Three rural Saskatchewan teens hammed it up in a 30 second video to help curb food waste. Kaitlyn Dilsner, Taryn Heidebrecht, and Lauren Palmer, Grade 12 students at Clavet Composite School, invested more than nine hours to produce the video, which took first place and a $500 prize in a Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council competition. […] Read more
Stories by Karen Morrison
Grow it, spin it, wear it
BLUCHER, Sask. — The craft of spinning animal fibre into winter woolies started small for Terra Dionne when a friend offered her his Angora rabbits in trade. “I started with one for two cases of beer. He only asked for one (case),” she joked. The rabbits are gone, but today her 80 acre property houses […] Read more
Positive attitude aids recovery
Lana Missens-George believes the car accident that cost her the use of her legs saved her life. In September 2003, she and her husband rolled their vehicle on loose gravel while driving impaired on the Ochapowace First Nation in eastern Saskatchewan. Her husband recovered from a broken neck, but Missens-George suffered a severed spine, multiple […] Read more
VIDEO: Golden hour critical to saving lives
Garfield Beaudry was chopping wood for the winter near Raymore, Sask., but feeling poorly that September day in 2012. Later, when friends from England arrived for a dinner date, he fell to the ground unconscious after suffering a heart attack. After the 911 call, his acreage became a bevy of activity as first responders, police, […] Read more
Farm life all about the animals, say horse lovers
Dogs and cats roam among Fjord-Percheron crosses, Belgian-Quarterhorse crosses and miniature horses that grab the spotlight in parades
SHELLBROOK, Sask. — One- and two-tone ponies huddle together, their breath making clouds in the cold winter air as Larry and Evelyn Keyowski approach them for a pat. Horses in all sizes are a staple on the Keyowski farm in north-central Saskatchewan, along with collections of covered and open horse drawn sleighs, wagons and antiques. […] Read more
Family enjoys lifestyle despite challenges
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — The Grassicks have weathered many storms, whether it was tanking cattle prices during the BSE crisis or a devastating plow wind. Cattle prices have now returned to healthy levels, and the cleanup from the 2012 storm at their farm east of Prince Albert is largely complete. Family patriarch Gordon Grassick said […] Read more
Couple’s love of farming spills over to children
ROSTHERN, Sask. — Livestock lessons begin early on the Lehmanns’ Saskvalley Stock Farm. “We teach them from a very young age to respect the animal,” said Karen Lehmann, whose children play a big role when the family is working cattle. They are at school this day as her husband, Barry, and his brother, Murray, move […] Read more
Volunteer crop reporters keep their ears to the ground
ODESSA, Sask. — When a plow wind whirled through Bette Reiss’s mixed farm at Odessa, the intrepid crop reporter stayed above ground to keep watch. “Most people head to the basement. We are out on the porch,” said Reiss, a volunteer crop reporter who has been relaying details of crops and weather in her rural […] Read more
Family cracks market for shelled nuts
Being unique and putting a new spin on an old idea will get your product noticed among the blur of booths at craft shows, say two entrepreneurs. “Walk around and see. Think outside the box,” said Brenda Siemens of Elrose, Sask. She, her husband, Dean, and their teenagers, Randy and Bailey, create and sell the […] Read more
Artist selects unique ‘canvas’
Lucille Scott paints what she grew up with but does so on a unique canvas of goose feathers. “I love painting wildlife, scenics,” she said. Her father was a labourer who moved his family from farm to farm before settling into one of their own in 1972 near Big River, Sask. As an adult, the […] Read more
