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As of last week, all the musicians, actors and dancers using the dressing room at the Kamsack Playhouse no longer need to manoeuvre between drips from the ceiling or try to ignore the unsightly water marks on the ceiling and walls.

The Kamsack Comprehensive Institute SADD (Students Against Drinking and Driving) group raised money for its projects at a slo-pitch tournament on June 5.

On June 9, 14 students of the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute and the six adults accompanying them, collected their backpacks, rolled up their sleeping bags, gathered their tents and hitched their trailer loaded with 20 canoes to a pick-up truck, and

The dining room of the Kamsack and District Nursing Home (KDNH) was transformed from its usual utilitarian functionality into a decorated tea room on June 4 when the members of its auxiliary prepared to host a fundraising tea.

The Good Spirit School Division band hosted its annual awards concert at the Sturgis Composite High School on June 1, featuring music steeped in tradition.

Members of the Canora RCMP and fire department sponsored their annual Bike Rodeo at the Canora Junior Elementary School on June 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Decoration Day services were held at the Canora Cemetery on June 5 by members of the Canora branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

The grades 6 and 7 social studies students at Canora Composite School held their annual International Bazaar.

The St. James Anglican Church congregation of Endeavour held its annual Church Mouse sale at the Endeavour Skating Arena on June 10, 11 and 12. “The annual event is very time consuming,” said Kathy Ambrose, one of the co-ordinators for the event.

Preeceville Nursery School students from the four-year-old and three-year-old classes were all acknowledged for their hard work throughout the year during a graduation day on May 31. Lori Newton was the teacher for the school year.