Local News

It was Time to Sing-A Noel at Westminster Memorial United Church in Kamsack on December 10 when the Kamsack Community Choir presented its annual pre-Christmas concert.

If you work in the newspaper business, it feels like you’re in a convoy of ships, sailing from Halifax to England in 1941, while wolf packs of German U-boats pick off ships around you. Boom! Another explosion, and another one goes down.

Although now down to about nine regular members, the Heart and Home Quilt Club in Kamsack is pleased that it has been able to donate a total of 40 covers that are being made into Victoria’s Quilts for cancer patients.

The St. John Lutheran Church congregation in Preeceville took up the cause of providing toques, mittens, slippers and scarves for children in Northern Saskatchewan. They were packed up and shipped on December 11.

The entire 2016-17 staff of Victoria School in Kamsack is the recipient of the Good Spirit School Division’s Sea Star award.

The Sturgis Elementary students performed their first Christmas concert in the new Sturgis Composite School to a full gymnasium on December 14. Brad Cameron, principal, was the master of ceremonies for the evening.

River Ridge Fish and Game held its antler measuring event on December 8 at the Canora Activity Centre. There were a total of 15 heads measured, which is similar to last year.

Operating a new catering business in Kamsack, Sarah Burrows was pleased to have been up to the challenge of catering a full-course meal to 170 people each night of the two-nights of the Kamsack Players” annual dinner theatre.

The Preeceville Volunteer Fire Department received an early Christmas present December 4 when members picked up its new fire truck from the border.

The Canora Ag Society strives to support worthy local causes, and members were pleased to donate just over $1,625 to the Canora Filling the Gap Food Bank on December 14.