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  • THE ROUND BARN

    November 10, 2009 - 2 h 00

    A few miles south of Glen Ewen, on the Mark Macfarlane farm is a relic of another era in farming. It's the last bit of a once-familiar landmark in the area-the round barn built in 1915 by George Duncan. What's left sitting on the site of the...

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  • Trailblazers enjoy Youth Extravaganza

    November 10, 2009 - 2 h 00

    The Glen Ewen Trailblazers Light Horse 4H Club traveled to Brandon, Manitoba to the 2009 Youth Extravaganza. We caught a glimpse of the Black Baldy Ranch horse competition. They made a pattern and then chased a cow and roped it.

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  • Glen Ewen Trailblazers travel to vet-a-vision

    October 27, 2009 - 2 h 00

    The Glen Ewen Trailblazers 4-H club enjoyed Saturday, October 3rd at the Veterinary College in Saskatoon. The first stop on our tour was toxicology and clinical pathology. The group learned about chemicals that kill or deform fish in a pond and...

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  • Rain Slows Things Down

    October 13, 2009 - 2 h 00

    With 76 percent of the 2009 crop in the bin province-wide, it's clear that not a lot of harvesting got done between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5; up only four percent from the previous week. It was definitely a farewell-to-summer kind of week and Sask...

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  • Provincial Crops Fair to Good

    June 23, 2009 - 2 h 00

    Across the province, the majority of crops are in fair to good condition, but are behind normal in development, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Crop Report for the period June 9 to June 15.

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  • Seeding Nears Completion

    June 2, 2009 - 2 h 00

    The Sask. Ag and Food weekly crop report for May 21- 27, indicated southeastern Saskatchewan had 76 per cent of the crop in the ground, up from 37 per cent the previous week. Temperatures were still cool and below normal with windy conditions....

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  • Restricted Dog Bylaw Repealed

    May 19, 2009 - 2 h 00

    The regular meeting of Oxbow Town Council was held the evening of May 4. Members of council were unaware that since 2000, the town had had a bylaw in place restricting certain breeds of dogs. The issue arose when a couple requested permission to...

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  • Seeding Begins In Southeast

    May 12, 2009 - 2 h 00

    As of May 4, Saskatchewan farmers had seeded four per cent of the 2009 crop according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's weekly crop report. In the southeast, seeding has started with one per cent of the crop in the ground. Canola, field peas, durum...

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  • Fire destroys farm buildings

    May 12, 2009 - 2 h 00

    On May 5, fire destroyed a wooden quonset, two wooden bins (one storing some miscellaneous equipment), and a plastic bin containing oats on the farm of Robert and Shirley Berntson, who live about one mile southeast of Glen Ewen. Other farm...

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  • Cool weather delays harvest

    May 5, 2009 - 2 h 00

    Seeding is underway in the southwest; however, cool weather has delayed seeding in most other areas of Saskatchewan, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's crop report for the week of Apr. 19-25.

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