Index for March 2009

Chronological Index of Ensign Articles for
March of 2009

The Greenwater report: Monday
March 2, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Gerald gives us a detailed account of the changing weather of late and fills us in on who he met and visited with this past Saturday. Oh yes, the renovations to the Crawford place are finished and he tells us how that went.

Langbank 1951: Tuesday
March 3, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Langbank: Langbank is a tiny community in the southeast part of Saskatchewan. In 1951 school consolidation had not yet taken place and the school then had two rooms, grades 1 - 7 and 8 -12. You need not know the people in the picture but their story and their time is frozen in this interesting image.

Cheers to a healthier economy: Wednesday
March 4, 2009
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria British Columbia: There is nothing we can do about the current financial and economic crisis in which we find ourselves but we are demanding that our government take critical steps in this time of economic slow down. Here is a simple summary of the political / economic choices available.

Louis Dreyfus moves the wheat: Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The giant pile of wheat that was established during harvest this past fall is being loaded up and readied for shipment this week.

RCMP leadership must be held accountable for interference: Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria British Columbia: With the British Columbia's decision not to lay charges against the four officers who killed Robert Dziekanski one would have thought that the force as a whole would have wanted to clear the matter up. However, that is not the case they seemed to have deliberately surpressed cooperation with the inquiry into the incident and surpressed other evidence.

Why special $3 billion fund must be accounted for up front: Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls: It would appear that the lesson of December has not been learned as the Prime Minister is once again on a $3 billion plan to bolster ridings he needs to win a major in a future election. The Liberals do not want to grant the government that much descressionary money while the NDP refers to it as a slush fund. Election looms.

Hoar frost: Friday
March 6, 2009
by: Ken Jones
Regina: Here are seven outstanding images taken in Regina's Wascana park on February 5th. Most are taken against a cloudless deep blue sky that sets off the frost as it was seen in the bright mid day sunlight.

The Greenwater report: Tuesday
March 17, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: The Crawfords are showing patience with the winter that drags on and on as they take in a visit to the casino, catch a glimpse of an eagle, visit the Field House regularily and have an allergic reaction to newspaper ink. The Crawfords celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary this past week.

Conservative innovation hits poorer municipalities hardest: Tuesday
March 17, 2009
by: Nancy Clarke
Grand Bank, Newfoundland Labrador: The Federal Budget though touted as a stimulous budget had within it a score of other legislation. With enormous pressure to pass the budget quickly the opposition did not do their work and the government moved its neo-conservative agenda well forward. This story points out a glaring example.

The demise of the telephone: Wednesday
March 18, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: What a shame, Alexander Graham Bell had a great idea and it has worked for us well for over a century but alas the era of the telephone is over. Spam advertising, wrong numbers, voice mail and computerised answering systems make the thing all but completely useless.

All day quilting session: Thursday
March 19, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Today the quilting group began their session at ten this morning and worked all day on quilt after quilt as they get their annual crop of project wrapped up for yet another year.

Regulations and the free market philosophy: Thursday
March 19, 2009
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls, Ontario: It is truly confounding to face the fact that the present government of Canada has such enormous difficulty doing its job, a job quite simply is to govern the country. Ther problem seems unavoidable as they lose sight of their job in order to forge ahead with their hatched in Alberta concepts of what government should be.

Seniors and the telephone: Thursday
March 19, 2009
by: Ken Styan
Tisdale: Though the computer has become so common place in many homes there are far more households without computer access than those with the machine embedded in the fabric of day to day life. Therefore, the telephone is most likely here to stay.

Crown Cabinet & Countertop: Friday
March 20, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: An outstanding new business has come to Tisdale offering custom made cabinets and countertops. If you are building or renovating you definitely will want to drop in and check this operation out.