Preeceville Progress

The Sturgis READ Club and community members joined in support of the STARS air ambulance with a barbecue luncheon at the club on September 4. “The support was overwhelming with $1,756 raised for STARS,” said Betty Lou Skogen.

( see photo gallery below ..) A 145-pound pumpkin entered by Tom Babchishin of Preeceville topped the scales for top spot at the annual Town of Preeceville pumpkin contest held at the Preeceville Centennial Park on September 12.

( see photo gallery below ..) The Town of Preeceville encouraged local organizations to come out and showcase themselves in a community registration evening on September 8.

It obviously isn’t all bad news. In fact, under the circumstances of being in another recession and the continued fall in oil prices, Saskatchewan’s August job numbers weren’t quite as bad as some thought they would be.

The editor: Once again we have propaganda about how the federal Tories help western Canada. Let the record show just how helpful they are to agriculture.

In 2011, a “500year flood” struck the Souris Valley. Saturated soil from the year before, combined with a heavy spring runoff, were met with two inches of rain each Monday for nearly two months.

When I was growing up on a small mixed farm a half century ago summerfallow was the norm when it came to crop planning. Farmers just naturally left one-third to one-half of their cropable land fallow each year.

The editor: The flooding in the Quill Lakes area is no longer just the problem of a few farmers, it is soon to become everyone’s problem. Every taxpayer has a stake in this.

Forty per cent of the 2015 crop is now in the bin and an additional 33 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly crop report for the period ending September 7.