Weyburn Review

The 2017-18 school year has begun at the Weyburn Comprehensive School and the teachers met this past week to make sure that everything is in place. Students registered and started classes on Sept. 5 and the academic portion of the school year began.

Weyburn police members Const. Jeffery Bartsch and Const. Melinda Mintenko run 10 kilometres in full equipment during the Queen City Marathon on Sunday.

It was another busy week of cards and activities at the Wheatland Senior Centre. The results of the Senior Centre’s activities from August 27 to September 3 are as follows: Bridge: (Monday) 1st Annie Easton 2nd Mildred Sandiford, 3rd Jim Brown.

A recently released mental health study takes a deeper look on the mental health of public safety personnel.

Doug Loden of the Rotary Club helped introduce Liza Biard to the club as the new exchange student for the coming year in Weyburn. Liza is from Lorient, France, on the southwest coast of Brittany, and loves to act on the theatre stage.

The Communithon fundraiser for the Weyburn and District United Way will be breaking with tradition in part with the first-ever Concert Jam event.

By Greg Nikkel The Weyburn Police Service and their partners launched the new Impaired Driving Awareness Program on Thursday for a two-month period, with the voluntary involvement of city taxi companies and liquor establishments to provide a free rid

Summer vacation is over and thousands of children are loading up their backpacks and heading back to school. School zones are busy spots but if drivers take extra care and caution, they don’t have to be dangerous.

Saskatchewan home and property owners can start pruning their elm trees again. The annual ban on elm tree pruning came to an end August 31.

SaskTel announced plans to invest approximately $4 million to upgrade 35 wireless towers spread throughout rural Saskatchewan, including at Stoughton. The upgrades are expected to be complete on all 35 towers by the end of March 2018.