Discover Moose Jaw Staff

Kyle Schachtel is the first winner of Discover Moose Jaw’s Farmer Appreciation Harvest Edition contest, and shared with Country100’s Courtney Fielder a bit of the story behind his family’s multi-generation farm operation. 

Schachtel hopes to pass the land and its care down to his own son one day, but he said farms like his are becoming rarer. 

Rob Carnie: Civic election, you mentioned (it). Of course there is a civic election coming up this fall. Let’s go over voter registration and mail-in balloting and free city transit on election day and everything that we need to know about the civic election coming up in the fall. 

Rob Carnie: Maryse Carmichael is the City Manager with the City of Moose Jaw. She’s on Take 5 with Carnie and Carmichael, the annual city survey, let’s talk about that. 

Maryse Carmichael: We want to hear from residents, this year’s survey is going to be called “Parties and Potential”.  

Rob Carnie: Let’s touch on Souls Harbor. They operate the Riverside Mission in Moose Jaw. Let’s clarify where we are with that whole situation.  

As most people know, they want to build a new facility and get out of the old decrepit facility they have on Manitoba Street. Where are we at with that situation? 

Rob Carnie: Community safety: let’s follow up on the meeting that we had. There were a lot of people showing up and talking about, mainly, the homeless people that are around Moose Jaw and some people fear for their safety. 

A lot of our homeless population are harmless people who just want to live life and get a bite to eat. But there are people in our downtown core that are upset, and some elderly people have come forward and said they fear for their safety. 

Rob Carnie: It's another edition of Take 5 with Carnie and Carmichael featuring Moose Jaw City Manager, Maryse Carmichael. Let's start with a #notoriously active Fall and Winter Rec Guide. I hate to say fall and winter in August, Maryse, but here we are, and the Rec Guide is out, and lots of opportunities for local people, local families to get involved across the City of Moose Jaw at all our great facilities. 

In Rambler Park Fastball last night, The Rez downed the Moose Jaw Giants 18-3 at Kaplan Field, knocking them out of the playoffs. 

Major League Baseball, in the first of their three game series, the Toronto Blue Jays fell 6-3 to the Cincinnati Reds. 

The Moose Jaw Warriors announced that they will be opening up their 2024 training camp on August 28th.

The camp runs over five days at the Moose Jaw Events Centre and concludes with the Black and White Intrasquad Game on September 1st.

They can live to play another day with a win at Ross Wells Park tonight.

The Moose Jaw Miller Express are facing a MUST-WIN situation tonight in game 2 of the Western Canadian Baseball League final after dropping a 7-4 decision to the Dawgs in Okotoks last night. Over 5000 fans were in the stands to see it.

A 6-run 2nd inning for the Dawgs was the difference.

Game 2 of the best-of-three is tonight in Moose Jaw.

If the Millers force a Game 3, it’ll be in Okotoks tomorrow night. 

The Western Canadian Baseball League season comes down to a best-of-three championship final and it all starts tonight.
The Moose Jaw Miller Express are visiting the Okotoks Dawgs for game 1 of the series with game 2 set for tomorrow at Ross Wells Park. Game three, if necessary, will be back in Okotoks on Saturday night.

As Rambler Park Fastball League playoffs continue tonight, it’s the Moose Jaw Giants playing the Hawks at Kaplan Field. The Giants are coming off a 7-0 win over Wynyard Blues on Tuesday giving them a 1 and 1 record in the double-knockout playoff format.

Westin Walls pitched a complete game, scattering 9 hits over 9 innings while striking out 11 batters and the Moose Jaw Miller Express earned a trip to the Western Canadian Baseball League championship final with a 5-3 win over the Berries in Saskatoon Berries last night.

Joe Osborn hit a home run for Moose Jaw while Nate Houston went 4-for-4 at the plate and scored two runs.

The Millers will be up against the Okotoks Dawgs, who won the West Division Final with a 10-4 win over the Sylvan Lake Gulls last night.