Life lessons, donations, marketing all learned in CCI leadership class

The Leadership 20 class at Central Collegiate has taken it upon themselves and organized a teddy bear drive as part of their school project.  

“We thought for our project that we wanted to collect some teddy bears to create some smiles on people’s faces that were kind of missing that sense of joy and comfort in their life, we thought teddy bears would be a good way,” says Leadership 20 student, Chloe Johns.  

Historic day for Assiniboia, new wind turbine facility officially opens

It was a historic day for the community of Assiniboia on Tuesday, as SaskPower, Potentia Renewables Inc., the mayor, and other dignitaries cut the ribbon on the province's largest wind turbine facility.  

The Golden South Wind Project just south of the city, facilitates 50 wind turbines, and combined produces 200 megawatts of electricity back into SaskPower’s electrical grid, which is enough to power 100,000 homes.  

Loss of Black Sturgeon cabin leaves Manitoba family 'heartbroken'

“The cabin’s flooded, and then seeing the pictures it’s just so heartbreaking, cause you know everything you have is destroyed."

That was the reaction Manitoba resident Lisa Downton had after seeing her family's Black Sturgeon cabin completely destroyed and unliveable, from the high water levels on the lake.

Downton and her family are grain farmers from the Iles des Chenes and Lorette area, south of Winnipeg, and bought their cabin last spring, as a family getaway from their busy work lives.