Diane Rogers

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. – Two extraordinary resolutions and an election battle for president led the British Columbia Women’s Institute into a controversial convention. Outgoing president Estelle Lefurgy invited comment the first morning on the change made at the last convention three years ago when the BCWI decided the president-elect would not automatically succeed to the […] Read more

SOUTHEY, Sask. – Allan, Lynn and Trevor Berkan don’t pretend to have all the answers. They say they are just an ordinary farm family. The Berkans are grappling with the same issues every farmer does – What do I grow this year? Can I afford to buy more land or machinery? Will my children want […] Read more

SASKATOON – The new president of the Saskatchewan Women’s Institutes wants to keep leading her group into a more relevant role for today’s women. Doris Pattison said she would be continuing the activity and concerns of the past president and board. This year the SWI has worked on legal rights of farm women, held workshops […] Read more

OUTLOOK, Sask. – The status quo is not good enough, agreed the parents, teachers and taxpayers present for the first meeting on restructuring Saskatchewan’s public schools. The province’s school divisions have not changed substantially from the 119 formed more than 50 years ago, said Don Sangster, a regional director of the education department. He told […] Read more

ABERDEEN, Sask. – If given by a parent, the teenagers would likely have hated the lecture, but they enjoyed it when David Street told them to stop dawdling. In an energetic presentation that used chunks of red and white plastic to underline his message, the Vancouver-based motivational speaker said young people must plan their lives. […] Read more

SASKATOON – Each day, 40 women in Canada learn they have breast cancer. Another 14 die from it. After heart disease and lung cancer, breast cancer is the leading cause of death for Canadian women. And, for unknown reasons, breast cancer cases have been rising in recent years. At a breast cancer survivors conference here, […] Read more

HANLEY, Sask. – The women wanted to see blood and bruises. They said there wasn’t enough terror in the Fear on the Farm video they watched as part of a rural awareness conference of the Saskatchewan Battered Women’s Advocacy Network. “My gut reaction is it’s too pretty. … You can go for months or years […] Read more

SASKATOON – Vanderhoof, B.C. has a community computer network today because John Rowlandson got tired of paying $300 in phone bills each month. The telecommunications consultant moved to the central interior town from Vancouver in the summer of 1994 and found he couldn’t get an e-mail address. So he called a meeting that drew 100 […] Read more

SASKATOON – A dad who turns into a plant, monster blood, evil masks – these are standard elements of R.L. Stine and his popular Goosebumps horror stories for children. But some parents are asking whether these books belong in their school libraries. A Saskatchewan survey found 125 children’s books were challenged, as well as 26 […] Read more

HARRIS, Sask. – On one of their first dates, Grant McFarlane challenged city girl Sandy to prove she could handle farm life. She took a day off work and spread manure in the fields. Within 10 months they were married. After their marriage in 1991, Grant and Sandy became the third generation to farm the […] Read more