Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:17 PM Ensign Front Page Volume 12, No. 120

Bah, Olympic humbug

Wednesday
February 10, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: This writer has a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the slipping sliding and rain drenched activities that will be called the Vancouver Olympics. The stories about it are pointless and the games are mostly fixed.

Focus on women's and children's health at G7 just talk

Wednesday
February 10, 2010
by: Beverly Smith

 

Calgary: The Canadian Prime Minister made a big deal of doing something about the health of women and children at the G7 meeting last week but when it comes to talking about the economy or anything else for that matter there are no women involved.

Ella

Monday
February 8, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Regina: Regina is experiencing a serious baby boom with more than thirty new arrivals each and every day. Early Sunday morning our third grand daughter, Ella, was one of them. A small baby of only five and a quarter pounds but a full term infant and a very peaceful one at that. Her mother Dawn and her are expected to leave hospital tomorrow.

Cold clear light

Thursday
February 4, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Low temperatures and clear skies produce startling images for the photographer and viewer alike. It would seem appropriate to apply this simple principle to other realms to get to the core and delve into the real issues that confront us as a people and as citizens of a nation.

Nordricks Norsask Seed Ltd

Wednesday
February 3, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: This company has been a major player in the agricultural industry in Tisdale and during this past year has been making a gradual move from its old elevator facility to a new layout in the former Newform Packaging plant that at one time served as the Tisdale Recorder's printing plant and a honey storage facility before that. The transformation of the facility is documented in this story.

Tisdale Home & Office

Monday
February 1, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: The sign of success is being able to adapt to changing markets and conditions. Shawn Doherty's latest move is from its former location to downtown as it continues to grow and needs more space to show its products and service its customers.

Walrus on the juniper tree

Thursday
January 28, 2010
by: Ken Styan

 

Tisdale: Throughout Saskatchewan strange snow shapes have developed on anything on the leaside of the North wind that brought the heavy snow this past weekend. Cars, pickups, trees and just about anything else can be swallowed up by these formations that take an unusual form of their shaped by the movement of the winds that deposited the snow.

Parkland Photography club January meeting

Wednesday
January 27, 2010
by: Darlene McCullough

 

Tisdale: Bad weather saw six die hard members out for this month's photography club meeting and they had their work cut out for them with several provincial level photography contest collections to judge. The highlight of the club's activities for this month was doing presentations to the various senior citizens homes here in Tisdale.

Cleanup going well

Tuesday
January 26, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: The school buses ran today for Tisdale's schools and almost all of the streets in the community are passable but that is not the case with the country roads. The cleanup is going quite well but a steady drifting wind blew all day from the west causing problems for north and south country roads.

It stormed a bit

Monday
January 25, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
Images by: Judy and Timothy Shire

 

Tisdale: The storm that enveloped all of southern and central Saskatchewan left a good deal of snow behind it the most we have seen dumped in Tisdale in the past 15 years. This however, the part of January when such storms are common and no one was particularily surprised other then for once Environment Canada actually got this one right.

The Greenwater report

Monday
January 25, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford

 

Saskatoon: Like the rest of in Saskatchewan the weather definitely got Gerald attention and like most drivers he had get out there and try driving in difficult conditions only to get stuck in his driveway. But, he survived and lived to tell us the tale for another week.

There's got to be a reason

Tuesday
January 19, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Many folks who take their religion seriously quite honestly believe that it is not for us humble and clearly limited humans to understand the great mysteries and we must accept that all things are part of Gods plan. That makes a good story but little by little the fog of awareness creeps forward as we are able to glean more and more about our past which indeed explains our present and future. This doesn't mean all things are cleared up it just means we are ever finding out new truths.

The Greenwater report

Monday
January 18, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Gerald gives us some insight into the recent mild winter we have been enduring and gives us something to think about as the news of our world saddens each day with more very bad news from Haiti.

This is what it means to be a Canadian

Wednesday
January 13, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The devastation and tragic loss of life in Haiti affects us because we are a nation of immigrants who share life on this planet with others who are at time faced with massive challenges and it is for us to reach out give a hand and do the right thing.

First house of 2010

Wednesday
January 13, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Near the end of October the house on this lot was destroyed by fire and now a new house stands in its place.

Mexican December holiday

Tuesday
January 12, 2010
by: Michael Townsend
Kamloops: Michael Townsend has contributed to this web site since its beginning in 1998. Through the years he has taken us mountain climbing and on numerous trips. This time he shares with us his pictures of his Christmas vacation in Mexico.

The Greenwater report

Monday
January 11, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: This week's report chronicals the repair of a tire with a nail in it and the passing of a friend. This week's report has some pictures from the Park.

Somebody else's problem

Friday
January 8, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
Highway #6: Though the phenomena had been noticed by many before it was humourist writer Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide, Life, the Universe and Everything that he described a common effect or field that happens when everyone it seems ignores the obvious.

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