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A “solidarity” patchwork quilt created by Roman Catholic dioceses from across Canada will be in Kamsack on June 12.

Members of the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute beginner and junior bands combined with band members from Canora, Invermay, Sturgis, Preeceville and Norquay for a combined Good Spirit School Division Parkland Band to perform in Moose Jaw on May 19.

The work of five Kamsack artists plus eight residents of Eaglestone Lodge who are being tutored by one of them is part of the Landscape and Memory exhibit being held at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton.

At work last week planting annuals, weeding between the plants and hoeing all the flower beds in Kamsack’s Trackside Garden, a job that about a dozen people volunteer to do throughout the growing season, from left, were: Ruth Dixon, Stella Sych, Eile

( see photo galleries below ) Thirteen graduates were honoured at the Sturgis Composite High School graduation exercises on May 27.

( Editors note : Cole Bilanchuk was selected by his classmates to give the valedictory address .) High school is a time when a person really begins to develop his or her personality and a time of growing and transition.

Loran Chapman was the guest speaker at the Sturgis Composite High School graduation exercises on May 27. “For the past five years I have attended each graduation and have always enjoyed being part of them,” Chapman said.

Emergency personnel at the Preeceville Ambulance hosted an appreciation day to provide reassurance to the public that no matter the time or scenario, emergency staff are always on hand.

Preeceville and area residents continue their quest to save the Preeceville Hospital from having the doors if its emergency and acute care departments closed on June 1.

Preeceville School students in grades 4 to 8 rose to the challenge of public speaking in front of a panel of judges, teachers, peers and parents in an oratory competition on May 27. Oratory refers to the art of public speaking, it was explained.