Art tour show region’s talent

Peter Lozinski
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Art tour show region’s talent

Artists came together over the weekend to show what they can do in some of the settings that inspire them.

The annual 263 Art Tour was held Saturday and Sunday. The self-guided tour includes about a dozen artists at nine locations around the Christopher and Emma Lake areas, all accessible from Highway 263.

“We’ve had more people than we usually have on Saturday, so it’s been good,” said June Ricklefs, who helped organize the tour.

“I haven’t recognized many from previous years, so we’re getting more new people.”

Jeanette Lussier and Brent Fellner are from the Martensville area but have a cabin near Emma Lake.

Fellner works with stone and wood, and he draws cartoons Lussier is a painter who is branching into woodworking and carving.

“Having it at the cabin allows us a little bit of freedom to do what we want, and the setting is always nice when you’re up in the forest,” said Fellner.

Fellner enjoys the immediacy and tactility of working with wood and stone.

“We’ve had people who happen to be up here from that (Martensville) area, but we’ve also had people up from Alberta and the Maritimes today who have seen our work. It’s really good exposure.”

Lussier found herself connecting with some other artists, providing a good opportunity to discuss their work. She became a full-time artist about 20 years ago, pursuing a passion and talent she began developing as a child. Her family pushed her to take the lead into art as a profession, and she was able to pull it off.

“We’ve had a lot of people come through, and other artists, people who dabble in it, and it gives you a chance to exchange the energy and the creativity. It’s great, people here, our neighbours, get to know what we do as well.

Lussier likes painting with oils.

“I love the smell, I love the way they move on the canvas. I’m inspired by mood and colour, she said.

“I don’t paint from pictures, I paint from ideas I crate out of my head. A lot of my paintings have a story behind them. That’s the most important avenue from my creative side, to be able to put the poetry in with the painting.

Like Lussier and Fellner, the artists on the tour work in a variety of media and crate with a multitude of styles, including photography, sculpting, pottery, painting, stained glass and even knife making.

“I’ve done really well, said knife maker Tom Laxdal at his workshop, on the northeast shore of Emma Lake near McPhail Cove.

“The crowd has been very responsive and very good.”

Laxdal has been making knives for 22 years. He started with a small kit and kept growing. He takes Japanese steel and grinds it to a fine point. He then tempers his steel to improve its hardness and lifecycle. He said the process requires patience, hand-eye coordination and the eye of an artist.

Carol Hofferd makes stained glass art.

Like Laxdal, she started small and eventually branched out and learned more she could do in her chosen medium.

“It’s wide and varied,” she said.

‘Whatever I want to do I can do and I can experiment. A lot of my things are one of a kind because they’ve come out of my hear.”

Hoffer likes how colours work and blend together. She said glass can be everything from large-scale works such as church windows, to sun catchers, jewellery and fused glass.

“It’s so wide-ranging it can open up whole new fields for you that you never thought were possible. It’s whatever your imagination will let you do.”

Hofferd was exhibiting with Ricklefs in the Village of Christopher Lake. While there were more people than previous years, sales were a little slow.

“You never know if it’s going to be good or not,” Ricklefs said.

Still, the tour provides a great opportunity.

“We’ve had a lot of people through,” she said, “people getting familiar with what we do.”

Letter: softball championships did city proud

Peter Lozinski
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Letter: softball championships did city proud

World Junior Men’s Fastball Championship. The World’s championships……how was Prince Albert provided such an amazing opportunity?!

Simply, we had a visionary host committee who took a dream and spent four years making it a reality! Can you imagine the hours and hours of planning and preparation? Hundreds of volunteers then put the plan into action. Fans turned out by the thousands to enjoy great sport, teamwork and sportsmanship.

Every team I visited remarked on the world calibre diamonds. They spoke how well the event was organized and couldn’t say enough about the hospitality. As fans, we witnessed the amazing skill sets of the teams and players. I am so thankful for the “little” things that “just” happened including efforts to keep the site clean of litter.

Our community is indebted to the host committee, volunteers and local businesses who supported this world-class event. There are 9 teams, from 9 different countries throughout the world, who are going home and sharing stories about the event, the hospitality they enjoyed and the beauty of our Province.

