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To the Editor: The City of Weyburn's poor planning causes many complications.

Midale students Keely Toles and Taylor Hoium show the life-saving pack they made to go with an app that can be downloaded onto a computer or smart-phone, at the Southeast Regional Fair.

Weyburn Police Service answered 96 complaints during the period of Mar. 12 to 18. Calls for phone scams continue to be a concern for residents. On Mar. 12, a Weyburn resident was called and asked to send $1,200 to an address.

A female customer at a local lounge who refused to leave the facility after being asked to do so by management, was the subject of attention by the Estevan Police Service (EPS) last Friday night.

Rats, road repairs, plastic grain bags and emergency vehicles were some of the hot topics discussed at the recent Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) convention in Regina. The convention ran from Mar. 12 until Mar.

Yellow Grass (cpd) - The Grade 7 and 8 classes along with their teacher, Ms. Thiele, raised $315.50 for CANFAR (Canadian Federation for AIDS Research).

It will look slightly different than originally planned, but The Meadows of Estevan is still a go. There has been much speculation about the future of the housing project which will be located north of Wellock Road in the city's northwest corner.

Despite the reduction of injectable painkillers and anesthetics by a major supplier in Quebec, the Sun Country Health Region is coping well with the slowdown in the supply chain ... so far.

News and notes from the March 12 regular meeting of Estevan city council. It appears the two sides at odds over a proposed rental property on the 800 block of First Street will work towards a compromise.

The long-awaited announcement that a carbon capture test facility that will be linked to SaskPower's Shand Power Station near Estevan was made Tuesday morning when Hitachi Ltd.