Canora Courier

Excitement for the hockey season is picking up as teams with the Canora Minor Hockey League play games for the league and some tournaments for fun.

To ring in the holiday season, members of the Golden Age Club organized the annual Christmas social. On December 1, the Invermay Golden Age Club celebrated the 2016 Christmas social, which included supper, songs and fund-raisers.

An immigrant who is working as a continuing care aid at the Gateway Lodge has been honoured for her generous nature by being named immigrant of the year.

The Gateway Co-op will be offering not only a new convenience store, but a new liquor store to serve the Canora area. The Gateway Co-operative was selected as a new liquor vendor as part of the privatization of alcohol in Saskatchewan.

The Parkland Music Festival is scheduled to be hosted in the Preeceville and Sturgis areas from March 26 to April 1, 2017. "It is our turn this year to host the festival," said Anna Russell, president.

An annual toy drive is being held during the Winter Lights Festival to give back to the community and to those who may otherwise go without gifts for the Christmas season.

The notion of your local Co-op selling you booze – or anything else you fancy – is hardly a political statement anymore. Sure, there’s a history here.

Lately I have been enjoying people’s pictures of their Christmas trees on Facebook. Seeing these posts makes me eager to get our own tree up and decked out in all my favourite and treasured ornaments.

“I’ll love you forever, “I’ll like you for always, “As long as I’m living “My baby you’ll be. “Now, those are 18 beautiful words worth remembering for always.

It is always interesting to read about the issues of agriculture beyond Canada’s border.