Southwest Booster Staff

SaskPower crews continue to make progress in their work to restore power to areas impacted by the extreme weather which roared across the Southwest on Tuesday, but new challenges are slowing their repair efforts. SaskPower provided a late afternoon update on their repair progress in the Maple Creek area, where the estimated time of...

SaskPower crews were able to restore electricity in a number of Southwest communities who were without power for much of Tuesday afternoon. SaskPower reported that crews were able to restore power to Eastend, Val Marie, Climax and the surrounding rural areas at around 6:15 p.m. tonight. However, the lines feeding Maple...

SaskPower crews are working in the Maple Creek and Eastend areas this afternoon to restore power and repair roughly 40 power poles which have been knocked over by gusting winds. In an update at 4 p.m., SaskPower said there were approximately 6,500 customers without power as a result of the storm which was delivering...

The Saskatchewan RCMP have requested the independent investigation of an officer-involved shooting in Swift Current during the evening of March 17. The Swift Current Municipal RCMP responded to a report of an assault with a weapon in an apartment building in the 500 block of Robert St. E. at approximately 5:43 p.m. on Thursday....

SWAC is having a milestone anniversary this school year. The South West Athletic Conference was formed in 1951. This school year is our 50th Anniversary! Curling: We appreciate curling facilities working with all our senior/junior SWAC teams throughout the season during practices and sectional playoffs. What a busy curling weekend in...

Velocity Taekwondo brought 31 medals back from the Kim’s Challenge Provincial Championships. 17 athletes combined to win 13 gold medals, 10 silver, and eight bronze medals. HIGH PERFORMANCE POOMSAE Gold: Brooklyn Hir. REC POOMSAE Gold: Nathan Onraet, Gabriel Aguilar, Christiaan DeLange.

Team captain Matthew Ripplinger won over half of the awards at the Swift Current Home Hardware U18 AAA Legionnaires awards banquet with five individual awards. The Legionnaires missed the playoffs by mere percentage points this season with a 17-22-0-5 record. Ripplinger, a 5’7’’ forward from Regina, led the Legionnaires with 22...

A fire at the West Entrance of the Swift Current Comprehensive High School this afternoon prompted an evacuation of all staff and students to neighbouring Irwin School. The Swift Current Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire before clean up efforts began. RCMP were on hand to restrict traffic around the scene, and ensure...

Members of Swift Current Christian Taekwondo participated in Kim’s Challenge in Regina on Saturday, March 5, bringing home three gold, four silver and five bronze medals in sparring and poomsae (forms). “This was the first face-to-face tournament the province has seen in almost two years,” says head instructor Gary Voysey. “We were all a...

What a busy curling weekend in the SouthWest. Thank you to the Fox Valley Curling Club and the Swift Current Curling Club for giving SWAC access to your facilities. The weekend of March 11-12 will also be very busy for our senior teams – Provincial Curling, Provincial Wrestling and Conference Basketball are all taking place.