Weyburn Review

Report from the Weyburn Police Service for the week of October 14 to 20: During the reporting period, the Weyburn Police Service attended to 86 calls for service. *On October 20, patrolling officers observed three males fighting near a downtown bar.

Weyburn is in for a treat. Memory Lane: A Tribute to the 40's, 50's and 60's will take the stage November 24 at the Weyburn Comprehensive School Cafetorium.

A smile flashed across Brendan Taman's face at the mention of the term "playoffs". There's another word the Saskatchewan Roughriders General Manager actually despises, but we'll get to that later.

Children's author and local philanthropist, Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of her first book, 'A Prairie Alphabet'.

The football season has come to an end for the Eagles with their loss in the Moose Jaw League playoffs on Saturday. Both the girls and boys soccer teams are off to provincials this weekend.

The Weyburn Group Home Society will be hosting a 'Haunted House' on October 30 and 31. Volunteers have been busy scaring up a space for younger children to take part in Halloween festivities and crafts from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Producers Corey Morrissette and George Barker keep a careful eye on all the sound settings, during entertainment at the 31st annual Communithon on Friday morning. The Communithon was held at the Weyburn Comp on Friday and Saturday for 33 hours.

Over the past few weeks several complaints have been received at the Police Service regarding Ransomware. Ransomware is a computer virus/malware that freezes your computer with a pop up message about child pornography and illegal music downloading.

Saskatchewan has been celebrating the dedicated and caring foster families across this province during Foster Families Week from October 22 to 28.

Ninety-nine per cent of the crop has been harvested, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report for the period of October 9 to 15. The five-year (2007-2011) provincial average for this time of year is 94 per cent combined.