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 …

By Sheri Monk
Leader RCMP arrested two people last week in unrelated incidents.
On Oct. 25, a vehicle was pulled over for speeding within town limits on Highway No. 21 North.

By Sheri Monk
When husband and wife doctor team Gul Jawaz and Naheed Amin moved to Canada from Saudi Arabia in 2007, neither had any idea their chances of actually practising medicine again were slim.
“We landed as immigrants in 2007 and we came to live here in May of 2008,” Amin explained. “We had applied for our immigration in 2004, we got it in 2007.”

By Sheri Monk
The last regular meeting of the current Maple Creek council ended with a bang Oct. 27 after an unexpected delegation was permitted to read a letter to council that attacked current councillor and mayoral candidate Barry Rudd on the eve of the election.

By Sheri Monk
At the last school board meeting before the Oct. 28 election, the outgoing Chinook School Board changed its school review policy.
The decision was made at the Oct. 13 meeting to conduct school reviews once every three years, rather than on an annual basis.
The first review period is to take place next year, the second year of the new board’s three-year mandate.

By Sheri Monk
The story begins in the mid-1940s when a long stretch of Highway No. 32 between Shackleton and Leader was paved – sort of. No one knows for sure who decided how the highway would be constructed, but that decision resulted in a 65-year struggle which will finally cease in the fall of 2010.