Ryan Dahlman
McHappy Day is being hosted today at the McDonald’s restaurant in Swift Current as a celebration of four decades of providing smiles through Ronald McDonald House Charities locations across Canada.
The Canadian-born McHappy Day fundraiser will be held all day Wednesday, May 3rd, and $1 from every hot McCafé beverage, Happy Meal and Big Mac will support RMHC and other...
A party was hosted in downtown Swift Current on April 29 to celebrate the restoration of funding to Saskatchewan’s library system.
Saturday's 90 minute celebration featured music, a series of speeches, appearances by Shimmer the Donkey and Talla from Read to a Dog, plus a group Story Time reading by Anthea Loran.
The library supporters gathered in Market Square on Saturday...
April 30 will mark the five year anniversary of the launch of STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service) in Saskatchewan skies.
STARS has quickly become a vital link in Saskatchewan’s emergency medical services network, working in conjunction with ground ambulances and fixed wing aircraft in getting critically injured and ill patients quickly to emergency rooms in Regina and Saskatoon.
Since beginning...
A number of Cypress Health Region volunteers had an opportunity to have some kindness directed their way during the Region’s 2017 Volunteer Appreciation Tea in Swift Current.
Wednesday’s volunteer recognition event was one of a series of appreciation opportunities the Cypress Health Region is hosting as part of National Volunteer Week during April 23 to 29.
The tea was an opportunity...
A continued mandate of improving healthcare across the Southwest despite the changing healthcare landscape was a featured message during the Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation’s annual meeting.
Clay Thompson, Executive Director of the Healthcare Foundation, noted that he expects that the mandate of the Foundation will remain exactly the same, or even increase in importance, as the province completes...
A small but vocal gathering was held in front of Premier Brad Wall’s Swift Current constituency office on April 21 protesting both the impact of budget cuts and the potential implications of privatizing the Crown Corporations.
Approximately 30 people attended the noon hour rally last Friday, with the impact of provincial government budget cuts the main focus of the rally.
Neil...
A party is being thrown in Swift Current on April 29 to celebrate the provincial government’s decision to restore funding to Saskatchewan libraries.
Saturday’s celebration, organized by the Friends of the Swift Current Branch Library, will begin at 12:30 p.m. outside Premier Brad Wall’s Swift Current constituency office. Participants will enjoy music, guest speakers, and the hour long celebration will...
The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) held a press conference on Monday to highlight their concern that Bill 62 is tearing up binding contracts with communities across the province to provide them with promised royalties after historically helping establish a provincial power system.
The SaskParty government eliminated grants-in-lieu from SaskPower and SaskEnergy during their March 22 provincial budget, originally cutting...
A portion of Chaplin St. E. through Swift Current’s downtown core will be closed for two weeks to allow crews to complete an infrastructure improvement project.
Effective this morning, Chaplin St. E. is closed from 1st Ave. N.E. to Central Ave. N. while overhead powerlines will be relocated underground.
“This is part of an ongoing project to move our existing overhead...
A smaller network of regional libraries with reduced staff will be seeking support from municipal governments across the Southwest in order to continue providing library services in the region.
The Chinook Regional Library board received a 94 per cent mandate from voting delegates on Saturday to approach municipalities throughout the region to seek additional funding to keep a smaller number...