Estevan Mercury

News and notes from the Oct. 17 regular meeting of Estevan city council. The newest member of council was sworn in at the Oct. 17 meeting. Jayden Dayman will serve as the student member of council for the first semester of the current school year.

By his own count, Gerry Aspen spent 1,072 hours building the Estevan Bruins' new dressing room. On Thursday night, when the masterpiece was revealed, it was all worth it for the Bruins' trainer, who began working on the room in June.

It was a busy weekend for members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS), according to information released from their office Monday morning.

Traffic volume was down at the North Portal border crossing in September according to figures released by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) this past week.

They came from all parts of Western Canada and the Midwestern United States, arriving in Estevan on the weekend for the 24th annual Estevan Model Engineering Show.

He said: Halloween is coming up and Jesusween is a movement to make the day more religious by handing out Bibles to trick-or-treaters instead of candy on Oct. 31, and spreading the gospel to youth.

The ribbon has been cut on the new land port of entry at Noonan, with a small ceremony and facility tours. About 20 people packed into the inspection garage for the ceremony Oct. 18 and to hear from Mary Delaquis, the area port director of Pembina U.

Science says that my parents have a favourite child and probably so do yours. I read an article recently, adapted from the book The Sibling Effect by Jeffrey Kluger, about how all parents have a favourite child.

Saskatchewan's Highways and Infrastructure Minster Jim Reiter issued a response to the Time to Twin committee and the general public in southeast Saskatchewan this past week following the Oct.