Month: <span>March 2023</span>

When Ken died in February 2021, we had an outpouring of messages from readers, with many telling us how much his columns meant to them. In light of that, we thought we would go back through our files and re-publish some of his columns. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We...

When Nick Taylor of Abbotsford battled Scottie Scheffler down the stretch at the recent Waste Management Phoenix Open, he won $2.2 million and propelled himself into fifth place on the PGA Tour’s money list this year. His dramatic success also moved him into 77th position in the Official Golf World Ranking list, giving Canada an...

By Nicole Goldsworthy, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Humboldt Journal Tim Lockhart has made it his passion to photograph as many prairie grain elevators as he can find. Lockhart was born and raised in Alberta and his dad was a manager at an Old Dutch potato chip plant. When he travelled with his father he gained...

MLA Harrison visits South Korea By Phil Ambroziak Northern Pride First Japan, then Korea. As part of a recent trade mission to southeast Asia, Meadow Lake MLA Jeremy Harrison found himself in South Korea where, last week, the Government of Saskatchewan — via the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC)— and Star Group Ind. Co. Ltd. signed...

By Cam Hutchinson It has been a lousy start to the New Year. I wrote more obituaries in January than I did newspaper columns. My father-in-law Des Gore-Hickman died on Jan. 19. He was the third of three family-related deaths during the month. I have been part of the Gore-Hickman clan for almost 50 years....

Are you planning to retire this year? If so, you need to make sure you don’t do what 80 percent of Canadians do once they do their “hard-stop” to working. One thing is common amongst almost all new retirees is they all underestimate the amount of funds needed in retirement and all have a profound...

I‘ve been thinking about City of Saskatoon policies a lot lately. The green cart program for composting organic waste, for example, which will finally start rolling out (see what I did there?) over the next two months, was a LONG time coming. I recall saving scraps of uncompostable food, paper and other bits while visiting...

Late in the evening on Dec. 6, 1977, I walked up a flight of stairs and into the StarPhoenix newsroom. It had been quite a day. It was my first day. I skipped the StarPhoenix team in a media curling event. Larry Tucker, then the sports columnist at the paper, said if we didn’t win,...

Sometime in the next two months, a new green “garbage” bin will appear in front of our homes. Alongside will be a smaller green pail complete with a lid, for which we will have to find some space in our kitchens. Starting in May, Saskatonians will be discarding a remarkable variety of organic wastes (not...

Begonias have been around since Victorian times, and have long been a favourite. They are actually native to South America, and have thousands of species that you might like to grow. They are relatively easy to grow, have attractive foliage and can grace your home in the winter months with relative ease. Sometimes begonias are...