Local News

Sometimes a story comes along that just tugs at the heart-strings and plays on the emotions.

As the Collage Multicultural Festival prepares for the opening of its second annual event, organizers get a last minute boost to their funding. Last week Souris Moose Mountain MP Ed Komarnicki announced $34,700 of federal funding for the festival.

People of Estevan, please mind the gap. A new exhibit opened last Thursday at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, featuring up and coming artists from Saskatchewan. These 20 artists' works make up the travelling exhibit entitled Mind the Gap.

It is official. The new water treatment plant is up and running. The plant, which was hooked up on Aug. 26, is the focus of many discussions in town as of late.

Everybody's got a story to tell. Now everyone has a forum. An open coffee house is scheduled at the Estevan Library for Sept. 19, allowing anybody to bring in a written piece and present it to other local writers.

School has been in for two weeks and students have settled in to their extended school day.

Saskatchewan will be getting an additional area code as of 2013.

Report from the Weyburn Police Service for the week of August 29 to September 4: *On September 4, police were called to a local bar after a complaint of an unconscious male was received.

Members of the Grade 12 choir perform at a community barbecue on Wednesday, which was their first public performance of the 2011-12 school year.

A second round of the Release Time to Care program that was implemented in the Sun Country Health Region over a year ago, is now rolling out at St. Joseph's Hospital in Estevan.