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St. Michael students Matthew O'Neill and Joel Niemegeers carefully bag a soil sample from an auger, as their team-mates Chantal Vogel, Mary Sidloski and Julie Ducharme watch, during an outing by the Grade 8 class to River Park on Thursday.

The Bathgate family gather at the Normandy memorial in France, where they attended the ceremonies for the 70th anniversary of D-Day on June 6.

The finalists for the 2014 Saskatchewan's Outstanding Young Farmers' (OYF) competition have just been announced.

Olympic athlete Clara Hughes signs her autograph on the front tire of the "blue bike", one of two bikes created by the MALT Squad at the Weyburn Junior High in advance of Hughes' visit to the school on Wednesday.

The Weyburn Chamber of Commerce is setting plans in place for their annual Fair Parade, to be held this year on the first day of the Weyburn Fair, on Monday, June 30, from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

The Weyburn Police Service was busy with a variety of complaints the week of June 9-16, including mischief, break-ins and fraud attempts.

Representatives from the organizing committee for Clara Hughes' visit to Weyburn, and representatives from the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) have their signs, balloons and noise-makers ready for the Olympian's arrival in the city on June

Two men died in this plane crash at Torquay on Sunday, and the Transportation Safety Board is on the site investigating to determine the cause of the crash. The RCMP were called to the scene shortly after 10 a.m.; the plane involved was a Cessna 172.

Grade 8 students Josh Zackrisson, Bailey Brenholen and Orrin Tessier carefully collect the soil sample in a bag, dug up with a small auger as part of a science class outing from St. Michael School to River Park on Thursday.

Ever since Arcola School hosted Challenge Day last semester the grade seven class has taken it upon themselves to continue making a difference through creating weekly challenges.