Estevan Mercury

With the Warm Welcome program starting up last year, providing an overnight stay for Estevan's homeless, it has since grown as a vehicle of transformation for both the guests and the many volunteers who spend their nights with them.

A moment of fleeting disappointment for some after last year's United Way Estevan Telethon was also a chance for the members to remember what it is the organization is here to do.

Some money that came from the sale of the Knights of Columbus Hall in Estevan several years ago is now being put to good use within the community.

The Estevan Wildlife Federation's inaugural event for hunters, collectors and recreational shooters was a popular one over the weekend as interested parties from across the region came to the gun show in Estevan.

Sherritt Coal has laid off 23 unionized employees from Estevan and Bienfait mines. Word of the layoffs went public last week although the United Mine Workers of America had received notice earlier in March that layoffs were forthcoming.

One day he signed a tryout contract. The next, he was playing professional hockey.

Five days after their season came to an end, members of the Estevan Bruins gathered for one final hurrah on March 26 before going their separate ways.

The Estevan Community Garden project received an optimistic response and a few potential new members last Wednesday evening.

There were 15 nominees in two categories and a total of six nominees in two other categories when the Women of Today nominee list was made known last Wednesday afternoon during a luncheon held in the small Legion Hall.

It has been a particularly busy seven-day stretch of time for members of the Estevan Police Service with the policing activity beginning on March 24 with an investigation into a two-vehicle collision on King Street with one of the vehicles being dama