Weyburn Review

Comp Eagles player Caroline Manning, left, tried to get her hand in as a Yorkton Raider tried to corral the ball, as Eagles player Meagan Dutchak watched nearby, in action from the senior girls basketball tournament on Friday at the Eagle gym.

Dear Mayor Roy, As a former resident of Weyburn, I was disgusted and appalled at City Council's rejection of the site for a group home for people with disabilities.

A proposed project to build a personal care group home in a residential area came up for a vote at Weyburn’s city council on Monday night, and it really shouldn’t have been that big a deal.

A request by the Weyburn Group Homes Society for the Saskatchewan Housing Authority to build a personal care home in the Creeks residential area was denied by city council by a 4-1 vote on Monday evening.

Members of the Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan (CTSS) were in the Weyburn area on Friday evening for a project focussing on intersection enforcement.

Weyburn police responded to a report of a robbery at a local business on March 4. Investigation revealed that the suspect entered the building and appeared to be legitimately shopping.

Volunteers Jill Thorn and Jaynie Himsl helped to package up sanitary napkins into pouches, so they can be transported to Kenya in April by the Canadian Nurses for Africa.

After just squeezing their way into the playoffs, the Weyburn Red Wings played a best-of-three survivor series against the Flin Flon Bombers, and were swept in two straight games. The series started off in Weyburn on Friday night.

The students of Queen Elizabeth School performed a mass dance for their parents on Friday in the school gym, led by dance teachers from SQx Interactive Dance Group, with one instructor leading each grade group.

Work crews were busy drilling pilings on Friday on the site of Weyburn's new elementary school on Fifth Street, on the former site of the Weyburn Junior High.