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Large crowd on hand for Remembrance Day program

First Nations people and Kamsack area residents wanting an opportunity to witness First Nation culture at its best are invited to a traditional powwow at Cote on November 25.

Keri Gardner has continued her fight to get the help her husband Rod requires to get better. The couple’s journey has been a long battle that started nearly a year ago.

With her multifaceted musical artistry on full display, award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Laila Biali delighted her Canora audience throughout a memorable concert at the Canora Composite School on October 30.

In addition to mighty monsters, pretty princesses and funny faces that scoured the community on Halloween seeking out treats, a group of KCI students were involved with scaring hunger.

Wendel Clark Day paid tribute to Toronto Maple Leafs hockey legend Wendel Clark, former Toronto Maple Leaf player, was honoured with a special day that featured the raising of his banner at the Kelvington Recreation Arena on October 21.

William Lukinuk of Canora was 25 years old when he enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1942 and trained for the largest landing invasion in the world’s history on the beaches of Normandy.

In November 1990, which was 25 years before he died in June 2015, Alex Drancejko of Kamsack spoke to the Times about his youth when he survived the “Harvest of Sorrow” in Ukraine, and then was pulled into the Second World War.

Bill Lesko, who was raised in the Lady Lake area and graduated from Sturgis Composite High School in 1968, says he had little interest in going to university. So, in March of 1969 he decided that he wanted to work in the bush.

Pastor Wilfred Michaels of Canora presently serves as the padre for the Canora branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, but his military career started out quite differently when he was a teenager. Michaels grew up in Yarmouth, N.