Thursday, June 3, 2010 10:53 PM Ensign Front Page Volume 11, No. 1

Tisdale Speedway for 2010

Thursday
June 3, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: This year's stockcar racing season has been scaled back a bit but there are four races scheduled for the season beginning on the Motor Madness weekend June 19 and 20th.

Pensions for Caregivers

Thursday
June 3, 2010
by: Beverley Smith

 

Calgary: It doesn't seem right to give old age pensions to criminals in jail but also doesn't seem right to reduce pensions to people who devote their lives to raising their children yet that is the case in Canada.

Deceit does not impress

Thursday
June 3, 2010
by: Eugene Parks

 

Victoria, British Columbia: It doesn't seem right to give old age pensions to criminals in jail but also doesn't seem right to reduce pensions to people who devote their lives to raising their children yet that is the case in Canada.

Schapansky auctions house and contents

Thursday
June 3, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Though not unheard of, auctioning off a house and lot is a new thing for Tisdale and by the size of today's crowd it looked like this was a successful event.

Tisdale's first week of June

Wednesday
June 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: The flowers are out on the street corners, 7-11 drops Shell, air spraying gets ready for season and today Tisdale folks turn out at the Centennial Town Square for a charity lunch of hot dogs for KidSport.

Flower pots return

Wednesday
June 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: They are back, the lovely pots on the downtown street corners of Tisdale are back where they belong for the summer.

7 - 11 converts from Shell to Petro-Canada

Wednesday
June 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Shell no longer has a retail outlet in Tisdale as the last Shell dealership at the 7 - 11 has switched over to Petro-Canada.

Aerial spraying ready to go

Wednesday
June 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Around eight this morning a spray plane buzzed its way to Tisdale and preparations were underway to get ready for the aerial application of chemicals.

Beeland Co-op upgrades cardlock

Wednesday
June 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Tisdale's Beeland Co-op has set about the process of overhauling and expanding the cardlock operation it developed on highway 3.

Soil and rain make for uneven seeding process

Friday
May 28, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: All done and emerging in some areas while other places half or less in the ground. The variations in soil and the interesting uneven amount of rainfall are combining to create a wide spread in the way things are going this spring.

Fourth project a duplex

Friday
May 28, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: This year's fourth housing project is a duplex condo unit built beside a similar one last year on the former tennis court in north side of Tisdale.

Parkland Photography club May meeting

Wednesday
May 26, 2010
by: Darlene McCullough

 

Tisdale: This month's photo outing had to be cancelled because of the rain but the club had an excellent meeting going over the monthly photo shoot and had an opportunity to work out the details on coming projects for the club.

House three ready for rafters

Tueday
May 25, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Immediately behind the Falkon Theatre is a new house tucked into a small lot sitting atop a cement foundation and ready for its rafters to be installed.

The Greenwater report

Tueday
May 25, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford

 

Wakaw Lake Regional Park: The motor home is on the road for a new season and this past long weekend the Crawfords and their Sunseeker pals were out at Wakaw enjoying the challenges of this year's Victoria Day weather.

Tourist booth and pool open today

Friday
May 21, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Victoria Day long weekend and the tourists are on the road and Tisdale's in the swimming pool. Three sites at the camp ground were in use today with another booked for the weekend.

Twelve years

Friday
May 21, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Ensign first appeared on the Internet as a web site on May 20th 1998. Here is a short reflection on those years.

European melt down

Monday
May 17, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Its time to talk about the cause of the economic woes that are causing the stock market to go down and put a very dark cloud over the financial prospects for the summer of 2010.

Medieval patterns resurfacing in this, the 21st Century

Monday
May 17, 2010
by: Eugene Parks

 

Victoria, British Columbia: It is surprising that we in Canada are watching the struggle for democratic principles decided centuries and centuries ago. The government in Ottawa seems bent on turning time back to 1688 and earlier.

Full swing

Thursday
May 13, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Though there were still some tractors pulling harrows today most were pulling seeding equipment as the dust trails from the equipment indicate conditions for seeding have hit the mark and this year's crop is going in the ground.

Almost seeding time

Wednesday
May 12, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Most farmers are in the fields. Harrowing, applying anhydrous, running their cultivator through the weeds that are taking hold but few are actually putting seed in the ground. Field conditions are improving everyday but there is a lot of water in some fields much like you would find right after the run off.

House number two

Tuesday
May 11, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Tisdale: Despite a slow start housing construction in Tisdale is in full production with six dwellings on the go and this one on the northwest development has its walls in place.

Walmart Supercentre

Monday
May 10, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Regina: Regina already had three Walmart stores but the fourth, a "Supercentre" has just opened and on Saturday we did the obligatory walk through and this story tells our impressions.

The Greenwater report

Monday
May 10, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford

 

Carstairs Alberta: The Crawfords are on their annual trip to Southern Alberta where they check out the dogs and sure enough find folks from back home who read the "report".

17 new teachers and five BAs celebrated in LaRonge

Monday
May 3, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

 

Lac LaRonge Reserve: This past Saturday Saskatchewan's northern teacher education programme celebrated its latest group of graduates. Thirteen communities several First Nations bands, the Metis nation and northern Saskatchewan as a whole were brought together in a graduation that means so much to the individual communities throughout the north as it brings their own people into the teaching provession which in term gives new meaning and hope for these communities and their future.

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