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The City of Weyburn Works Department recently cleared a large number of old electronics from the area around the cardboard recycling bins at the SARCAN recycling facility.

The results of the Wheatland Senior Centre's activities from August 4 to August 10: Bridge: (Monday) 1st Marion Brown, 2nd John Whitell, 3rd Basil Holyer. Bridge: (Friday) 1st Andy Dumba, 2nd Jean Janoski, 3rd Lucie Nickel.

The mud was flying, engines were revving, and cars were crashing into each other on Aug. 10 as the Stoughton Demo Club held their fourth annual demolition derby.

Town councillors came together on Aug. 7 for their bi-monthly meeting, which saw many topics addressed. Repairs to medical clinic Recently found to be in disrepair is the medical clinic.

Weyburn student Ashley Koszman learned a lot and very much enjoyed her 10-month stay in Siberia as an out-bound Rotary exchange student, and would recommend to any student to take part in the program if they possibly can. She left Canada on Oct.

ollowing a finding of guilty by the court in April, Bienfait's Jerry McCaw was sentenced to 14 months in jail. Between 2006 and 2008 McCaw evaded the payment of $114,924 after failing to report $548,044 in taxable income.

Health care has become a pretty big business in southeast Saskatchewan, albeit, using taxpayer dollars to fund most of the action. It's still big business on all other levels.

Statistics Canada's ongoing release of information from the 2011 census has produced some interesting details about the education levels of Estevan residents. The National Household Survey looks into what levels of schooling residents have completed.

It was a significantly busy week for members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) as evidenced by the information flowing to media over the past six days. For instance, on Aug.

Weyburn's newest police recruit came out of high school wanting to be either a fire fighter or a police officer, and made his choice to take training as a police constable.