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The Week of June 14 to 20, 2009

The Greenwater report Monday June 15, 2009 by: Gerald Crawford Greenwater Lake Provincial Park: This is a vintage Greenwater report as the Crawfords have been camping spended a few days at the park then on to Nipawin. This report includes some serious discussions about mercury levels in fish from Marean Lake and other coffee row words of confounding wisdom. There is also a report on Logan's birthday party and the huge Good Sam Samboree at Nipawin.

Children's Festival gets community support Monday June 15, 2009 Images by: Darlene McCullough and Mary Wright Tisdale: This year's Festival was held on Friday, June 12th and the Parkland Photography Club were on hand to document the event and recognise the contributions made to the festival by this year's sponsors.

House number twelve Tuesday June 16, 2009 by: Timothy W. Shire Tisdale: Begun on June 2nd, this house just south of the CN tracks on the southwest corner of town was fully standing yesterday and today the interior walls were all set in place. Meanwhile house nine has its garage and work on its second story and house eight had its rafters in place today. The pace of construction in Tisdale is not slowing one bit as there are more projects awaiting their beginnings.

Parrish & Heimbecker making progress Tuesday June 16, 2009 by: Timothy W. Shire Tisdale: There is still a lot of construction to go at Tisdale's newest inland terminal and the latest addition to the company's grain handling facilities. Today some of their executives visited the Tisdale terminal as the concrete portion of the terminal is now standing with the distribution system being installed on top.

Superannuated teacher outing to Melfort Thursday June 18, 2009 by: Darlene McCullough Melfort: Tisdale Superannuated teachers association had their final meeing and outing for this school year in Melfort and toured the museum. This story includes a forty picture slide show of the Melfort Museum as it appeared on Monday for this week.

EI Account shorted $13 billion Thursday June 18, 2009 by: Joe Hueglin Niagara Falls Ontario: When Paul Martin was running Canada's finances he increeased the qualifications and reduced benefits because of the tight money but thereafter the whole programme built up a huge surplus. The government simply grabbed that money and now in a recession they do not have the money to put into fair and equal treatment for all unemployed Canadians.

Western Commodities Trading Inc. Friday June 19, 2009 by: Timothy W. Shire Tisdale: This company has been operating in Tisdale for almost a year now. They are busy rounding up cattle feed as the drought has really hit the cattle business with poor pasture conditions.

A helping hand to unemployed Canadian workers - Now! Friday June 19, 2009 by: Hon. Sinclair Stevens Newmarket Ontario: Thoug there is talk of the recession showing signs of recovery the unemployment situation will continue to worsen even after a real recovery begins. Canadians and the Canadian economy is suffering because of the lose of jobs and with Employment Insurance we have the means to provide relief and we need to this far more than pump money into the ownership of General Motors. The Honourable Sinclair Stevens is the leader of the Progressive Canadian Party and servered for many years as a cabinet minister during the Mulroney government.