Canora Courier

Last Sunday my husband and I attended an afternoon graveside service at the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. On the way home we detoured to visit my grandparents’ homestead where I had spent many a Sunday afternoon as a child.

Flipping through the pages of a photo album brought back a memory of a trip taken in the spring of 1962.

For some undefi ned reason of late I have been thinking about my grandfather and what his take on a modern farm would be.

As Christians we all share a common gift that comes to us from God and is meant to console us, unite us and reassure us that this world of suffering and pain will not triumph. That gift is the love of Christ in the Holy Spirit.

Dear editor, When it comes to accidents, it’s common to think, oh, it will never happen to us. That is what we thought until our six-year-old son, Roan, a member of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program, lost his leg in a lawn mower accident.

With an accelerated plan to close the Sunrise Health District’s regional laundry facility in Yorkton, its last day was Friday instead of September 11.

At a special meeting on June 8, Canora town council accepted a tender from Federowich Construction Ltd. to do the town’s proposed paving for 2015. Federowich Construction’s bid was $901,180.20 and the work was to have begun on June 15.

With anticipated revenues and expenditures in excess of $80 million, the Good Spirit School Division board passed the 2015/2016 budget at its June 17 regular meeting.