Local News

Canora resident Kody Rock, pitcher with the Yorkton Cardinals, was named Player of the Week for July 11 by the Western Major Baseball League.

The Rural Municipality of Sliding Hills is continuing to focus most of its revenue towards ensuring the roads in hamlets are suitable to drive on.

Dana Antonovich of Canora Gateway Co-operative provided a donation of $1,000 to The Health Foundation.

The Buchanan Housing Authority Board of Directors has appointed Wendy Norrish as a new member.

The Rural Municipality of Good Lake will see an increase in population over the summer months, which means an increase of road repairs to accommodate. Reeve David Popowich said most of the town’s expenses are spent on transportation and roads.

The Canora Arts Council will be renewing its Stars for Saskatchewan concert series for the 2016/2017 season. Thanks to the efforts of volunteers and council members, four concerts will be shown at Canora Composite School.

With 46 entries, which was nearly twice as many as had entered the Mud Bog competition last year, and with an estimated 600 people cheering from the sidelines, members of the Kamsack Mud Slingers are pleased with their Canada Day showing.

A former Kamsack air cadet, named a top Saskatchewan cadet, attended a leaders’ summit in Ottawa where she also met the Prime Minister and the American President. Warrant Officer Brooklynn Andrusiak was a Kamsack air cadet from 2011 to 2014.

The library, sidewalks and the sewage lagoon were among items to concern town council at its regular meeting on June 27.

A special transparent box has been placed in the reception area of the Assiniboine Valley Medical Centre in Kamsack containing the Saskatchewan Municipal Award the community received at the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities (SUMA) convention in Febru