Local News

An active summer of a youth theatre development program has started at the Tommy Douglas Performing Arts Centre. Kjel Sidloski has been hired as their summer student to help in the program and to also give tours of the centre.

Warm weather has helped some producers to control weeds on unseeded acres in southeast Saskatchewan, however the majority of the area continues to deal with excess moisture and limited field access.

Ongoing legal issues between the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1400 and the Wal-Mart Canada store in Weyburn will appear at the Queen Bench's court on Thursday, Aug. 11.

Despite the fact that many of them have water in their homes, the evacuated flood victims of the village of Roche Percee seem optimistic. Many of these evacuees have taken up residence in the make-shift campground located between Bienfait's rinks.

First-year medical student Jared Oberkirsch recently returned from a surgical mission in Africa where he learned to take nothing for granted.

Looking at old photographs in the history books of Wawota, it can be somewhat alarming to see the town once boasted more shops and businesses along the main drag than it does now.

Residents may have a chance to see a part of their community revived with Joey?s Seafood Restaurants, which launched their Community Revival Project Contest on July 1.

Report from the Weyburn Police Service for the week of June 27 to July 3: *On July 2, at about 11:10 p.m., theWeyburn Police,Weyburn EMS andWeyburn Fire Department responded to a two vehicle collision on First Avenue NE and Fourth Street.

The Carlyle detachment received 55 calls between June 24 and the end of the month. This report will demonstrate the variation of day-to-day activities, by listing events as they occurred in chronological order. June 24.

Jessica Cote