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Despite their successful night at the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame Awards banquet in Regina on June 4, the Bodacious Baskets group ferociously bundled gift baskets together in order to meet their sales goal heading into Father's Day.

Unfortunately, most of you probably don't care about the World Cup, so you have a choice: keep reading or move on and read about the success of the Estevan Elite peewee team on the weekend.

Following an accident that took place at a construction site in Estevan on August 18, 2011, Dwayne Lazar and Kirk Parazader, were each handed $3,500 fines, plus a $1,400 victim surcharge for failing to follow occupational health and safety regulation

The hard work and time away from home has paid off for Mackenzie Dahl. The Estevan synchronized swimming star was named to the Saskatchewan team for the 2015 Canada Winter Games last week.

When Estevan Police Service members were alerted to a disturbance at a local business on the night of June 11, they attended the scene and found two men in a vehicle just outside the business in question.

Estevan City council was asked to support the renovation of Highway 47 north from Stoughton to Grenfell.

A selection of some of Estevan's brightest students of industry performed at the annual Skills Canada Competition, with the Comprehensive School celebrating a second-place finish for one of its entrants.

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.