Local Arts

Dreams have become a reality for Leah and Mike Kraus, who discovered their $100 Million Fortune ticket to be a $1 million winner, recently.

During July and August, the Weyburn Duplicate Bridge Club meets just once a week on Wednesday evenings. During the last four weeks, the Howell Movement has been used each time. Three and a half tables played on August 4.

The organizers of Weyburn's international friendship dinners will dedicate the next dinner as a fundraiser for Pakistan flood relief.

A group of runners moving on to the 10-kilometre portion of the Bakken Run go through the Souris Valley grounds before exiting to the Tatagwa Parkway trails south and making a loop there before returning to the starting point at Assiniboia Park Schoo

The Weyburn Public Library is hosting authors and film festival presentations over the next few weeks. Authors Robin and Arlene Karpan will be hosting a workshop about self-publication and reading from their new book on Saturday, August 28.

The results of the senior centre's activitiesfromAugust8to August 14: Bridge: (Monday) 1stStan Sampson,2nd Basil Holyer, 3rdSally Tooke. Bridge: (Friday) 1stJim Brown,2ndStan Sampson,3rdLucie Nickel.

Scotty the T-rex received a grand welcoming to Weyburn at the Soo Line Historical Museum on August 18. The Museum held a reception to acknowledge the arrival of the travelling exhibit from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM).

Just three months after kicking off the opportunity to purchase Rider licence plates, SGI has received over 12,000 orders resulting in a profit of about $325,000 for the Saskatchewan Roughrider Football Club.

Jill Brewer, an exhibit technician, and Jon Runolfson, exhibit specialist, both with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, work on setting up the huge skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed "Scotty", in a travelling exhibition that is visiting the Soo Line

The results of the senior centre's activitiesfromAugust 1to August 7: Bridge: (Monday) 1stMarion Brown,2nd tied Elfrieda Mantay, Jack Medwed. Bridge (Friday): 1stVern Leach,2ndChris Diemert,3rdJack Medwed.