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Kamsack Hospital will be restoring some of its emergency services on Monday, July 18. Emergency room and inpatient services at the hospital were interrupted in April due to a shortage of physicians.

Each month a male and a female student is selected as the SHHS Saint of the Month. Saint of the Month students are nominated by staff and students of SHHS.

My entire life I have dreamed of going to Africa. It has been well over three months since I departed from Canada and made my destination; Uganda. I still wait for the dramatic culture shock I was informed would happen.

Yorkton's Building Services Division is warning homeowners to keep an eye on their basements as a wave of foundational problems spreads through the city.

July 10 to July 16 has been proclaimed Saskatchewan Parks Week, by Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Bill Hutchinson. Saskatchewan Parks Week celebrates the natural, cultural and historical landscape of our province.

An exhibition of new works by Canadian artist Jeanette Marshall is the centerpiece of the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery this July and August. The exhibition of oil and pastel paintings, titled 'Primal Nature,' is on display from July 4 to August 26.

Regular readers will know by now I have a particular interest in chess variants. While I recognize the familiar western chess is a classic, which I have not come close to mastering, I will admit to liking variety.

Work first approved by Yorkton Council in 2010 will proceed following a unanimous decision of Council at its regular meeting Monday. Council approved the extension of Kelsey Bay and signalization of a new Broadway Street East intersection in 2010.

The City will be extending water and sanitation services and roadway along Rae Avenue to help accommodate a proposed three-unit group home development.