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THE BATTLEFORDS — Brian Picard served 26 years in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1985 to 2011. He worked as a vehicle technician and served at several bases across Canada. Picard completed two t...

YORKTON — Owen Watrych can’t believe how well this season went for him on the football field.   Watrych, a middle linebacker with the St. Francis Xa...

NORQUAY — This story is about one man's life, a likeable youth of eighteen years from a pioneer community in northeast Saskatchewan. It documents his experiences as an infantry soldier durin...

MOOSE JAW — A telephone’s shrill ring at 5 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2022, surprised Snizhana Fomychova, as the voice of a military friend told her to leave Ukraine because war had begun. The woman...

NORTH BATTLEFORD — Joe Whittaker retired in August 2012 as a master corporal out of Edmonton with One Service Battalion, a transport company. He was a mobile support equipment operator, responsi...

ESTEVAN — An Estevan woman has been saluted for her commitment to the Estevan and District Music Festival.  Nicole Smigiel, a long-time teacher in the community, was presented wit...

PREECEVILLE — Dr Reginald Sinclair Forshner remembered for his service in the navy and as a family physician in Preecville for 20 years from 1953 to 1973. Reg Forshner was born on Marc...

MACKLIN — As another hockey season begins throughout Saskatchewan, one west-central team is celebrating their 75th year on the ice. Along with some players from the neighbouring Alberta town of ...

MOOSE JAW — Moose Jaw’s militia, the Saskatchewan Dragoons, invested a new honorary lieutenant-colonel at a recent ceremony in the D.V. Currie Armoury in Moose Jaw. Holly Jorstad of M...

ESTEVAN — Three sisters from southeast Saskatchewan decided to give their mother a trip to the World Series as an early gift for the woman’s 70th birthday.  I...