Local News

Municipal delegates to the mid-term convention for the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) had a good discussion on a wide variety of issues, said Reeve Carmen Sterling of the RM of Weyburn.

The drilling floor is busy as a drilling rig sinks an injection well more than three kilometres below the surface for the injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) for a research project entitled Aquistore.

Concern over what is being transloaded at the terminal just west of Bienfait was brought to the forefront last week. The facility, run by Watco Terminal and Port Services, an American transport company based out of Pittsburg, Kan.

Funding from both the federal and provincial government levels will be made available to pasture patron groups which are interested in taking over community pastures from the federal government.

Students at the Estevan Comprehensive School are getting a taste of the business life with a couple of baked-good start-ups competing for dessert supremacy. Both companies held board meetings on Nov.

Marlene Moore echoed the refrain from the closing moments of each episode of The Price is Right , "Spay and neuter your pets." The Estevan Humane Society is bursting at the seams with cats and dogs, and it isn't a new phenomenon.

The Family Place, which was "built on a dream", is able to continue helping families after a successful fundraiser on Thursday evening raised the most ever in support of the facility.

During the week of Nov. 18-24, the Weyburn Police Service attended to 89 calls for service. Police received a report of a theft of money from a local hotel on Nov. 23. When the clerk was distracted a patron reached behind a desk and stole cash.

News and notes from the Nov. 19 regular meeting of Estevan city council

Students at Hillcrest School learned a little about their rights, as the school celebrated National Child Day with some special guests.