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Members of the newly-elected Kamsack town council took their oaths of office during their inaugural meeting in the council chambers on Monday, which began their four-year terms overseeing the affairs of the community.

The man who has been the backbone, if not the heart and soul of the annual Duck Mountain Loppet for the past 37 years was presented with the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association’s (SPRA) award for volunteer of the year.

Carol Heskin, public health nurse at Norquay injected Maureen Berezowski of Kamsack on November 1 during the first influenza clinic held at Kamsack, where about 130 persons received similar vaccinations.

Leading to Halloween, the Free the Children group at the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute conducted a “We Scare Hunger” campaign.

No person should be declined the opportunity to lay a wreath on Remembrance Day, Jim Woodward, president of the Kamsack branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, told Legion members during their meeting on November 1.

The Kamsack Players theatre group is working on a comedy for its annual dinner theatre which promises a violent collision between everything Christmas and everything Shakespeare so that the audience will never think of Shakespeare or Christmas in qui

By Marlene Jacquemart

Parkland College students in Kamsack got in the Halloween spirit on October 31.

The grandson of a man whose name was synonymous with the Kamsack Royals fastball team for over 40 years, has been named the top peewee baseball player in Alberta. Kobe Laevens, 13, son of Cam and Marci of Spruce Grove, Alta.

About 15 young Kamsack hockey players on the IP (initiation program) team travelled to Canora on October 29 for their first time on the ice this season because the Kamsack rink was still not available.