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Christmas colouring pages celebrate the season, as submitted by Weyburn schools.

Christmas colouring pages celebrate the season, as submitted by Weyburn schools.

Christmas colouring pages celebrate the season, as submitted by Weyburn schools.

A Twinkle Tour of the Christmas lights in Assiniboia was held on December 13.

The Grade 2 class at St. Michael School showed off their animal posters for science class on Friday, bringing in their Grade 7 reading buddies to have a look, along with Fr. Valentine Amobi, who stopped by to see the posters. The class spent about a month working on them, and did presentations to their class before inviting other classes to come and see them.

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, were very active and bright in Saskatchewan skies on Wednesday evening, visible from the Weyburn area as solar storms lit up the atmosphere.

Many businesses and non-profit organizations had floats decorated for the Christmas Light parade.

The Tom Zandee Sports Arena was packed with skaters for the City of Weyburn's annual Skate with Santa event on Sunday afternoon. Santa was on the ice skating with children and getting photos taken with families and individuals, with free hot chocolate available for all participants.

Many Weyburn families were able to take sensory-free photos with Santa Claus on Saturday, set up by Inclusion Weyburn to allow children to have photos without the stress of large crowds or noisy environment. Volunteer Santa Randy Bakaluk had booking at Zion Lutheran Church throughout the day, and each family could have 15 or 30 minutes to be with Santa.

Weyburn Tourism opened its River Park Sparkles displays to the public as of Friday, and it will be on every evening at 5:30 p.m. until Jan. 7, 2024. RIver Park is open for motorists or pedestrians free of charge, with displays by businesses and organizations throughout the park. A number of the displays were part of the Parade of Lights held on Thursday evening.