HANLEY—Both lanes of Highway 11 were closed to traffic Tuesday afternoon due to a single vehicle rollover.

At 3:15 p.m., RCMP Cpl. Rob King said members were on the scene of the rollover, which occurred about one-kilometre north of Hanley.

Three occupants were trapped in the vehicle, two males and one female. Hanley’s fire department were on the scene to remove the victims: a 20-year-old male, a 17-year-old male and a 21-year-old female, King said. All three occupants were transported to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon with non-life threatening injuries.

The highway was re-opened to traffic.

More details to follow.

HANLEY—A man fishing at the Brightwater Reservoir west of Hanley has quite a fishing tale to tell after he reeled in a bomb last Sunday.

Saskatoon RCMP, at about 7:20 p.m. Sunday, June 3, got a call from a fisherman after he had hooked and landed what he thought may be a homemade bomb.

RCMP attended the call and after looking at the device, cleared and secured the area and called in the RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit, said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Rob King.

The bomb squad examined the device and determined it was some type of homemade bomb. The device was neutralized at the scene and police declared the area safe once again for fishing.

King said RCMP cannot give any details about the device or how it was “neutralized”.

“We don’t want the general public knowing the details,” he said.

How it came to be in the water is still under investigation.

While King said he doesn’t know what the man was fishing for, a bomb was most likely not the intended prey.

He said this is the first time a device like this has been found in a body of water.

“It’s never happened before,” King said.

Last week, the incident was the talk of the town in Hanley, on the street, at the coffee shop and Facebook.

If the angler lives around Hanley, he doesn’t frequent coffee row.

“Everybody in town knows about it, but nobody knows who caught it,” said Hanley’s town administrator Darice Carlson. “He doesn’t go for coffee.”

Police would like any witnesses or anyone with information about explosives being used in the area to contact them.

Ratepayers of the rural municipalities of Dundurn, Rudy and Rosedale will meet Wednesday in Hanley to talk about the future of the Dundurn and the Rudy/Rosedale community pastures.

Fred Wilson, Reeve of the R.M. of Dundurn, said community members and pasture patrons have been talking informally since the federal government’s decision to wind down the Community Pastures Program came to light in mid-April.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada plans to get out of managing the pastures over the next six years. The process begins in 2013 when the government will cease operations of 10 community pastures—five in Saskatchewan and five in Manitoba. Another five pastures in Saskatchewan will be transferred in 2014.

Ideally, Wilson said, the pastures would remain in the public domain, if not operated by federal or provincial governments, than the municipalities could possibly take over their management.

“The majority’s consensus is we would like them to stay as community pastures.”

He’s heard rumours about organizations and companies big enough to buy them may be interested in some of the more lucrative pastures. On the other hand, Wilson said, he can’t see the province letting them go because some are rich in resources like oil, gas and gravel.

To read more, please see the June 11, 2012 print edition of The Davidson Leader.