tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80405454817600699412023-11-16T04:37:25.797-08:00the 163The 163http://www.blogger.com/profile/12654119034570306988noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040545481760069941.post-2212400655269322962010-11-29T09:48:00.001-08:002010-11-30T18:04:51.729-08:00Home<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">a University of Regina School of Journalism publication</span> </em></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">You can still send mail to Keeler, </span><state><place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sask.</span></place></state><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> but there may not be anyone there to pick it up. Red faded letters can barely be made out.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Keeler, </span><state><place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Saskatchewan</span></place></state><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Post Office</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> S0H 2E0</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> The resemblance of a village sits still, almost frozen in time... <a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/frozen-in-time.html">Read More</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgL0ArVd9rIDa1Mrth8Im2D0gizXJuXCNmm4fhXBsJ_OiOkwvONb5LULHklhpmfBwT1K2cT55y-titCfzjS7JXjMFagJlO271-6LuDKxw2XMZMA3Tkzh1GdydC1IWKOQECu95lsbVE1FB/s1600/Train+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgL0ArVd9rIDa1Mrth8Im2D0gizXJuXCNmm4fhXBsJ_OiOkwvONb5LULHklhpmfBwT1K2cT55y-titCfzjS7JXjMFagJlO271-6LuDKxw2XMZMA3Tkzh1GdydC1IWKOQECu95lsbVE1FB/s1600/Train+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/icons-of-past.html">Icons of the past</a></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">By Noah Wernikowski</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The old Mortlach train station sits in a cluttered, overgrown yard. Some windows are broken while stacks of Zonolite Ceiling Insulation block the view from another. Ornate arch beams support the roof’s overhang. Christmas decorations and chairs...<a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/icons-of-past.html">Read More</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/mortlach-jets.html">The Mortlach Jets</a></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16pt;">A window into the fall of men's softball</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgAi2VvVGU-buPczJv2Ph30tRIlk7SEC_ubShs3prZDQ7cj3OQueotxCaBQXpL_lqzqji1dO9aLG6YSjmOFUkujCisKqhkZPFGbfTMluELnHYeNoeHuiAWsZCcZpFgH_HfoDSJSzeT94m/s1600/Mortlach+Jets+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgAi2VvVGU-buPczJv2Ph30tRIlk7SEC_ubShs3prZDQ7cj3OQueotxCaBQXpL_lqzqji1dO9aLG6YSjmOFUkujCisKqhkZPFGbfTMluELnHYeNoeHuiAWsZCcZpFgH_HfoDSJSzeT94m/s1600/Mortlach+Jets+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" /></a> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Their proud image is slowly being wiped from the prairie landscape. Each rural </span><state><place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Saskatchewan</span></place></state><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> settlement once boasted at least one, but years of neglect and decline are quickly changing them into artifacts of the past. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> It is no secret that men’s softball teams are slowly slipping away...<a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/mortlach-jets.html">Read More</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/haunted-history-in-farmhouse.html">Haunted history in farmhouse</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">By Taylor Shire </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“I looked up and I just got cold.”</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Oh my gosh. I was scared.”</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">When Candis Kirkpatrick moved into an old farmhouse outside of Mortlach, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Kirkpatrick and her husband moved...<a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/haunted-history-in-farmhouse.html">Read More</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/artifacts-have-continental-importance_29.html">Artifacts have continental importance</a></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> By Lisa Goudy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8WIb2pGvVOpBYDYxvd6byzpWn3jkWKkmni6V_-ooDxvwSMJpCjSX6QMaI1TbcP9TkVKJ3_R3jihCZUulKlTTKL7cUdXvyIpPXTNELCk1x-_m3-8IhIQ_hhkdQ4sZEUl6AX8FZ17WCO0R/s1600/Arrowhead+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8WIb2pGvVOpBYDYxvd6byzpWn3jkWKkmni6V_-ooDxvwSMJpCjSX6QMaI1TbcP9TkVKJ3_R3jihCZUulKlTTKL7cUdXvyIpPXTNELCk1x-_m3-8IhIQ_hhkdQ4sZEUl6AX8FZ17WCO0R/s1600/Arrowhead+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" /></a><city><place><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;">Sandy</span></place></city><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;"> lands stretched across the horizon in </span><place><city><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;">Mortlach</span></city><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;">, </span><state><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;">Sask.</span></state></place><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;"> Farmers worked the land with little money and equipment. With the drought in the 1920s and the depression in the 1930s, many people moved into the village to live out the rest of their lives. But the great winds stirred up the earth, removing the top soil and exposing many artifacts from original cultures, including arrowheads. People began to collect them...<a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/artifacts-have-continental-importance_29.html">Read More</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><place><placename><a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/mortlach-museum-more-than-antiques_29.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;">Mortlach</span></placename><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><placetype><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;">Museum</span></placetype></place><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;">: More than antiques</span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">By Jamie Fischer </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Located just off </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Rose Street</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, the </span><place><placename><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Mortlach</span></placename><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><placetype><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Museum</span></placetype></place><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> has been helping its community piece together their history since 1979.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgH2agvDVdbofLK2XNPmgbnaJ62Y5mLyvDCq4iUZZZr968rvSRurkRED9JSlqevCvudcecQYK4fozGsIKpJmfRtjRhlxB6J5PC-1wnyEl5vI_5bVlPbxtRveXHhJgt7v983yMqN-lSOOj/s1600/Museum+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgH2agvDVdbofLK2XNPmgbnaJ62Y5mLyvDCq4iUZZZr968rvSRurkRED9JSlqevCvudcecQYK4fozGsIKpJmfRtjRhlxB6J5PC-1wnyEl5vI_5bVlPbxtRveXHhJgt7v983yMqN-lSOOj/s1600/Museum+BW+Thumbnail.jpg" /></a></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“It’s like a giant puzzle,” Joan Searle said. As curator of the </span><place><placename><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Mortlach</span></placename><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><placetype><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Museum</span></placetype></place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, Searle is no stranger to putting together the pieces of history...<a href="http://the163.blogspot.com/p/mortlach-museum-more-than-antiques_29.html">Read More</a> </span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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