In the Community

A Father's Day celebration was held at Wheatland Lodge long-term care facility in Leask June 14. The common area was decorated with a fishing theme.

I feel very lucky that I was able to tape record an interview with my dad before he passed in 1992. I had a feeling. But that's not unusual. Intuition has always run deep in my dad's family.

The Rural Municipality of Hillsdale, No. 440, celebrated its 100th anniversary June 12 at the spring ratepayers' meeting held in the Neilburg Community Hall.

Jane Shury (nee Miller) was born July 23, 1934 to Melcher Miller and Katherine Gaertner at Leipzig. Jane completed all of her elementary school education at the Leipzig Public School and Grades 9 through 12 at the Notre Dame Convent in Leipzig.

An event that has grown in popularity since 2008 had a new time frame this year, and it looks as if it will be the same next year.

Students are writing exams and preparing for the end of the school year, looking forward to summer holidays.

Four North Battleford Comprehensive High School students competed at the national level of Skills Canada in Vancouver, B.C. June 5 through 8, bringing home two bronze medals.

Full-day artsVest Sponsorship Training Workshops are taking place across Saskatchewan this month to provide tools for cultural organizations to help secure and nurture long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with local businesses.

The soldiers, like the rest of the people of the prairies, voted for prohibition in 1915 and '16 in simple revulsion against the evil social consequence of boozing in hotel bars.

The threat of rain could not spoil the day for the 20 motorcycle enthusiasts who took part in the first annual Ride for Life, sponsored by the St. Vital Knights of Columbus.