In the Community

Picture this family: the woman is suspected of adultery; the man plans a quiet divorce; their son gets into trouble with the authorities and is unjustly executed by the state. And this was the family of Jesus .

In a somewhat ironic start to a new year, I've been doing a lot of looking back. Between exhortations from sources as diverse as the radio and our church pulpit, the message is clear: "Here's wishing you all the best in 2016".

It was the usual, almost predictable start to the new year in 1971, a general flow of news and business in Estevan, but by the time summer rolled around, there was plenty of chaotic-like action to record for the pages of the Mercury .

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train program was dubbed as another outstanding success in year 17 according to information released by CP this past week.

Martina Feneziano has been appointed the new educator at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum on a temporary one-year contract. She will fill that position while the gallery’s full-time educator Karly Garnier takes a maternity leave.

A dozen crates, most of them too heavy for a four-man lift, containing valuable used medical equipment, are leaving St. Joseph’s Hospital this week bound for Nigeria.

Sometimes it seems the love and joy of Christmasdisappears by New Year. It’s as if it just goes in one year and out the other.

Of all the church and school Christmas pageants, plays and concerts I've attended over my seventy plus years of living, this week I witnessed the most joyous and moving Nativity presentation of all I've ever experienced. Here's how it happened.

The year in review through the pages of the Mercury It has been another eventful year in Estevan and the Mercury has been watching, recording and reporting the newsworthy events along with featuring organizations and citizens in our community who hav

It was an eventful year in the Energy City with the expected ups and downs of daily living in a city of 13,000 residents plus several thousand more residing in nearby rural municipalities and neighbouring towns and villages.