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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.
History of the Cottrell Cemetery
John, Amelia and their family were all born in Iowa, USA and came from Kingsley, Iowa. John was semi-retired already at this time.
Bruce Penton: Mets’ Degrom pitching on ‘another level’
Fans of Major League Baseball have a plethora of young talent to drool over this year, with Shohei Ohtani, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., Ronald Acuna, Jr., Jesse Winker and Fernando Tatis, Jr., all having spectacular years.
Check It Out: What could help unite our country?
The handyman told his friend, “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” When government attempts to unite our country by enforcing regulations, opposing voices will become louder. So how can we begin to unite our country?
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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Damien Kurek: Parliament Rising, Alberta Opening Up, and a Possible Election
Alberta is open! It is encouraging to see our province move forward and to finally start putting COVID behind us.
New USask research has potential to make fava beans a new favourite from farm to fork
A once popular high-protein legume crop with potential to make farming more environmentally sustainable is poised for reinvigorated popularity, thanks to an international research team, including plant geneticists from University of Saskatchewan (USask).
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Bruce Penton: Dream continues for Habs, and their fans
Moving vans have been busy this late spring and early summer as hundreds of hockey fans take up residence on Cloud 9.
Check It Out: Speak up now before you’re censored
Someone said they bought their favourite heavy metal album, but it was the censored edition. It ended up being the best instrumental CD they had heard in a long time.
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.
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.
Bruce Penton: Wondering about Toews, Rodgers, etc.
Looking for answers? Here are 20 questions:
Check It Out: Freedom is what makes Canada strong
My joke for this week ... Question: How do you get a Canadian to apologize? Answer: You step on their foot.
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.
Powell Brothers to represent Canada at National High School Rodeo in Nebraska
Jace, 18, and Keldon Powell, 16, sons of Calvin and Haley Powell, have been around livestock all their lives growing up on their ranch near Youngstown.
Bicycle Built For Two!
Arnie Pederson, Oyen Long Term Care resident, and Brooke Hensel, Recreation Therapist, on the Orion Tandem Cycle.
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