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Members of a community celebrate the season in many different ways. Every year people from several of the churches in Maidstone gather to plan a meaningful service to share faith and friendship. This year the ecumenical carol service was held Dec.

The Seniors' Drop-In Centre in Maidstone held their annual Christmas supper and program Dec. 11.

The second phase of a regional housing action plan was unveiled at a meeting organized by Prairie Innovation Enterprise Region (PIER) in Humboldt on December 9.

The Paradise Hill boys' volleyball team won a bronze medal in the provincial championships held in Muenster recently.

A four-year-old unsolved homicide is being highlighted by the Saskatoon Historical Case Unit.

Here are some more highlights from the December 12 North Battleford council meeting, the last one of 2012. Some new affordable housing could be coming to the city of North Battleford, but it will require some hurdles to be crossed at city hall first.

On December 8, a crowd of supporters and shoppers gathered at the Humboldt Mall to view and bid on a wide choice of items donated by businesses in the community and friends of the museum.

Law enforcement were busy last week with three car accidents and one drug warrant execution. On Tursday alone, the WPD ambulance responded to three collisions. The first was at 10:30 a.m., involving a single vehicle on Highway 16 east.

The issue of North Battleford's noise bylaw was back before council Monday night, as the city brought down its report on options for changing it to allow snow-clearing activities at night.

Two local social workers are doing some fundraising this Christmas season to pay for a trip to Haiti to help orphaned children there. Wendy Pawelko, and her daughter Chelsea McMillan Grande, say they want to help orphaned children in Haiti.