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The provincial government says there are 500 new doctors in Saskatchewan since 2007-08. The news was announced Oct. 13, with the government releasing a number of figures showing increases, particularly in the rural and remote areas of the province.

At approximately 8:20 p.m. the Maidstone RCMP responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by an eastbound vehicle on Highway 16 approximately one mile east of the town of Maidstone.

A huge Canadian flag is flying in the North Saskatchewan River Valley. Ryan Bater, executive director of Destination Battlefords says, “The flag is the last of the upgrades to the Battlefords River Valley Visitor Centre for this season.

SaskTel’s wireless tower upgrade at Turtle Lake has finally been completed. The upgrade had been delayed since June because a mating pair of birds had nested on the tower.

The Thanksgiving weekend was an active one for the RCMP during its traffic enforcement initiative Operation Impact. It was conducted Oct. 10 to 12 and was aimed at making Saskatchewan’s roads safer.

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Pictured are five generations of the family of the late Uhan Ewanchuk and wife Ann Spak. Uhan and Ann operated the Whitkow Hotel for 33 years. Seated are Ann Ewanchuk, great-great-baba, and her son Roman (Liz) Ewanchuck, great-grandpa.

A sign has been erected to mark the site of Green Park School in the Glaslyn area. In the photo are former students Harold Michnik, Paul Lewchuk, Nat Sawchyn, Bill Sawchyn, Thelma Lwchuk, Mary (Lysycia) Ward, Ruby (Turner) Heidel and Lloyd Turner.

Warm and relatively dry weather earlier in the week allowed many producers to return to the field. Ninety-one per cent of the 2015 crop is now combined, up from 84 per cent last week.

Roy Risling of Scott has another strange vegetable to share. His potato patch yielded a specimen that resembles two ducks. Photos by Amanda Risling