and finally in December of 1968 they moved to Craik where their daughter Wanda was born in January of 1972.
In making the move to Craik to become the General Manager of the Co-op, Murray, at age 26, became the youngest General Manager in Saskatchewan Federated Co-op history. During his time with the Co-op, he was a part of many building projects and expansions. The new grocery store and offices, the key lock at Girvin and storage additions to the lumberyard are just a few of these projects.
In 1980, Murray and Shirley built and started Peddles Place at the Craik Regional Park. It was here that Murray earned the nickname “the Candy man”. After eight years they gave the building to the park and it continues to provide candy, ice cream and food to the campers and swimmers.
Murray and Shirley opened the Prairie View Restaurant in 1988. People came in for Shirley’s good homemade cooking and in winter months a good game of crib with coffee. After the closing of the restaurant, Murray went to work at the Husky in Davidson. He also worked as caretaker of the Manor and as a bookkeeper for various community clients. He continued to work until illness forced his retirement in 2008.
Murray was a member of the Craik Curling Club for many years, the Golf Club, Town Council as well as a great announcer for many, many fastball games.
Murray was predeceased by his father George on April 23, 1978; his brother John on July 29, 1978; his mother Ethel on April 24, 1979 and five infant siblings.
Shirley will greatly miss her “Mur”, as will his children Michelle and husband Henry, and their children Sarah and husband Devan, Kane, Joseph and wife Sarah, and David; Kevin and wife Joy, and their children Kandis and husband Grant, Jordan, and Jesse and fiancée Jessica; Wanda and husband Shawn, and their children Shaelyn, Brittney and Sydney; his great-grandchildren; brother and sisters-in-law; nieces and nephews and friends.
It is a great comfort to us to look around and see the footprint of Dad’s life in the people and places we see every day.

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Marjory Mae Pederson passed away on March 26, 2013 at the Central Butte Regency Manor. Marjory was born June 26, 1922, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ector of Elbow. She received an education at Wild Lily School and Elbow High School. Marjory had to forfeit further education to help her father on the family farm. On November 6, 1948 she married Sverre Pederson, second oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Peder Pederson. Sverre and Marjory farmed 18 miles east of Elbow. In 1978, they moved to Elbow and their son Melvin took over the family farm. Marjory was a member of Bonnie View United Church and later she joined the Elbow United Church and served on the Session. She was also a member of the Woodmere Sunshine Club, the Friendship Club and the Elbow UCW.
Marjory is survived by a daughter Mary Anne (Dennis) Depper and their family: Jeanette (Brent) and children Jayden, Kohl, Trey, and Ryder; Darrell (Sherri) and children Avery and Sam; Blaine (Wendy) and new arrival, Alyvia; son Melvin (Kilmeny) and their family: Ryan and his daughter Emily, and Allescia. She is predeceased by her husband Sverre, brother Archie, and sisters Robena Chernick, Wilma Peil, and Myrtle Laybourne.
The funeral service took place at the Elbow Civic Centre on Monday, April 1, 2013 at 2:00 pm. Ursula Wiig will officiate. Interment will take place at the Elbow Cemetery at a later date. Memorial donations to the Elbow United Church, Iver Main Place or Regency Manor in Central Butte would be appreciated. In living memory of Marjory, a memorial planting will be made by W. J. Jones & Son Funeral Home. Please sign the memorial register book at website: www.wjjonesandson.com (Obituaries).
Funeral director Gerry Mitchell, W.J. Jones & Son. Phone 693-4644.

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Darrell Robert Sulz passed away March 21, 2013 at the age of 69 in Davidson, Saskatchewan. He is survived by his loving companion Lana Cavalcanti and his five children Bev Evans (Daryl), Colton and Kyle; Brenda Scott (Adam), Tyson and Justin; Barb Klenk (Darren), Walker; Brandy Sulz; and Bob Sulz. He is also survived by his sister Irene Jorgenson (Harvey) and his brother Allan Sulz. He was predeceased by his parents Bob and Gladys Sulz.
He will be dearly missed by all. A private memorial service was held March 27 in Davidson.

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Winter gives region another good wallop

A winter storm tore through Saskatchewan last Wednesday and Thursday making roads impossible to pass and stranding motorists either in their cars or, if they were smart enough not to venture out, where they last were before the snow started falling.

The RCMP media relations bureau released numerous no travel advisories starting last Wednesday evening and continuing all day and night Thursday cautioning people to stay where they are to keep themselves and their families safe.

The advisories stated roads were blocked by the winter storm in an area ranging from north of Saskatoon through Regina to the United States border and west to the Alberta border. They said the RCMP received 150 calls of vehicle incidents on the roads for crashes, vehicles stuck in the ditch or on the road and semi-trailers jackknifed.

The wind was blowing steadily at about 40 to 60-kilometres per hour with gusts at one point reaching 80 km/h.

The police said the storm reduced visibility to zero at points and long snowdrifts made roads impassable. They said nightfall on March 21 made travel extreme and the severity of the storm made it difficult for even emergency personnel to be on the roads.

Locally, Highway 44 was closed around noon Thursday and reopened mid-afternoon Friday.

