Weyburn Review

The Brad Wall government needs to consider reversing a long-standing practice that is putting too great a burden on local communities, and is taxing their resources to the breaking point.

City council unanimously rejected an application by the Weyburn Co-op to relocate the STC bus terminal to the Co-op's Food Store location, as council sided with a large group of area residents expressing their concerns for the proposal.

During the week of Jan. 2-9, Police Service members answered 87 calls for service. Many of them were alcohol related. On Jan. 2, police were called to a local apartment building to investigate possible narcotics usage.

Members of the Mainil family gather with Kim Thorson, chair of the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation, as the family donated an investment portfolio to the foundation worth in excess of $800,000.

Jesse Watamanuk, engineering assistant for the City of Weyburn, inspects the stacks of new refuse bins that are ready to be rolled out to every residence in Weyburn, starting on Monday, Jan.

Nominations will open soon for the 2011 Golden Spike Award, which is presented annually by the Weyburn Chamber of Commerce.

Tatagwa View residents Mary Nelson, Betty Verot and Pearl McKay enjoy their blueberry tea and cheesecake topped with blueberries at their monthly Red Hat Ladies Happy Gang meeting in the activity room on Wednesday afternoon.

SaskEnergy is reporting a strong year of customer growth in 2010, which saw nearly 5,000 new residential, business and industrial customers added to its natural gas distribution system in communities across Saskatchewan.

The Weyburn Wor-Kin Shop is asking residents to celebrate the New Year by donating a 12-pack to their new building fund.

Report from the Weyburn Fire Department for the period of December 21 to 27, 2010: *On December 27, fire crews attended a motor vehicle accident near Yellow Grass. *Fire crews attended a vehicle fire in the parking lot of the King George Hotel.