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By Matthew Liebenberg For the SW Booster The Swift Current SPCA partnered with a local business to host an adoption fair and raise funds for the animal shelter. The successful event was held in the parking lot of Dufresne Furniture in downtown Swift Current,...

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Submitted The Swift Current City RCMP have again been receiving a number of complaints in the last 2 weeks of online fraud and phone scams and it seems to have increased in the last week. The most recent online scam is an emailed letter from “Saskatchewan Police” and the “Executive Director of the Saskatchewan...

By Matthew Liebenberg For Swift Current piano teacher Barb Levorson a recent piano recital was a return to normalcy after the COVID-19 pandemic, but the past few years have resulted in some significant changes to her teaching practice. The piano recital took place at the Swift Current...

Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan officers were out this long weekend, targeting unsafe behaviour like speeding, aggressive driving, impaired driving, distracting driving and improper seat belt use. Between June 30 at 5 p.m. and July 3 at 11:59 p.m., CTSS officers: • removed 14...

By Matthew Liebenberg The Chinook School Division will be drawing on reserves to balance the 2023-24 budget due to the growing gap between cost pressures and the provincial funding allocation. The budget for the upcoming school year was approved during a regular Chinook Board of Education meeting,...

By Matthew Liebenberg Video recordings of the public portion of Chinook School Division Board of Education meetings will be available to the public in the near future. Trustees approved a motion at the regular meeting of the Chinook Board of Education on June...

Contributed Earlier this year, Saskatchewan RCMP’s Swift Current Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Team (STRT) began an investigation into a human trafficking operation. Investigation determined an adult female from Bangladesh was staying in Canada on a visitor’s permit when she answered an advertisement on a popular job bank for...

Submitted by the Swift Current Chamber of Commerce    The SCBEX – Spirit of Swift Current & District awards shine a light on the great innovative things happening in the business community and honours business and not-for-profit organizations in Swift Current & District that have contributed to the vibrancy of...

By Matthew Liebenberg    Funding from the City of Swift Current’s annual creek bank rehabilitation program will be used to do priority repairs to a section of creek bank where significant erosion may potentially have an impact on nearby infrastructure.     The high and fast flowing...