Oyen Echo - Oyen

Meet the Publisher

Award-winning photographer and publisher Kate Winquist has spent her entire career in the printing industry. After graduating with a Diploma in Visual Communications from Medicine Hat College in 1990, Winquist was employed as a Graphic Designer and Layout Artist at Robins Southern Printing in Lethbridge. That was where she got her start in the newspaper business with The Farmer-Stockman AD-Visor. Winquist has worked for various publications, including the Medicine Hat Shopper, Shaunavon Standard, Gull Lake Advance and Maple Creek News. 

Kate (Drummond) Winquist was born and raised on a farm at Glidden, SK and graduated from Kindersley Composite School in 1987. In 2020, Winquist moved back to her west central Saskatchewan roots in the middle of the pandemic. In July, she started her media venture, Your West Central Voice and soon followed with The Oyen Echo in January 2021. On October 4, 2021, Winquist published the first edition of The Chronicle, a weekly community newspaper serving the Kerrobert and Luseland market. Winquist also produces the coffee paper The Weekly Bean (Kindersley). Winquist is passionate about the print industry and telling stories about our great communities and their people. When she's not busy burning the midnight oil, Kate can be found touring the backroads with her camera or watching the Roughriders, Blue Jays or Maple Leafs on TV.

Kate and her husband Robert have three children, a dog and a cat. They reside in the community of Brock, just east of Kindersley.