Kyle Strelioff, who was just eight years old, reeled in a 15-pound, two-ounce northern pike at Madge Lake. He is the son of two avid fishermen, Evan and Lori Strelioff of Canora.
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Big Sky Farms announced that it was doing a feasibility study on a proposal to building additional breeder and nursery hog barns in either the RM of Invermay or the RM of Buchanan.
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The Canora Supers defeated the Dauphin Brewers 16-15 in the home opener of the South East Saskatchewan Baseball League season.
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In spite of a $250,000 paving project and a $100,000 upgrade to the town’s water treatment facilities, Canora town council passed a budget without an increase to the mill rate.
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Students from Canora Junior Elementary School decorated their bicycles and paraded them as part of a bicycle safety program at the school.
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The Canora town office received numerous complaints about the town’s one-year experiment to see if front curb garbage collection would work year round. Although most of the callers complained about the idea, there were a few who expressed positive observations.
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Ivan Peterson of Hazel Dell was named the chairman of the Sunrise Regional Health Authority. He was the chairman of the Assiniboine Valley Health District prior to the amalgamations that created the Sunrise Health Region.
