Estevan Mercury

Sixteen boats hit the waters of Boundary Dam on Saturday morning in search of some fish and some prize money.

So Saskatchewan, are we tired of being wood hewers? I'd guess we are, but so far nobody has done much about it. We're content to ship our resources out for the benefit of others. It's not like we're suffering. We're being compensated for our stuff.

With regular classes, trucks and rescheduled features from a weather-shortened May 31 program, it was a busy night at Estevan Motor Speedway on Saturday.

We know that Estevan's business community and Chamber of Commerce executive and administration will be conducting their own debriefing and dissecting of last week's Energy Expo so there is no major need for a lot of sideline critiques.

A mock accident demonstration by the Estevan Comprehensive School's SADD (students against drunk driving) chapter served as an excellent training exercise for Estevan emergency response teams around noon on June 5.

With a couple of weaker opponents coming to town, the Estevan Tarpon Energy Big Dogs were hoping to pick up a couple of wins on the weekend. What they got, however, was a loss and a tie.

The event has seen over $1.1 million raised in nine years to fight cancer and the Estevan Relay for Life found new life and new energy with its 2014 version.

Despite Estevan's ability to lower its higher than normal trihalomethane (THM) levels in the city's water, the bigger problem has reared its head as municipalities across Saskatchewan try to manage THMs in their own surface water supplies.

For local officials, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) conference was a chance to network and get up to speed on the potential for federal infrastructure grants.

As students get closer to closing the books on the 2013-14 school year, the Estevan Comprehensive School took time to recognize brilliance among the student body at the annual awards night.