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It's summer and powwow season is almost half over. By the time this column is printed, my family and I will be in New Zealand. We'll be gone for seven weeks. I know it will be a very interesting time and I look forward to the opportunity to take pictures "down under."

As well, it's with a sadness for all the powwows that we will miss that get me thinking that my August column ought to be about powwow.

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It's summer and powwow season is almost half over. By the time this column is printed, my family and I will be in New Zealand. We'll be gone for seven weeks. I know it will be a very interesting time and I look forward to the opportunity to take pictures "down under."

As well, it's with a sadness for all the powwows that we will miss that get me thinking that my August column ought to be about powwow.

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If you haven't been a tourist in Saskatchewan before, you will definitely want to visit after reading Discover Saskatchewan A Guide to Historic Sites.

Unlike a road map with point of interest indicators, this newly released text, edited by Dr. Ralph Nilson, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Activity Studies, University of Regina, is a walk through history.

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If you haven't been a tourist in Saskatchewan before, you will definitely want to visit after reading Discover Saskatchewan A Guide to Historic Sites.

Unlike a road map with point of interest indicators, this newly released text, edited by Dr. Ralph Nilson, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Activity Studies, University of Regina, is a walk through history.

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There will soon be a new way to view Canada from your feet on the Trans Canada Trail. Portions of the trail are being built all across the country by volunteers who want their communities on the map to showcase their home-town pride to the walking, hiking, skiing, jogging world.

In Crooked Lake, 150 km east of Regina, over 100 residents of the resort communities along the lake took it upon themselves to invite the trail into the valley.

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There will soon be a new way to view Canada from your feet on the Trans Canada Trail. Portions of the trail are being built all across the country by volunteers who want their communities on the map to showcase their home-town pride to the walking, hiking, skiing, jogging world.

In Crooked Lake, 150 km east of Regina, over 100 residents of the resort communities along the lake took it upon themselves to invite the trail into the valley.

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Sakatchewan's Back To Batoche celebrations have come and gone 28 times and appear destined for a major overhaul. If not, according to some, the festivity is "doomed to die."

A faint 3,000 if not fewer people turned up to the July 23-26 event at this tiny historic community where Riel and Dumont stood their final ground against overwhelming odds in 1885 when the Canadian government sent thousands of militia west to put the Metis down.

"It's sure not what it used to be," moans Cliff Coulter who attended the function in it's heyday when nearly 15,000 came.

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Sakatchewan's Back To Batoche celebrations have come and gone 28 times and appear destined for a major overhaul. If not, according to some, the festivity is "doomed to die."

A faint 3,000 if not fewer people turned up to the July 23-26 event at this tiny historic community where Riel and Dumont stood their final ground against overwhelming odds in 1885 when the Canadian government sent thousands of militia west to put the Metis down.

"It's sure not what it used to be," moans Cliff Coulter who attended the function in it's heyday when nearly 15,000 came.

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Saskatchewan's Social Services Department has come up with $158,000 to conduct a study of social programs in the province's northern regions.

Paul Wilkinson, director of community relations for the social services department, says community leaders in the north will be surveyed for their opinions on social programming.

The study will also ask for suggestions on how to improve programming in remote areas where unemployment and welfare rates are often above the provincial average.

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Saskatchewan's Social Services Department has come up with $158,000 to conduct a study of social programs in the province's northern regions.

Paul Wilkinson, director of community relations for the social services department, says community leaders in the north will be surveyed for their opinions on social programming.

The study will also ask for suggestions on how to improve programming in remote areas where unemployment and welfare rates are often above the provincial average.