This event was priceless and all of Prince Albert should feel so proud! Thank-you to every person who contributed and/or supported this event. Our community’s youth will enjoy for years the world-class playing surfaces that will groom more local players for Team Canada.

Brian Martin
Prince Albert

No criminal charges in GTH investigation, but NDP still asking questions

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No criminal charges in GTH investigation, but NDP still asking questions

Sask. Party hoping to divest from troubled project

No criminal charges will be laid against anyone involved in the Global Transportation Hub (GTH) land deal, the RCMP announced Wednesday.

RCMP Supt. Paul Saganski, federal criminal operations officer, addressed media Wednesday. The RCMP launched their investigation in February 2016 in response to complaints brought forward about transactions that took place between March 2012 and April 2014.

The transactions have also been examined by the provincial auditor and the conflict of interest commissioner, and have been subject to public scrutiny.

The auditor’s report focused on 41 acres of land purchased by the GTH for $1.2 million in 2013, and 204 acres bought a year later for $21 million.

The GTH is an inland port just west of Regina.

Several landowners, including a group of nuns, sold their land to Robert Taapauff, who flipped it at an increased price to Regina businessman Anthony Marquart.

Saskatchewan’s auditor found taxpayers ended up paying too much when the provincial government bought the land from Marquart. The report concluded not enough was done by the province to buy land in a financially responsible way and brought to light a series of communication failures between government departments, a lack of business cases for decisions made and not enough general documentation.

Bill Boyd, the minister responsible for the GTH at the time of the transactions, faced much criticism from the Opposition NDP over his role in the deals. Part of that criticism stemmed from Boyd’s and the governing Saskatchewan Party ties to Marquart and Tappauff.

The Tapauff family has rented land to Boyd and donated to his election campaigns as well as the party. Between 2009 and 2014, Marquart’s companies have given more than $20,000 to the Saskatchewan Party.

The provincial auditor’s report found no conflict of interest with Boyd’s involvement in the deals, but a number of people launched complaints to the RCMP before the report came out.

In the wake of the immediate criticism, Boyd launched a lawsuit against CBC Saskatchewan, the news outlet that first broke the GTH land deal story.

The RCMP said they would not normally disclose results of their investigations unless they lead to charges, however, the force said, due to the high level of public interest, they were able to release some information.

The investigation involved 7,500 hours, or about 1,000 working days, and looked at the evidence to determine whether any criminal wrongdoing took place, strictly focusing on land acquisitions related to the Global Transportation Hub.

“The investigative team used the Criminal Code as their guide,” Saganski said.

“Investigators for this had a commercial crime and financial crime background. We would have focused on offences related to fraud, public mischief and corruption.”

According to Saganski, best practice in complex investigations is to identify a crown attorney to provide advice.

This case was handled by Manitoba public prosecutions. The office received all the investigative materials in fall 2017 and provided their opinion that charges not be pressed on April 2018. More than one conversation was held with public prosecutions.

The investigation was “very meticulous in terms of scope and detail,” Saganski said.

“Thousands of documents were examined. It does take a while to investigate allegations of a commercial crime. Based on the totality of everything our investigation recovered, it took us until this time to exhaust our investigation.”

A core team of three investigators worked on the file, but up to ten officers worked on the investigation. Expertise was used out of Ottawa, and documents were obtained freely, without the use of a search warrant.

“Our investigators feel very comfortable knowing how the transactions took place,” Saganski said.

“We conducted a thorough, well-thought-out and comprehensive investigation.”

He also said that police never reached the threshold of evidence where they would be able to even obtain a search warrant. That threshold is that suspicion a criminal offence occurred. The police never had enough evidence to issue a search warrant even if they wanted to.

That point stuck out to Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan, who addressed media in Saskatoon Wednesday. Despite the NDP’s call for a public judicial inquiry, a call backed by now-deputy premier Gord Wyant during his campaign for party leadership, Morgan said the results of this investigation show it’s time to move on.

“What raised my eyebrows today is that they couldn’t get a search warrant, so I don’t think we need to go any further on it,” he said.

“I think we’re prepared to move on. The work the RCMP did would indicate that it would be time to turn the page.”

For the government, turning the page means exploring ways to divest from the GTH. Morgan admitted it was an ill-conceived and poorly-executed project.

