Welcome to the Cypress Hills REDA Website

"The Oasis of the Southwest"

This website contains numerous examples of many of the important and exciting projects we are either sponsoring or facilitating. The Cypress Hills REDA will continue to play a prominent role in identifying, encouraging, promoting and facilitating the growth and development of our regional economy. The CHREDA has been created so small businesses, beginning entrepreneurs and the local communities within the Cypress Hills region can receive professional assistance. Our offices provide a wide range of technical advice, from putting the finishing touches on your business plan, to helping you with new ideas for your existing business to ensure it remains profitable and viable. We offer groups and organizations support in getting projects ( and often new organizations) started, and ensure that the proponents have a good operational structure and sound business plan from which they can develop their proposals. Since CHREDA was established in June 1998, general operations have expanded to offer services to all communities within the region.

Three Stars: Chance, Opportunity, Change

Would one take the chance, if chance meant opportunity, and opportunity meant change? You could use all three of these words, in the same sentence, in different order.    We asked ourselves the question; but do we really want to know the answer?  Without change, opportunity is near impossible. We can not change without taking a chance.  Opportunity is a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances.  Favorable circumstances are brought on by change. Change is defined as making or becoming different in some particular way. You can not be different without taking a chance, a risk involving danger. Danger brings fear. There is only one thing we can fear in rural Saskatchewan and that is “STATUS QUO”.

Status Quo is equivalent to the reluctance to change, keeping things the way they presently are and being the same. Same is defined as unchanged in character or nature.  The opposite of being the same is being unique.  If we are all unique, does that make us all the same?  Does it really matter?  It does to one who compares. One only compares when one is under confident or insecure; if one is a follower rather than a leader. We live in a province that likes to compare but a region that will not allow for comparison.  Let’s crush “STATUS QUO”, let’s take chances, erase the fears of change and jump at opportunities no matter what obstacles and barriers are thrown at us.

Jay Meyer
General Manager
Cypress Hills REDA

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