Kamsack Times

On Saturday, in spite of the mercury having dipped south of minus 20 degrees Celsius, members of the Pasternak family of San Clara, all bundled up, headed to the Ministik Beach toboggan hill for a sunny afternoon of sliding fun with an oversized inner tube. With Trevor Pasternak were his children Keagan, left, and Allie.

“Overall 2015 can be chalked up as having been a very successful year,” Kamsack Mayor Rod Gardner said in his annual beginning-of-the-year discussion when he reflected on the past year and looked forward to 2016.

There were no incredible yields to report through the Canola King and Commodity King programs because a very challenging seeding season resulted in the decision to suspend the competitions in June, said Parker Summers, president and general manager o

It was a great party in Kamsack on New Year’s Eve when about 325 people got together at the OCC Hall to ring in 2016 while raising money to help with medical expenses being incurred by a teenager who had suffered a spinal cord injury in April.

Kamsack received a bouquet from Ottenbreit Sanitation Services (OSS) regarding the community’s new method of recycling and garbage disposal.

Among the 16 successful applicants of TD Bank Financial Group and The Health Foundation fall education awards for 2015, which were announced last week, were several from this area.

By William Koreluik Returning home after visiting in Montreal over the Christmas holiday, I had to spend a few hours in the Toronto airport waiting for a connecting flight and was impressed with a phrase that was prominently featured on a wall in a b

A number of groups and organizations from this area are among the more than 700 that recently shared in approximately $1.3 million from the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA)’s charitable gaming grant program.

Margaret Waselenko of Pelly submitted an old photograph of a hockey team saying the newspaper might be interested in seeing it, but she knows little else about the picture.

The Parkland Lions, a team that is a member of the Midget AA Division of the South Saskatchewan Female Hockey League (SSFHL), hosted the Notre Dame Hounds January 9 and 10 in Springside.