“There were certainly mistakes in our government’s handling of the matter,” he said.

“We did a poor job assembling the land. We moved slowly. That allowed speculators to move in, buy the land and resell it at a much higher cost to taxpayers than we would have paid had we acted sooner.”

Morgan pointed out the GTH has created hundreds of jobs and market access, and employes over 1,000 people. But the projects are losing money, and as Morgan said, Scott Moe’s government wants to move on, not just from the scandal, but from the project itself.

“In retrospect, it’s probably not a business the government should have been involved in, but we are and we have to deal with it. Now is the time to move on and explore opportunities for possible divestiture of the management and the assets.”

So far, there isn’t a timeline, plan or potential buyer for the GTH. The government wants to review what the asset is worth, what the strategy would be and how to go forward, Morgan said.

But others, including both the opposition NDP and the right-leaning Canadian Taxpayers Federation, have called for an independent inquiry into how the government ended up overpaying for the land. Morgan argues those answers are already in the public demand, but NDP critic Trent Wotherspoon disagrees.

“We’re really thankful for the work of the RCMP,” he said.

‘While criminal charges aren’t being laid, clearly Saskatchewan people deserve answers and to get to the bottom on this front. Millions have been wasted, taxpayers have been ripped off, nuns have been ripped off (and) government has been anything but forthright.”

Wotherspoon said he would also like to see a full, public analysis into any future sale of the GTH, as he has lost trust in the government’s ability to handle the file.

“Just because criminal charges aren’t being laid … doesn’t make how this as handled right,” he said.

“We have a government that’s obfuscated every step of the way, that lied to Saskatchewan people, that tried to cover over this scandal, and it’s past time that Saskatchewan people who have lost hard earned dollars on this project, it’s past time they get the answers they deserve

I call on this premier to do the right thing – own up, step up, get to the bottom of this and make sure this never happens again in Saskatchewan.”

Wotherspoon said the government still has to answer why it didn’t follow its own policies, why former premier Brad Wall brought up an appraisal that wasn’t used as a defence of what happened. Why the government tried to “go to great lengths to try to cover over this scandal,” and what exactly the roles of former MLA Bill Boyd and former public servant Laurie Pushor were in the land deals.

Morgan, in his comments, dismissed the need to answer any more questions and said the government has been forthcoming on this topic.

“There comes a time when you have to turn the page on it,” he said.

“We’ve answered questions in the legislature … almost daily. The answers we’ve given are that the provincial auditor has reviewed this (and) Mr. Boyd referred himself to the conflict commissioner for some support on it. We accepted (the auditor’s) recommendations. There comes a time to say no, we’ve answered the questions.”

— with files from D.C. Fraser, Regina Leader-Post

Little Red River man charged with making child pornography

Peter Lozinski
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Little Red River man charged with making child pornography

A 21-year-old man from Little Red River Reserve is facing multiple charges in a child porn investigation.

Drake Christian Lacerte, 21, has been charged with making child pornography, making child pornography available and possession of child pornography.

The investigation began on July 5, 2018, when Saskatchewan’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit began looking into the activities of a person posting and sharing child porn online through an image sharing service. The investigators identified a location on the Little Red River Reserve where the offences were occurring.

Tuesday, ICE executed a search warrant at that location, seizing a cellphone. A laptop was seized from a separate location. The devices will be examined further.

Lacerte was arrested on scene and held in custody. he appeared in provincial court on Wednesday, where his case was adjourned until July 26 at 10 a.m. for a show cause hearing.

ICE is composed of investigators from the RCMP, Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert municipal police services. Their mandate is to investigate crimes involving the abuse and/or exploitation of children on the Internet.

Little Red River Reserve is located about 30 km north of Prince Albert.

Raiders acquire rights to Noah Gregor

Peter Lozinski
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Raiders acquire rights to Noah Gregor

The Prince Albert Raiders have acquired the rights to 1998-born centre Noah Gregor from the Victoria Royals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Gregor, a 2016 fourth-round pick of the San Jose Sharks, split last year between the Moose Jaw Warriors and Victoria Royals, scoring 29 goals and 36 assists in 60 games. He added six goals and six assists in 11 playoff games with Victoria.

The Sharks prospect signed an entry-level deal with the NHL club back in April.

