Assiniboia Times

A total of 13,239 head of cattle were sold in Saskatchewan for the week of March 31, down from 19,345 head sold the previous week, but up from 7,581 head the same week a year ago.

The Assiniboia Royal Canadian Legion branch in Assiniboia participated in a donation drive to help homeless veterans that just wrapped up at the end of March.

Assiniboia has some new choices for eating out with the opening of the Cruz In restaurant in late March and the unveiling of Fresh Start’s new menu. Cruz In is the latest eating spot in Assiniboia. It sports a 1950s-60s style design and menu.

Saskatchewan author Garrett Wilson stops in at the Shurniak Art Gallery in Assiniboia on Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m. to read from his new book “Outlier, Life, Law and Politics in the West”.

Over 100 people from the Wood Mountain constituency joined the province-wide Drop Everything and Read event on April 7 in Assiniboia.

The Southeast College has teamed up with SaskPower to offer power engineering training to meet labour market demand. The program graduates its first cohort of students in May.

Pulse growers in the Assiniboia area are breathing a sigh of relief as the Canadian government has secured a temporary exemption on the fumigation of pulse exports to India.

Dozens of children streamed across the fresh spring grass in search of Easter eggs at Centennial Park in Assiniboia on Saturday, April 8. The Community Easter Egg Hunt took place with over 70 families and children in attendance.

Destin Ash from Hutch Ambulance (at centre in the picture below) explained to students at the Assiniboia Elementary School about the health effects of smoking.

What does campfires, an owl, Cookie Monster, flower bouquets, bird’s nests and pouring M&M’s have in common? They were just some of the cupcake decorations created by the Grades 5-8 students for the fourth annual Cupcake War at the Assiniboia Element