Estevan Mercury

The Estevan Police Service is asking the public’s assistance in locating 27-year-old Simone Flatfoot-Menard of Estevan. Flatfoot-Menard was reported missing at around noon on July 27. She was last seen the night of July 26 at her home in Estevan.

A local man is grateful for a new lease on life that he has received since an organ transplant earlier this year. Kevin Toombs was only born with one kidney and it was located in the front of his stomach.

Several community projects in the Estevan constituency have received support through the Community Initiatives Fund (CIF).

Some of the top young baseball players in the province were in Estevan on the weekend for the Baseball Sask. U13 AA Tier 2 provincial baseball tournament at Mel Murray Cactus Park.

The Estevan Salvation Army is accepting registrations for its annual backpack program. The initiative, which has been running for nearly a decade, will provide a backpack filled with school supplies for children in lower-income families.

Just off of Main Street, at 102 Railway Avenue in Lampman, a blue building sits tucked beside an alleyway and behind an old business.

The speculation has been rampant in recent months as to whether Canadians will be going back to the polls this fall. In fact, pundits have been waiting for an election to be triggered since the early spring, before the federal budget was handed down.

I did not feel tired. I was busy. There was a lot going on, but I thought I was fine. Then, last week, Sara and I rented a cabin by a lake, and I spent most of the first two days doing nothing.

The editor: We are writing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to demand fair treatment for the people of Saskatchewan. For some time now, the federal government has accepted New Brunswick’s plan to comply with the carbon tax.

SaskPower has announced that it is going to restore the site of the former Estevan Generating Station, removing contaminated soil and the remaining exposed concrete foundation.