Kim Gartner, MLA for KINDERSLEY - BIGGAR
Constituency Office: Unit 5, 1001 Main St. PO Box 2620, Kindersley, SK S0L 1S0. Phone: 306-463-4446. kgartnermla@outlook.com.
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Constituency Office: Unit 5, 1001 Main St. PO Box 2620, Kindersley, SK S0L 1S0. Phone: 306-463-4446. kgartnermla@outlook.com.
Robert and I were having a coffee at the office Saturday morning - me perched behind my desk as usual and Robert sitting along the wall - when our landlord came in.
I was asked a while ago by the Canadian Cancer Society to share my story about my experience using Wheels of Hope. I'm sorry it's taken this long because I really do want to express…
Two of Dolly Parton's most popular sayings were "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap" and "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." Dolly did exactly that before she left this earth…
During my working years in the city, I was employed at the same factory for many years. In that time, I had the pleasure of working with an older gentleman who was a wonderful man…
It seems once September rolls around, everything gets turned up a notch. Kids are headed back to school, and with that comes all the extracurricular activities that go along with it.
Here's a riddle for you. Q: Why did the teacher wear sunglasses in her classroom? A: Because she had such bright students.
God put something in our souls that stretches ever upward to reach him. Consider the edifices we build in which to worship…
Grief is a process, and over time, I have learned to recognize its arrival. It has become a familiar, if unwelcome, friend. I know its rhythm, its weight, and the way it demands to be acknowledged.
In May, we did something that doesn't sound like good business. We stopped asking people in our core market to pay for a subscription and started putting Your West Central Voice…
Not long after his stroke I was standing with my brother in his garden on Cortes Island when, looking into his eyes, I became overwhelmed by a sensation…
Thomas Edison once said, "The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."
“How will you celebrate your 50th anniversary,” daughter Amanda asked, in early summer. A half century of God’s goodness and mercy chasing after us. But I had no idea.
Well, that’s embarrassing. Apparently, I have absolutely no idea what weekend it is. For the past few days, I’ve been happily telling people to “Have a great long weekend!”
The demolition of the Great West Café created dust and precious memories of the past for all of Eston. We saw the café go through renovations and upgrades from the original booths…
Apparently, Columbia House is finally calling it quits. My first thought when I heard the news was, Columbia House is still around?
Most Franco-Saskatchewan villages began as Catholic parishes, my village, Val Marie, being one of them. Fr. Claude Passaplan was the first French missionary in this parched land…
Here's a riddle for English teachers heading back to school. Q: How do you console a sad English teacher? A: "Their, there, they're!" As the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) continues…
Sometimes, when I sit to write, I have no clue what’s coming. I’ve done this weekly for a quarter of a century; you’d think words would come as naturally as scratching an itch.
Cargill's plan to acquire grain handling assets that Parrish & Heimbecker bought only months ago has pushed grain sector consolidation back to the forefront.
When I was a kid, summer holidays lasted forever. Two whole months stretched out ahead of you with no school, no homework and, as far as I was concerned, no particular reason…
When I announced to my urban friends that I'd moved to Saskatchewan, to the village of Val Marie, my mother's birthplace, a common response was: wow, you mean villages still exist?
The definition of entitlement is an official right to something, or the belief that one deserves special privileges. Franco Terrazzano, the director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation…
Just recently, I experienced a very sad day in my life. I had to say goodbye to an old friend. I had to dispose of my car of many years.