The big day has arrived!

Kipling is host to what is being called Saskatchewan’s Biggest Housewarming Party Ever, this weekend, Sept. 1-3.

The celebration is being held to welcome the Town’s newest citizens, Red Paper Clip Trader Kyle MacDonald and Dominique Dupuis to their new home in Kipling, at 503 Main St.

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Good harvest progress was made during the past week, according to Sask-atchewan Agriculture and Food’s weekly crop report.

Thirty-seven per cent of the 2006 crop has been combined, and a further 33 per cent has been swathed or is ready to be straight combined. This is higher than the five-year (2001-2005) average of 18 per cent combined, and 20 per cent swathed or ready to straight combine.

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Those who knew the late Vera (Hanson) Dermody will remember her as a bit of a character. Fun-loving and quick with the wit, she was a natural-born entertainer.

Vera was one of several who once boarded at 503 Main Street in Kipling, the house which due to recent events has come to be known worldwide as “The Red Paper Clip House”. In the late 1930’s and early 40’s, it was a boarding-house operated by a Mrs. Hallin and Vera counted a daughter, Mae Hallin among her circle of friends.

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Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall is calling for specific steps to be taken, based on the information and impressions he gathered during the course of his summer tour.

“Those living in Saskatchewan are a proud and hopeful people,” Wall said. “They’re looking for someone to show leadership on a number of fronts, and they’re not getting that leadership from the NDP.”

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Saskatchewan continues to call on the federal government to ensure national policies that shape the future of Canada’s renewable fuels industry help establish the emerging biodiesel sector and encourage primary producer involvement.

To date, the federal government has committed to a mandate of five per cent use of biofuels by 2010. The federal mandate combines ethanol and biodiesel, without specifying a target for each fuel type. While Saskatchewan continues to push Ottawa for a ten per cent renewable fuels standard by 2010, the province wants the federal government to implement a two per cent biodiesel allocation by 2010 that would increase to five per cent by 2015.

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Fillmore RCMP are investigating a fatal collision which killed a 49 year old man from Arcola. At about noon Tuesday, Aug. 29, a pick-up truck was northbound on a grid road when it came to the intersection with Highway #13 about 6 kilometers west of Stoughton. The truck entered the highway where it came into collision with a westbound motorcycle.

The driver of the motorcycle, a 49 year old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. The 29 year old male driver of the pick-up from Regina was not injured.