Month: <span>June 2019</span>

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Search and Recovery

Don Miller promised Maurice Gran he wouldn’t rest easy until the plane, in which Gran’s younger brother died, was found. True to his word, Miller initiated the successful search that led to discovering the Cessna 180 that crashed into Peter Pond Lake on Aug. 20, 1959. On board were pilot Ray Gran and Harold Thompson,...

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One door closes, and another opens

I have worked in journalism for going on 41 years. It was uninterrupted employment, with 33 of those years at the StarPhoenix and eight at the Saskatoon Express. Then the Express closed its doors in May. Our publisher, who was also a shareholder in the company, came through the door about 8:30 a.m. on a...