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Darrell Wickenhauser, Humboldt’s deputy fire chief, was one of 22 people who received the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal earlier this month.

MELFORT — A business case for a new helipad at the Melfort Hospital was compelted and will be sent to the provincial health minister. The helipad will be located at the hospital and would allow STARS air ambulances to land and take passengers.

Glaslyn resident Denis Ouellette, president of CUPE Local 4797, has been awarded the CUPE Saskatchewan Education Workers’ Steering Committee activist award. Ouellette works at the Northwest School Division as a caretaker.

G&C Asphalt & Ready Mix are once again the gold sponsor for Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation’s Ladies’ Night.

A “hurricane” passed through North Battleford late last week. It was Danny “Hurricane” Halmo, riding an e-bicycle across Canada in pursuit of a Guinness World Record for the longest journey on a motorized vehicle: 8,209.10 kilometres.

Prior to the game Saturday night, Battlefords North Stars head coach Brayden Klimosko spent the day spinning for a good cause.

The City of Humboldt released a video thanking the world for their support during the aftermath of the Broncos crash. “We’d like to tell everybody that we’re doing okay here,” Rob Muench, Humboldt’s mayor, said in the video.

Division also looks at surveillance technology

Jim Shevchuk, Living Sky School Division superintendent of learning, said this year "highlighted for me more than any other year, that the economic downturn in Saskatchewan and the reality of rural Saskatchewan has now hit.

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