Colleen Hawkesford

SASKATOON – It’s time once again to don green and white clothing or sport a clover on your lapel. National 4-H week, being held from Nov. 4-10, kicks off with National Clover Day. “We’ll ask everybody to wear their 4-H green and white or 4-H T-shirts to school or to work,” said Angie Friend, communications […] Read more

SASKATOON – Neither horse dentists nor the Manitoba veterinary association is satisfied with a court-imposed fine against a Winnipeg man who practised equine dentistry. Guy Kling was fined $103 for unlawfully practising veterinary medicine while not a registered member of the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association. Kling said he was disappointed to be found guilty, but […] Read more

SASKATOON – The Mourre’s windmill had been standing at their abandoned farm near Sovereign, Sask. for about 50 years. It was a local landmark and a family keepsake. That is, until last month, when somebody stole it. “It’s open season,” said Paul Mourre. “If you want something just go over to the farms and load […] Read more

SASKATOON – It’s hard to tell if Manitoba’s rural stress line is dead or dying. “At the present time it’s not operating,” said Greg Arason, chair of the advisory committee to the stress line. The Manitoba government won’t provide any more funding for the project. “There is no further contribution to be made. We have […] Read more

SASKATOON – With the Crow Benefit gone, many prairie farmers are buying grain cleaners to save on freight expenses. But now a university report takes exception to the assumption of cost savings. It said farmers shouldn’t buy grain cleaners because they usually don’t pay for themselves. But Warren Schmidt of Flaman Sales Ltd. in Southey, […] Read more

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – The internet is probably one of the best things to happen to Saskatchewan, according to Rick Ellson of Today’s Technology Marketing Group of Saskatoon. He and Daryll Sewell of Strategis (Industry Canada) lectured on the use of the internet for business at a recent provincial entrepreneur’s convention. Because Saskatchewan is primarily […] Read more

SASKATOON – Mice get cold too, you know. And the smarter ones soon discover it’s better to weather the arctic blasts of winter in a warm house than outside. To head them off before they set up their winter homes in the basement, tour the house, and “go over the outside of it inch by […] Read more

SASKATOON – When Canada’s international trade minister Art Eggleton visited here recently he praised exporters for jobs they created while developing new markets. Eggleton told two export companies in Saskatoon that “the more new markets companies (find), the more jobs for Canadians at home.” But Art Knight, president of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science […] Read more

SASKATOON – If Saskatchewan farmers don’t clean their chemical containers before returning them to collection sites, they’ll wind up paying more in the end. The cost of handling empty containers is covered by the chemical companies, but if the containers aren’t clean, it costs more to recycle them. The manufacturers then charge more for their […] Read more