Local Arts

Dustin Nehring of NL Construction presented a cheque for $1,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, to help fund the conceptual plan for a new regional hospital.

You never know what a single letter can do.

Warrior (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Gavin O'Connor. Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte. Fight movie that walks the line between a cheesy drama and a classy sports film.

From the Jackson Collection: A HOMESTEADER'S LOG HOUSE NEAR YORKTON IN 1900. This was a sketch drawn by Stanley Turner, a homesteader's son, at the age of 17 years. The Turner family homesteaded near Springside.

The Conference Board of Canada released its Autumn 2011 Provincial Outlook Executive Summary and is forecasting Saskatchewan will have the best GDP growth in Canada this year with real GDP expected to rise by 5.1 per cent.

The Government of Saskatchewan is committing to significant enhancements to the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program following through on another campaign commitment.

The provincial government introduced legislation to ensure that future provincial election campaigns do not overlap with a federal election campaign.

Saskatchewan's housing affordability broadly improved in the third quarter of 2011, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued by RBC Economics. This reverses part of the deterioration in affordability earlier in the year.

Administrators with the Good Spirit and Christ the Teacher School Divisions this month shared an update on the school year so far and what's coming in 2012. 2011 was a year of major capital investment for both divisions.

For the Sunrise Health Region, 2011 was less tumultuous than the previous year, but still highly eventful. In many ways, it was a year of stabilization.