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World Breastfeeding Week Canada is October 1 - 7, 2012 and Sunrise Health Region has activities planned throughout the week to celebrate breastfeeding and to promote the theme of "Understanding the Past, Planning the Future".

Members of Parliament will vote today on whether to re-examine at what point a human fetus becomes a human being.

Health officials are encouraging Saskatchewan residents to protect themselves against influenza this season by getting immunized.

Nominations for the Yorkton municipal election closed last week, and two will be seeking the Mayor's chair while 10 go after six Councillor positions. For Mayor, Bob Maloney, a veteran of three terms on Council will face newcomer Richard Genaille.

There will likely be no election for Catholic school trustees on October 24. As of September 19 when nominations closed, only nine people had come forward for the 10 board positions.

On our way to the south end of Lake of the Prairies we made a detour, heading to the farm of John and Sandra Geres northeast of Langenburg. So you might wonder what a farm couple has to do with a series on fishing.

The majority of the workers trapped by a fire this morning at the potash mine in Rocanville are on their way to the surface. PotashCorp reported this morning that a cable reel located in the Rocanville mine was burning.

Fern Cooper, 65, and 13 other cataract-surgery patients arrived at Ontario's Oakville Trafalgar Hospital on June 25 to learn that they would not receive the usual anesthesia because the hospital had decided to schedule an "experimental day" to evalua

Robert Sinclair Sr. and family left Eday Island, Orkney Scotland on September 15, 1884 and boarded the ship "Siberian" at Glasgow to set sail for Canada. They arrived in Yorkton on October 12, 1884.

A man who escaped custody at Melville court on Monday has been captured by Yorkton RCMP at a residence in Yorkton. Christopher Adam Miller, 28, of Melville, escaped the provincial court room in Melville on Monday morning.