Diane Rogers

SASKATOON – Hundreds of names are scrawled in black, red, blue and purple ink covering the 150 banners hanging around a Saskatoon hotel. They all proclaim the signers are against drinking and driving. The 1,100 delegates at a conference of Canadian Youth Against Impaired Driving represent 25,000 young people from high schools across the country. […] Read more

SASKATOON (Staff) – A survey of British Columbia farm women shows they are not financially prepared to retire. The questionnaire sent out in the fall by the B.C. Farm Women’s Network had responses from about 220 women, said project co-ordinator Elizabeth Mann. While 43 percent of the women indicated they had some income from off-farm […] Read more

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A business plan is a never-finished document, says Karen Low, an instructor in business administration at Woodland Institute in this northern Saskatchewan city. The plans are always evolving, changing with customers’ demands or processing methods. Anyone who has an investment in the business should have a copy of the plan. It […] Read more

SASKATOON – In west-central Saskatchewan, 150 farm families are bleeding, wheezing and remembering. Men, women and children from three rural municipalities bounded by Kyle, Elrose and Beechy are undergoing physical and mental tests to check whether agricultural chemicals are affecting them. This project is one of three being run under a three-year project called Pecos, […] Read more

SASKATOON (Staff) – There is no single, most important factor responsible for healthy people, an academic told a federal-provincial conference here in February. Government funding has been shifting from hospitals and doctors to health promotion and community care. But people are puzzled by the array of factors that make up the new concepts of population […] Read more

SASKATOON – The chickens on Silke Verwimp’s fruit farm in Outlook, Sask. get to eat her produce that goes unsold at farmers markets. Vegetable farmer Eric Yoder of Rosthern, Sask. also hates waste, so he started a community-shared agriculture plan. He sells shares in his vegetable operation to city people who pay him in the […] Read more

SASKATOON – A parent who complained about Saskatchewan education to the United Nations hopes the province’s latest plans improve the system. Two years ago the public school in Wood Mountain, Sask., was closed sending 50 children, including Michael Klein’s, to neighboring towns by bus. Klein and the organization he works with, the Saskatchewan Association of […] Read more

SASKATOON – Many in the audience squirmed and fidgeted as three academics talked about rural survival. The crowd asked questions and buttonholed the speakers at the Prairie Ecosystem Study conference last week in an effort to inject a human element in the statistics. Doug Dale from Craik, Sask., was eager to explain how rural people […] Read more

SASKATOON (Staff) – When cold weather cancels buses or causes water main breaks in schools, students don’t have to make up the day off. The Saskatchewan School Trust-ees Association said emergency closures are counted as a school day for the purposes of the Education Act. In theory there are 197 school days in a year […] Read more

SASKATOON – One women’s institute branch is living up to its stereotype with a knit-a-thon to mark Women’s Institute Day Feb. 19. The Chilliwack branch of the British Columbia institute is inviting the public to sit with its members in the local mall and knit or crochet squares. But it’s more than a publicity ploy, […] Read more