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Laugh at Life ... Remembering Valentines Day

Laugh at Life ... Remembering Valentines Day

Valentine’s Day. A more sentimental, heart-warming and… sappy day has never existed. Many years ago, I remember a conversation I had with one of my female relatives.
Little Poppets Nursery School helping the community

Little Poppets Nursery School helping the community

COVID-19 has made us all think in new ways and adjust to an altered way of living. Fundraising efforts also must plan in new ways to adjust.
Yorkton's Fabrick seeking Inked Magazine cover spot

Yorkton's Fabrick seeking Inked Magazine cover spot

Who will be the next tattooed model to appear on the cover of Inked Magazine and take home the grand prize of $25,000? Yorkton's Sharon Fabrick is hoping that it's her.
Woman critical of treatment at Russell hospital

Woman critical of treatment at Russell hospital

When Erin Lang attended the Russell Health Centre on January 17, she expected help. What the Oakburn resident received instead, she told The Brandon Sun, was the assumption she was a methamphetamine addict seeking drugs.
Sask. reports four COVID-19-related deaths and 244 new cases

Sask. reports four COVID-19-related deaths and 244 new cases

1691 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered Friday
It was time for pie and coffee

It was time for pie and coffee

On Friday afternoon it was time for drive-by pie and coffee at Yorkton Crossing. The event was part of the facility's outreach program to the community, providing a little something to smile about on a cold day.

Conklin linguist one of the last fluent speakers of endangered Nuxalk language

Hank Nater remembers when someone could walk the streets of Bella Coola, B.C. and hear people speaking Nuxalk, the language of the Indigenous Nuxalk people.

Racing against the dawn in rare year for Niagara ice wine grape harvest

It’s 4 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, and under the light of a crisp, full moon, hardy Vidal grapes are being harvested for ice wine at Reif Estate Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Canadians team up to set U.S. Navy world record

It has taken 20 years, but a group of Canadians is ecstatic about achieving new heights in ballistics. A Schomberg man is part of a team of Canadian ballistic experts who have shattered world records.

The new green paper sector doesn't need trees

For Nicole Rycroft, the first modern, tree-free commercial-scale pulp mill in North America was a “lightbulb moment” about the climate crisis. The new mill in eastern Washington state, called Columbia Pulp, runs entirely without woodchips.
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