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An exciting event sold out quickly and provided 55 women with entertainment and a piece of their own artwork. Paint the Town Red Paint Night was held at the Legion hall dugout on November 4, with all 55 spots for the event filled.

The newly-elected councillors of the Town of Canora made several appointments while meeting with the mayor for the first post-election town council meeting which was held on November 1.

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