Local News

For being the First Nation group within the Yorkton Tribal Council (YTC) with the best record of promoting traffic safety, the Keeseekoose Chiefs Education Centre received a prize of $20,000.

Kamsack residents are seeing a number of the community’s fire hydrants painted in striking, non-traditional hydrant colours.

Koozma Tarasoff of Ottawa, a well-known Doukhobor historian, has taken issue with an account of the film Doukhobors and Sons of Freedom by Trona Garvie which was among the films shown at the Yorkton Film Festival last month.

To date 14 persons have been hired to work this summer at the Kamsack Swimming Pool, which is to open for the season on June 20.

Student representatives from across Parkland College met May 31 in Kamsack for the College’s first ever Student Advisory Leadership Conference (SALC).

Last week Kamsack Mayor Rod Gardner, his wife Vi and Councillor Joe Kozakewich and his wife Debbie spent time in the Gardners’ garage assembling 18 new chairs that have been purchased for the Assiniboine Valley Medical Centre.

Residents from the local and surrounding areas united as one in the fight against the Sunrise Health Region’s announcement on May 17 that it was closing the emergency and acute care departments at the Preeceville and District Health Centre.

( see photo gallery below ) 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.

to duplicate last year’s success