Local News

With the threat of a Saskatchewan winter closing in on them, the majority of Roche Percee residents forced from their homes during the spring flooding have found a place to live until their residences can either be repaired or rebuilt.

If Mom and Dad would be PIR doing a little POS then there might be a little less DT or KPC going on in their youngster's cyberworld.

Saskatchewan producers are well ahead of the five-year harvest progress average with 76 per cent of the 2011 crop combined, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report. Seventeen per cent is swathed or ready to straight-combine.

Local fans of Estevan-based author, Marie Donais Calder, will be delighted to know the fifth book in the "Other Side" series has now been published.

Representatives of Cenovus Energy, Apache Canada, City of Weyburn, South East Regional Economic Development Authority (SEREDA) and Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC), celebrated the launch of the Weyburn Energy Innovation Centre this week.

Estevan's annual opportunity to restock the shelves at the Salvation Army Food Bank will come Saturday. The employees of the Estevan Canada Post Office and their families will hold their 17 th Food Bank Drive Saturday morning.

Grand Re-opening events were held on September 23, at the Weyburn Credit Union in celebration of the completed renovations.

Last week, Miss Sweet and Mrs. Bieberdorf took the junior boys' golf team out on the course in Carlyle.

They had to wait longer than they would have liked to get back out on the trails, but the Souris Valley Trekkers were able to hold their saddle horse trail ride on the weekend, bringing horse lovers together again.

The Literacy-Essential Skills for the Workplace Seminar was held at the lower level of McKenna Hall on September 21.