In the Community

The Souris Valley Museum has proven to be a popular attraction since an expansion to its building was completed earlier this year. The museum celebrated its grand reopening on Saturday as part of its annual Cowpokes and Cookouts season-opening event.

Assiniboia Child Care Services received a major financial donation from the Rotary Club of Assiniboia on May 16 that will be used to build an outdoor deck for the facility.

There’s a decent chance that if you visit the Garden Park on Fourth in downtown Estevan this summer, you’ll see Gale Tytlandsvik there. Tytlandsvik has been a dedicated volunteer at the park each year since it opened in 2011.

Terry Rohatyn started working for the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Coal Company Ltd. in the summer of 1970, thinking that it would be a three-week temporary job. But it turned into a 46-year career that proved to be a very rewarding experience.

Members of Assiniboia’s Messiah Lutheran Church along with their shepherd, Pastor Doug and Brenda Miner, walked two blocks to the east and 500 years into the past to worship with the members of St.

The first annual Lifeways and Land Festival will run on the weekend of Friday and Saturday, June 2 to 3 at the St. Victor Petroglyphs site south of St. Victor.

The Estevan Mercury is the oldest business in the Energy City, as its first edition was printed in 1903. And now a link of another kind to the paper’s past has been uncovered, and is being restored.

The graphic, plain language human rights handbook Your Life, Your Rights, which was created right here in Estevan , is almost ready for distribution.

These past weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about big and little, large and small and things deemed successful or not, particularly in relation to the matter of their importance.

Over the past year I have experienced a renewal of faith through the rosary. Through this simple prayer Mary leads us into eternal mysteries. From the first moments of her “Yes” Mary has been the bringer of graces and a go between us and God.