“If he doesn’t come back, the conditions are such that it’s not a big deal,” Raiders general manager Curtis Hunt said when reached by phone Wednesday.

“However, if he comes back, he comes to a really good spot in Prince Albert in terms of team environment, in terms of a development plan, veteran coaches — I think we’re poised to have a pretty good team.”

Gregor has averaged more than a point per game during his 194-game WHL career, putting up 85 goals and 119 assists, to go along with 11 goals and 12 assists in 28 career playoff appearances.

If he were to return for another WHL season, Gregor would count towards one of Prince Albert’s three 20-year-old overagers. Gregor is one of 14 signed centremen on San Jose’s depth chart.

Gregor played one playoff game for the Sharks’ AHL affiliate last year, earning zero points and posting a plus/minus rating of -2.

“He would be a great addition,” Hunt said. “he’s been a point per game guy or better in his career, and he’s got tremendous speed and skill. He can score as well as distribute the puck, and we saw him quite a bit when he was with Moose Jaw and … with Victoria. He’s an all-situation player in our league.”

Any team can carry more than three 20-year-olds up until October 10. Last year, the team carried Simon Stransky on their roster until that point. The Raiders have three returning overagers currently on the roster: forwards Kody MacDonald and Sean Montgomery as well as backup goalie Curtis Meger.

“Noah may or may not come to camp,” Hunt said.

“I spoke to him and told him we can determine that another time. There’s no urgency to make that decision now. His mindset this summer is to play in the National Hockey League, and if not, in the American Hockey League. He’s poised to play pro.

“From our perspective, if he comes back he’ll be a great addition, and if he doesn’t we’ll just carry on.”

P.A. teen dies in collision north of city

Peter Lozinski
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P.A. teen dies in collision north of city

A 17-year-old is dead and a 37-year-old injured after a collision north of Prince Albert Tuesday.

According to a press release, Prince Albert RCMP, Parkland Ambulance and the Buckland Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle collision near the junction of White Star Road and Cloverdale Road, about 15 km northeast of Prince Albert.

When emergency responders arrived, one of the drivers, a 17-year-old Prince Albert male, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The other driver, a 37-year-old woman, was taken to hospital with minor injuries. There were no other occupants in either vehicle. The name of the deceased is not being released.

The Prince Albert RCMP continue to investigate with assistance from a collision reconstructionist and the coroner’s office.

Provincial deficit lower than budgeted

Peter Lozinski
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Provincial deficit lower than budgeted

Public accounts show lower deficit, but debt load increasing

An insurance windfall and stronger performance in the oil and potash sectors has helped the province perform better than budgeted during the 2017-18 fiscal year.

The first volume of the province’s public accounts, which details the government’s fiscal performance, was released on July 19, 2018.

The document shows a deficit of $303 million, which is $916 million less than the year prior, and $393 million lower than the budgeted deficit.

According to the report, that’s partly because of higher non-renewable resource revenues and a better-than-expected insurance performance.

Those gains were offset by higher-than-expected spending in health care and social services, and lower-than-expected transfers of money from the federal government.

As of March 31, 2018, Saskatchewan had an accumulated surplus of $176 million. The province had budgeted for a $324 million deficit.

Total revenue was lower than expected, falling $146 million, or one per cent, lower than expected, mostly due to falling income and corporate tax revenues. Individual income tax revenue fell due to lower-than-expected tax assessments, and corporate taxes fell due to lower resource prices.

The price of oil came in lower than the budget had predicted. The budget included an estimated average price of $55.30 per barrel. While production increased, as did the government’s resource surcharge and income from potash sales, the oil price averaged just $50.87 per barrel.

Income from insurance came in at $265 million, 231.6 per cent higher than budgeted. The report indicated that was due to higher-than-expected returns on investments and lower-than-expected insurance claims. Crop insurance claims were down compared to the budget, due to a stronger harvest.

The province’s net debt increased by $1.1 billion. That was mostly due to the $3.7 billion in capital spending. The debt-per-capita grew by about $1,000 per person during the 2017-18 fiscal year. Still, debt charges as a percentage of total revenue remained flat at four per cent.

While the province did receive less money from the federal government as compared to last year, Saskatchewan had benefitted from a one-time payout in 2016-17 for taking over federal dams.

