By Sheri Monk
“We went to Spain with our daughter and her husband’s rodeo company to put on some rodeos,” said Wilf Cornelsen of Maple Creek.

By Sheri Monk
Across the nation, it is revered, honoured and even worshipped and for the first time in history, the Stanley Cup is coming to Maple Creek.

with Kelly Wakefield
December 2006. I nervously sit in a living room full of people preparing to leave for Honduras in a month to build houses with Habitat for Humanity, an international non-profit working to provide “simple, decent and affordable housing.” I do not know anyone in the group,

OK, so I’ve never qualified for mom of the year award, but this year, it’s different. Maybe.
We registered the boys for the first time ever, in hockey. Our oldest is going on 10, the youngest just started Grade 1, so he’s only five years behind or so.

By Sheri Monk
The cattle industry has been plagued with turmoil since the BSE crisis of 2003, but the relief predicted by many never came when the U.S. border opened fully to Canadian cattle under Rule 2.

By Sheri Monk
The pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine will be offered in the communities of Shaunavon, Leader, Maple Creek and Eastend this week. Additionally, the Saskatchewan government and Cypress Health Region have extended the shots to include another high risk group.

By Sheri Monk
On Nov. 12, Barry Rudd will host his first open house as mayor. Along with his councillors, the new Maple Creek government will be unveiling the new proposed zoning bylaw for town.

By Sheri Monk
While Shaunavon was fortunate to escape widespread physician shortages last year, this fall the community will be especially hard-hit.
This Thursday, Nov. 13, husband and wife team, doctors Ivan Teofilov and Elmarie du Toit, will wind down their practice at Shaunvon leaving one physician

By Sheri Monk
Hazlet is a small community of just over 70 people, but it’s a village with a big dream, founded in large part by a proactive school principal. Recently, the community realized its pioneering international student program was nixed by the school division. And if keeping a rural community alive was at the heart of the program, then finances are most certainly the guts of the problem.

Drake Herman (left) and Amy Wong pose before the work of students from Grades 6, 7 and 8 as part of a special unity called, ‘How will you remember?’
By Sheri Monk
“I learned that there’s lots of people that wanted to help Canada,” said Amy Wong, a Grade 7 student at Leader Composite School.
Under the guidance of social studies teacher Carmen Gill, students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 collectively assembled a diverse assortment of history related to Canada’s war time efforts.
Drake Herman, also a Grade 7 student, says he was surprised …