By Ryan Kiedrowski
People across the west are discovering what Fox Valley residents have known all along – Maria Danvers is one amazing country music artist. Along with her musician husband Ben Beveridge, Danvers has been touring throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan since May to promote her first recording As Long As There’s You, which was released on July 2.
“We’ve had such good response with the music,” she told The Badger. “It’s been really inspiring, really encouraging me and getting me motiviated for the next album.”
Danvers hopes to release an album …

By Sheri Monk
Leader town council voted to raise monthly water rates by $3.30, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

By Coach Dave Zoerb
I would like to tell you about a very young and hard working team here in Maple Creek, they are the atom female Hawks.

By Sheri Monk
The Leader Flyers were fire on ice all weekend, winning three games in as many games.
Hosting the Oyen Eagles Friday night, The Flyers came away with a 4-2 score.

By Sheri Monk
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The Cypress Cyclones finally broke their losing streak in front of a supportive home crowd Saturday night.

By Sheri Monk
From the time he was 10 years old, Morris Lukowich included his dream of playing hockey with Gordie Howe in his bedtime prayers and someone seems to have listened.

With William Wardill
Somebody once wrote a poem which began with the words: “Tiger, tiger burning bright / in the forests of the night…” The poem is rarely read or recited now, but we are hearing, ad naseum, about the Tiger who enriches himself playing golf. My shameful secret, here revealed, is that I am a heretic who doesn’t want to play golf. There are two things wrong with the game. I don’t like to playing it or watching others playing.
Well , now. To the de’il …

With Ryan Kiedrowski
Here’s a quick tip for all those elementary school students out there that are currently dealing with a bully: get used to it.

By Sheri Monk
So, the NFU has called for an inquiry into slaughterhouse and retailer beef profits. Don’t hold your breath.
To the NFU’s credit, they are the only producer group in Canada making any noise as the Canadian cattle industry bleeds from a 1,000 wounds.
The honest-to-goodness trouble with the NFU is that no one publicly takes them seriously. Privately, I’ve had all kinds of ranching folk tell me how much they appreciated and identified with the massive NFU cattle crisis report released last year. But no one’s talking about it at the …

By Ryan Kiedrowski
Since May 1, area producers have been able to meet all their agricultural concerns at the newest Saskatchewan Agriculture office in Kindersley. Back in the spring of 1996, the Rural Service Centre Extension Office in Leader was closed with producers calling a 1-800 number to have their questions answered.