In the Community

The two local women who are looking to bring Fresh Air Fitness to the Woodlawn Regional Park are excited their dream is inching closer towards materializing.

This week’s topic is inspired by things that happened today, a highly unusual event. I always try to choose my topic mid-week, thus allowing plenty of time to mull it over and mentally outline my article.

Fantastic beings could be found at the Assiniboia Civic Centre on March 17 for the Assiniboia Figure Skating club’s Carnival. The theme “Fantastic Beings and where to find them” was an inspiration from Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter.

I found it, the perfect fit and an end to a more than a year-long search! “It”, an elusive Tupperware™ lid, sat at our local thrift shop, possibly destined for recycling.

For musicians and artists in the southeast corner of the province, the Carnduff and District Music and Arts Festival has become an important showcase of their abilities every year. This year’s festival will run from March 12 to 17.

The Broken Arrow Youth Ranch ministry near Wood Mountain has been holding a fundraiser, the Broken Arrow Classic, in Estevan since 2013.

Guests to a Métis history event hosted by Southeast Newcomer Services at Spruce Ridge School took a trip back in time, and learned about some of the rich Métis history in the Souris Valley region, on Feb. 28.

Consider the Chinese Bamboo Tree: You take a seed, plant it, water it, and fertilize it for a whole year, and nothing happens. You do this for five years.

A college senior took his new girlfriend to a football game. A substitute was running onto the field when the boy said to his girlfriend, "Take a good look at that fellow. I expect him to be our best man next year.

In case you haven’t already heard or seen, we’re living in a world that seems hell-bent on collapsing into itself.