Weyburn Review

Rain did what the most successful franchise in the Western Major Baseball League couldn't do: stop the Weyburn Beavers.Weyburn swept two home games against the three-time defending league champion Okotoks Dawgs.

Great Plains Ford Sales has been recognized with the 2009 President's Award by Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd.

Information Services Corporation (ISC) is honouring 635 farm families across Saskatchewan in 2010 with a Century Family Farm Award, including 25 families in the Weyburn area.

I love going to the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay For Life, it is such an inspiration. Unfortunately, there are those who do not share my sentiment and attempted to make things difficult for the many volunteers and participants of the event.

Report from the Weyburn Police Service from May 31 to June 6: *Two Weyburn males are being held in Regina following a disturbance on June 5 at a local hotel.

Weyburn's 10th annual Relay For Life was a "great success," according to Chairperson Stefany Hovanak, raising over $100,000, with funds continuing to trickle in."It was gorgeous all night and the teams all seemed to have a lot of fun," Hovanak said.

Ten women with ties to Weyburn have united to put on an art show, "Emerging Artists - Female Artists Celebrate their Artistic Roots," at the Allie Griffin Art Gallery.

The final event for Weyburn Rider Nation's campaign to have Weyburn declared "Riderville" was held on Main Street on June 5.

Premier Brad Wall presented the Saskatchewan Youth Award to six young people in Regina on May 31, including Katie Bacon of Ogema.

Saskatchewan farmers have made little seeding progress over last week, due to rain. Fifty-nine percent of the crop is in the ground, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report.