Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Ensign Front Page Volume 10, No. 192

Silverwheels

 

Tuesday
May 1, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Investigating high floatation applicators lead to the interesting linage of this machine for sale at John Bob Farm Equipment in Tisdale.

The Greenwater report

 

Monday
April 30, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Sandhill cranes sighted, sucker fishing, beach cafe opening, ice breaking up and a former resident passes on, all in this week's report.

What is a frost boil?

 

Monday
April 30, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Having a lot of water beneath the surface in a country that freezes solid each year can have some bad effects on the streets and roads above that water.

Ag-Chem Equipment Terra-gator

 

Friday
April 27, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: With many fields in swamp conditions this is yet another year where the demand for high floatation field equipment is very high.

Afghanistan and Iraq: it's the same war

 

Thursday
April 26, 2007
by: David Orchard and Michael Mandel
Borden and Saskatoon : The invasion of these two countries was not sanctioned by any international body and is an illegal invasion and occupation that can not be condoned but its continuation is an offence to civilization as the number of civilian casualties rises day after merciless day.

Parkland Photography club report

 

Wednesday
April 25, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Planning for this year's outing, discussing slide competitions and this month's theme made up the content of this month's meeting.

Greenwater report

 

Tuesday
April 24, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Gerald keeps us up today on river and flood conditions from Ituna to Hudson's Bay. Works in a ride on an air boat and announces another great grand child.

This year's crocus

 

Monday
April 23, 2007
by: Ken Jones
Regina: For the past few years Ken has sent us a set of spring crocus pictures so today we present the third annual crocus celebration of spring.

Ensuring the future

 

Saturday
April 21, 2007
by: Brad Thomson
Ottawa: There have been many times when our form of representative parliamentary democracy has actually gone against the will of the majority. The issue of the Kyoto Accord is to important for the majority to be ignored.

Senate - a fraction of itself

 

Saturday
April 21, 2007
by: Robert Ede
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Without paying much attention to grade twelve Canadian studies courses most Canadians have little understanding of the actual role and constitutional position the senate holds in the structure of Canadian government. Mr. Ede is attempting to straighten folks out on this one.

Crushed Canoe

 

Friday
April 20, 2007
by: Leslie Peet
Tisdale: The wreckage of a canoe at the CN trestle is the mute story of someone's misadventure with the Doghide in is flood condition.

Its not a they world, but a me world

 

Friday
April 20, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The college shooting in Virginia and the war in Iraq are not something that can be explained and perhaps should not be explained but must be part of our awareness and realisation of the nature of humanity.

Wood Country expands facility

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: A large new building immediately west of the town square is going to radically change the look of that part of town.

War on the Plains

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Albert Horner and David Orchard
Blaine Lake and Borden : The economic sovereignty and the commercial viability of western agriculture is at stake as the Harper government aims to please its American Master and extinguish the Canadian Wheat Board.

House number one

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Ten houses were built or moved into Tisdale last year and this year's construction process is under way with the first house with its first wall up.

$300,000,000 at $300 a treatment

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls : Cancer of any kind is a killer and now a treatment appears to be available to protect this generation of women from cervical cancer but we really need to consider this and find out about the implications.

House number two

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Basement in place and work to get the foundation underway as the second house of 2007 has begun construction.

Green grass

 

Thursday
April 19, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: That seemed to me like a very long winter. I was surprised to see mud one day two weeks ago and today it was a relief to begin seeing bits of green grass showing up yet knowing full well that means cutting must soon follow.

Moose at Lewvan

 

Wednesday
April 18, 2007
by: Stu Innes
Lewvan: Not long ago moose were known only to live in the bush but for reasons yet unknown they are cheerfully moving out onto the open prairie.

Five minute parking

 

Wednesday
April 18, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Just what this world needs is more signs. Today the town crew installed five minute parking signs in front of the community post office.

Out and about class

 

Wednesday
April 18, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Its been a long time since you could walk around in shirt sleeves and teachers at TMSS have been taking advantage of the good weather and getting their classes out of the classroom.

Pick it up

 

Wednesday
April 18, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Great weather to go for a walk but the ugliness of the stuff dropped since fall is a bit of a mess. Here is the simple and healthy solution.

TILMA

 

Tuesday
April 17, 2007
by: William Dascavich
Edmonton: What we know and understand as the way of nature of Canadian life is in danger. NAFTA has made it difficult for Canadians to be Canadian now there is more and more encroachments coming our way and we need to be aware of the trouble ahead.

Over the banks

 

Monday
April 16, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Despite the week of cold weather the amount of water heading north up the Doghide River channel exceeds the river's capacity and it is now in flood stage.

The Greenwater report

 

Monday
April 16, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Stories of spring at the park as there are rennovations to the beach cafe and water treatment plant, the gold course will open again this year and no news on what will happen to the Cove. But the snow is melting and the water flowing, Gerald likes warm weather.

Look at our everyday ways of living

 

Monday
April 16, 2007
by: Larry Storm
Welland Ontario : The challenge of global warming and the preservation of the environment is huge but maybe we need to think of it as solving one problem at a time. Cut down on commuting to work, reduce the size of car engines and tickle the auto's fuel efficiency.

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