Fred Wilson, Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Dundurn, said residents off sub-division roads in the RM were trapped in their homes for two or three days during the storm due to closed roads. He said the graders hit the roads in their attempt to clear the 300 kilometres of roads they are responsible for at dawn last Friday, but it was expected it would take a few days to get everything back in good shape.

“Some of our ratepayers have taken it upon themselves to open up a few spots on their own, which is gratefully accepted,” said Wilson. “We found it very hard, so our loader tractors had to go out with one of the graders because we don’t have a plow on the front of it, so just to break it open. The stuff is hard as a rock, but we’re getting by.”

Wilson said he’d like to thank their ratepayers for being so understanding with the time it is taking to get the roads back up and running, as the graders couldn’t go out during the storm and had to wait a few days to clear the roads.

“There was no point because every time you open (the road) up, it blew right behind the grader,” he said. “It just made it harder for people to get where they’re going so we didn’t even bother going out.”

To read more please see the March 25 print edition of The Davidson Leader.

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Sask. Party and NDP disagree on aspects of the 2013-2014 provincial budget

The Saskatchewan Party government and the opposition New Democratic Party differ on three key issues of concern to residents of this area in the recent 2013-2014 provincial budget announced last Wednesday at the legislature in Regina.

Greg Brkich, Sask. Party MLA for Arm River-Watrous, said the government has maintained their promise to hold the line on education property tax rates, increased crop insurance coverage to record levels and improved rural physician recruitment and retention by investing more funds to boost physician numbers in this province.

Trent Wotherspoon, NDP MLA for Regina Rosemont and opposition finance critic, said the vast majority of people across this province will actually see their property tax bills increase this year, the growth in insurance coverage will be offset with cuts in other agriculture areas and initiatives announced in the budget actually do not confront the challenge presented to rural communities in physician recruitment and retention.

The government announced in their budget that to offset the 67 per cent increase in property values in the province over the past four years, they are lowering the education property tax rates on all classes of property in order to keep re-assessment revenue neutral. The new education mill rates are 2.67 mills for agricultural land, 5.03 mills for residential property and 8.28 mills for commercial property.

Brkich said holding the line on education property tax rates is a huge benefit to town and village property owners as well as farmers facing a reassessment this year.

“We’ve tried to make it revenue neutral,” said Brkich. “It may not be 100 per cent revenue neutral, because of some properties. Their assessment is way above normal. They will probably have to pay a bit more tax, but there will be some that went down with their assessment. The top of the assessment is a little below normal, but basically it’ll be revenue neutral.”

Wotherspoon said the government is just keeping their commitment with this promise, but “pretending somehow” that this represents big savings for Saskatchewan residents is not true. He said with a growing population and resources that are in demand, the government is failing to support communities where it counts.

“In fact, the property tax increase is going to be significant and in many ways it is going to be significant because this government is failing to provide the infrastructure needs required for our growing communities,” said Wotherspoon.

To read more please see the March 25 print edition of The Davidson Leader.

Sports

Sabers and Aztecs come close, but fall in senior basketball regionals action

Basketball season came to a close for the Hanley Sabers senior boys and Loreburn Aztecs senior girls teams last week at regionals.

The Sabers made it to the final at the March 15-16 regionals in Birch Hills, but foul trouble did them in. Despite leading at the start of the game, the team would eventually lose to the Birch Hills Marauders by over 20 points.

Mark Anderson, head coach of the Sabers, said the club held a 14-12 lead heading into the second quarter, but it was all Birch Hills after that. He said the Marauders were up by seven at the half, 12 by the end of the third quarter and rolled through the fourth eventually putting up 85 points to Hanley’s 62.

“We didn’t shoot well,” said Anderson. “If we had shot anything like the night before (a 83-59 win over Balcarres), we would have been in fine shape. Our top scorer from the night before (forward Steven Sira) had four fouls before the first half, so I had to pull him and then he fouled out in the second half. Our top scorer from this game (centre Josh Anderson) had four fouls as well, so it was tough.”

Anderson said the kids on his team had a great season even with the miss on Hoopla competition and should be proud with the strong athletic game they brought to the court.  He said his team is more of a “football team playing basketball,” but as the season progressed they picked up their play and became a real threat.

“When we got to the end here, if we could of put it all together we would have been dangerous, but at the end we faltered,” he said. “It was a great group of kids and a really good game.”

Loreburn Aztecs

The Aztecs can say they ended their season on a winning note, but a loss a day earlier cost them a chance of playing at Hoopla.

Tim Hom, head coach of the Aztecs, said the club beat the Kerrobert Rebels “handily” in their final game at regionals in Frontier. He said despite the lopsided win, both teams showed great sportsmanship throughout the game.

A day earlier the club lost to the Middle Lake Avengers, whose undefeated record at regionals propelled them to this past weekend’s Hoopla tournament.

“We lost by 40 (to Middle Lake),” said Hom. “They are a very good team, well-coached and have lots of good skilled players. We had a pretty short bench, but that’s no excuse. We played well.”

Hom said he is happy with the season the Aztecs put together this year and credits their fans, parents and staff at the school for their support and help building a great basketball program at Loreburn Central School.

“The girls gave a lot of effort,” he said. “Success isn’t measured in wins or losses, but I thought we were pretty (good). A lot of our team is coming back (next year), so hopefully we get a better result.”

The Davidson Leader, Davidson, Saskatchewan