Assiniboia Times

By Dan Archer The Shurniak is featuring another outstanding Canadian artist at their gallery this October.

Canadian Thanksgiving is somewhat invisible – a long weekend in early October – a day of tradition pitched between summer luxury and Christmas in December.

The preliminary totals for Co-op’s Fuel Good Day amounted to 28,317.05 litres pumped in Southland Co-op locations in Assiniboia, Coronach, Lafleche and Mossbank. A donation of $2,831.70 in total was made to STARS Air Ambulance.

Submitted by Leanne Pituley When Assiniboia Child Care Services expressed a wish to have a screened room at the Daycare, the Rotary Club of Assiniboia stepped in to help with funding.

By Dan Archer For more than 25 years, Cranfield Hopper Bottoms of Limerick has manufactured cones and steel floors for grain bins. The company is positioned west of Limerick along Highway 13.

By Dan Archer Guillaume Dablin will be living in Assiniboia for one year as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange. Rotary International has sponsored young people all over the world since 1929.

Webcams, once optional equipment for PCs, are external cameras attached by USB cables, or they could be built-in on your computer.

Thomson Lake Golf course hosted its second annual Golf Fore the Cure tournament on September 8. This fundraiser was a Golf Canada event. There were 47 women dressed in shades of pink joined in the fun day.

By Dan Archer The cooling-off period, a 21-day conciliation process between Canada Post and the Canadian Postal Workers Union was set to end on September 25. Thereafter, the postal union was prepared to file a 72-hour notice regarding job action.

By Dan Archer Sophie Morrison moved as a child from Calgary to Shaunavon, an oilfield town 188.6 kilometres west of Assiniboia. Morrison, now living in Lafleche, is Canalta Assiniboia’s newest general manager.