Local News

A ribbon was cut during a ceremony at the Victoria School grounds in Kamsack on Friday, marking the official opening of Sparty Park.

White crosses, red poppies and miniature Canadian Flags were placed on the graves of district veterans and Legion members during the annual Decoration Day service held at Riverview Cemetery in Kamsack on Sunday.

A performance by Saskatchewan Express will be among the highlights of a three-day celebration at the end of July that will mark the centennial of Arran.

Wendy Naclia, health services manager at Norquay, welcomed everyone to the event staged on May 27 to recognize employees of the Sunrise Health Region who work at the Norquay Health Centre.

For being the First Nation group within the Yorkton Tribal Council (YTC) with the best record of promoting traffic safety, the Keeseekoose Chiefs Education Centre received a prize of $20,000.

Kamsack residents are seeing a number of the community’s fire hydrants painted in striking, non-traditional hydrant colours.

Koozma Tarasoff of Ottawa, a well-known Doukhobor historian, has taken issue with an account of the film Doukhobors and Sons of Freedom by Trona Garvie which was among the films shown at the Yorkton Film Festival last month.

To date 14 persons have been hired to work this summer at the Kamsack Swimming Pool, which is to open for the season on June 20.

Student representatives from across Parkland College met May 31 in Kamsack for the College’s first ever Student Advisory Leadership Conference (SALC).

Last week Kamsack Mayor Rod Gardner, his wife Vi and Councillor Joe Kozakewich and his wife Debbie spent time in the Gardners’ garage assembling 18 new chairs that have been purchased for the Assiniboine Valley Medical Centre.