Prince Albert Daily Herald
by Ruth Griffiths
Mother’s Day will be the 24th anniversary of my column in Rural Roots. At an estimated 50 columns per year, that is 1,200 columns I have written for Prince Albert Daily Herald.
Rural Roots was created as a weekly news magazine in 1990 and distributed free to homes in North Central Saskatchewan. It’s an area that I know well, having grown up in Tisdale.
I moved to Prince Albert as a bride in 1969 and worked for a year in the lab at Victoria Union Hospital, before returning to classes in Saskatoon to finish a Bachelor of Science degree. I interned at both of the Prince Albert hospitals and became a Registered Laboratory Technologist. My first job was in the lab at Prince Albert Medical Clinic. In 1975 I left behind my science career to become a stay-at-home parent.
everyone, i m alex witt at msnbc world headquarters. we re keeping a very close eye on things in charlottesville, virginia. it s been a hell of a morning since 10:00 a.m. local time when members of a militia and those expected to attend a rally in emancipation park that would have started one hour ago to protest the removal of the robert e. lee statue there, they got in each other s way, so to speak, and this is how it all went down. there was a lot of violence. baseball bats, you can see being used, pieces of wood, kicking, rock throwing, bottles being thrown, people trying to break up that kind of violence. things seem to have subsided to a degree right now. that rally was called off under the unlawful assembly laws. both the charlottesville city police and the virginia state police said that s it, no more, and they tried to disperse that crowd. mark newton has been patiently waiting with us on the phone. he is the assistant city editor with the daily progress in