Kamsack Times

With 2017 being the centennial of the Battle of Passchendaele in the Flanders region of Belgium during the First World War, that battle was highlighted during the Remembrance Day service held at the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute on November 9.

By Rev. Nancy Brunt Holy Trinity Anglican Church

The two-month junior girls volleyball season ended for the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute team on October 25 at the conference competition in Sturgis. The KCI Spartans was one of five teams entered in Sturgis.

First Nations people and Kamsack area residents wanting an opportunity to witness First Nation culture at its best are invited to a traditional powwow at Cote on November 25.

In addition to mighty monsters, pretty princesses and funny faces that scoured the community on Halloween seeking out treats, a group of KCI students were involved with scaring hunger.

In November 1990, which was 25 years before he died in June 2015, Alex Drancejko of Kamsack spoke to the Times about his youth when he survived the “Harvest of Sorrow” in Ukraine, and then was pulled into the Second World War.

By Gail Krawetz

On Saturday, former Wroxton resident Sgt. Austin Hovrisko will be among representatives of Canada’s armed forces attending the Remembrance Day service at the Gallagher Centre in Yorkton.

Reports on the CBC last month regarding incidents of HIV infection in Saskatchewan, and by extension in the Kamsack area, are more a reflection of a healthy community than a cause for concern, Mayor Nancy Brunt said last week.

When Santa Claus comes to Kamsack in only three weeks from now, although he won’t be bringing any of his reindeer with him, he will be greeted in style with a lot more happening at a larger location.