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NIPAWIN — While the Nipawin Living Forestry Museum will be open during Canada Day, there won’t be any festivities for the second year in a row.

The family of a Mountie who was killed on duty Saturday has informed Saskatchewan RCMP a fraudulent Go-Fund-Me page has been created in the name of Constable Patton.

As a result of the investigation into the death of an Indian Head RCMP member, a man and a woman have been arrested and charged. Forty-one-year-old Alphonse Stanley Traverse, from Winnipeg, Man.

Just one per cent more of Saskatchewan adults need to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shot in the coming week in order for the province to begin Step Three - the final phase of its Reopening Roadmap - on July 11.

More than 700 kilometers north of Winnipeg sits a small community that many who have never been to may know only for its isolated location and subarctic winter temperatures.

Below is the statement from Saturday’s 5 p.m. news conference with A/Commr. Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer of the Saskatchewan RCMP: Tragedy unfolded early this morning for our Saskatchewan RCMP family.

An RCMP officer has died while on duty according to a press release.

New cases (June 12) New Active Humboldt area (Central East 1) 0 9 Kelvington-Punnichy area (Central East 2) 2 18 Nipawin area (North East 1) 2 15 Melfort area (North East 2) 0 5 Tisdale-Hudson Bay area (North East 3) 0 8 Vaccinations (June 12) Vaccin

One new death was being reported Saturday in the provincial government’s COVID-19 report. The death was of a person in the 80+ age group from the North West zone, bringing the zone’s death total to 72.

Vaccines Reported An additional 18,014 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 878,665.