Municipal Elections Are Over The municipal electi…

Municipal Elections Are Over

The municipal elections are over for another 3 years. At least the main newspapers in the province (Leader Post/StarPhoenix) will be able to go onto covering something other than who is going to win the mayor’s job in Saskatoon or Regina. But then I suppose they’ll have to rehash why and how come so and so didn’t win or why the incumbents actually came through again for at least another week or so.

Not that there was a terrific amount of campaigning in Hanley. Actually it was almost nil, but then again, maybe because I wasn’t around the coffee crowd I didn’t hear too much. Suits me fine as I have never been a political person. I do vote in all elections (big or small), but I mainly go my own way.

The folks who voted in the Town of Hanley kept 3 people from the previous council and elected 3 new people. According to the Government Relations site on Municipality Details, the 3 returning to council were Linda De Regt, Dwight Thall and Daryl Grindheim. The 3 new people will be Diane Ballard, Donald Measor and Clint Sira. The mayor, Don Lynn was re-elected by acclamation.

I wish them all the best and hope they all are able to provide the citizens of Hanley excellent service during their tour on the town council.

October 26, 2006 - Posted by saskabusher | Uncategorized | | 2 Comments

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My dad would of loved this site!

Comment by Andrew Measor | December 5, 2008 | Reply
- Glad to hear that Andrew. I didn’t know your dad well but I was pleased to have been able to sit down with both him and your mom for a 2-3 hour chat a couple weeks prior to your dad’s demise. I was working on their computer as it had slowed down considerably and your mom supplied your dad and I coffee while I worked and we talked.
  
  Your dad was very tired from working so many extra hours/shifts as the unit was short staffed from people being sick or on holidays. I commented to him that I found working 12 hour shifts when I was in Regina was very, very tiring and hard on the body. He agreed. Little did we know.
  
  Take care Andrew and check back every now and then…
  
  Thanks
  
  Dale
  
  Comment by saskabusher | December 8, 2008 | Reply

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After growing up in Saskatchewan I wanted to see the world. I joined the miltary in July 1967 (at about the time of the integration of the Armed Forces) and ended up with a Navy trade. Great, now I’ll really get to see the world. Nope, I ended up in Inuvik, NWT as my first posting. Then after 6 months I got a first class all expenses paid ticket to Alert, Nunavut. Well I could see the world from Alert as I was standing on the top of the world.

Looking back on it now, that was probably the best time of my life and like a lot of people, once you get ’snow’ in your veins, you never get it out. I always remember my time in the North as the best times I had.

However in 1975, after 8 years in the military with a 2 year trip to Bermuda and another 6 month tour in Alert, I took a different turn in my career and decided to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a Telecommunicator Operator. My first transfer was to North Battleford, Saskatchewan. This was going home for me as I was born 30 miles south of North Battleford in Wilkie, Saskatchewan.

In 1996 the RCMP in their wisdom decided to create one communication center for the province of Saskatchewan and decided on amalgamating the 6 communication centers into the center in Regina, Saskatchewan. So after 21 years in North Battleford I made the move to Regina.

There definitely was a difference from working in a smaller center like North Battleford (7 people) to the super center of Regina (50+ people).

I served in Regina for almost 9 years and in Feb 2005 I decided that I had enough. I took my retirement after 30 years with the RCMP plus 8 years in the Canadian Armed Forces for a total of 38 years service to Canada.

I moved to the small town of Hanley, Saskatchewan. Population approx 500 people. The lifestyle is so much quieter and laid back. It took me almost a year to actually settle into the quiet and peaceful surroundings of a small town. I’m not sure that I’m still fully settled in, however, I do feel a lot more comfortable in the town environment than I was when I first moved here.

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