Carlyle Observer

If ever there was a tough Christmas, at least for a lot of us, it will be Christmas 2020. I won’t really miss the work involved in putting up and taking down the tree but that’s only because no one can come to share its beauty with us.

From Nov. 24-27, the Alameda School Community Council (SCC) held its first-ever online auction. The auction was used to replace the annual open house raffle which, due to COVID, could not be hosted this year.

“Well, it looks like it will be him and me around the tree,” the woman said pointing to her husband with a smile. “We’ve done it before, we can do it again,” she explained as we talked about Christmas plans.

As we approach Christmas, Saskatchewan remains caught in the middle of an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases. To the east of us, Progressive Conservative Premier Brian Pallister announced Manitoba’s lockdown measures will extend past Christmas.

Sympathy to family and friends of Millie (Brayford) Seiverwright, who passed away recently in Saskatoon. She was 97 years old and the widow of Stuart Seiverwright.

An early holiday gift will soon be on its way to Saskatchewan as another shipment of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is expected to arrive in Saskatoon next week, as early as December 21.

Anne Phair was having some coffee with some friends one day, back when you could still do that. They were talking about the federal carbon tax.

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Long before a global pandemic made food security a widespread issue, with empty shelves across the country, Derrick Big Eagle was working on a new food-growing development for Estevan.

The White Bear First Nation has temporarily lifted the restrictions that were in place in the community, after a resident tested positive for COVID-19 in November.