an ice storm of epic proportions hit eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and parts of the Maritimes on January 6, 1998, SaskPower was there to help. After being contacted with an offer of assistance, Hydro Quebec asked SaskPower to send generators. The corporation sent 23 generators and five employees to Quebec.

five SaskPower employees - Jim Mitzel, Dave Scuka, Alix Alix, Mike Neubauer and Jerome Choma - were stationed at Iberville, about 75 kilometres southeast of Montreal. The five worked up to 16 hours a day to install and maintain SaskPower's and other utility's generators located at hog and dairy barns around Iberville.

finishing one hook-up a farmer said to me if he'd gone two more hours without power, he'd have had to bulldoze 700 dead pigs out of his barn," Jim Mitzel said. "You knew you'd made a real difference in his life." - HiLines, February, 1998