At 17.3 per cent of its total income, the percentage of revenue from federal transfers was at the second highest level since 2009.

 

Researcher hopes to improve care for Indigenous women with HIV

Peter Lozinski
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Researcher hopes to improve care for Indigenous women with HIV

A University of Saskatchewan researcher has received funding that will help her team explore a pair of projects studying issues facing Indigenous women diagnosed with HIV.

Dr. Alexandra King, the Cameco chair in Indigenous health, is leading the two projects. One is studying he potential benefits of peer support for Indigenous women who have HIV or hepatitis C, and the other examining how to improve health and wellness in older Indigenous women living with HIV.

Saskatchewan has the highest rate of HIV in Canada, a rate 2.3 times higher the national average. According to a University of Saskatchewan press release, HIV and hepatitis disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples, particularly Indigenous women.

According to King, her team’s research project examining health outcomes for older Indigenous women is focusing on their particular needs as they age with the disease.

While the prognosis for someone with HIV in today’s society is pretty good, it wasn’t always that way. In the 1990s, HIV would often lead to AIDS and then death for many people, King said. The first treatments on the market were “really horrible” she said, and caused problems for people themselves.

“Now you have people who are in their 50s and 60s who have been living with the disease for 20, 30 years or even longer than that,” she said.

“They’re been through a lot of this early history and drug development. It’s not everybody, but now they’re at a point where they tend to have a lot of premature morbidity and mortality, and increase in disease as well as the HIV itself.”

Anyone who went through that period of time with HIV is at risk of osteoporosis, diabetes or increased risk of heart attack, and that’s one of the “hot topics” in HIV research, King said.

“Indigenous people would be the same as non-Indigenous people in terms of some of those risk factors or morbidity. But where things might be different s that, first of all, socially, economically, Indigenous people tend to be a little worse off. If you haven’t had a good income, good education and so on, being older and living with all of these diseases can be even more challenging.”

The answer for some people, King said, comes down to culture and spirituality. Through the study, King’s team will engage with older Indigenous women living with HIV to create and implement a wellness pilot project based on their self-defined needs in five communities n Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

The other project also involves looking at Indigenous women and HIV, but without the age restriction. That is taking a look at how to engage with them in their care and other systems.

“It’s a question of getting them to the medical clinics, but also, sometimes, we need to be dealing with social supports and other issues,” King said.

“Housing support, or income support or finding employment – There are a whole bunch of different things that go into what somebody might need to make them healthy. What we find is that people have already walked that path … know a lot about that, and have a lot of good insights.”

King said the wisdom that comes from those experiences can be “quite profound.”

That $1.39 million study will examine the role of peer navigator support to help Indigenous women living with HIV or hepatitis to connect with, navigate and receive support from the health care system.

According to a press release, many Indigenous communities put value on wisdom gained through lived experience, and peer navigators can relate to patients in ways doctors, nurses and other health professionals can’t. Sometimes, that means helping people connect to their spiritual and cultural backgrounds.

“For a lot of us Indigenous people, the whole process of colonization has resulted in a disconnection from culture,” King said.

‘Some of us are really connected with our culture in a really strong way, and others may not be at all. Depending on where people are in their own journey, the notion of being able to connect with culture and community and start understanding about spirituality can be really quite profound for somebody. That’ something that, again, people with lived experience who have walked this path can help make those connections to a community … and help people figure out the way they want to manage their health and wellness.”

The funding for the studies is coming from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). A total of $2.4 million was awarded for four research projects. The funding will pay for 14 staff positions, six graduate students and one post-doctoral fellow.

King thanked CIHR and the University of Saskatchewan.

“I’m really grateful to the team I’m working with and the university of Saskatchewan. They have been implementing different processes to help researchers become more successful in our research grants,” she said.

 

 

 

 

A show with ‘heart’

Peter Lozinski
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A show with ‘heart’

A play on until August at the Station Arts Centre in Rosthern tells a familiar story for anyone who has ever been somewhere new.

Prairie Nurse, by Toronto-based playwright Marie Beath Badian, tells the story of a pair of Filipina nurses who move immigrate to Saskatchewan in the late 1960s. It’s loosely based on the true life experiences of her mother, one of two Filipina nurses who came to a small community hospital in Arborfield, Sask., in 1967.

