Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Ensign Front Page Volume 11, No. 3

Hay fever season

Tuesday
May 22, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Despite the cool weather the blossoms are starting to show up on trees around town and noses are running.

Back to school

Tuesday
May 22, 2007
by: William Dascavich
Edmonton: Mr. Dascavich is a former farmer and now lives in Edmonton. Today he tells us about the joys of taking some collage classes as part of Edmonton's Lifelong Learners Association.

The Greenwater Report

Monday
May 21, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : A cool Victoria day at the park with garage sales and a run down on real estate as cabins and lots are purchased but the Cove remains closed.

Harper's Handbook: "We are not amused"

Monday
May 21, 2007
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls : The Canadian system of Parliamentary democracy and its reliance on committees to sort of legislation is not without its flaws but it is truly unfortunate that the government has seen fit to put in print its methods of blocking the democratic process.

Ensign posted for nine years today

Sunday
May 20, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Certainly, the editor and most readers, would never have expected this web site to still be posting nearly every day, nine years after it began in 1998.

Pool opens tomorrow

Thursday
May 17, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Everything is ready for a new season as the Tisdale swimming pool was inspected for safety this morning and will open tomorrow with a free swim.

Tourist booth and campgrounds ready for another season

Thursday
May 17, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Nine people were working flat out to trim up the campground for opening day and it will be looking outstanding as a new tourist season begins.

Partisan politician first Prime Miniser second or third

Thursday
May 17, 2007
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls : It wasn't a pretty sight the Prime Minister at Petawawa to offering encouragement and support to the families and arm forces members and instead he launches into a highly partisan campaign speech. Truly unseemly behaviour.

Legacy Project: final preparations

Wednesday
May 16, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: A surveyor was on the street today marking out the modifications to main street as the town prepares for completion of this outstanding downtown upgrade.

Cumulo-fractus clouds

Wednesday
May 16, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Saturday we had showers in this part of Saskatchewan but the showers were part of a large weather system with embedded thunderheads but all that was visible were the fractus clouds.

Don Trembath

Wednesday
May 16, 2007
by: Judy Shire
LaRonge: Juvenile fiction author from Alberta visited LaRonge Public Library last week and gave a reading from his 2005 novel "Rooster".

Recycling - maybe not!

Tuesday
May 15, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Dumpster truck was seen this morning emptying the paper product boxes at SARCAN this morning makes one wonder about what is going on and why are we going to all the effort of sorting out our garbage?

The Greenwater Report

Monday
May 14, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Time for the annual greenhouse adventure as the Crawfords do the local tour and fill up the motorhome with plants. Next weekend's yard sales are on at the park and Gerald is happy the Park is evicting the geese.

Get SummerActive

Friday
May 11, 2007
by: Joni Hagen
Regina: Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association have launched a programme running from today until June 22 for us all to get out and enjoy our province and do some healthy living for ourselves.

Tisdale development plan one year old

 

Thursday
May 10, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Here is a chance to meet the Tisdale Director of Economic Development as he outlines some of the achievements for the development plan over the past year and highlights the upcoming community forum on the Bio-fuel project.

Putting it in

 

Thursday
May 10, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Here are four pictures of four field operations in progress today right around noon hour.

Seeding 2007

 

Wednesday
May 9, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Despite winds over 30 knots the seeding process in the Tisdale area is well underway with that same ole wind being responsible for rapidly drying up the wet spots.

Annual visitors

 

Wednesday
May 9, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Various types of arctic geese make the Tisdale and Kinistino area their annual two week rest stop before heading over the tree line to the tundra where they will nest as they do each year.

The Greenwater report

 

Monday
May 7, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: The Crawfords are in Saskatoon for a few days after a trip to Prince Albert and this week's report clues us in on Saskatoon property values, the ice is gone off the lake, Crawfords met their new great grand child and coffee row is sipping right along.

Brad Wall's hidden vision

 

Sunday
May 6, 2007
by: Henry Neufeld
Waldeck: The Saskatchewan Party has ranted for the past month about personale issues in the government and past governments while showing no indication of positive outlook on what they want to see for the province.

The best backyard

 

Saturday
May 5, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: One always has to keep their eyes open for something special and while visiting a garage sale today we discovered Tisdale's best backyard.

Questions arise from quote

 

Friday
May 4, 2007
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagaara Falls: The prime minister and whispers from Quebec suggest that he will do what ever it takes to get support from that province in an upcoming election no matter what the consequences for the country as a whole.

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