Kamsack Times

Students on the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute senior girls basketball team are optimistic that they will be able to do this year what four of them did two years ago: qualify for Hoopla, the provincial high school basketball championship.

The Tim Olson rink of Preeceville, with Jess Olson (third), Ralph Ager (second) and Denise Olson (lead), won the annual Stenen Open Bonspiel which ran from January 31 to February 7. There were 16 rinks registered for the bonspiel.

The KCI senior mixed curling team returned from the District competition in Yorkton on February 6, clutching the bonspiel’s silver medal.

A total of 325 people attended the 11 th annual Malanka banquet and dance held by the Norquay Rosa Ukrainian Dance Club on January 23.

Increasingly, people are arriving at the emergency department for non-emergent concerns, said a release from the Sunrise Health Region. This occupies the attention of the nursing staff and physicians who need to be watchful for true emergencies.

During a cribbage tournament at the Hyas Golden Age Centre on January 28, Patsy Letwiniuk of Hyas scored a perfect 29 hand. Everyone in the room offered congratulations to the lucky cribbage player, and it was said that “a fun day was had by all.”

For the first time in 18 years Kamsack district rodeo enthusiasts will be able to cheer contestants in the afternoon. Each year since its inception, the Kamsack Indoor Rodeo has been held in the Broda Sportsplex on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Exchanging a valentine last week in preparation for St. Valentine’s Day on Sunday were two of the students in Kelly Lambert’s Kindergarten A class at the Victoria School in Kamsack: Seth Symak and Isabella Kulak.

On the third day of their six-day tour of Saskatchewan, the Prairie Women on Snowmobiles (PWOS) were in Preeceville, Norquay and Canora, where at each stop they were presented with donations for their main cause, which is to find a cure for breast ca

Parkland College is proud to be named one of Saskatchewan’s Top Employers for 2016, said a release from Brendan Wagner, communications officer for the College.