Avis de décès de John Ives

John Arthur (Jack) Ives, Senior Tisdale, Saskatchewan John Arthur (Jack) Ives passed away at Tisdale Hospital July 4, 2009, after a battle with cancer. Mr. Ives was born at Melfort, Saskatchewan, on August 3, 1926, the son of Corporal Patrick Joseph Ives of the Saskatchewan Provincial Police and Georgina Royal McBean Ives. The family moved to Tisdale in 1928, where Corporal Ives had homesteaded in 1904. Jack Ives attended Tisdale schools until Grade 11 when he left school to apprentice in the printing trade at The Tisdale Recorder. In 1949, he joined the composing room staff of the Prince Albert Daily Herald, where he was elected president of Local 705 of the International Typographical Union, and was its delegate to the Western Federation of Allied Printing Trades. In 1951, Jack wed Marie Watson, who was raised in the Whitefox District. While in Prince Albert, he was also a member of the CKBI Radio Players, and took part in the Anglican Sunday School of the Air. In 1953, along with his brother Joe, Jack purchased the Tisdale Recorder. When Joe left to pursue other interests after a partnership of 22 years, Marie joined Jack as a partner in the business until they retired in 1982. As editor and publisher of The Tisdale Recorder, Mr. Ives attended his first Tisdale Council meeting in 1953. When he retired from Council in 1991, he had seen 38 years of almost uninterrupted attendance at those meetings in the capacity of newsman, councillor (1968-70; 1985-91) or mayor (1974-76). His decades of community service were not given solely in the area of Town Council affairs. He served on the Tisdale Volunteer Fire Department, and was appointed to the lay advisory board of St. Therese Hospital, serving in various capacities for 22 years. He also represented a number of hospitals in the Tisdale area on the North Central Regional Hospital Council. He held various offices in Tisdale Chamber of Commerce leading to its presidency, and did committee work with the Tisdale Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, the Tisdale Ramblers senior hockey club, and the Boy Scouts. He was active with the vestry of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Tisdale, serving also as a lay reader. During his first term as a councillor, he introduced a public housing program to Tisdale, which grew to have 140 low rental suites for seniors in four complexes as well as 20 threebedroom homes for low income families. As mayor, he negotiated for a 60-suite senior's high rise conveniently located near the community's business district. He later served for nine years on the board of the Tisdale Housing Authority administering these dwellings. He also led council in the creation of a $750,000 land assembly scheme of pre-serviced residential lots, negotiated with Transport Minister Otto Lang for paving at the Tisdale airport, saw to the paving of about 40% of the town's streets, and improved community lighting. He served for four years on the board of Kipabiskau Regional Park. He was the town's appointee to the Tisdale and District Fire Control Board, comprised of communities and rural municipalities in the area. A large sports complex and community hall, known as the Tisdale Recplex, adjoins the public school and is operated jointly by school district authorities and the town. Mr. Ives was chairman of the planning committee for four years as this major facility came into existence. For five years he served Tisdale and district as a Justice of the Peace. A flag design created by him was runner-up in the Saskatchewan flag competition in 1969. When the Town of Tisdale wished to have its own flag, his redesign of the provincial entry won the competition, and now flys over Tisdale. In 1991, the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association awarded him its Scoop Lewry award for outstanding service to urban government; his community service was also recognized with award of the federal government's Canada 125 medal. Mr. Ives was editor and publisher of the Tisdale Recorder for nearly 30 years, receiving numerous provincial and national awards in Better Newspaper competitions. He was named to the board of directors for the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association in 1960 and elected its president in 1967. He counted many of that organization's members among his good friends. During his presidency, the membership directed his executive to create Adsask Agencies Limited to sell advertising on behalf of Saskatchewan weeklies. He also created the Printer's Devil award presented annually to friends of the weekly press. A highlight in his newspaper career came in 1979 when he was a member of a four community editors' team comprising the first media group to visit Europe on the occasion NATO's 30th anniversary, at the height of the Cold War. The team was able to interview NATO officials, including Secretary-General Joseph Luns, and to take part in Exercise Certain Sentinel 30 kilometers from the Iron Curtain. Mr. Ives was frequently called upon to serve as a judge for provincial and national newspaper competitions, including the Newslink Journalist Exchange Program. In retirement, Mr. Ives belonged to the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, writing local history and short stories. He had items appear in Canadian Geographic and The Beaver, and received an honourable mention in the Stephen Leacock Heritage Festival short story competition. In 2000, Mr. Ives received the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal; in 2005, he received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal. Mr. Ives was predeceased by his parents, his half-brother Harold, and his daughter Barbara. He is survived by his wife Marie, his brothers George and Joe Ives, his sister Maureen Gibson (nee Ives), sons Dr. Jack Ives, Jr. and Don Ives, eight grandchildren (Sarah Dobko, Meghan and Matthew Sych, children of Brian and Barbara Sych; Kimberly and Jesse Ives, children of Jack and Barbara (King) Ives; and Rebecca, Marla and Robin Ives, children of Don and Brenda (Marleau) Ives), as well as one great grandchild, Macklin Dobko (Mark and Sarah Dobko).