Mayor Perkins provides update from Town of Kindersley

By Joan Janzen
joanjanzen@yahoo.com

Mayor Rod Perkins, along with the Kindersley Town Council, are getting ready to do their budgeting. “Most of our major projects are done. We just need to finish the industrial area. We did about two-thirds of it but still have approaches to work on and streets to build up,” he explained.

Other than that, the town is not planning any significant projects for the next twelve months. “We’ll focus on doing some work with the Chamber of Commerce and small business. That will be our focus,” he added.

After a cold and snowy winter, Mayor Perkins was proud of the job the town crew had done. “We’re in next year’s budget for snow removal. We did some contracting with four or five companies giving us a hand because we don’t have enough equipment to handle that first huge snowfall we had. But now we’re just using our own guys for clean up,” he said. “We don’t often get that much snow, and I’m really proud of the job our crew did, doing it as well and as quickly as they did, while not dealing with the nicest weather as well.”

Besides the snow, he said there was only one case of Covid in the Town office, but now everyone is healthy and back working. As for the days and months ahead, new businesses are preparing to open.

The 5Buds Cannabis store is currently renovating in preparation for its upcoming opening. There’s also a new women’s clothing store, which will be opening downtown sometime in March.

There are also plans for a new RCMP detachment to be constructed on a five-acre parcel of land near Highway 21. “It’s certainly in the plans,” Mayor Perkins said. “I met with the Sergeant, and he said his understanding was that they’re supposed to break ground this spring or summer. It will be a year-long construction project.”

Those were all the projects that were on the calendar for 2021, according to Mayor Perkins.