WEYBURN – A sign to indicate the new location of Weyburn’s new integrated health care facility, located between Fifth Street and Hamilton Street on a 20-acre parcel purchased from the City of Weyburn, was unveiled on Jan. 29.
A former Weyburn resident and graduate of the Weyburn Comprehensive School, Lane Krainyk, is making his mark on the other side of the world, working as a lawyer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the country of Myanmar.
Pink Shirt Day was slated be marked in Weyburn’s schools, and across Canada, on Feb. 24, and singer Karissa Hoffart performed a virtual concert to share with the students.
City council were told their recreation and culture centre, the Credit Union Spark Centre, was 96 per cent complete in the construction phase, in an update from Andrew Crowe, Leisure Services director.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Weyburn announced that Heidi Vogel, a volunteer for their organization, won the 2020 Lawney Donaldson Community Builder Award.
Fillmore resident Jen Wasylkowski, named a Global Citizen Award winner by her employer, RBC, in 2019, donated her prize money of $5,000 to the Fillmore Health Care Centre.
The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings named player Braden Birnie as the SJHL Community Ambassador for the team.
Weyburn’s city council approved a small shift in the mill rates at their meeting on Monday evening, lowering the tax rate on commercial properties and raising it slightly on residential properties.
The Weyburn Chamber of Commerce announced on Feb. 22 their new executive director was Larry Heggs.
The Southeast Cornerstone School Division lost its appeal of the decision by the Court of Queen’s Bench, which was to reinstate Wade Oberg in his position as principal of the Weyburn Comprehensive School, in a decision issued by the Court of Appeal released on Feb. 22.
A candidate in Souris-Moose Mountain in the last federal election, Travis Patron, 29, of Redvers, was charged by the RCMP with a hate crime.
