Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:11 PM Ensign Front Page Volume 12, No. 023

Overwhelmed by our own helplessness

Wednesday
June 24, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: That storm cloud today was turned out to be fairly mild but the power of a storm compells our attention as do the events overseas, just as the woes of our economy seem to be insurmountable. This story has a second story with some suggestions.

Hell bent on an election

Wednesday
June 24, 2009
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria British columbia: Bar-b-ques, photo-ops, from now til mid September as Canada's federal politicians gear up for an inevitable fall election. This could be a really long summer.

Tri-Unity Challenge

Wednesday
June 24, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Carrot River: For competitive and recreational walkers and runners, here is an oustanding event planned for mid August. Find out about this first annual walk/run planned for the morning of August 15th at Pasquia Regional Park.

Monster sale tomorrow

Tuesday
June 23, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The Schapansky yard is full and then some with a huge range of products for Wednesday's big sale. Though intended as a haying and harvest equipment sale this one has the works from Semi tractors, to graders to a whole fleet of fishing boats and campers.

1931 Model A runabout

Monday
June 22, 2009
by: R. W. Shire
Moosomin: The Ford motor company has over the years made some very popular cars. The "T" was a legend but some versions of the model "A" were the equivalent of the Mustange of their day and like the pony still roll around towns and cities across the continent.

The Greenwater report

Monday
June 22, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: From driving in the rain to family get togethers this week's report tells us about the improvements to highway #41 and a television programme about the decline of rural Saskatchewan.

Airport breakfast

Monday
June 22, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Tisdale Aviation Associations annual breakfast and fly-in was on Sunday morning and there was a good crowd on hand right at 8:30 for eggs, sausage and hashbrowns.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keep Canada's nuclear ploughshares

Friday
June 12, 2009
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls Ontario: the Prime Minister very much on his own has decided to divide up and sell of Canada's AECL, the developer of the CANDU reactor and now the man has decided Canada is getting out of the production of medical isotopes. With a minority government and lacking a mandate from the public to do anything it would seem the prime minister is overstepping his domain a tad.

House number seven

Thursday
June 11, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: From the time a lot is cleared and digging begun until the walls go up can vary considerably from project to project. In a few day the walls for house twelve will be standing and today we tell you about the development of house number seven.

Its all about forests and trees

Tuesday
June 9, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: When considering the problem of the "bigger picture" people sometimes say that a confused individual "can't see the forest for the trees". Its an interesting problem especially when we have both the public and their government unable to figure out what is happening and we might consider that they have to many trees in their view.

Isotopes a sexy issue

Tuesday
June 9, 2009
by: Dr. Phyllis Wagg
West Bay Nova Scotia: There is the common belief that people enter public life as a way of giving back to their society. It comes as a shock to see Conservative cabinet ministers view their role as a personal thing and seem to disregard the duty they have to those who elected them and the people of the country to whom they are responsible.

Waskelly witto wabbits

Monday
June 8, 2009
by: Darlene McCullough
Tisdale: We are used to seeing the odd big Jack Rabbit dashing through the neighbourhood but lately the town has had smaller and less nervous visitors. Almost every part of town we are seeing brave rabbits usually only one at a time but on Sunday Darlene had three of these guys in her yard and they were not particularly preturbed at her being present.

The Greenwater report

Monday
June 8, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: While making the garage sale rounds Gerald happened upon some people who were closely associated with the development of Greenwater Park. Though they are experiencing some electrical difficulties the Crawfords are off for a jaunt this way visiting Tisdale, Greenwater and Nipawin this week.

A&W car show

Friday
June 5, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Though on the cool side there was brilliant sunshine to show off the cars entered in this year's show. The pictures speak for themselves as we look around and soak in the fun of these vehicles.

The flower pots return

Thursday
June 4, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: In the main section of Tisdale we are proud of the flower pots that adore the sidewalks and corners. the pots are fitted out by Four Season's Greenhouse and this morning they were delivered and placed up and down the street. Glad to see them back.

Replacing water line

Thursday
June 4, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Each year the Town of Tisdale removes at least two blocks of cast water line and replaces it with plastic lines. The plastic lines are less affected by the chemical composition of the soil and slowly street by street Tisdale's water system is being upgrade to prevent frequent corrosive breaks.

Relay for life 2009

Wednesday
June 3, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This past weekend the people of Tisdale, Melfort, Nipawin and surrounding communities were on their feet in the massive annual fund raising drive for Cancer research. The Parkland Photography Club was on hand and documented the event on Friday night with 120 pictures which we are proud to share with you.

Rose breasted grosbeaks colour up the yard

Wednesday
June 3, 2009
by: Helen Carson
Crooked River: The Rose breasted grosbeak is one of the most colourful birds to be seen in this part of Saskatchewan and the difference between male and female appearance is quite striking. When you check out this story be sure to check out the pictures Helen took of another pair back in May of 2007.

House number nine

Wednesday
June 3, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The pace of housing construction in Tisdale is not slowing one bit with 12 new housing project begun or completed this year. Tradesmen are still scrambling to finish off the thirty or more structures built last year and in addition there were many new homes built last year and begun this year on neighbouring farms.

Shriner's roses

Tuesday
June 2, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This morning the Shriners held their rose day in Tisdale and delivered more that 500 dozen bouquets in this year's fund raising project.

Tennessee warbler - Vermivora peregrina

Tuesday
June 2, 2009
by: Helen carson
Crooked River: Only 4 3/4 inches in length these characters dash from limb to limb on your trees. But they do a lot of other dashing as well. They spend the winter in Mexico and as far south as Venezuela then make their way all the way up to the Yukon but also nest here in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Montana.

Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula

Monday
June 1, 2009
by: Helen carson
Crooked River: These remarkably brightly coloured birds net east of the Rockies and usually on the great central plains, though seen occassionally this far north the numbers seen this year is an indicator of a shift in their nesting grounds to push a little further north than usual.

The Greenwater report

Monday
June 1, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: The Crawfords are celebrating the final arrival of spring and took in a wood working display. This report marks the passing of Frank Kaufhold of Wynyard.

House #8

Thursday
May 28, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: We are actually up to eleven housing project currently underway in Tisdale but we wait until the walls start to go up before we do the story on the new project. House it is the second housing start on the new cul-de-sac, it started a few days after what will be house #7 but is the first of the two to have some walls standing.

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