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The Week of May 18 to 24, 2008

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Tourist booth open for another season
Tuesday
May 20, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The Tisdale Tourist booth opened Friday for another year welcoming and assisting visitors. The camp ground is ready to receive visitors and had a couple of campers stay over the long weekend.
The Greenwater report
Tuesday
May 20, 2008
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Motor home in business for the long weekend camping at Craik and visiting Davidson. Gerald warns Greenwater cottage owners of a series of break and enter incidents at the park advising owners to check on their property.
Ensign marks tenth year of operation
Tuesday
May 20, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Ten years is a very long time in the life of an Internet operation. This web site has been posting since May 20, 1998 and all of its stories and pictures are still on line available for all ten years.
Fool me once, shame on you . . .
Wednesday
May 21, 2008
by: Tom Brewer
Regina: The Tory government and several of its MPs including Regina MP Tom Lukiwski promised up to $20 million to assist in the upgrading and revitalising of the aging IPSCO Place, what we all know as the Regina Exhibition grounds. Well it looks like they were just talking and nothing more.
House number nine
Thursday
May 22, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The housing boom in Tisdale continues with this project being now ready for the assembly of its basement. Meanwhile two more basements have been dug the services installed in yet another. It has been rumored that one building supplier in Tisdale has now sold eighteen houses to be constructed this year.
House ten
Thursday
May 22, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This is the second housing start for Rise Construction this season as house 3 is almost complete as sub-contractors do the electrical, plumbing and drywalling. House ten is located on Forester Crescent which is a beehive of housing contruction with six houses on the go.
This year's crop emerging
Friday
May 23, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: While I wait impatiently for the leaves to come out once more on the trees there is grass growing in the back yard and I am going to have to mow the stuff before next Friday. Out in the farm fields the story is the same, the trees are just starting to get their act together but there is a solid green tinge to the fields as those who have not sprayed get a new crop of weeds but in other fields the green is this year's crop.
Where does Mr. Harper stand on the issue of free speech?
Friday
May 23, 2008
by: Rebecca Gingrich
Princeton Ontario: A private members bill is before parliament to pretty much shut down the Canadian Human Rights Commission and it would appear that Ms. Gingrich shares that opionion as she feels to many trivial cases are brought by the commission to further its own power.