“I know this show will touch people here in Saskatchewan, especially people who have immigrated here,” said director Johnna Wright in a press release.

“They all have their own version of arriving here and thinking, ‘Oh my God, what is this place?’”

The play is comedic, as miscommunication, mispronunciation and misunderstandings arise while the locals try to make the pair of newcomers feel comfortable.

“The characters are bumbling at times but there’s really a lot of heart in it,” Wright said. “they try to teach these young women all about Canadian hockey, slang and even the difference between Worcestershire and soy sauce. Above all, this show is kind. These people just want to make these women welcome however they ca. Even though there’s ignorance, it speaks well about the people of this province because they are well-meaning. This show will make you feel good about the culture you come from.”

Andrea Macasaet plays one of the two newcomers. She’s Filipina herself and said the script does a good job of reflecting what her family encountered when they came to Canada.

“A lot of the script I can relate to. In the process of auditioning and rehearsing, I would share some of the things in the script with my mom, and she found a lot of the moments she could relate to as well,” Macasaet said.

“It wasn’t hard to put ourselves into the moment because they’re so true to what we know.”

The show has been on since July 7 and continues until August 5. Audiences have been enjoying the show, Macasaet said, filling the theatre with laughter.

“A lot of people from Saskatchewan can really relate to this show in such a great way. I find it so refreshing to come out of the dressing room after the show is done and hear people how well they can relate to the show, the setting and the attitudes, it’s really great,” she said.

Part of the reason, she thinks, is everyone has been new to something at some point in their lives.

“I think people can relate to this play in a way that we’ve all been new to something — a new job, school, country, province — we’ve all been there, we all know what it feels like to be new, and I think this story highlights that in a way that’s really fun and full of heart,” she said.

‘A lot of love is put into this play, and I think people will definitely see that when they come to the show. They’ll come out with smiling faces.”

Shows run Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for children under 12 and $25 for individuals in a group of ten or more.

Dinners are available between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. and luncheons from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Station Arts Centre is a renovated CN Railway Station in Rosthern, at 701 Railway Avenue.

“if you want to have a laugh, definitely come out to Prairie Nurse,” Macasaet said.

‘The cast and crew have put so much effort and so much love into this show, and I’m so happy to be a part of it.

 

Updated: Fire burning near P.A. contained

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Updated: Fire burning near P.A. contained

A wildfire that ignited at about 1 p.m. Friday just north of Prince Albert has been contained.

The fire was located northeast of the wildfire operations centre and southeast of the Red River Roping and Riding Arena. A person familiar with the area said the fire is burning in “the coliseum”, a sand pit where some people go to party and hang out. A ministry official described the fire as burning one mile south of the Red River Roping and Riding Club. As of 4 p.m., it was between seven and eight hectares large, or 0.07-0.08 square kilometres.

By Saturday morning, the size of the fire had been updated to 15 hectares, or 0.15 square kilometres. The fire hadn’t grown, but crews had been able to better estimate its size. The estimated location shown on the province’s wildfire information system shows the fire burning about 250 m north of the sand pit, in an area accessible from both Little Red River Park and the Kristi Lake Nature Trail entrance.

The location is about 400m west of the northwest corner of Little Red River Park, where it ends at Lempereur Road.

A wildfire was burning just north of Prince Albert on July 20, seen from the Prince Albert side of the river (Peter Lozinski/Daily Herald)

Both wildfire management and Buckland Fire Rescue trucks were seen responding to the fire.

According to the Ministry of Environment, the fire was reported just after 1 p.m. and is being fought by ministry and Buckland crews with air tanker support.

An RCMP officer was working to close the road leading to Mark’s Nine and the Kristi Lake Nature Trail.

Members of the public were advised to avoid the area and to avoid becoming a hazard by stopping on the highway. There was no immediate threat to property. Wind blowing towards Highway 2, posed a risk of causing smoke drift in the area.

Crews are expected to continue working on and around the fire throughout the weekend.

There is a fire burning in the forest south of the Red River Roping and Riding. Fire Base has a crew on it as well and…

Posted by Rural Municipality of Buckland No. 491 on Friday, July 20, 2018

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but there was no lightning in the area.

 

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