Local News

It was a near full house at the Kamsack Playhouse on Sunday for the Community Christmas Concert.

The Kamsack Community Choir and five guest artists presented a concert at Westminster Memorial United Church on December 11 called A Christmas Gathering .

Bread is well known as an important item in Ukrainian culture. It was usually used to properly greet and welcome visitors to a home and was paired with salt to be presented as a gift.

Probably one of the most satisfying ways to ring in the new year at Kamsack on December 31 will be by attending a benefit in support of the family of a 16-month-old girl who is battling leukemia.

The Kamsack Rexall store is one of three Rexall retail outlets in Saskatchewan and one of 26 in Canada that is to be sold.

Full laboratory services at the Kamsack Hospital were to resume Monday morning, after not having had those services for three days last week.

A Kamsack woman celebrated her 100 th birthday last week. Evelyn Falkiner, a resident of Eaglestone Lodge, was 100 on December 15. A reception was held in her honour on Sunday at the Kamsack Legion Hall.

A music award fund has been established in the name of the late Ralph Cuervo, a former high school band instructor at Kamsack and member of the Yorkton Community Bands.

A total of 82 students of Victoria School in grades 1 to 4 submitted posters in the annual nativity scene poster competition sponsored by the Father Ruelle council of the Knights of Columbus.

A Canora youngster, who is the daughter of former Kamsack residents, is responsible for another “pay it forward” scheme.