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Red Cross Day of Pink sees colourful crowd gather for march

Red Cross Day of Pink sees colourful crowd gather for march

Students from across the city were energized last week when the gathered at the Estevan Court House clad in pink for a march downtown.

Football dinner always a good time

Give local football volunteers a lot of credit: they always find quality guests to speak at their fundraisers. The annual dinner to raise money for minor football and the high school Elecs took place Saturday at the Days Inn Plaza.

Good grain prices not so good for Prairie livestock

The Western Canadian farm sector has long dreamed of a period of high grain and oilseed prices, and we are certainly in the middle of such a cycle at present.

Tanks for the memories

The juxtaposition couldn't have been more striking. On the web page of the Stars and Stripes (www.stripes.com), the "U.S.

We don't need handwriting or French anymore

Sometimes people fear that so many aspects of our society are crumbling.

Jays, Dodgers, Angels would all beg for Chris Davis' bat

You can have your Josh Hamiltons and Joey Vottos and Jose Bautistas and Mike Trouts. Baltimore Orioles fans are quite happy with their less heralded first baseman, Chris Davis.

Packing with hollowed liquor boxes and moving into adulthood

Being that I'm moving out of this lovely apartment in only a few short weeks, I've started gathering my things together and packing them away.It's important to note that I'm almost exclusively using boxes that I picked up at the liquor board.

Assaults, disturbances and inebriated citizens fill out busy shifts for police

On the night of March 28, Estevan Police Service (EPS) personnel spent several hours busily engaged in the process of arresting and protecting inebriated citizens.

Of Ralph and Margaret

Two larger-than-life politicians who the public came to appreciate later on in their terms of office, were laid to rest within the past two weeks.
City of Estevan meets with province on damaged roads

City of Estevan meets with province on damaged roads

The City of Estevan is continuing its push to have the provincial government pay for 60 per cent of the cost to repair damaged local streets.