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The village of Endeavour welcomed everyone to help them celebrate Canada 150 on September 3. The community rallied together to host various fun games for children that included a sack race, egg relay, three-legged race, potato race and hop scotch.

Two long-time City of Yorkton employees will receive Meritorious Service Awards at the 2018 Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association Awards Banquet.

Nick Zawislak started farming at the age of 22 in 1949, and still enjoys helping his son Terry on the family farm north of Canora near Amsterdam during busy seasons such as harvest, even after celebrating his 90 th birthday on Saturday.

Incident dates back to early July

Kamsack Comprehensive Institute students were welcomed by staff and support services On September 7, with a pancake breakfast, which was the kick-off to the new Safe Landings support services program.

Chlorisa Erickson, originally of Preeceville, has been hired to share the position of regional KidsFirst community developer in the Good Spirit School Division.

Auto theft happened at beginning of September

On September 3 a bear was spotted on the west side of Canora near the chicken barns, said Cst. Taunya Kondratoff, of the Canora RCMP. The bear made its way into Canora, and the RCMP were made aware of the situation at around 6 p.m., said Kondratoff.

A celebration was held at the Kamsack Power House Museum to commemorate “another good year for our beautiful museum” and to cut a cake for Canada 150. A pancake breakfast kicked off the event at 9 a.m. and ran until 1 p.m.

Charlene Tvait of Preeceville opened a new hair salon, known as Charlene's Shear Perfection, on September 5. The location of the new salon is 29 Second Avenue NE. Tvait, who was raised in Porcupine Plain, graduated high school in 2015.