Canora Courier

All Things Considered column by Gail Krawetz

Pause for Reflection column by Ken Rolheiser

First of all, congratulations on your retirement! You have given so much to the community over the past 35 years and every person who has lived there, you have touched and will always remember you as kind, generous, hardworking people.

An example of “one of the wonderful things happening within the Good Spirit Teacher Association Equity Committee” is a program called Books for Babies, says the committee chairperson Robin Heshka of Canora, who teaches at Columbia School in Yorkton.

At last week’s annual information meetings, Gateway Co-op members learned that the planned construction of a C-store will commence in Canora in July. The annual information meeting in Canora was held on April 25 at the Rainbow Hall.

Following a few days of business interruption to allow for the ownership transition, Wong’s Restaurant re-opened Friday with Allan and Betty Wong eager to serve the community while gearing up for the busiest day of the year – Mother’s Day.

(Editor’s note: In last week’s edition, an article covering the 42nd annual concert of the Canora Veselka School of Dance on April 10 included many photographs of the groups which performed. At the request of many parents, here are three more photographs of Ukrainian dance groups which also performed at the concert. The photographs are courtesy of Craig Popoff of Canora Photography and Framing.)

By Kaare Askildt Formerly known as The Farmer in Training

John Fehr and Mary Sushelnitski won the tournament at the shuffleboard windup on April 18 at the Keen Age Centre. Bernice Rakochy and Peter Wiebe won the silver medals and Phyllis Pieper and Margaret Morhart won the bronze medals.

Several weeks ago when the covered Health Population report was released by Saskatchewan Health, Canora’s population number seemed greatly inflated at 3,262. That’s 520 persons more than were counted the previous year.