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SASKATOON – The Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research Into Teaching is pleased to announce that His Honour the Honourable Russ Mirasty, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan will serve as the Honourary Patron of the Foundation during his term in office.

SASKATOON – Teachers in Saskatchewan offer their sincere congratulations and best wishes to Russ Mirasty as he assumes his new role as the first Indigenous Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

In an announcement by the Saskatchewan government (March 14), the province’s Early Learning Intensive Support pilot program will be expanding from the two original locations of Regina and Saskatoon to five additional communities including: Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Prince Albert, Swift Current and Yorkton.

“This expansion will provide 50 more Sask-atchewan children with intensive needs access to professional supports,” Education Minister Gord Wyant said in making the recent announcement.

REGINA–Ten schools in Saskatchewan will each receive a $10,000 grant to support student nutrition after being selected to win this year’s Mosaic Extreme School Makeover Challenge. The announcement was made recently by the Saskatchewan School Boards Association.

For several years, it was my pleasure to occasionally work with David Wilkins and his staff. Wilkins is the former U.S. Ambassador to Canada; a man of playful wit and serious political experience. Fans of the Rick Mercer Report may remember the Ambassador’s cheerful decimation of Mr. Mercer on an Ottawa tennis court.