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On May 7, the Arcola School Community Council (SCC) held a public information meeting to address the matter of repairing or replacing the school gymnasium.

The Arcola Daycare and Lampman Minor Sports have each received $2,500 through the Canada's Farmers Grow Communities which is supported by the Monsanto Fund. Their entries were chosen in November and were among entries from across Canada.

A group of community members in Kisbey are working together to raise funds in order to purchase new play structures. In the spring of 2011 severe flooding covered the area, while that autumn saw strong winds.

Report from the Weyburn Police Service for the week of May 6 to 13: During the reporting period, police received 136 calls for service. Police members were very busy with calls involving firearms, neighborhood disputes and several hit and runs.

Between May 3 and 9 the Carlyle detachment of the RCMP responded to 70 incidents. There were four reports of abandoned vehicles in the area. Members investigated each and found none of the vehicles were involved in other crimes.

Weyburn fire fighter Kevin Cooke ignites a pool of gasoline and diesel on fire in preparation for fire training for a group of summer students who work for Cenovus Energy at the Weyburn plant on Thursday.

There is no easy access to the mind of the alcohol and drug addict and there is no one-stop shopping for treatment. Counsellors Garry Tedford and Pat Ottesen have pretty well seen it all when it comes to addictions and their victims.

Ten digit telephone dialing became official this week. But there was a much simpler time in the telephone lexicon. Telephones were all land lines and you needed to contact a telephone central operator to make your calls.

Sun Country Health Region is expanding its primary health care services for residents by adding another nurse practitioner (NP) and a new primary health care site. Laura Wood will begin working in the existing Carlyle Primary Health Clinic on May 13.

Rotary member Anna Fish exclaims in surprise as she is handed a monster-sized lobster by Ray Frehlick, who volunteered the cooker and manpower to cook the steak and lobsters for the Rotary Club's Lobsterfest on Saturday evening at the Weyburn Curling