Who’s the busiest person in northern Saskatchewan? If his recent schedule is any indication, it may just be Creighton Mayor Bruce Fidler.
The mayor’s recent and upcoming travel schedule was discussed during town council’s Sept. 25 meeting.
Fidler’s travel report for September began with attending the Northern Saskatchewan Environmental Quality Committee meeting in Prince Albert Sept. 3-5 before including a visit to the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA) meeting in Vancouver Sept. 9-14.
Not long after coming back to Saskatchewan, Fidler was back on the clock, taking part in a Sept. 16 Regional Economic Development Committee (REDC) meeting in Flin Flon before heading to Prince Albert again Sept. 23-24 for a Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) event, representing New North as the regional group’s chair.
“They came up with a few proposals, why they wanted to meet with us. They gave us some thoughts to take back to our executive and our membership,” Fidler said.
“That was a very interesting meeting and there are a lot of possibilities of how things can move forward with the two groups.”
October wasn’t looking much quieter for Fidler, either.
“It’s very busy. That last month wasn’t actually that busy,” he said with a chuckle.
Filder attended a Visions North meeting in La Ronge, then went to Regina for a meeting with provincial highways and infrastructure minister Lori Carr to present a regional transportation plan. Following that, Fidler attended a meeting in Warman for the Northeast Transportation and Planning Committee and will end the month by going to Gatineau, Que. for the annual Cando conference.
Fidler also attended a meeting in Saskatoon at the start of October.
Mutual aid
Councillors approved something that hasn’t been formally done in decades - they put down a mutual aid agreement between the Creighton Volunteer Fire Department and the Flin Flon Fire Department in writing.
While an agreement for each department to assist the other in case of emergency has existed for years, the agreement had always been informal. That is no longer the case, after the City of Flin Flon approved an official mutual aid agreement this past summer, Creighton councillors chose to do the same thing Sept. 25.
“It’s the same thing that’s been happening for years, except we never had a written agreement before. It was just a verbal or a handshake deal that we’ve had for the last 40 years,” Fidler said.
The agreements were made between both the mayors and councils of Flin Flon and Creighton, along with the fire chiefs of both communities.
“It’s basically just getting what’s always been done on paper,” said Fidler.
