Diane Rogers

The Saskatchewan Agricultural Health and Safety Network plans to twist some arms this year. The network will celebrate its 20th year in 2008 and to mark the anniversary, it has announced a campaign to sign up 200 rural municipalities as members. Right now 166 RMs are members of the network, out of a total of […] Read more

Four representatives of the South East Cornerstone School Division in Weyburn, Sask., walked into the lion’s den in Saskatoon March 14 when they appeared on a panel at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities convention. School closures and education taxes are hot button issues for rural residents these days, but only one exchange with SARM […] Read more

HUMBOLDT, Sask. – Canada can’t tackle rural poverty until the farm income problem is resolved, a witness told the Senate standing committee on agriculture and forestry in Humboldt on March 8. Germain Dauk, a pulse grower from Naicam, Sask., told the committee that he and his two sons who farm with him “are scrambling to […] Read more

DRINKWATER, Sask. – The Thuls don’t know who to thank for nominating them as the 2007 farm family of the year for the Moose Jaw Exhibition in Moose Jaw, Sask., but they are appreciative. It was a nice event, said Rhonda Thul of the Feb. 23 banquet. Moose Jaw has been presenting the award since […] Read more

Over the next three years members of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada will donate school supplies, mitts, scarves and toques to needy communities. Valerie Watt, a former president of the Manitoba WI, is in charge of organizing the national project as FWIC’s executive officer. She said six regions have been selected for the project. […] Read more

Despite public uproar over education taxes and school closures, it is easy to find people willing to run as trustees. Bill Wells, executive director of the Saskatchewan School Boards Association, said contentious issues actually attract people to serve on school boards. “When everything is calm, the number of candidates shrinks.” He sees no lessening of […] Read more

Olivia Hellman didn’t want her school at Richmound, Sask., to be closed without a protest. So at her parents’ suggestion, the Grade 10 student wrote a letter to the Chinook School Division outlining reasons why small schools like hers should remain open. She read it aloud at a Feb. 6 public meeting and received a […] Read more

On cold days, Harley Delorme makes pancakes or oatmeal to go with the juice he serves for breakfast to students at Broadway Elementary School in Melfort, Sask. Most days, the students who come before school starts get juice and cereal. Before recess, all 98 students in the Kindergarten to Grade 6 school get a snack […] Read more

Never underestimate a sweet tooth. Two Saskatchewan fruit growers have successfully marketed ice cream and chocolates using their orchard products as a base. Wayne Pearson, who has an orchard near Vanscoy, and Dean Kreutzer, who grows fruit in the Lumsden area, told their fellow fruit growers in the province how their operations work during Crop […] Read more

A University of Saskatchewan archaeology professor is hoping a farm family will volunteer its homestead site for a field school this summer. Margaret Kennedy wants to teach 10 students about excavation on a Depression era homestead for five weeks in May and June. She said the site would hopefully be close to Saskatoon and would […] Read more