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The Comp School's Jazz Band performs songs from their repertoire on the stage of the Cafetorium, as Weyburn residents enjoy the school's annual fowl supper on Nov. 27. The band is preparing for their upcoming holiday concert on Wednesday, Dec.

Persistence has paid off for Estevan Police Service Chief Del Block. For the past couple years, Block has been one of the driving forces behind the push to lower speed limits in the city's residential areas from 50 km/h to 40 km/h.

A Lampman man pleaded guilty to failing to report an accident that left one man dead.

Municipal delegates to the mid-term convention for the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) had a good discussion on a wide variety of issues, said Reeve Carmen Sterling of the RM of Weyburn.

The drilling floor is busy as a drilling rig sinks an injection well more than three kilometres below the surface for the injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) for a research project entitled Aquistore.

Concern over what is being transloaded at the terminal just west of Bienfait was brought to the forefront last week. The facility, run by Watco Terminal and Port Services, an American transport company based out of Pittsburg, Kan.

Funding from both the federal and provincial government levels will be made available to pasture patron groups which are interested in taking over community pastures from the federal government.

Students at the Estevan Comprehensive School are getting a taste of the business life with a couple of baked-good start-ups competing for dessert supremacy. Both companies held board meetings on Nov.

Marlene Moore echoed the refrain from the closing moments of each episode of The Price is Right , "Spay and neuter your pets." The Estevan Humane Society is bursting at the seams with cats and dogs, and it isn't a new phenomenon.

The Family Place, which was "built on a dream", is able to continue helping families after a successful fundraiser on Thursday evening raised the most ever in support of the facility.