General information Ehrlo Housing operates as part of Ranch Ehrlo Society’s community services and its mandate is to provide affordable housing to low-income families, single mothers, and individuals with chronic mental health conditions Ehrlo Housing has 15 years of experience in developing and delivering afford able housing and is well-respected within the…
In 2008 I asked my grandma, a former restaurant owner, to come to Rever and do a cooking class. She has always been interested in what I do at the Ranch and has always loved the kids that I work with. It seemed like a perfect fit to have her come out to Pilot Butte and do a life skills class. She came out once every two weeks and she would have a menu and she would cook the meals with the youth…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. This is the last story in the series highlighting volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
This March, I left the front lines of working with the youth in the group homes and moved into office work at the Ranch. I dislocated my right knee three times over the past five years - once goofing around out at the farm with my family, another playing football with the kids at the Ranch, and lastly in March 2012 I slipped on some ice. My doctor put me on rest from March to May and…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
During my six year career at the Ranch I have been a full time youth care worker during the evening, nights, and weekends and a student part-time during the day. I decided to go to school and work because my husband and I moved out of the house at 17. We needed to be able to pay the bills and in order to do that I had to go to work. This made school really hard and I could only go part…
It’s been a year since former President/CEO of the Ranch Ehrlo Society, Dr. Geoff Pawson, passed away after a brief battle with cancer. Geoff’s vision saw a small program for six troubled youth, opened in 1966, expand to today’s multi-dimensional organization. Geoff had a passion for helping young people, families, and the community and he shared that passion with all those around him,…
Ken Jones and Russ Mathews The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and…
Every summer we take the youth on camping trips to a variety of locations. During these trips youth and staff can be exposed to extreme wilderness elements which the staff are trained to handle. I remember one trip with a youth who was just a little gaffer at the time. On a canoe trip up north we got lost and it was just me, him and two other female youth. We had portaged a canoe through a…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
“At the end of June 1979 the boys in Unit 2 were asked who wanted to work on the new classroom building. Danny, Gerald, Chris, and I volunteered. The supervisors of this project are Rene Thibault and Elmer Doeli. Our first job was to level the ground so the foundation could be put in.” Ranch youth Monte from the 1979 Ehrlo Magazine Fall…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
When the Ranch first started in 1966 it offered one program - residential services for boys. Our continuum of services resembled a rectangle. Services were continually added for our clients including, educations and programs for clients with special needs. In 1995 Ehrlo Community Services (ECS) was created as an associate charity of the Ranch. As first ECS just existed to create affordable…
The Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings in a Regina classroom to a league which is now spread across Saskatchewan, the OHL allows all youth the opportunity to play hockey by removing the financial barriers. Over the next several weeks we will be highlighting stories from volunteers, former players, and the media over the past 20…
