Mossbank's youth - coming home?

In the last five years Saskatchewan has experienced economic growth that leads the country. This has however caused problems for many small towns like Mossbank that may find their dot on the map erased sometime in the near future.             While the economic prosperity has helped develop some areas of Saskatchewan, young people are drawn to bigger centres in the province, weakening the economy of small towns they leave behind. According to the 2006 census, well over half of Mossbank’s residents are 45 years of age or older and only one-quarter of the town is in the age range from...

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Mossbank CAREs about its senior citizens

The town of Mossbank is not waiting on the provincial government to care for its senior citizens. The townspeople created a committee in July to put plans into action for an assisted-living senior citizen’s home called the Community Assisted Retirement Endeavor (CARE). If the home is built, senior citizens will not have to leave Mossbank once they can no longer take care of themselves. Although Mossbank has a population that has grown from 330 people to nearly 500 since the last census, the town does not have a care home for its senior citizens. The new care home will serve Mossbank and surrounding municipalities like Lake Johnston and...

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Mossbank senior boys looking to continue success streak

“Number 15 is up for adoption,” said the father of Riley Wilson, number 15 for the Mossbank senior boys volleyball team. His son’s offence? Serving the volleyball straight into the net and losing a point for his team. He’s joking, of course, but when one considers that the Mossbank team has four straight top-four finishes at provincials in the last four years, it seems reasonable to have high expectations of the boys. Fortunately, one missed serve didn’t hurt the team too much; they finished second in the tournament held at Regina’s Campbell Collegiate Oct. 13 to 15. Mossbank lost the final to the home team, the Campbell Tartans, 17-25 and 17-25,...

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A camp by the dam

Ninety km south-west of Moose Jaw, Glad Tidings isn’t your stereotypical scenic camp. Instead of a pristine lake, Glad Tidings Bible Camp is surrounded by two dams in the middle of miles of crop land. This is a real deal prairie camp. The two dams and trees surrounding Glad Tidings Gospel Camp were established in the 1920s. The camp itself opened its doors for bible camp in 1953 under the Christian charity Canadian Sunday School Mission . It is one of 11 bible camps in Saskatchewan supported by the mission, which camps over 6,500 kids in a summer, according to Lori Durksen, secretary for CSSM Saskatchewan. Algae lines the shore of the dam. But,...

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American hunters flock to Mossbank

On a mid-October Sunday morning the sun hung low in the sky, casting golden rays across a rolling field of barley stubble southeast of the town of Mossbank, Saskatchewan. In a dip between two hills rested a group of birds. The tell-tale green heads of mallard drakes were mixed in with the pointed feathers of several pintail ducks. Beside the ducks, a group of white snow geese mingled with a few “specks,” local slang for Canadian white-fronted or Specklebelly geese. In the air a group of mallard ducks flapped their wings as they approached. Silhouetted against the sun in the distance were hundreds of ducks and geese, traversing the continent...

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