Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Ensign Front Page Volume 11b, No. 171

The demise of the telephone

Wednesday
March 18, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: What a shame, Alexander Graham Bell had a great idea and it has worked for us well for over a century but alas the era of the telephone is over. Spam advertising, wrong numbers, voice mail and computerised answering systems make the thing all but completely useless.

The Greenwater report

Tuesday
March 17, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: The Crawfords are showing patience with the winter that drags on and on as they take in a visit to the casino, catch a glimpse of an eagle, visit the Field House regularily and have an allergic reaction to newspaper ink. The Crawfords celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary this past week.

Conservative innovation hits poorer municipalities hardest

Tuesday
March 17, 2009
by: Nancy Clarke
Grand Bank, Newfoundland Labrador: The Federal Budget though touted as a stimulous budget had within it a score of other legislation. With enormous pressure to pass the budget quickly the opposition did not do their work and the government moved its neo-conservative agenda well forward. This story points out a glaring example.

Getting ready for spring

Friday
March 13, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Every year the town clears the ditches and drainage runoff waterways in and around the town. Despite the really cold weather this week the work has been carried out using the blower.

Are Ex-Presidents subject to Canadian Law like everyone else?

Friday
March 13, 2009
by: Larry Kazdan
Vancouver British Columbia: Former United States President George W. Bush was directly responsible for the torture of people including Canadians. Now he is coming to this country to give a speech in Calgary.

House number three - a duplex

Thursday
March 12, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: It has been tough for both Strive Concrete and now Farber Construction to get this project going. Cold temperatures have interrupted the work but the walls on a new duplex condo on 95th street are going up.

It's what we're about

Wednesday
March 11, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: With world wide unemployment rising and the markets in shambles it is important to shake ones head and look at the horizon and think just what are we about. Saskatchewan depends for its wealth on mining, oil production, potash, forestry and agriculture. Here in this part of the province agriculturre is the thing and we must not forget that, but its time to get ready for another crop year.

Connaught road gravel stockpile

Tuesday
March 10, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: In the winter the frozen roads permit the heavy trucks to move gravel for stockpiles but in the spring, summer and fall the weight restrictions limit loads in order to preserve to roads themselves. Saskatchewan badly needs to upgrade its rural road system.

Ritz redundant demand for second AG audit of CWB

Tuesday
March 10, 2009
by: Art Macklin
Grand Prairie, Alberta:The Harper government will not give up on trying to damage the Canadian Wheat Board even in their attacks cost Western Canadian Farmers millions. The Board has a fund to back up market declines and had to dip into this fund and that has prompted the minister in charge to call for an audit, despite a 2001 audit that established outstanding financial handling by the Board.

Trojans take Prince Albert Mintos three straight

Monday
March 9, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The Trojans wrapped up the first round of their play off season with three straight wins over the Prince Albert Mintos on Saturday night with a decisive 3 - 0 victory.

The Greenwater report

Monday
March 9, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Time for family as the Crawfords have some company from B.C. Gerald and Doreen take in a Sports and Leisure show which affords a perfect opportunity to visit with folks who are not usually in Saskatoon.

Telemiracle breakfast

Monday
March 9, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Saturday morning the local Kinsmen and Kinettes club with the help of their sponsors put on a pancake breakfast at the RECPlex to add to the money they have raised this year for the annual television weekend charity fund raiser.

Hoar frost

Friday
March 6, 2009
by: Ken Jones
Regina: Here are seven outstanding images taken in Regina's Wascana park on February 5th. Most are taken against a cloudless deep blue sky that sets off the frost as it was seen in the bright mid day sunlight.

Louis Dreyfus moves the wheat

Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The giant pile of wheat that was established during harvest this past fall is being loaded up and readied for shipment this week.

RCMP leadership must be held accountable for interference

Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria British Columbia: With the British Columbia's decision not to lay charges against the four officers who killed Robert Dziekanski one would have thought that the force as a whole would have wanted to clear the matter up. However, that is not the case they seemed to have deliberately surpressed cooperation with the inquiry into the incident and surpressed other evidence.

Why special $3 billion fund must be accounted for up front

Thursday
March 5, 2009
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls: It would appear that the lesson of December has not been learned as the Prime Minister is once again on a $3 billion plan to bolster ridings he needs to win a major in a future election. The Liberals do not want to grant the government that much descressionary money while the NDP refers to it as a slush fund. Election looms.

Cheers to a healthier economy

Wednesday
March 4, 2009
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria British Columbia: There is nothing we can do about the current financial and economic crisis in which we find ourselves but we are demanding that our government take critical steps in this time of economic slow down. Here is a simple summary of the political / economic choices available.

Langbank 1951

Tuesday
March 3, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Langbank: Langbank is a tiny community in the southeast part of Saskatchewan. In 1951 school consolidation had not yet taken place and the school then had two rooms, grades 1 - 7 and 8 -12. You need not know the people in the picture but their story and their time is frozen in this interesting image.

The Greenwater report

Monday
March 2, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Gerald gives us a detailed account of the changing weather of late and fills us in on who he met and visited with this past Saturday. Oh yes, the renovations to the Crawford place are finished and he tells us how that went.

Fearful men

Friday
February 27, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The sickening statements made by those who killed Robert Dziekanski are just to much to bare. One could understand lying but after being cleared of the murder the RCMP members seem almost proud of killing the tired, stressed, polish speaking man.

Super Bumper

Thursday
February 26, 2009
by: Kevin McIntyre
Carrot River: Cars in Canada must have a bumper capable of being hit at low speed and absorbing the energy. Trucks and vans which are classified as trucks are exempt from this requirement. Kevin has installed on his van a clever solution to improve the safety of his vehicle.

KKK - Kanada's killer kops

Thursday
February 26, 2009
by: Edwin Wallace
Swift Current: The federal government in response to the outrage of gang violence in Vancouver and Toronto has introduced a bill increasing penalties for gang related violence. Here in Saskaatchewan and British Columbia we have witnessed a large number of police killing people while taking them into custody or already in hand cuffs. The police explanation is that the "officer feared for his life" and was justified and killing. Only beating a prisoner is ever punished the police killing someone as in the Dziekanski case all but ignored.

Parkland Photography Club February meeting

Wednesday
February 25, 2009
by: Darlene McCullough
Tisdale: The photography club met last night and discussed their success with presenting slide shows to various groups in the area and considered the problems of Macro photography. Their theme shoot was "my favourite picture" and the three winners are stunning.

Losing to the elements

Tuesday
February 24, 2009
by: Ken Jones
Regina: This is a photo essay of nine images of an aging barn about nine miles from Regina, surrounded by the open plain and the snow drifts that have accumulated around it make these images dramatic and interesting.

The Greenwater report

Monday
February 23, 2009
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: As it gradually shows some signs of warming up the Crawfords are turning their thoughts toward summer motor home trips and various trips. But for at least a week more their attention is still on wrapping of their house renovations.

Last home game of the regular season for the Trojans

Thursday
February 19, 2009
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: With still one week left in the season the Tisdale AAA Trojans have played their last home game until the play-offs begin in March. They still have one game that was cancelled due to bad weather in November to catch up with and it will be the end of next week before we know who they will start off with in the play-offs.

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