Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Ensign Front Page Volume 10, No. 25

 

Honey Bee Music and Dance Camp

 

Tuesday
August 15, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :This year's music camp kicked off its week with a Fiddling concert last night featuring the Saskatchewan Fiddle Champion Dean Bernier from Prince Albert. This story includes a QuickTime video of last night rehearsal.

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The Greenwater Report

 

Tuesday
August 15, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This week we find out about where the oil come from to pave streets, how come its hard to build sand castles at Greenwater Lake and about big ducks.

Tisdale Summer Figure Skating School

 

Tuesday
August 15, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :Looks like summers over the RECPlex arena is going full tilt with hockey school and the figure skating school. This story looks at figure skating as a sport of enormous importance to Canadians and includs a two minute video of a practice session.

Smit's Beach

 

Tuesday
August 15, 2006
by : Jo Lukinchuk
Codette :Less than half an hour from Tisdale is a remarkable and varied playground, a place to vacation and enjoy a wide range of activities. This story tells about the resort and includes twenty great pictures to do more than just tell us about this specail place.

St. Peter's Cathedral Muenster

 

Sunday
August 13, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Muenster :A week ago today we went over to Muenster from our campsite out at Waldsea Regional and photographed one of Saskatchewan's historical and artistic treasures. This story includes images of the church and a QuickTime VR cube of the interior.

Eagle Creek Regional Park

 

Friday
August 11, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Asquith : Regional parks have been our target locations for camping this summer and here is a story about Eagle Creek about fifty minutes northwest of Saskatoon near the town of Asquith.

Does a every vehicle need a license?

 

Friday
August 11, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :Some one mentioned to me that he was seeing between two and five unregistered vehicles on Tisdale streets every day. I took up his challenge and sure enough I found two.

Fifteen blocks

 

Wednesday
August 9, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :Paving work is expected to begin next week as this week preparations are underway for a major street resurfacing programme for this community which seems to have become a place of gravel roads/ Fifteen blocks are slated for surfacing this month.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
August 9, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :Time for a chuckwagon race or two and for the Crawfords to participate in the Cove's flea market. The water remains high at the lake and fishing is very promising.

Valley Regional Park

 

Wednesday
August 2, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Rosthern :Essential a golf course with a campground but both are sumptious and a credit to Saskatchewan as one of those places to visit and enjoy. We went to the park because of last week's Greenwater Report to see the Dry Street show in Rosthern's Station Art's Centre. The Valley Regional Park was a bonus. This story includes a short video clip and a remarkable QuickTime VR panorama, both require QuickTime to view.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
August 2, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :The Crawfords take us with them to the Great Sand Hills, Cypress Hills Park, Eastend, Regina Beach and Craik then bring us up to date on the August happenings at Greenwater Park.

Fort Carlton

 

Wednesday
August 2, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
West of Beardy's :History books are just hints about the past, visiting a site like Fort Calton are a way of diving into what once was and allowing you to understand how what is came about.

House number four is on its foundation

 

Wednesday
July 26, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : While I have been taking a holiday work in Tisdale has been moving right along with two new houses well on their way. Number was moved onto its new foundation at the Beehive Hideaway Greenhouse site yesterday.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
July 26, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :The Crawfords have been touring again and this time we get a report on show at Rosthern then an account of their adventures west of Saskatoon out to Leader.

House number five

 

Wednesday
July 26, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :Farber Contracting Ltd. has Tisdale fifth new house of the year rising nicely just south of the Golden Age Centre.

Standing up for Canada?

 

Wednesday
July 26, 2006
by : David Orchard
Borden :The fighting along the Israeli Lebanese border has much of the world repelled by the violence and the loss of life. Mr. Orchard is not enthusiastic about the position taken by Canada's government on this issue.

Rockets, bombs and brutality

 

Wednesday
July 26, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :When war broke out in Beruit in 1969 it was bad, this conflict of the summer of 2006 could be far worse.

Fishin'

 

Wednesday
July 19, 2006
image by : Jo Lukinchuk
McBride Lake :After the frantic summer of 2005 this year seems like the first summer in a decade. People are taking it easy and enjoying themselves.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
July 19, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :Beautiful pictures of the park in this report as Gerald tells us about upcoming events for the Cove and beach cafe. He also has some interesting fishing tips.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
July 12, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :This week Gerald tells us about the way the summer is going at the park with lots of visitors and events. SaskExpress this week, events planned for the Cove and Marean Lake and Gerald tries out a new camera.

STS121 - thirteen days in space

 

Wednesday
July 5, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : NASA launched Discovery yesterday on a 13 day rendezvous mission with the space station. You can watch the whole thing unfolding live on your high speed internet connection.

The Greenwater Report

 

Tuesday
July 5, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :Canada Day and celebrations at the park and surrounding communities. Cottage owners hold their meeting and there are pelicans in the area.

The Greenwater Report

 

Tuesday
June 27 , 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park :Gerald takes us along to the artisan's expo at Shellbrook this past week and then tells us about the ducks and geese.

A galloping police state?

 

Tuesday
June 27 , 2006
by : Marjaleena Repo
Saskatoon : If history has ever taught us anything it is to be considerably aware of governments who make laws to over rule those laws already in place. The arrest of seventy people in Ontario for some undisclosed alleged terrorist activity may well be just another elaborate political hoax like the last such arrest which proved to be nothing but a smear campaign.

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