Kamsack Times

Wendy Naclia, health services manager at Norquay, welcomed everyone to the event staged on May 27 to recognize employees of the Sunrise Health Region who work at the Norquay Health Centre.

For being the First Nation group within the Yorkton Tribal Council (YTC) with the best record of promoting traffic safety, the Keeseekoose Chiefs Education Centre received a prize of $20,000.

Kamsack residents are seeing a number of the community’s fire hydrants painted in striking, non-traditional hydrant colours.

Koozma Tarasoff of Ottawa, a well-known Doukhobor historian, has taken issue with an account of the film Doukhobors and Sons of Freedom by Trona Garvie which was among the films shown at the Yorkton Film Festival last month.

To date 14 persons have been hired to work this summer at the Kamsack Swimming Pool, which is to open for the season on June 20.

Student representatives from across Parkland College met May 31 in Kamsack for the College’s first ever Student Advisory Leadership Conference (SALC).

Last week Kamsack Mayor Rod Gardner, his wife Vi and Councillor Joe Kozakewich and his wife Debbie spent time in the Gardners’ garage assembling 18 new chairs that have been purchased for the Assiniboine Valley Medical Centre.

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.