Tuesday
December 21, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: It is much a part of going to school as homework and spelling bees. The annual Christmas concert is a rite of passage for a child in kindergarten and we are taking you along to a modern version of a concert in Regina.

Tuesday
December 21, 2010
by: Michael Townsend

Yuma, Arizona: Scattered aroiund North America there are only a few instaances where the first people to inhabit the continent have left behind evidence of themselves and their culture. Drawing and putting symbols on rocks was a good idea because their permanence. Mike takes us out to a site in Arizona where successions of people have left their mark. This photo essay includes forty-six remarkable images.

Wednesday
December 15, 2010
by: Marilyn Cay

Tisdale: The ordination of a priest is an important event and this past weekend St. Matthew's Anglican church had this important investment take place.

Wednesday
December 15, 2010
by: Sylvia Jones

Campbell River, British Columbia: Many people from around the world visit this web site each week but among the most faithful visitors are former Tisdale people and their families. It seems to be a good way to see some pictures of their community. Sylvia Jones graduated from TUCS in the late 60s and she and many of her friends are planning a get together in Penticton in October 2011.

Monday
December 13, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Sunday's presentation by the community men's choir and the Tisdale senior band played to a full house in the RECPlex theatre and as a special bonus Ward Arnold is home for the holidays and did three numbers. This story includes video clips of Ward Arnold and the band.

Monday
December 13, 2010
by: Gerald Crawford

Saskatoon: Alas Doreen Crawford has reach her eightieth birthday and the Crawfords' family and friends were on hand Sunday to celebrate the occasion. Gerald gives us a run down on who was there and was able to get in a paragraph about the deep snow conditions at Greenwater Lake Provincial Park.

Saturday
December 11, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Almost every day there is time for a drive around town or out into the surrounding countryside and of course that means an opportunity to capture the scenes. We have had a lot of cloudy and foggy weather this past week and these pictures show how the snow level is continuing to rise as the cover on the fields and yards is slowly building up. This set of 46 images are some of this week's collection.

Saturday
December 11, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Tisdale's AAA midget hockey team pitched in to do their part this morning holding a charity breakfast in the RECPlex. Besides the fund raising breakfast they had a 50/50 draw and a quilt raffle. The whole team was on hand participating in the event.

Thursday
December 9, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Canada's very wealthy are mostly CEOs and business executives each earning millions annually. Canada's poor are growing in numbers rapidly and their incomes shrinking while the middle class remains smaller but stagnant in income growth. This situation is not good for the country and it is not good for it's people, rich or poor.

Wednesday
December 8, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Saturday the company that has taken over most of Canada's newspapers from CanWest Global, Postmedia made their "apps" available across the country. The popularity of the iPad is a force to be reconed with as more and more of these things are in the hands of people looking for uses for it.

Thursday
December 2, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: Little amounts of snow have been drifting down from the sky each day and on Wednesday night there was fog which of course resulted in the usual coating of frost on the trees and fences. Since the wind was from the south the frost was most noticable on the south side of the trees. Almost all of the pictures in this group of twenty-eight are shown here in black and white.

Thursday
December 2, 2010
by: Ken Jones

Halifax: Last year on December 1 Ensign posted a remarkable set of pictures from Halifax of autumn. This year's set of pictures is much smaller but the dramatic images are have just as much impact. The photos have been combined into a QuickTime movie and may take a little time to download.

Tuesday
November 30, 2010
by: Timothy W. Shire

Tisdale: This is a discussion about some unsettling trends in our Canadian society and in this story the point is made that we are slipping toward an unquestioning and unreasonable form of political reality. The introduction of a one sided news channel is a serious matter for this country and does not produce balance but rather heads us toward the abyss of one minded, one acceptable ideology for all.

Wednesday
November 24, 2010
by: Darlene McCullough

Tisdale: The monthly meeting of the Parkland Photography Club took place on Tuesday night and this report gives you a snap shot of the clubs many activities. They are getting a slideshow together to be used at various senior citizens homes and the club members are getting ready for submissions to provincial competitions. The involvement in shows and competitions pushes each member to seek out the means to create better and better images.

Wednesday
November 24, 2010
by: Eugene Parks

Victoria, British Columbia: North Korea's unprovoked artillary attack on a South Korean island killed two soldiers and two civilians while pushing China and United States into a confrontation over their client states. This is serious stuff and there is a definite need for some cooling off before steps toward a war are taken.