Estevan Mercury

Estevan residents are well-known for their generosity. On so many occasions, we have come through for fundraisers, campaigns and other calls for financial support.

September 10, 2015 Dear Diary, There’s a mobile phone Pokémon game coming out soon. It sounds gimmicky, like most adaptations of any franchise to the mobile platform. I probably won’t download it.

Cheers: Cheers to the gentleman who helped an elderly lady carry her groceries out to her car. There are good, kind people in Estevan.

The City of Estevan has announced that program advisors from the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program will be coming to Estevan.

The state of emergency in the City of Estevan has been lifted as of 1 p.m. today (July 13). Mayor Roy Ludwig in consultation with emergency measures co-ordinator Helen Fornwald, lifted the order following a brief special council meeting.

At a brief special council meeting held at noon on July 13, Estevan City Council members voted unanimously to apply for Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) funds through the Ministry of Government Relations.

The City of Estevan will celebrate the rededication of the runways at the Estevan Airport by bringing in one of Canada’s most famous groups.

The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in Regina and the CO2 Commonwealth Research Centre (C02CRC) announced the formal signing of a memorandum of understanding on July 5.

The Editor: What heritage are we leaving our grandchildren? Last week I was cutting grass (you know that never ending job this year), and a truck from out-of-province stopped and the driver wanted to chat.

Rapid crop development has been observed throughout most of the province as crop specialists headed into the second full week of July. The provincial crop report issued last week, indicated growing conditions have been optimal in most area.