Healthy Homemade Soups
Homemade soups are a healthy and comforting food choice during the cold winter months. Not only are soups delicious, but they are easy to modify to include your favourite foods and flavours.
Great Plains College is here and ready!
Great Plains College is committed to being a leader in post-secondary and labour market development in Saskatchewan.
Check It Out: Getting by with a little help from friends
There’s rumours floating about that suggest an election may be in Canada’s near future. It’s a time when many folks in western Canada are finding it a challenge to discern how they have benefitted from the current administration.
Lakeland College develops first bachelor of agriculture technology degree
Lakeland College is offering Canada’s first degree in agriculture technology this fall.
Bruce Penton: Quarterbacks dominate NFL spotlight
The state of the National Football League, where the quarterback is king, is in good shape. Almost guaranteed for the Feb. 7 Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., is a classic quarterback matchup.
At the University of Lethbridge, experience matters
Your education is more than what you learn in the classroom. At uLethbridge, you’ll prepare for the career world by gaining first-hand experiences, new skills and the ability to apply your knowledge.
MHC adds Agroecology to program mix
An exciting new program has been added to Medicine Hat College’s academic offering, giving students interested in sustainable agriculture an opportunity to become a registered technologist in Agrology (RTAg), while staying close to home in the southern Prairies.
Prairie View: Alberta needs a new direction
In the last column that I wrote I indicated that my next column would be a follow up to the last one.
Bottle Drive
The Oyen Daycare completed their bottle drive in Cereal. It was a huge success!
Small World Cafe opens its doors in Youngstown
The Village of Youngstown is just a short drive from Oyen, 59 kilometres to be exact. The village’s motto is “Where quality of life meets opportunity.”
Congratulations and Condolences
Sympathies to Lyle Lorenz and family on the death of his wife of 54 years, Rosemary, 73, of Lacombe who died December 10, 2020, after a courageous battle with cancer.
A Little Bit Western: Back in the Saddle Again
Back in 2014, I started writing a column for a quality local newspaper over a three-year period. During that time, I shared a bit about life on our ranch and what it was like to raise our kids among the daily activities of breakdowns, calving cows, and lost dogs.
Sure-Fire Streaming: Sonic, Vanished, Pieces Of A Woman, and more!
Back when a Sonic movie was announced, a Twitter firestorm launched after a lazy character rendering of the speedy 90s videogame hedgehog was released.
The Prairie Elevator Museum
The Prairie Elevator Museum is a former Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator that has been restored and converted into a community gift shop and tea house.
TC Energy halts work on Keystone XL in anticipation of Biden action
Before President Biden was even inaugurated, TC Energy let it be known they would be stopping work on the Keystone XL pipeline.
This is the executive order killing Keystone XL, citing the reasons why Biden did it
This is the verbatim executive order killing the Keystone XL pipeline, again, as signed by newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden within his first hour in the Oval Office:
Food For Thought: The US Election
Will we ever know the truth about the US election? We know that major coverups are possible because when JFK was murdered, it was one of the biggest coverups in the US history that we know of.