Assiniboia Times

Ninety-year old Nellie Schafer was accepting handshakes and well-wishes like a rock star on August 13. Sitting on the deck of the Rockglen Tourism Centre, she enjoyed the local Canada150 celebrations and accepted the well wishes.

The annual FarmFest/Terre Ferme wrapped up another successful year at the Campagne farm near Willow Bunch on July 28-30. FarmFest is a Fransaskois music festival that is run and organized by the Campagne family on the family farm.

Submitted by S.Falconer The Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation were proud to host their powwow on July 16 in the afternoon. Three drum groups from Moose Jaw and north of Moose Jaw were performing. There were 38 dancers from several areas.

The Southland Co-op celebrated Canada150 by sponsoring free outdoor movies to its branch communities in Coronach on August 8 and Thomson Lake on August 9 and Assiniboia on August 10.

Harvest in Saskatchewan us already underway. Producers in the province have two per cent of the crop combined and three per cent swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture for the week ending August 7.

Reunions are time for reflecting on the past. The Assiniboia Composite High School graduating classes of 1970 to 1975 had plenty of time for reminiscing at its reunion at Assiniboia’s Prince of Wales Centre on August 4-6.

Robin Yost and Yvonne Barr, staff at Peavey Mart in Assiniboia, served up a burger lunch for charity on August 12 for the Wild Pink Yonder program.

Premier Brad Wall doesn’t usually do anything too shocking, but on August 10 he surprised the province by announcing his retirement from politics. He will step down as premier after a new Sask Party leader is selected sometime early next year.

Canadian Wrestling’s Elite brought its wrestling show to Assiniboia for the first time on August 13.

The beautiful Heritage Orchard was officially unveiled in Rockglen as part of the Canada150 celebrations on August 13. The event featured the official dedication of the Heritage Orchard and a Tree Canada celebration.