Canora Courier

The Parkland Music Festival is coming in just less than three months and the deadline for entry is the end of January. "Lots of music students are preparing already," said Debbie Treen, one of the organizers of the annual festival.

Two farmers from Norquay received an award for reaching the highest gross dollar per acre in 2016.

A light tower has been determined to have been stolen from a Canora business at the beginning of the new year. The Canora/Sturgis RCMP is requesting the public's assistance in finding a Magnum MLT5080 light tower.

The Canora Composite School senior girls basketball team has returned from Christmas break to win first place at a Moosomin tournament. The Canora senior Cougars have had “a good start to the season,” according to coach Curtis Baillie.

There are some things about the proposed changes to health governance in Saskatchewan that rural people might not like.

What is prosperity? To me it would seem a roof over your head, adequate clothing, healthy food, clean water to drink as well as clean air to breathe, loving, supporting family and meaningful employment cover most of the basics.

The idea that art imitates life is as old as Aristotle. Have you seen a photo or painting with railway tracks or a road going off into the distance? Quite often the parallel lines fade into one as the vanishing point is reached.

Canadian agriculture producers have long prided themselves in being among the best in the world. In terms of dryland farming, there is little doubt that Canadian producers are good at getting the most bushels out of every acre.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the first of a running series of columns in which Sonja Herter (Korol) will be detailing the history of Canada in light of the country’s 150 th anniversary in 2017.

This morning, my coworker was having a little trouble. “I swear, you’ll never fail to screw me up if you ask me to write an ampersand,” she muttered, showing me the piece of paper she was working on.