Pirates, Royals alumni faced off in Holiday Challenge
Alumni of the Kipling Royals and Windthorst Pirates faced off in the second annual Holiday Challenge benefit game December 29, with proceeds to the Health Foundation.
The Prairie Valley School Division Board of Education is seeking public input into the review of the viability of eleven schools in the Prairie Valley School Division. The Board offers various ways of doing this between now and March 2, 2007.
“The Board of Education realizes that its prime responsibility is to ensure that our students receive the highest quality education and meaningful learning experiences possible in our school division,” stated Rod Luhning, the chair of the Prairie Valley School Division board of Education. “We want to assist students in developing their full potential. We want to ensure that our educational program and services prepare them for the world beyond grade 12. To do this, we need to maintain viable schools and classrooms within the context of the entire school division.”
The Town of Kipling is making a bid to have Scott MacDonald change his name for a year and become a walking, talking advertisement for the town.
The decision to bid came out of a regular meeting of the Council of the Town of Kipling held January 8, 2007 in council chambers. Mayor Kevin Hassler presided, with Aldermen Duane Leicht, Mark Olson, Darren Szakacs, Kevin Kish, Glenn Kuhn, Max Krescy and Administrator Gail Daku in attendance.
The Canadian Cattle-men’s Association (CCA) is pleased that “Rule 2”, which will allow for greater access for Canadian beef and cattle to the United States was moved from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on December 29, 2006 and will be published in the Federal Register for a public comment period that will begin on January 9, 2007 and end on March 12, 2007.
Marjorie Stonehouse Happy 100th Birthday, Dec.24, 2006.
Love and best wishes from all of your family.
Marjorie Stonehouse wasn’t going to let a little thing like her 100th birthday stand in the way of tradition.
The race to launch Kipling Film Productions Inc. as a partner in an upcoming movie production is slow out of the starting gate.
Sources say the campaign to date has raised just over one-quarter of the $400,000 needed for KFP to become a full partner in producing 3 Day Test, the movie to be filmed here.
SFL President Larry Hubich has called the provincial government’s use of scabs during the current SGEU strike “reprehensible”. Don Zerr, bargaining spokesperson for the government, has confirmed the use of replacement workers at striking locations across the province.
In 2006, 52% of businesses who responded to the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Outlook Survey increased their business revenue. This is a dramatic drop from the 72% of respondents reporting an increase in revenue at the end of 2005. In addition, 23% of respondents experienced a decrease in 2006 compare to only 9% in 2005. The drop was predictable since projections made by respondents at the end of 2005 indicated 2006 would see lower returns.
• Could 2007 possibly be more eventful than was 2006? It would be a bit hard to fathom, but considering all that is in the works, it could be an exciting time to be living in and around Kipling, once again. Consider that the scheduled unveiling of the big red paper clip is exactly one half year from today; and that filming of a real, Hollywood-type movie right here could begin within the next month or two, and that the Town named after a person could soon have a person named after it (see Council report) . . . what next?
Dear Editor,
By allowing the closure of small rural schools, our government is hindering the development of rural areas and Saskatchewan.
Our government is spending $1.5 million dollars on a campaign to help lure people into moving into Saskatchewan, but at the same time they are pushing people away by creating major issues with our education system.
Dear Editor:
Your column on December 22nd/06 was timely. You talked about Kipling moving on after the ‘paper clip’ story has worn itself out.
Here are a few suggestions to keep the town on the map.
Make Kipling the wedding capital of Canada. ‘Get married in a barn and put farming back on its feet’. Endless possibilities.
Kipling, You are Amazing!
We hope that we can communicate to you the immense gratitude and great respect that we have for the people of Kipling and the Moose Mountain Central RDC.
A community and its leaders always take a risk when they hire community development people. When you bring someone in from outside of your community you have the opportunity to see the community through new eyes. This may show you opportunities that exist but that are not being pursued. On the other hand, you might have an outsider that does not understand the local culture or social structure and who sees opportunities that are not a good fit for your community.
“There it was . . . gone!” After all of the hype, tension, shopping, Christmas cheer, decorating, anticipation, more Christmas cheer, last minute preparation, more shopping, baking, cooking and even more Christmas cheer the Happy Holiday season is over! Only the pictures, bills and a newfound tension on the beltline are proof that it actually happened at all!
A Christmas miracle - it must have been one!
I mean, I’m pretty sure there’s not a Santa, but after Christmas ‘06, I still believe in miracles.
This story starts in a pasture, with a gloriously gentle and beautiful horse. December 23rd presented me with a rare moment, between countertops covered with rising butter horns and closets full of unwrapped gifts, to get out and see my beloved horse.
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