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Each spring, community volunteers from across Saskatchewan step forward to help raise funds and awareness for a growing Canadian health crisis, said a release from the Canadian Diabetes Association.

Kamsack school students heard a motivational address last week from a man who had been born without arms and legs. “Chris Koch was amazing. He’s an unbelievable guy,” said a member of the staff.

Mayor Rod Gardner of Kamsack has joined a long list of Canadian celebrities who have been named Champions of the Trans Canada Trail.

A Togo resident won $440 for having guessed the correct day that the ice would melt on the slough and the car resting on the ice would drop into the water.

Six members of the Kamsack Karate Club returned home from the Parkland Karate Regional and Invitational Tournament in Yorkton on April 16 clutching gold, silver and bronze medals.

A Kamsack man recently had the rare experience of watching a section of highway disappear in front of him recently. At about 9:30 a.m. on April 21, James Perry was operating his Ford pick-up truck on Highway No.

Going downtown in Kamsack next week visitors and residents will see newly-painted, colourful fire hydrants.

In art class last week, Laurissa Fedorchuk and Brayden Fatteicher were beginning the creation of a mural depicting waving keyboards which will be displayed in the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute band room.

Four home economics students at the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute were in Saskatoon on Saturday competing in a provincial cooking competition held at the Saskatchewan Polytechnic.

(Editor’s note: In last week’s edition, an article covering the 42nd annual concert of the Canora Veselka School of Dance on April 10 included many photographs of the groups which performed. At the request of many parents, here are three more photographs of Ukrainian dance groups which also performed at the concert. The photographs are courtesy of Craig Popoff of Canora Photography and Framing.)