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Get well and recovery wishes go out to Robert Greer and Warren Parkinson who recently underwent knee surgery at City Hospital in Saskatoon. Also to Stanley Mills on a recent hip replacement surgery. Their hospital stay was only a few days each. All are home on their own now. It will take at least six weeks for full recovery. While Stanley Mills was in the hospital, his daughter Elaine Theriault from Mississauga, Ont. flew in to spend two weeks helping out with her dad.

Sympathy goes out to Arlene Rowlands and all the Rowlands and Kozlowski families of rural and North Battleford on the passing of Paul Kozlowski of Battlefords District Care Centre Feb. 3. A week before Paul's passing, he had fallen and broke his hip and spent a few days in a Saskatoon hospital. Paul was 97 years old.

Stanley and Dorothy Mills celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Feb. 3. A family reunion is being planned later in July for all the family members.

Feb. 2 was Groundhog Day, with heavy clouds and light snow falling. The groundhog sure did not see his shadow in our area. In this part of the world he will be back in his den for another six weeks and even more. We all wonder what all the fuss is about him seeing his shadow since every area is in a different weather zone. In fact just stop and think that Mother Nature has more control of the weather than the groundhog ever had

As we all know in this area of Saskatchewan we get various types of weather throughout the four seasons and we all should be prepared for what comes our way at any time.

Days are getting longer and the winter seems to be sliding along quickly. It is a cold beginning of February. There has been very light snow fall that doesn't amount to much on the ground with a light thaw that left icy spots in yards, on streets and patches on a few roads. There has been a real variety in the temperatures, not really as many cold days as we have seen in the past years. The spring garden seed catalogues have been out for some time now. So all the gardening people have been looking at what's new and planning the new garden to be planted.

Feb. 3. was a very special day when Canada Post released its Pioneers of Winter Sports series honouring the late Sandra Schmirler (1963 - 2000) of Bigger. Also honoured were Barbara Ann Scott (1928 - 2012), the only Canadian woman to win Olympic gold metal in figure skating and Sarah Burke (1982 - 2012) Canadian freestyle skiing legend.

Shmirler skipped one of the most successful curling teams in Canadian curling history, along with Jan Belker, Marica Gudereit and Joan McCuster and their spare Anita Ford. They went on to win the Olympic gold medal in February 1998 at the Nagano Winter Games. Her husband Shannon England and their daughter Sarah unveiled the stamp in Biggar, Schmirler's birth place.

A tragic accident involving a school bus and a truck and stock trailer happened on Highway 4 North of Biggar Feb. 2. The accident took the life of 40-year-old Monica Domes of the Lizard Lake area. Her husband John Domes was not hurt. The queer thing was that their twin eight-year-old boys were in the school bus and received cuts and bruises. A funeral was held for Monica Feb. 7. Sympathy to John and the boys, John's parents George and Martha Domes of Bigger and all her family members. Our deepest thoughts are with you all at this time. The Domes family live in the Lizard Lake area not too far from where the accident took place.