Our latest podcast...

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Just finished a week of chemo and was anxious to hear and see your podcasts. Dick, I went through it all and congratulations on just a superb job... the history, the comments, the people and those wonderful photos. Great job that will be preserved in history.

We can relate to it all as you, in your unique way, presented so much for our benefit. Golly, to read about the Houstons, and so many pioneers that made their mark in Yorkton history... Obodiac, Metro, Curt (who still should  still be broadcasting) and that famous barbershop (how we enjoyed that visit).

No, can't  give you the Pulitzer Prize just yet, but do not stop. Yorkton needs people like you and those dedicated people you work with. I'm sure our children will enjoy very much your podcasts and the history of where they grew up: our middleist, Dr. Kirsten Westberg is now in Singapore taking a very advanced course in facial surgery after coming here 21 years ago from the Bunky Clinic in San Francisco after completing 14 years of study... she now has a two-year waiting list; Anna, a teacher here; and our son Paul with a medical background in Calgary.

My dear wife (my guardian angel) for over 60 years completed her outstanding medical career by running the hospital and getting it certified in Dauphin where we left in 2004.

Yours truly... his claim to fame... I hosted Profile a number of times. I know you tried to get on this popular program but playing the harmonica with one hand did not pass the test.

Stay healthy and keep up this work that is very vital and important.

--Linus and Ellen Westberg, Red Deer

I find so many common threads and connections as I listen that bring back many fond memories. Less than six degrees of separation in Yorkton. Rick and I are products for example of Mrs. Ingham’s Blended Sound-Sight program at Columbia School and, if memory serves, of Mr. Vermette’s AV program at the Composite Jr High. 

Taking that a step further, Curt Keilback’s wife was my art teacher at the Composite.  My best friend in grade school was Bob Ries. Bob’s mom Sandra worked for many years at the Gladstone Inn, having previously owned it with her husband Bert (both originally from Rhein). I was briefly in a car club in Yorkton that had some meetings in the basement of the Balmoral (but I didn’t see any tunnels either). 

My wife’s family farm (Stachura) was the next quarter in from Harris’s on Highway 9 South, not far from Vermettes. 

As far as Gunn’s and Good Spirit - it is basically where we grew up. We spent every weekend from the time I was about eight years old at our cabin at Burgis Beach. Or as it was known then- Sunnyside Beach at Devil’s Lake. Likely some ways to connect us all to the Bronfmans, Levi Beck, etc. if we dig back far enough as well, but who knows. 

--Dean Bradshaw, Kelowna

I just listened to your podcast with Perry (Ehrlich). Perry is such a wonderful person. I went to high school with Perry, performed in The Troubadours with him and participated in music festivals in Yorkton. 

Another thing Perry and I share in common, as well as life long friendship, is that we both played piano/dinner entertainment at The Holiday Inn/The Mustache while attending high school at The Regional. 

My career since 1976 has involved teaching music in Canada, Alaska, Germany and The Netherlands. 

Just wanted to say, wonderful podcast with Perry Ehrlich. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you! You're doing great work!

--Kathleen (Kitty) Fournier (nee Reese), Ottawa

In Nebraska, bierock is referred to as runza, apparently a state treasure! They were a special treat in our family with my mom competing with our granny to see who was best. 

My granny would make a pan full of nothing but Spanish onions as a filling which was my dads favorite. We don’t eat chicken noodle soup without butterballs.

--Kenn Propp, Yorkton