Local News

The Weyburn District Regional Planning Commission recently announced that the City and R.M. of Weyburn have jointly entered into an agreement with a landowner that will add to the inventory of available residential and commercial land.

The Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan (FACS) and Saskatchewan Horse Federation (SHF) have extended the timeframe to nominate individuals, organizations and companies for excellence in equine welfare.

The Board of Directors for Access Communications Co-operative has announced that Evan Ortynsky has been elected Chair of the Board for 2012.

A former Estevan woman is winding her own path through the entertainment industry. Lara Taillon is now in Calgary and busy preparing for the Sunday premiere of her new web series Necessary Action.

The two senior girl's curling teams consisting of Renae Faford, Kacey Valentine, Brooklyn Zacharias, Desirae Weber, Rachel Corrigan, Emily Klatt, Nicole Brown, and Nikita Meyer, played at the Division Bonspiel on Feb. 14 and 15.

Members responded to a call from a bar in Carlyle regarding an unruly patron. Members responded, and arrived in time to see a sober friend of the individual in question take them to a truck to drive them home. The case is considered closed.

The 2012 Crop Insurance Program will include an Unseeded Acreage Benefit of up to $100 per eligible acre, as well as another year of record funding and record coverage levels.

More steel is added to what will be the future entrance of the renovated Weyburn Comprehensive facility. All the renovations currently being completed are part of contract one at the Weyburn Comprehensive, and that includes the Triple C Centre.

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Weyburn pastor Doug Loden shows an example of "Loden beans" growing in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he recently spent two weeks on a mission trip.