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The fourth annual River Ridge Fish & Game Gun Show was held on June 10-11 at the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre, with vendors attending from all three prairie provinces.

The fourth annual Farmer’s Filthy 5 event was held in Stenen on June 3 when 148 runners registered to run in the one, three or five-kilometre races.

Two sisters who are said to be the oldest living siblings in the world were born near Kamsack and one of them celebrated her 107 th birthday on Monday.

Shortly after Gina Rakochy, president of the Canora branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in the veterans’ section of the Canora Cemetery, Pastor Wilfred Michaels, padre of the Canora branch, spoke to those gathered for t

The Sturgis Station House Museum opened for another season on June 2 with a welcoming tea. Sarah Brown is the museum curator for the season. A summer student is scheduled to be hired.

All 12 of the Kamsack Comprehensive Students in grades 9 to 12 who received general proficiency awards at the Spectacular Spartans event on June 14, and all but one of the six students to obtain the highest academic average in each of the grades, wer

Canora Wheatland Lioness Club held a Ladies Night fundraising event on May 27 at the Rainbow Hall, said Darlene Senkow, Lioness representative. Supper was provided by A Matter of Taste, followed by a fashion show and hypnotic entertainment.

All the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute band students performed at the 33 rd annual lawn concert held at the Kamsack Hospital on June 12 when Darren Kitsch presented awards for best attendance, most improved and overall bandsman.

The Prairie Garden Greenhouse in Ketchen will be under new ownership and at a new location when it opens in the 2018 season. The greenhouse will be renamed Hazel Blooms, in its new location.

The fourth annual Farmer’s Filthy 5 event was held in Stenen on June 3 when 148 runners registered to run in the one, three or five-kilometre races.