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Members of the royal family have visited South Canterbury several times. At the 1954 visit, Sherson stood in line to meet the royals as they walked through Ashbury Park. “I was a leftenant in the Armoured Corps back in the CMT[Compulsory Military Training] days,’ Sherson said. Gordon Bower/Supplied This photo was taken by Gordon Bower, as the royals left Timaru going south. The people waving were the late George Johnson, and his daughter Marleen, now Marleen Shewan. “I was the 2IC of ...

Religious orders to match monthly donations to Development and Peace February 25, 2021 Lenten alms-giving to Canada’s Catholic international development agency is getting turbo-charged by religious orders. From Ash Wednesday until Pentecost Sunday (May 23) a handful of religious communities will match new monthly donation plans dollar for dollar, up to a total of $130,000 to aid Development and Peace – Caritas Canada.  Even increases to existing monthly giving commitments will be eligib...

Generous benefactors will match monthly donations pledged to Development and Peace. MONTREAL, February 17, 2021 Development and Peace — Caritas Canada has launched an exciting matching project for its Share Year-Round monthly donation program. All monthly donations pledged from Ash Wednesday until Pentecost (Sunday, May 23, 2021) will be matched dollar for dollar, up to a total of $130,000. This includes new pledges and any increases to monthly amounts already being donated. This initiative i...

Reading, Writing, Listening: Author Spotlight – Chelsea Coupal January 28, 2021 Chelsea Coupal’s first poetry collection, Sedley (Coteau, 2018), was shortlisted for three Saskatchewan Book Awards and selected by Chapters Indigo for an Indigo Exclusive edition. She has won the City of Regina Writing Award and been shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Arc, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, among other publications. Her poem “St. Peter’s Abbey,...

Article content In 1923, the parishioners of St. Scholastica in the Saskatchewan community of Burr stole their church. Not in a metaphorical or allegorical sense. Their church had been taken over by a new diocese and they didn’t approve. So they picked it up and spirited it back into the jurisdiction of their old abbacy. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Buy, borrow, or steal: How communities have kept Saskatchewan churches alive and on the move...

The President General of the Grassroot Development Initiative, Chief Bright Amaewhule has remarked that his organization will not support any candidate for the 2023 governorship election if such candidate is confirmed to have ethnic or tribal sentiments. Amaewhule made the remark at Degema, headquarters of Degema Local Government Area at the Verification and Mobilisation Exercise of Wards and Local Government officers of the GDI. We will only support a candidate that will take care and provide ...

A Coalition of South-South Political Parties (SSPPC) yesterday pledged its support to the ongoing Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) forensic audit. The group made this known in a statement jointly signed by Mr Prince Rueben, the National Leader, Amb Joseph Omoregbe, National Secretary and Omangima Harry, Deputy National Secretary in Port Harcourt. The forensic audit was set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the activities of NDDC from inception to August 2019. According to R...