Submitted By: Frank Korvemaker

The ‘old’ Bell Barn located outside of Indian Head.

Submitted By: Frank Korvemaker

The ‘old’ Bell Barn located outside of Indian Head.

Submitted By: Frank Korvemaker

The original homestead including the Bell Barn in the late 1880’s.

By: Darcie Thom

In all but one late afternoon, history unraveled itself in the office of The Kipling Citizen. Bette Klein, a Kipling local, brought a small piece of her family’s history in the form of a letter, better yet a real pioneer story, to our attention in the newsroom.

Just as luck would have it, Klein had a piece of history that would date back to a time when some of Saskatchewan’s biggest history was made. This particular memoir was written by Klein’s grandmother (Marion Dash) about her father (Klein’s great-grandfather) Walter Merryfield, an English immigrant but more importantly, a true Saskatchewan pioneer who took part in the Louis Riel trials, pioneer farming and ironic to this story, the building of Bell Barn.

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Photo by: Darcie Thom

Sheila Szakacs, a Mental Health Social Worker in her office in the Kipling Memorial Health Centre.

By: Darcie Thom

Every minute of every day, people struggle with their personal ‘mental illnesses’ that sometimes either go unnoticed or untreated. For the past sixteen years, Canadians have been fortunate to have a designated week for the awareness of these varied illnesses. Starting from Sunday, October 5th through to Saturday, October 11th, people from across Canada will be raising awareness about the varied degrees of mental illnesses through concerts, speech and word of mouth.

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By: Darcie Thom

Just a few days ago, I received a phone call from a local reader who was curious to know if we could start putting recipes in the paper again. This seemed a little ironic that she had called and asked this because that morning, I had thought up the perfect column idea for Fire Safety awareness, a no-fail cookie recipe, one that I have never successfully burned!

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Photo Submitted By: Pauline Daku

Children take part in a sack race at Museum Day.

Submitted by Kipling Historical Society/ E.Hamelin, Secretary

Kipling and District Historical Society and Museum had a very busy and successful year. The year started off with a number of fundraising events including the annual bake sale and hamburger lunch, hosting and catering a noon meal to the Superannuated Teachers Annual Meeting, providing lunch at an auction sale, barbequing hamburgers and hotdogs for Kipling Co-Op Equity Day, hosting and serving a noon meal for the Kipling Ministerial Canada Day Service, providing a supper meal for our own Museum Day and ending with barbequing hamburgers for the Red Paperclip weekend.

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Participants in the 2007 Walk-a-Thon.

By: Darcie Thom

Here’s your friendly reminder to put on those walking shoes and think pink!

The Kipling Legion Auxiliary will be sponsoring a Breast Cancer Walk-a-Thon and invite the Kipling and neighboring communities to walk-a-long!

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