Diane Rogers

ASSINIBOIA, Sask. – Doreen Holden’s family is not going to seed their 8,000 acres this year. The president of the Saskatchewan Women’s Institutes farms at Fertile, Sask., straddling the Manitoba border. That’s in the middle of the flood zone stretching this spring over parts of two provinces. Their farm got 250 millimetres of rain in […] Read more

Colleen Littlejohn considers her employer the best-kept secret in Canada. “We need to get our word out to the Canadian public,” said Littlejohn, director of programs for Save the Children Canada. The foreign aid group has been on clean-up duty for the last few years, rebuilding communities after Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the 1998 […] Read more

The Winnipeg Police Service is hearing favorable comments from the public for arresting six youths aged 13 and 14 for threatening their teachers and classmates, says constable Bob Johnson. The May 5 arrests were a stern message to students that it is not funny or cool to threaten others, he said. The incidents took place […] Read more

RUSSELL, Man. – Crying babies and running toddlers may be the reason few young women are on the membership rolls of the Manitoba Women’s Institute. They feel their children may be disruptive in the monthly meetings and they have little in common with the average MWI member, who is the age of their mother or […] Read more

KINDERSLEY, Sask. – On a cool spring night in western Saskatchewan, the flavor of Ghana is present in the jollis rice and peanut-coconut snacks. The African chicken casserole, served with bread chunks, fruit salad and cookies, was served at the annual international night of the Kindersley Co-op Women’s Guild. But it wasn’t just the food […] Read more

RUSSELL, Man. – Health and safety concerns dominated the 10 resolutions approved at the Manitoba Women’s Institute annual meeting April 22-24. Health is always an issue for the group, said MWI president Helen Rigby. She suggested it is probably because the women’s institute was started by a mother mourning the loss of her son to […] Read more

Young people are uncertain how to put their feet on a career path, says the youth co-ordinator of the Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board. Ashley Topuschak told a board-sponsored conference in Saskatoon that high school students are being told to get ready for all the jobs when the baby boomers retire in the next decade. […] Read more

Saskatchewan’s 8,400 nurses went on strike April 8 and were ordered back on the job that same day. However nurses were defiant and remained picketing as of 3 p.m. April 12 despite threats of jail or fines for individuals and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. Higher wages, more full-time and fewer casual jobs and pay […] Read more

CONQUEST, Sask. – This equine centenarian came through the winter in good shape, eats well and gets plenty of fresh air. Daisy is cared for every day by Art Cole, 90, a human who is younger in relative terms than the horse. Cole bought the part Morgan, part Appaloosa mare from a neighbor in 1983 […] Read more

RIVERHURST, Sask. – There are shrieks of excitement, but no yells urging on sweepers, no ice other than in the drinks at this curling bonspiel. The last weekend in March in Riverhurst is saved for the annual mini-curling tournament. For 10 years this southern Saskatchewan village nestled by Lake Diefenbaker has held a fund raiser […] Read more