Estevan Mercury

They won, and now they will walk together forever.

On the day leading up to Remembrance Day I started thinking again, of the young men, and yes, a few women who provided the ultimate sacrifice in the name of democracy, time and time again.

Cole Fonstad scored four goals, including a natural hat trick, to lead the Estevan TS&M Bruins to a 6-3 win over the Saskatoon Bandits on Saturday. The victory came one night after the Bruins were shut out 6-0 by the Prairie Storm.

City council will have a vacancy in the near future. In an interview today, Councillor Chris Istace told The Mercury that he and his family will be moving to B.C. later this year.

A former Estevan man is spearheading a drive to collect hockey equipment for children in the Himalayas. Through his website truetravellers.org, Andrew Wahba has started the program Hockey in the Himalayas.

With a rather sizable debt looming as the elephant in the room, the members of City council will be sitting down for budget deliberations in the near future. Councillor Greg Hoffort, who had been serving as deputy Mayor until Oct.

After winning their first game, the Estevan TS&M Bruins couldn't find any more success at the Graham Tuer Bantam AA Challenge in Regina on the weekend. The Bruins would finish with a record of 1-2-1.

The opportunity to learn more about foreign worker recruitment and protection in Estevan and southeast Saskatchewan drew only a handful of participants last Friday afternoon and evening.

We often think about veterans who served in the World Wars, but Canada's servicemen and women have continued to serve in conflict areas around the world. Cort Barker served overseas in Bosnia in 2000 and 2003 as well as Afghanistan in 2006.

For the second consecutive year, Estevan Police Service members were able to report that Halloween came and went without any major incidents of mischief or vandalism.