Local Arts

On this day, in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. after the death of her father, King George VI, on February 6.

February has been designated Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month and the provincial government is once again pleased to be a partner in this significant cultural initiative.

RRSPs: know your limits What is an RRSP? A registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) allows savings for retirement to grow tax free in a special plan registered with the Canadian government.

Crowds gathered at different parts of highway 49 on the way into Preeceville on Saturday. Some of those crowds were standing along the road bundled in their snow gear for the -15 degree day.

Gordon Barnhart of Saltcoats is the newest president of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA). When delegates at this year’s convention met in Saskatoon this week one of the first orders of business was to elect a new president.

When newly minted Oscar nominee Theodore Ushev took home Best of Festival in 2011, he said one of his goals with his film, The Lipsett Diaries, was to get people to go back and look at the work of Arthur Lipsett.

As promised last week, this time around the game of the week is Wildebeest Chess. Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987.

Though it may be the middle of winter, the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport is already looking ahead to summertime.

Out came the notebooks, paper and pens, while groups began gathering all over Saskatchewan to start writing books about their communities.

Every person has a story to tell, and over the 150 years since confederation, Canadians have filled the country with their stories. Heather Cline has embarked on a 10 year project to hear those stories and paint the places where they happened.