Diane Rogers

The recipes are all at least 50 years old but the promoters of an old cookbook are hoping it can work its magic again. A cookbook published in 1955 for Saskatchewan’s golden jubilee is being reprinted for the province’s 100th birthday next year. From Saskatchewan Homemakers’ Kitchens was put together by the Saskatchewan Women’s Institutes. […] Read more

A Saskatoon company is offering rural residents in Saskatchewan quicker access to therapy services. Each week, therapists from the Bourassa and Associates Rehabilitation Centre visit clients in Rosetown, Kindersley, Wynyard, Biggar, Outlook, Imperial and Watrous. Company owner Richard Bourassa said the unique service began when a rural client who was referred to him suggested that […] Read more

LEDUC, Alta. – Pam and Harvey Bakker changed their lives one day in 1989 when they attended an unusual animal sale and came home with a pet llama. Harvey said he was working in the oil patch and looking for a diversification project involving an animal that Pam could handle on her own. They liked […] Read more

This year’s difficult harvest may cause more farm accidents than what’s been normal in the past few years, say prairie farm safety groups. “The number of injuries has come down somewhat according to statistics from Saskatchewan Labour,” said Bob Elian, co-ordinator of Saskatchewan Farmers with Disabilities. He attributed the decrease partly to the past couple […] Read more

Saskatchewan is the only western province that does not allow midwives to practise. Most births in Saskatchewan, other than in the north, must be handled in hospitals in larger towns and cities rather than in the woman’s community or home, as is allowed in several other provinces. Although legislation was passed five years ago to […] Read more

Over the next two summers, railway crossing signs in Canada will become easier to spot. Under a joint program of the federal transport department and the railways, a reflective material will be applied to the X-shaped railway crossing signs known as crossbucks. These signs are usually in rural areas at road and railway crossings with […] Read more

The roof is leaking but the 82-year-old wooden elevator at Horizon, Sask., is still standing and the people in the southwestern Saskatchewan village want to keep it that way, said Kevin Klemenz. He is organizing an effort to raise money to repair the structure so that it can be used to store and move grain […] Read more

An on-line petition that started Aug. 11 has collected 40,000 signatures from people who want the American border opened to live Canadian cattle. Alex Baum, a car salesperson in Cochrane, Alta., and Dan Kroffat, a local retired wrestler, decided to do something to help ranchers. “As nonranchers we were watching our customers going broke,” Baum […] Read more

BIRCH HILLS, Sask. – It is a telling statistic of the rural Prairies: United Church minister Nora Brown conducts more funeral services than weddings. The funerals come about once a month; the weddings three or four times a year. But four years out of the seminary school at the University of Toronto, Brown is happily […] Read more

Farm women’s issues may be heard more often in Parliament since two Saskatchewan MPs have been named to Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s shadow cabinet. Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar MP Carol Skelton and Saskatoon Blackstrap’s Lynne Yelich will be responsible for researching and critiquing family-oriented government policies. Skelton, a farm woman elected June 28 for a second term, said […] Read more