The Badger has learned that the man arrested at a Hutterite Colony last weekend created a false identity – possibly to attract potential victims met on the Internet.
“He basically uses dating websites to cherry pick women who are in a more vulnerable sort of state. He gives them all kinds of bullshit – he’s a pilot, that he’s in the military, that he’s a widower – to play on sympathy,” said the family source close to 40-year-old  Keith Currie and who doesn’t want to be named publicly for fear of retribution.

By Sheri Monk
A man who followed a Tompkins woman home from work and caused area schools to be locked down on Friday was finally captured by police. RCMP arrested the 40-year-old Keith Currie on Friday, after he somehow escaped capture at Tompkins on Thursday. Prior to his March 19 arrest, the school division was allegedly advised to keep children indoors in the event the suspect was intent on abduction. The man is answering several sexual charges in Ontario, including sexual assault with a weapon.
“The school emailed me the police bulletin and …

A man is in police custody a day after nearly being caught in Tompkins. Area schools and daycares were in lock-down mode after being forwarded and an alleged warning from RCMP that the suspect was caught trying to photograph children at and warned of a possible abduction motive.
No information has yet been released with details as to where the man was apprehended, but word on the street is that he may have been caught at the Carmichael Colony.
The vehicle the man was driving was stolen and had B.C. plates.

By Douglas Bradfield

Reno Rodeo is coming back to Consul in 2010 for its third annual event, but this time, it has a special title – award-winning. In what was just its second year, the Consul Reno Rodeo won the 2009 Canadian Cowboy Association (CCA) rodeo of the year award, a title coveted by every CCA rodeo in Canada.

The rodeo is put on by Reno Rodeo and Ag Society, formed in 2008 by Randy Stokke, Dan Black, Carl Parsonage, Travis Erickson, Scott Pridmore, John Beierbach and Doug Richards.

The event is heavily …

By Sheri Monk
The Southwest has been plagued with electricity failures this year. The most recent was on Mar. 12 when power went out across the region at 1:30 p.m.
However, while it was restored for most, customers north of Liebenthal and west to the Alberta border were powerless until seven in the evening.
A midget provincial hockey game scheduled to be held at Leader was hastily relocated to the Maple Creek Community Arena. As well, the lack of power made set-up for the annual Leader Fusion Dance Competition a challenge. Businesses closed …

Some of you might have noticed the recent edition of the Sask. Beef Business magazine republished a column of mine from December called Culling all Cowboys. You might also have hung in long enough to read Mr. Roy Rutledge’s response.
I’ve have requested the magazine allow my rebuttal, so let’s wait to see if I will be granted the opportunity before I publish my trenchant reply in The Badger. So, without further fanfare, let’s move onto something even more petulant.
Cat spray. Is there anything other than death that is more rank than male …

By Sheri Monk
Canada stopped in collective horror nearly four years ago when on April 24, 2006, a 12-year-old girl was arrested in Leader and later convicted of murdering her mother, her father and her eight-year-old little brother. Also convicted was her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke.
The murders took place in a quiet, average home in the heart of suburban Medicine Hat, a common stomping ground for all in southwest Saskatchewan. And as the nation recoiled in horror and disbelief, the familiar rural countryside was forever scarred by the proximity of such …

By Francis Horton, an American soldier
Sometime in September or October, I will back myself into the economy class of a 747 and come to you. I hope I get to sit next to one of your fine citizens so I might ask questions during the flight (and perhaps not be squished by one of my own countrymen who has been cheating on their significant other with McDonalds.) There are so many things I don’t know about you that I want to find out.

By Connie Burton
Five local athletes at the midget level were invited to join Team Southwest for the Saskatchewan Winter Games held at Moose Jaw from Feb. 14-20, 2010, simultaneous to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Feb. 12-28, 2010.

By Sheri Monk
An article published in the Canadian Veterinary Journal in September of 1989 implores the government to consider banning the use of ruminant foodstuffs to animals of any kind. The same article also suggests it would be prudent to ban the inclusion of bovine and ovine brain, spleen and tripe from baby foods, as the United Kingdom had already done. A document from 1992 spelling out the government’s position on the possibility of BSE entering Canada was woefully wrong and contrary to widely held scientific knowledge about the disease. …