Denise Taylor from Hafford with an excellent variety of plants and local buyer Ellyn Scotton enjoying the warm morning sun at Saturday’s plant sale near Mayfair. Photo by Elaine Woloshyn
Dora Brown displays hardy pants from her greenhouse for the many buyers at a plant sale in the Mayfair area Saturday. Photo by Elaine Woloshyn Rain, rain, rain ‑ that is what’s happening late Sunday evening and all day Monday as I write my column. Farmers were begging for this. There were plants galore this past Saturday at Dora and Barry’s farm yard. The three vendors, Dora, Denise Taylor (nee Wolhberg) and Mayfair Library with Ellen Scotton the attendant, would like to send a huge thank you for the purchases of perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and houseplants. With the pandemic, most neighbours hadn’t seen others for over a year. Buyers came from Spiritwood, Rabbit Lake, North Battleford, Hafford, Blaine Lake and Speers areas. I can’t wait for the 2022 sale.
Prince Albert Daily Herald It’s a large provincial budget and quite small comparatively for the north.
A new elementary school to replace Ducharme Elementary School in La Loche and a new K-12 school to replace Blaine Lake Composite School are in the works. Photo courtesy of Métis Nation Saskatchewan
“Overall it could be better but it could have been a whole lot worse, too,” Creighton Mayor Bruce Fidler said of this year’s provincial budget that rolled out in April.
“There is some good news there regarding some of the health and social services programs and La Ronge is getting a good chunk of money to go toward their long-term care facility. There is some good stuff in the provincial budget but there is some lacking as well,” Fidler said.
Police from Spiritwood, Blaine Lake, Shellbrook and Ahtahkakoop detachments, a Conservation officer and the Saskatchewan RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT), all responded to the incident. Three hours later police arrested Hildebrand in his backyard and a woman at the residence was taken to safety. When police searched his home they seized four firearms and ammunition. Hildebrand was charged with discharging a firearm while being reckless, discharging with intent, unsafe storage of firearms, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, two counts of pointing a firearm, and resisting arrest. The charges against Hildebrand haven’t been proven in court.
By Carol Thomson
Apr 15, 2021 10:27 AM
A Hafford man is being sent to jail for a second time related to child pornography charges.
In Saskatoon Provincial Court this week, 55 year old Kelly Beleznay was sentenced for possession and for accessing child porn.
RCMP say in February of 2020, complaints came in about a person accessing child porn through a popular internet browser.
Last June, the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit and the Blaine Lake RCMP Detachment executed a search warrant at a home in Hafford where child porn was found and a laptop and electronic storage devices were seized.
Beleznay was sentenced to four years in jail, a DNA order, his name will be added to the sex offender registry and after his release he will be banned from accessing social media and communicating online with children and from going to parks and playgrounds or anywhere that children might gather, for 15 years.
The budget’s focus, she said in an embargoed news conference Tuesday morning, is on protecting the “health and public safety of Saskatchewan people and the province s economy in the fight against COVID-19,” while making “record investments in health care, education, social services, and the protection of people and property.” This budget “will protect Saskatchewan people through the pandemic, as more vaccines are delivered and life begins to return to normal, Harpauer said in speaking to reporters in an embargoed news conference Tuesday. This budget will build Saskatchewan by investing in new long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, highways and vital municipal infrastructure. And as our province and our economy emerges from the pandemic, this budget will grow Saskatchewan through incentives and key investments, while keeping life affordable for families.