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The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce has set Feb. 9 as the date for their Chair's Luncheon. The event, normally staged as a "banquet", is switching to a virtual format this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Living Sky School Division is reporting more cases of COVID-19 within the school division. They report a case was diagnosed in an individual in McKitrick Community School on Jan.

There were 118 administered doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported yesterday in Saskatchewan – this brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 34,672. As of January 28, 106 per cent of the doses received have been administered.

An Onion Lake man involved in a police pursuit where an RCMP officer was injured had court appearances this week in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Michael Patrick Hill, 23, appeared in Alberta’s Sherwood Park Provincial Court Jan.

Light of Christ School Division reports on Feb. 1 that officials from the Saskatchewan Health Authority have informed them of a positive COVID-19 case in an individual at St. Mary School.

SGI is launching a new impaired driving awareness campaign that asks the question “Could you live with yourself?” The campaign, set to run throughout February, features a 60-second video that uses that tag line.

Submitted Mitchell Bros. Excavating moved into action in early December to give the Livelong Cemetery a huge boost. Volunteers have been working on the clearing of heavy overgrowth that has been encroaching on the cemetery for the past two years.

Ray Beck has seen the damage wild pigs can do when left unchecked. Beck, a roughly 20-year rural municipality pest control veteran, says he’s seen wild boars ruin a nine-hole golf course “basically overnight” on a visit to Texas.

The availability of COVID-19 vaccines across Canada was a big issue raised in Parliament this week by Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Rosemarie Falk.

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