Local News

The Rotary Club of Weyburn is offering the trip of a lifetime for three young professionals. The Club is accepting applications for a Group Study Exchange this fall in England for four weeks.

Record high employment for the month of December helped Saskatchewan close out the year with the second lowest unemployment rate in Canada. Saskatchewan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 5.5 per cent is well below the national average of 7.

The Mainil family of Weyburn made a very generous donation to the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation for the construction of a new acute care hospital in the city.

Southeast Saskatchewan rang in the New Year with two million-dollar winning lottery tickets.

After 20 years of preparing tax returns, Sheila Colpitts has retired from tax preparation, and has sold her tax business to a new concern.

Estevan's health, safety and rescue capabilities took a positive step forward last Thursday when Estevan Fire Rescue Chief Rick Tocker and deputy Chief Dale Feser accepted a cheque from Enbridge Pipelines (Sask.) Inc.

The night of Jan. 8 proved to be a rather busy one for members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) beginning with a response to a report of a suspicious person being spotted around a residence in the northwest part of the city.

A fundraising social is being held in Radville on Saturday, Jan. 15, for a local two-year-old boy who was recently diagnosed with severe autism.

Estevan's population is continuing its upward trend. According to the 2010 covered population statistics, which were released in December by the provincial Ministry of Health, the Energy City has 12,876 residents, up from 11,304 in 2009.

The Rotary Club of Weyburn is searching for applicants to travel to England in the fall of 2011 for four weeks. The exchange is open to those who are non-Rotarians between the ages of 25 to 40. Selected candidates will travel from Oct. 1 to Oct.