Weyburn Review

The Allie Griffin Art Gallery will be featuring the artwork of local junior high and high school students this month. "Youth View" will be on display from March 17 to 30.

A regular meeting of the Weyburn City Council was held on March 14; here are the major points of interest: *City Council set a date for a municipal by-election to replace Councillor Dave Craigen, who resigned his post on March 2.

The results of the senior centre's activitiesfor the week ofMarch 6 to 12: Bridge: (Monday) 1stElfrieda Mantay2nd Andy Dumba, 3rd Basil Holyer. Bridge: (Friday) 1stJean Janoski,2nd John Whitell, 3rd Marion Brown.

A local business is one of the finalists in the 2011 Better Business Bureau Torch Awards. Industrial Electric Ltd. of Weyburn is up against the Morsky Group of Companies of Regina in the Industrial Products and Services category.

The much anticipated opening of Weyburn's Boston Pizza became official this week.Publiclyopening its doors on March 14, the restauranthosted a grand opening on March 11, which included speeches by dignitaries and a ribbon cutting.

The Pre-Health Professions Club was in Weyburn on March 11 to promote the field of health care to students.

A blizzard hit Weyburn and area on March 11. Travel was not recommended on nearly all of the highways in the southeast for most of the afternoon.

The nomination deadline for the SaskPower Quota International of Weyburn Women of the Year Awards has been extended. The nomination deadline is now March 21 at noon. Forms can be picked up and dropped off at Brady's House of Flowers.

Rehearsals are currently taking place at the Tommy Douglas Centre for the play, "On Golden Pond.

The City of Weyburn is proceeding with growth and expansion to more residential lots, and is financing it by means of increasing the amount they are legally allowed to borrow by $5 million.