Old tractors abandoned in scrap piles or dugouts are brought back to life by father and son with a passion for the past
CARIEVALE, Sask. — They have more than 200 antique tractors, 150 of which are in running order. Father-son team Scott and Kevin Stanley have made it their personal mission to rescue as many tractors as possible from sloughs and scrap heaps and breathe life back into each piece of agricultural history. The pair has spent […] Read moreStories by Christalee Froese
Vimy gives students a history lesson
The past is sometimes repeated, and that’s why Saskatchewan history teacher Brenda Doud has been taking students overseas for more than a decade. With one eye on the world’s war history and the other on current-day political turmoil, Doud led a group of 62 rural parents and high school students to France to mark the […] Read more
Reader follows author’s growth after challenges
Saskatchewan author Sharon Butala takes readers along with her on the journey to find a new place to live. After 31 years of toiling to make the rolling hills, pastured prairie and natural landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan home, Butala is forced to yank her life out at its rural root and head back to the […] Read more
Memoir of Somalian prison a poignant read
A House in the Sky is a memoir that will change you and the way you view the world. Amanda Lindhout’s real-life story of her abduction in Somalia will take you to a place you didn’t think existed and introduce you to people who haunt nightmares. Most sobering of all is the fact that Lindhout […] Read more
Passions combined to help people with problems
Retired dairy farmer turns barns into meeting rooms and arena to provide equine assisted psychotherapy for clients with mental illness
GRENFELL, Sask. — For four decades, Nancy Maurer has been in careers providing needed goods and services to people as a lab and X-ray technician and dairy farmer. When she retired in 2011, she knew that helping people would have to continue. After she and her husband, Daryl, and Lavern and Jan Maurer sold the […] Read more
Families operate as collective in farm business
Each couple owns their own home and land, but working together provides financial and lifestyle benefits
WYNYARD, Sask. — Four operations are better than one. That’s the thinking at Windy Poplars where a father, his two sons and their best friend farm collectively. While they operate separately under the Windy Poplars umbrella, the farm families have chosen to operate as a unit to optimize both purchasing power and labour. “Each farm […] Read more
Couple remains enthusiastic despite hurdles
WISHART, Sask. — Erin and Eric Yewsiuk knew that starting a cattle operation from scratch would take guts, grit and resilience. They began with eight cows in Eric’s name. “It was something I always wanted to do but I always thought it wouldn’t be a reality,” said Eric, a 23-year-old journeyman machinery technician who currently […] Read more
Storyteller offers vivid details of historical injustice
Trevor Herriot doesn’t beat around the bush. In his latest book, Towards a Prairie Atonement, the Saskatchewan naturalist tells it like he sees it: the stolen land, the displaced aboriginal peoples, the sins of colonialism and the annihilated grassland made to pay for it all. But the Regina writer stops short of burning the bush […] Read more
Program helps those in need
MONTMARTRE, Sask. —Montmartre School’s students are testing the theory that giving is better than receiving. The Grade 6/7 class has joined the rural community to participate in Project Happy Christmas, which provides local families with grocery hampers, Christmas gifts and a turkey dinner. Last year, Wendy Weichel’s Grade 7 class was part of the project […] Read more
Tourism operators learn to sell Sask. attractions to public
INDIAN HEAD, Sask. — A simulation of speed dating was one of the unique tools used at an inaugural Tourism Talks session held at Indian Head recently. Tourism Saskatchewan launched the Tourism Talks series of meetings to reach out to people involved in various aspects of rural tourism. The pilot project brought together more than […] Read more
