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Meetings, training and community events — what the Chamber ran this year, and what is coming next.
Photo: Corey Hardcastle Photography
The Luseland Harvest Hunt
Twelve businesses. Twelve riddles. Twelve pieces of a puzzle, and a fox who decided to settle in Luseland.
The Harvest Festival is the town's day, run by the community. The Chamber's part of it was this: two hours in the afternoon, and a game built around the businesses on Grand Avenue.
How the day went
It started at the Garden Club. Children met Mr. Fox in person, had a photograph taken with him to keep, picked up a map, and watched the first riddle — an animated one, from the fox himself.
Then twelve stops around town. At each one children learned something about the business whose door they were standing at, solved its riddle, and collected the puzzle piece waiting there.
At the end they put the pieces together and built the fox's farm: the farm of a fox who had decided to settle in Luseland and become part of the community. At the final location they voted on his name. The name has been chosen — and it is being kept back as the surprise for Mr. Fox's next adventure, at Santa Claus Day.
Every child went home with treats from Delta Co-op. Then the draw: twelve main prizes, from Lego to puzzle sets, and six Chamber cheques of $25 each, to be spent at businesses here in town.
Twelve stops and twelve riddles
Every stop was a member business. That was the point of the game: a child who finishes it has been inside a dozen local businesses and knows what each one does.
- SGarden ClubStart: Mr. Fox, the photograph and the first riddle
- 1
This Little Light PhotographyAround town - 2
Luseland Pharmacy502 Grand Ave - 3
Luseland Motel400 Pacific Ave - 4
SkyLine Convenience501 Pacific Ave - 5
Luseland Family Foods703 Grand Ave - 6
D & L Agency607 Grand Ave - 7
The Elle Collective603 Grand Ave - 8
EV Fitness & NutritionAround town - 9
Delta Co-op604 Grand Ave - 10
Luseland Credit Union701 Grand Ave - 11
Still Coffee505 Grand Ave - 12
Champion TaekwondoAround town - FGarden ClubFinish: the vote, the finished puzzle and the draw
The Garden Club was the first stop and the last: the day started there with Mr. Fox, and ended there at the Chamber booth with the vote, the finished puzzle and the draw.
Who made it happen
Every Chamber member made this possible. A few went further, and their names went on the prizes:
On the back of every puzzle piece
Two member businesses put an offer on the reverse of the pieces, so the game did not end when the puzzle was finished: a free day at EV Fitness and Nutrition, and a free introductory class at The Champion Collective.
Prize donors: AJ Marketing · Delta Co-op · SouthPaw Electric · Luseland Credit Union · GS Stang Farms Inc
Mr. Fox was not built for a single afternoon. He is a permanent character — the Chamber's voice in the community, and for children a reason to pay attention to it. The Harvest Hunt was his first full outing. The next one is a film at Christmas, and that is when he finally gets his name.
What the Chamber ran this year
Workshops, presentations and community events the Chamber either organised outright or helped bring to town. Most link to the Facebook announcement, so you can see what was promised as well as what happened.
6 Feb
Driving Safety & Life Choices
Cody Demerais at Luseland District School, with the community invited in alongside the students. Road safety and the decisions that sit behind it.
The poster (PDF)
25 Feb
Health Fitness and Nutrition with Evan Volk
A free practical workshop with EV Fitness and Nutrition in the Luseland Credit Union Community Room — months before the gym opened its doors on Grand Avenue in September.
The poster (PDF)
9 Apr
Hiring foreign workers with Viktoria Schuler
An online session for local farms and businesses on what the options actually are. Hiring is one of the biggest challenges in rural Saskatchewan, and the presenter was Viktoria Schuler, Director of Products and Services at the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council, with fifteen years of HR and immigration work behind agricultural employers across Western Canada.
The poster (PDF)
14 Apr
Community Safety Session
Be informed, be prepared. Constable Ty Kohlman of the Luseland Police Service on keeping residents and local businesses safe — an evening of questions as much as presentation.
The poster (PDF)
12 May
Bike Rodeo
A bike skills and safety course for children, run with sponsorship and volunteers from across the membership — the Credit Union, the Pharmacy, SkyLine, D-Can Ag Repair, Ranger Electric, Luseland Family Foods, Southpaw Electric and more.
On the day
13 Aug
Members' golf night
An evening at Bell Acres Golf Club — cocktails from half past five, golf for anyone who wanted it, supper and a long conversation. A chance to meet the other people who run businesses here away from a meeting agenda, which is where most of the useful ones start.
12 Sep
The Luseland Harvest Hunt
Two hours of the Harvest Festival, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, run by the Chamber. The festival itself is the community's. Described above.
20 Oct
Info session on Community Futures & Chambers Plan
An evening in the Luseland Credit Union Community Room with the people who run two of the most useful things available to a business here: Community Futures Meridian, for financing, advice and business development, and Chambers Plan, health, dental, disability and virtual care for firms of one to fifty. Missed it? The Economic Development Officer can go through either with you.
The poster (PDF)
Santa Claus Day: Mr. Fox before Christmas
Santa Claus Day belongs to the town. This year the Chamber's part of it is a film: the adventures of Mr. Fox in the days before Christmas, made by the Chamber and shown on the big screen at the Luseland Homecoming Hall, just before the traditional Santa Claus Day movie. And sweets from the Chamber for everyone who comes.
It falls on Saturday 12 December 2026 — the second Saturday of December, which is where Santa Claus Day sits every year.
Mr. Fox is the character who carries one celebration into the next. The children voted on his name at the Harvest Hunt in September; the name has been kept back for this film.
Last year the Chamber ran Santa's Treasure Hunt on the day: clues, riddles and a trail past the businesses, and five children took home LDCC Lego activity packages and Chamber Cash. It is the event the Harvest Hunt, and Mr. Fox, grew out of.
Saturday 12 December 2026, Luseland Homecoming Hall. The Mr. Fox film, then the traditional Santa Claus Day movie. Sweets from the Chamber.
The screening time and the rest of Santa Claus Day come from the town and the other groups involved; they land here as they are confirmed.
What's next
Two evenings this autumn, both at 7:00 PM in the Luseland Credit Union Community Room, 701 Grand Avenue. Both free, both open to anyone.
Thu
5 Nov
7:00 PM
The Economics of Wild Oat Control
Targeted residual applications using drone maps. A residual is another expense, and whether the extra control pays depends on your fields and on how targeting particular areas changes the math. An evening working through application costs, yield assumptions, and where drone mapping fits.
Speaker: Ian Spence, NovaScout Agronomy, Luseland. Free, everyone welcome.
The poster (PDF)
Thu
12 Nov
7:00 PM
Social Media for Small Business Minus the Chaos
Angela Reiter of AJ Marketing with Iryna Shabala, the Chamber's Economic Development Officer. For owners who know they should be posting and have neither the time nor the appetite for it.
First Wed
every month
Monthly Chamber meeting
For members. Coming is optional and nobody takes a register, but every member is encouraged to — bring a problem, because somebody in the room has usually solved it already, and your view counts in what the Chamber decides to do next.
7:00 PM, Luseland Credit Union Community Room, 701 Grand Avenue.
Sat
12 Dec
Santa Claus Day: the Mr. Fox film
The Chamber's film about Mr. Fox before Christmas, at the Luseland Homecoming Hall before the traditional movie. Sweets from the Chamber.
Sept
2027
Harvest Festival
The harvest celebration and the Chamber’s Harvest Hunt return in September 2027. The date will be posted here as soon as it is set.