Janet Parkinson was at a crossroad in her professional life. She had sold her decorative glass business and was starting to do interior decorating and colour consulting. Her life took another turn when her mother’s health started to decline. To provide care and support, her mother moved from Moose Jaw to Saskatoon. The move wasn’t...
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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,...
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...
We are a city of Festivals
Children’s Festival Kids of all ages will celebrate creativity, curiosity and fun at the 30th annual Nutrien Children’s Festival of Saskatchewan. The festival will be held at Rotary Park. More than 20,000 visitors are expected to take part in theatre, music, dance, comedy and circus arts performances from around the world, and participate in countless...
Goaltending boosts Habs’ fortunes
If goaltending quality were used to rate the Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, mark the Montreal Canadiens down as the presumptive champion of the North Division this summer. As the seven teams approached the one-third mark of the 56-game regular season, with nary a postponement due to COVID-19 (as teams in the other...
Jerry Shoemaker named Sportsman of the Year
Jerry Shoemaker, a prominent Saskatoon curling figure, is happy with the health of his favourite game in Canada. “Great strides have been made in the competitive, high-end scale of the Canadian game,” said Shoemaker, who was president of Canadian Curling Association (CCA) — now known as Curling Canada — in 2005-2006 and is the newly-minted...
After 112 years, Early’s not showing its age
Spencer Early represents the third generation of a storied family which has been serving Saskatchewan with a wide variety of services, from seed, feed and fertilizer to golf course, home, garden and pet needs since 1907. Early’s grandfather, S.A. Early, started a hay, grain and feed store on 20th Street East, moving it to Wall...