Mother Nature filled my order for rain last week. We had two rain and hailstorms just a few days apart. Today’s storm brought around an inch of rain and hail in short order.

Congratulations goes to Nigel Broadhead for winning the library’s cupcake contest! Nigel’s adorable lion cupcake took home the most votes.

Oyen & District Health Care Foundation Annual Planting Bee in the courtyard at the Extended Care. Left to right. Muriel Martin, Ann Berg, Linda Lockhart, Bev Haag and Lynda Grudecki.

Orland Thurlow from Stanmore, Alberta, has discovered a hobby that allows him to build in a small space without using tools. Stanmore is a hamlet between Hanna and Youngstown on Highway No. 9.

Does your rural community have a project that needs a financial jab?

UG Excavating Contracting Services laying forms for concrete at the parking area north of the Town of Oyen office Wednesday.

Decades have passed since Fran and Dean Francis created Sagebrush Studios, located twelve miles east of Empress, Alberta, near the southern Alberta border. Their twenty acres of land is situated close to the ravines and river valleys that Dean has been painting for 43 years.

‘Great Expectations’ has already been taken as a book title, but perhaps the Edmonton Oilers can use it as a subtitle to their reflections on an abbreviated 2020-21 National Hockey League season.

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Russell Peters is a Canadian stand-up comedian who is on the list of the world’s highest paid comedians, which means people think he’s funny.

A year ago, Maxine Williams-Herbert expanded her business at Three Hills, Alberta, to include services at Hanna, Alberta. Her company, Maximum Hearing’s Hanna office, is open every Thursday and Friday.

The Trudeau government is throwing freedom of expression under the bus so the entertainment and culture lobby can pocket more dough.

The Badlands Baseball Academy was begun in 2010 and is locate in Oyen, Alberta. The Academy’s mission is to provide the best education possible while providing the necessary skill development and knowledge to become an elite baseball player.

Brenda Sanderson is the lucky winner of $1,205.00 in the Town of Oyen Library’s 50/50 raffle.

The East Sounding Creek 4H club is busy finalizing plans for the Hanna district’s annual show and sale which will be held on June 12th for the market steers.

CALGARY – Following a year of unprecedented circumstances, BMO Bank of Montreal and the Calgary Stampede are proud to belatedly recognize the southern Alberta farm families who received 2020 BMO Farm Family Awards.

What do the following people — Joe Musgrove, Spencer Turnbull, John Means, Carlos Rodon, Corey Kluber and Wade Miley — have in common?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could afford to chuck wood? If the woodchuck needed to purchase wood at today’s prices, he would likely have completely stopped chucking wood in 2021.

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KINDERSLEY, SK – Great Plains College is pleased to announce the addition of an Educational Assistant (EA) program to its Kindersley Campus offerings. The part-time certificate program is set to begin in January 2022.