Assiniboia Times

The community fundraiser for the Kincaid Fire Department was a huge success on Saturday, October 14. The event included a supper, live and silent auctions, and a cabaret and raised over $111,000.

Donna Fiset was honoured at a community gathering to mark her retirement from a 37-year EMS career on October 15.

The 11th annual Taste and See breakfast at St. George’s Catholic parish hall featured author and lawyer Carla Carlson as keynote speaker on October 14.

A faulty brine pump at the Assiniboia Civic Centre upset scheduling and forced the Southern Junior B Rebels to reschedule its game from October 25 and to relocate the games played on October 28-29.

Southland Co-operative Association has made the SaskBusiness Magazine’s Top 100 list ranking at 98 on the list of Saskatchewan’s largest companies. Last year, it ranked at 99. Southland Co-op formed in 1939 and employs 160 today.

Shaun Boothe, a Hip Hop artist and motivational speaker, toured Saskatchewan schools from October 16 to 25 bringing students the message of inspiration to greatness through sharing the lives of such icons as Terry Fox, Bob Marley and Malalah, the you

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan president Todd Lewis led a delegation to Ottawa on October 23-25 where they had an opportunity to lobby legislators, senators, Cabinet members and government agency officials on the most pressing

The Canadian Cowboys Association wound up its rodeo season with the CCA Finals Rodeo in Swift Current from October 18 to 21.

Five football players from Assiniboia, Tayvin Peterson, Cole Selody, Tag Zahariuk, Kane Kuffner and Shane Luke, helped the Moose Jaw Bantam Raiders win the championship in their 12-man Moose Jaw Minor Football League’s Bantam Division.

Potentia Renewables has opened an office in Assiniboia in anticipation of being given the green light on its proposed local wind and solar projects.