Weyburn Review

Weyburn Mayor Debra Button added her voice to those who are welcoming free-agent offensive lineman Brendon Labatte back home to Saskatchewan.

Beverley Mahood will be appearing at the Weyburn Comprehensive School Cafetorium on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. Mahood hails from Belfast, Northern Ireland, but she now calls Canada her home.

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.

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.

The dream to one day play hockey for Team Canada has come true for Curt Minard, even after suffering the amputation of his left hand and wrist.

The adjudicators for each portion of the Weyburn Rotary Music Festival has been chosen for the annual competition, which will be getting underway on Monday, March 5, starting with the piano portion. The piano competition will run from Mar.

Margaret May Cugnet, late of Weyburn, and formerly of Halbrite, passed away February 13, 2012 at the age of 92 years. Margaret was born to Gerald and Rosalie Sherrow on March 10, 1919. She was raised at Halbrite and attended school there.

Joyce Cross passed away peacefully on February 14, 2012 at the age of 78 years. She is predeceased by her husband, Roy, infant son, Michael, parents, Robert and Bernadine Plummer, and brother, Terry Plummer.

Recently, Fred Sandeski of the Community Low Income Centre started a dialogue of sorts when he put forward an idea of perhaps a fairer way to deal with the hospital tax levy.