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Pure Joy Naturals is a family-owned Southern Manitoba company that specializes in natural health care products, herbal remedies and essential oils.

The company also enriches the community with its mentorship and in-house "Community of Kindness" initiative.

The hearts and minds behind Pure Joy Naturals belong to Rob and Coral Fehr, both Certified Aromatherapists with as much knowledge about the natural product field as experience in it.

The Prairie Watershed Climate Program (PWCP) provides funding to producers who implement any of these three eligible beneficial management practices (BMPs) on their farm – cover cropping, nitrogen management, or rotational grazing. Within each category, there are various practices that are qualified to receive funding. BMPs have many positive outcomes such as storing carbon, reducing greenhouse gases, improving biodiversity, and increasing the profitability of your farm.

2025 is a big year for CMU (Canadian Mennonite University), marked by many events and celebrations – and YOU are invited!  

Sandy Koop Harder is Vice President, External at CMU. She explains that the university was born out of a Bible college tradition and Mennonite church context.  

“That legacy of Bible colleges came together in the year 2000 as Canadian Mennonite University, and we’ve been grounded in the Anabaptist Mennonite faith tradition ever since.”  

They keep it all in the family at Dean & Daughters’ Repair Shop in Estevan. Only, “family” to the owners and employees at this friendly local business includes most of southeast Saskatchewan – and whoever happens to be passing through and requires a bit of help.

“Every business — industrial, commercial, hotels, restaurants, even homeowners — has certain needs that happen on occasion. When it comes to a homeowner, if a nice lady has a mouse in the house, well, people don't know how to deal with that, so we'll deal with that for them.” 

“I shouldn’t be amazed after all these years, but I’m amazed every single time how well people respond.”  

Captain Ian Scott from the Salvation Army, speaking with Chris Martens on Country 94.1 on January 29th, shared his appreciation for the incredible support the Salvation Army has received over the last few months. 

It all began with a remarkable discovery at an abandoned mine tailing site.

“Mine tailings are pretty toxic environments – but this particular site had plants growing on it! In my master’s degree, I found that the microbial community was the driving force that determined which plants grew where on this contaminated site. So, I wanted to invent a product that would help make plants at contaminated sites grow better, help plants grow in an urban environment, and help agriculture.”

It all began with a remarkable discovery at an abandoned mine tailing site.

“Mine tailings are pretty toxic environments – but this particular site had plants growing on it! In my master’s degree, I found that the microbial community was the driving force that determined which plants grew where on this contaminated site. So I wanted to invent a product that would help make plants at contaminated sites grow better, help plants grow in an urban environment, and help agriculture.”

It seems obvious that students are thinking in school, but what happens when students are learning, but not really thinking? Peter Liljedahl, author and researcher behind the philosophy he calls “Building Thinking Classrooms,” explains, “Thinking is a necessary precursor to learning, and if students are not thinking, they are not learning.”  

Think of it as an extended royal family – and one that keeps on growing.

Having recently purchased King’s Department Store, new owner Jade Moore appreciates the family element of a business that has been a fixture of downtown Carlyle for more than 40 years.