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Grand Re-Opening of 1st Avenue

About 150 people attended Oyen’s Grand Re-Opening, Ribbon Cutting and barbecue for 1st Avenue. Several digintaries were also in attendancefor the event. The project cost an estimated $4.8 million to complete.

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Pop89: Val Marie 2021

My mother was born here in 1930. But I didn’t come here until after she died. Last night, my neighbour Patsy was driving down Railway Ave. East (not to be confused with Railway Ave. West) as I was walking home from watering Maurice’s petunias.

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Pop 89: Sprung from the land

Leger released a new poll asking whether or not we should “cancel Canada Day.” Most of the news media pathetically but predictably took the poll and ran with it, inciting righteous patriotic indignation and shifting focus away from what generated the poll in the first place.

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LAKE KINDERSLEY?

A torrential downpour hit the Town of Kindersley on the morning of Saturday, July 3. Reports of up to 70mm fell in less than an hour, turning several streets and parking lots into lakes, including 11th Avenue East.

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Pop89

Pop89 feels like a good title for a column by an ex-urbanite whose month-long retreat to a convent-turned-B&B situated on the edge of Grasslands National Park turned into an eight-year immersion into the sort of exquisite darkness and silence that both illuminates the soul and challenges ego on a daily basis.

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