Kamsack Times

Ahhh yes! Summer and it’s time to be outdoors to enjoy the great weather. Unfortunately we are not the only ones taking advantage of the warm temperatures.

Drivers of 20 trucks and 11 all-terrain vehicles sloshed through the mud at the highest speeds they could muster, eager to win some of the $2,200 in prizemoney that was offered at the Canada Day mud boggin’ competition in Kamsack.

Riverside Golf Club is embarking on a fundraising program with the objective of raising $50,000. “We’d like to see at least half of that amount raised before the end of the season, Darryl Binkley, club president, said last week.

Five slo-pitch teams joined the Kamsack Royals to compete in the Canada Day tournament. Teams were from Swan River, Dauphin, Preeceville, Melville and Canora, said Eugene Krawetz, an organizer.

The group of students who make up the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute’s 2015 graduating class is all about servitude to others, said Wendy Shabatoski, the guest speaker at the graduation program.

“Today I will do the things that others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish the things that others can’t,” was the slogan used by the Norquay School’s senior class of 2015 during its graduation ceremony held May 29.

Wheelchair accessible playground for all community

The executive committee of the Norquay Recreation Board was re-elected for another year during its meeting of June 8.

A recent report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization, has sent a veritable shockwave through the agricultural community, and has consumers again questioning possible food safety.

The editor: According to my usually reliable sources, there has been a very spirited debate within the Saskatchewan Party regarding the location of a 350 megawatt power plant, scheduled to be built near either Swift Current or Lanigan.