Diane Rogers

Virginia Bonsan is tired of lobbying local officials. She is now planning a provincial attack. From the northwestern Saskatchewan village of Turtleford, she is launching a petition asking for more funding to get better speech therapy services for pre-schoolers. “My son is 41/2 and says 10 words,” she said.”I’ve been trying for three years to […] Read more

Every year, Shelley Loeffler’s Grade 6 class in Saskatoon gets to see the 1962 black-and-white film The Drylanders. The 69-minute National Film Board movie follows a family that moves to the Prairies from Eastern Canada and its struggle to survive on the farm during the 1930s drought. It is history that her 11 year olds […] Read more

A Black Angus cross calf is being fed by a 4-H member in the Prince Albert, Sask., area in hopes that will raise at least $3,000 for charity. The steer will be sold June 4 at the Northeast 4-H regional show in Prince Albert for $3 to $4 a pound, said Tim Oleksyn, director of […] Read more

Health was the focus of three resolutions at the March 31 annual meeting of the British Columbia Women’s Institute in Prince George, B.C. BCWI president Susan Hoszouski said the 62 delegates gave a “resounding yes” to a resolution supporting the University of Northern British Columbia’s attempt to offer doctor training at its Prince George site. […] Read more

Three Canadian farm women’s groups are helping Anna Kroeker challenge a federal tax ruling that she is not a farmer. A government audit of Kroeker and a subsequent tax court ruling in 1999 disallowed losses she had claimed against her off-farm income. She was deemed as not doing sufficient labor on the farm and was […] Read more

Adrian Park’s study of calf weight gain is the type of school project that prairie co-cordinators of Agriculture in the Classroom want to see. The 15-year-old student decided to take an agricultural angle to his science class project this winter. He looked at which of two Holstein bull calves would gain more weight — the […] Read more

New dramas on both the stage and television will help the rest of Canada get to know the West again. One of the Prairie’s most successful plays will be 25 years old next year, says Angus Ferguson, of Dancing Sky Theatre in Meachem, Sask. But Paper Wheat, the story of the growth of co-operatives, needed […] Read more

MELFORT, Sask. — Halfway down the mall from the co-op grocery store, a crowd packed an alcove to listen to food celebrities. Famed home economists Emmie Oddie, a 48-year columnist with The Western Producer, and Lillian McConnell, a.k.a. Penny Powers of Sask Power, were speaking about their years of working with farm families. The squawks […] Read more

Farmers may not be done seeding by May 15, but that is the day almost all of them will be filling in their Statistics Canada census form. Saskatchewan’s 98 percent return of government census forms is the world’s best, said Larry Deters, a regional director for the statistics agency. Close behind is Manitoba at 97 […] Read more

Breast feeding, once out of favor, has become fashionable again with the last two generations of Sask-atchewan women. Janice Reynolds of Winona Farms in Nokomis, Sask., wants to chart that experience. With a $2,000 grant from the Saskatchewan government’s women’s secretariat, she is trying to find older women who can tell her stories of parenting, […] Read more