Diane Rogers

Melt dark chocolate and use it to coat a mixture of dwarf sour cherries and roasted chickpeas. Sound like a winner? Well, it was good enough for a team of University of Saskatchewan students who earned a semi-final position at a National Agri-Marketing Association competition in late April in Kansas City, Missouri. Students on the […] Read more

This week a new marble headstone went up in the cemetery in Bentley, Alta. The white headstone marks the grave of Patrick Bannon, an American who immigrated with his wife and son and daughter-in-law to Alberta from Minnesota in 1908. The engraved headstone was paid for by the American government and shipped from Virginia, because […] Read more

WEYBURN, Sask. – Judy Hart’s workday is measured out in 1,000 gram samples. As a grain inspector checking rail car loads, her accuracy determines Canada’s reputation for quality grain. “We might have a 98 percent correct rate through the grading, but that two percent mistake could mean 50 rail cars in a row that are […] Read more

It took Trudy Sands almost her entire 37 years to be diagnosed with bipolar disease. The diagnosis came in 2004 after years of erratic behaviour. She told a May 5 workshop on living with mental illness how her husband and three daughters have been affected by her mood swings. During her manic times she drank […] Read more

The former vice-president of the British Columbia Women’s Institute is still in shock. Due to illness, the BCWI president had to resign before the annual meeting April 29, and Wanda Richter of Clearwater, B.C., had a sudden advancement. Richter will now serve as BCWI president until 2008. The group had a break-even budget this past […] Read more

RUSSELL, Man. – The recent Manitoba Women’s Institute convention had a message for prime minister Stephen Harper: honour the agreement made by the Liberals to fund child-care spaces for five years. Manitoba and Quebec were the only provinces able to obtain funds from Ottawa last year under the initiative because they have the most developed […] Read more

RUSSELL, Man. – Like most Manitobans, Manitoba Women’s Institute members appear split on the concept of intensive livestock operations. Delegates to the MWI’s annual convention in Russell on April 28 expressed opinions on both sides of the debate after a presentation from a provincial agriculture department official. One delegate said she was skeptical about the […] Read more

It turns out that Mom was right when she said to eat your vegetables, says an American researcher and economist. Allen Dobson of the Lewin Group recently finished a study to find four dietary supplements that definitely help human health. He told a Saskatoon conference organized by Ag-West Bio Inc. that the health system could […] Read more

CRAIK, Sask. – The Agriculture in the Classroom (Sask.) Inc. program is going through a transition, says the president of its board of directors. Grain and pulse farmer Karen Thogersen of Hanley, Sask., was voted president last month following the departure of longtime president John Serhienko and two other directors who had been on the […] Read more

Cars and trucks are a menace to trains, especially when roads and railway crossings meet. More than 100 people were killed in Canada last year and about 75 injured in railway grade crossing incidents or while trespassing on railway property. Most of these incidents could have been prevented and education is the key, says Canadian […] Read more