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One Saskatchewan resident has been hospitalized due to West Nile neurological syndrome and six others are under investigation for West Nile Virus infections. The recent cases likely became infected during the last weeks of August and early September.

Residents and staff will soon return to the Invermay Health Centre. Interior work in the resident areas is slated for completion by end of September, noted a report presented to the September meeting of the Sunrise Health Board held last Wednesday.

Flood the Stone All is Not Lost Revolution Studios 4.5-out-of-10 Flood the Stone is a new band coming out of the Yorkton area. I am always excited when new bands come out of Yorkton and look forward to what they have to offer.

The Kelvington Chronicle is back in business after its publisher was released from custody on a six-month conditional sentence.

After a few months of operating in the red, the Sunrise Health Region (SHR) was back to a small surplus in August.

The Roxy Theatre erected in 1928, the Bank of Commerce erected in 1916, and the Hudson's Bay Company in 1912. Broadway Street East. The postcard is from the Harold and Wilma Wilkinson fonds. Photo taken around 1930.

The Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours held its annual community appreciation barbecue September 17.

A 20-year-old B.C. woman has been acquitted of possession of the proceeds of cocaine trafficking in Yorkton Provincial Court. Madelaine Esquivel was arrested in January, one of 20 individuals caught up in a five-month multi-agency RCMP sting.

Last week, social media in the Yorkton area was abuzz with rumours of a possible bear sighting in the Ravine Ecological Preserve. Phil de Vos, one of Yorkton's bylaw officers, said it got a little blown out of proportion.

As regular readers may have picked up on over the weeks of this column, I have a passion for several game genres, one of those being miniature skirmish games.