Estevan Mercury

Dayton Picard and Sean Whelan are the latest Bruins prospects to sign with the team. Both are '94-borns from the Moose Jaw Generals. Picard, a native of Stoughton, is a skilled centre who got into three games with the Bruins last year.

The Editor: If you care about the special beauty of the prairie-if you want to know that there will be wild, wide open spaces of natural grassland for your children's children to enjoy - there is something you can do.

The formal portion of the program was brief but impressive as over 200 people gathered in the main auditorium of the Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute (SETI) in Estevan for an official launching party.

A week after a disastrous outing in their second game of the season, the Estevan Tarpon Energy Big Dogs rebounded to win for the second time this year.

On the night of May 22, a 24-year-old Alberta man was charged for failing to comply with a demand for an alcohol screening device during a traffic stop in Estevan.

For three weeks in May, staff and students of Pleasantdale School arrived on Monday morning to find something vandalized: a tree planted by the students snapped, lattice hanging broken from the gazebo and a picnic table flattened.

The Estevan criminal court system is getting backed up, so changes to get more trial cases dealt with have begun to take effect.

News and notes from the May 22 regular meeting of Estevan city council

Estevan provincial court was busy this past Monday and Thursday, dealing with several prisoners, and leaving many on remand.