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"B" train rollover at Estlin: Wednesday
June 30, 2010
by: Stu Innes
: Estlin: Saskatchewan's roads and highways are home to thousands of grain haulers who run around the clock get their loads to their destinations. It is surprising how few run into difficulty. Last night near Eslin south of Regina a "B" train did a complete rollover from wheels to roof back to wheels with only slight injuries to the driver.

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Tim's Tip of the Day
Of course a person can accomplish a lot working on their own but team work really pays off and sometimes makes the impossible rather simple. (Click on thumb nail to see full size.)
Find of the day
The anatomy of an attack on Iran TV shows, movies and novels all deal with the possible air attack on Iran's nuclear programme by Israel. This story in the Asia Times goes to work on the scenario and spells out the facts and the fiction of such a possibility and probability.
Happenings In Tisdale:
Thursday, July 1 8:00 Pancake breakfast downtown 11:00 programme at Tisdale museum 2:00 New citizen's ceramony

Tisdale grad cars: Tuesday
June 29, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: Tisdale has a curious custom of its high school graduates painting up a clunker for the celebration of their high school finale. Here are some pictures of this year's crop of vehicles.

1957 Pontiac Laurentian convertible: Tuesday
June 29, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: This rare and magnificently preserved fifty-three year old car has been in Tisdale for the last week or so and definitely deserves some comment on this web site.

A wet land: Monday
June 28, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: Those fields that were planted are severely, perhaps terminally damaged from the almost continuous rain we have experience in May and June. Today we have three picrtures that illustrate the situation.

Passing the bell as Tisdale superannuated teachers wrap up another year: Monday
June 28, 2010
by: Darlene McCullough
: Tisdale: Tisdales retired teacher went a tea house in Carrot River and had a fish supper at Tobin Lake to wrap up this past year's activities. This report summarises the year.

Unsettled weather: Sunday
June 27, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: A few showers even a few showery days are the norm for late June in Saskatchewan but in a year when rain is followed by more and more rain the sequence of daily rain is getting a bit tiresome.

New curbs for north New Market: Sunday
June 27, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: The newest section of Tisdale had some preparatory work carried out this week getting ready to pave the north portion of New Market and the new cul-de-sac of Fairy Glen.

House number seven: Friday
June 25, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: Forester Crescent is nearly complete with only three corner lots vacant. House number 7 is a Rise Construction project and is now getting wired and is ready for siding.

Municipal McCarthyism: Friday
June 25, 2010
by: Eugene Parks
: Victoria, British Columbia: The head of Canada's spy agency was speaking out for Canada's national government when on CBC he fingered municipal politicians in B.C. being under the control of foreign governments.

Webserver hacked: Thursday
June 24, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Regina: In the middle of the night early Friday morning the server that brings you this web site was attacked by hackers attempting to gain control and access to the server. They did not achieve their goal but did enough damage to prevent updates to the site until it was over hauled on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

Boundary Bay Air show: Thursday
June 24, 2010
by: Brian Marlatt
: White Rock, British Columbia: In the southern most part of mainland British Columbia is the airport known as Boundary Bay. This past Saturday they held their sixth annual air show. Brian Marlatt was on hand and caught more than a hundred pictures of the displays and the air show itself. Some very interesting aircraft and outstanding weather.

New treatment for 1100 block 95th St: Tuesday
June 15, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: Tisdale streets are in pretty tough shape and it looks like the town is seeking some alternative to full fledged pavement with the need to resurface several streets. 95th Street is the first to try out something old and different.

Seeding is over: Monday
June 14, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: The countryside around Tisdale is positively lush from the almost steady rain over the past weeks. But the fields are laying in water to much water to dry up quickly but also enough to drown crops already sown. Few farmers expect to do any more planting, what is in the ground is the crop for this year and in some parts of Saskatchewan that means most of the land this year will lay fallow.

The Greenwater report: Monday
June 14, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford
: Humboldt: This week's report gives us the low down on the Good Sam club that held their special outing this past weekend in Humboldt. Despite the rain it looks like things went off just great and the Crawfords are off this coming weekend for another RV tour of northwestern Saskatchewan.

House # 6 on 95th street: Thursday
June 10, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire
: Tisdale: The continuous rain is slowing the progress on house construction but despite the rain the work is progressing with the basement for house nine finished up today. This new house sits on the site of a small dwelling that was knocked down December 1st and today McFadden's crane moved the whole rafter system of the garage into place.

The Greenwater report: Thursday
June 10, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford
: Saskatoon: A report on Saskatoon's coffee row and some details about a new shopping development in one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. Gerald also tells us about what he will be doing this coming rainy weekend at Humboldt and he passes on the passing of a lady from Porcupine Plain.

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.

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