Local Business

SaskTel announced that it will invest approximately $323 million of capital in Saskatchewan in 2021-2022 and over $1.4 billion over the next five years.

A new company in Estevan has proven to be popular with the oilpatch since it opened, thanks to the services it offers. Prairie Pride Fishing, owned by Mike Zohner and Josh Brown, opened on March 1.

Non-digital gaming at its finest is now in Estevan, with MTG, Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons, board games, miniatures and much more. Kessel Run Games out of Ottawa opened its second location in Estevan last Friday.

Prairie Sky Co-operative had a full review of their past year in a virtual annual meeting on Thursday evening, and reported a successful year in spite of the challenges posed by COVID-19, which did have an impact on operations.

Premier Scott Moe and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum have signed a memorandum of understanding to vaccinate essential workers who are transporting goods across the Canada-U.S. border.

The Weyburn Credit Union had its second highest growth in deposits, and one of their slowest years for loans, in 2020, due in most part to the COVID-19 pandemic, members and staff heard at the Credit Union’s annual meeting held via Zoom.

With over half of farm safety incidents happening between April and June, SaskPower is reminding farmers to take the extra time to ‘Look Up and Live’ while working around overhead power lines. It could prevent serious injury or even death.

The Government of Saskatchewan's first subsurface mineral Crown disposition public offering of the 2021-22 fiscal year was held on April 19, and raised $2,448,936 in revenue for the province.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has been reaching out to communities in an effort to promote the importance of the oil and gas sector to the Canadian economy, and those efforts have come to Estevan.

An Estevan area agriculture producer was among those delighted to see the moisture that the region received earlier this month. “It was huge. We really, really needed it,” said Troy Adams. “It was a really good thing to see for us.