In the Community

A dozen crates, most of them too heavy for a four-man lift, containing valuable used medical equipment, are leaving St. Joseph’s Hospital this week bound for Nigeria.

Sometimes it seems the love and joy of Christmasdisappears by New Year. It’s as if it just goes in one year and out the other.

Of all the church and school Christmas pageants, plays and concerts I've attended over my seventy plus years of living, this week I witnessed the most joyous and moving Nativity presentation of all I've ever experienced. Here's how it happened.

The year in review through the pages of the Mercury It has been another eventful year in Estevan and the Mercury has been watching, recording and reporting the newsworthy events along with featuring organizations and citizens in our community who hav

It was an eventful year in the Energy City with the expected ups and downs of daily living in a city of 13,000 residents plus several thousand more residing in nearby rural municipalities and neighbouring towns and villages.

A $2,000 donation by Ensign Energy Services has pushed the United Way Estevan past their goal of $338,000. “I am so excited. I truly am,” said United Way Estevan president Wendy Gustafson.

Last evening I attended the annual performance of Carols by Candlelight, an occasion filled with glorious music and a display of the talent of our residents.

The sound of Christmas carols permeated throughout St. Paul’s United Church on Sunday night for the Rotary Club of Estevan’s 63rd annual Christmas Carol Festival.

Estevan – You think you are a Star Wars fan? You’ve got nothing on Wade Baldwin. The operations manager for Import Tool in Estevan started getting his back tattooed in a Star Wars theme two years ago. “It’s been done a year.

So far this season, the Warm Welcome Shelter has been off to a slower start than in previous years. The shelter has been seeing fewer people showing up to stay overnight, leading to less overall use.