Kamsack Times

A reception was held Friday in honour of 30 Sunrise Health Region employees, some of whom have retired, and the rest have reached milestones in their lengths of employment.

A handful of dedicated individuals who reside in the Hamlet of Runnymede were busy on Saturday as they held a fundraiser at the Runnymede Community Hall.

It wasn`t long ago our community was faced with a doctor shortage. After taking great strides in recruiting new doctors to our area, we began to build, and since complete, a new medical building.

It was two days of nostalgia, heritage and reminiscing in the warm sunshine at the Rama Sports Grounds on May 21 and 22 during the annual PALS spring Draft Horse Field Day.

A carnival of enthusiastic youngsters all eager to learn the play ball assembles with their coaches at the Kamsack Sportsground each Tuesday. There are well over 100 kids who show up, Jared Ruf, president of Kamsack Minor Ball, said.

Those cyclists who proudly wave the banners as participants of the annual Old Dog Run, having raised nearly $100,000 for Kamsack charities, will be turning their attention this year to the Horizon Project at the Kamsack Nursing Home.

Canora is the home of a new, revolutionary liniment that provides long-lasting pain relief from 100 per cent natural ingredients.

A “solidarity” patchwork quilt created by Roman Catholic dioceses from across Canada will be in Kamsack on June 12.

Members of the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute beginner and junior bands combined with band members from Canora, Invermay, Sturgis, Preeceville and Norquay for a combined Good Spirit School Division Parkland Band to perform in Moose Jaw on May 19.

The work of five Kamsack artists plus eight residents of Eaglestone Lodge who are being tutored by one of them is part of the Landscape and Memory exhibit being held at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton.