Ryan Dahlman
While the temperature was dropping in host community Swift Current, ratings were going up for the 2019 Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada.
The 19th annual Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada broadcast from Swift Current reached a total of 9.6 million Canadians on Saturday, an increase from the 9.1 million viewers recorded during the 2018 broadcast from Corner Brook, NL. It...
While they would prefer snowy conditions, the participants in the 2019 Prairie Women on Snowmobiles fundraiser to support breast cancer research will be riding through the Southwest on Tuesday and Wednesday regardless of the weather.
The group is making their first trip to Swift Current and the Southwest since 2014, and their 2019 route takes them primarily through western Saskatchewan....
A major volunteer recruitment drive is now underway to find the manpower needed to help make the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games a success.
The 2019 Western Canada Summer Games will be held in Swift Current on August 9 to 18, with 1,700 athletes competing in 16 sports, along with thousands of other visitors including spectators and officials.
And while the...
The first Coast Hotels property in Saskatchewan was officially christened on January 7 when a grand opening celebration was held for Coast Swift Current Hotel.
Formerly operated as the Days Inn, and originally as the Horseshoe Lodge, the Coast Swift Current Hotel will continue the legacy of longtime owner/operator Bill Thacker. Bill Thacker’s children Patti Rogers, Terry Prefontaine, Bert Thacker...
The Swift Current United Way will be ceasing operations effective December 31.
A special United Way board meeting was held on Wednesday to formally approve the resolution to voluntarily dissolve. The member agencies were part of the official decision to voluntarily close at the end of the month.
Stacey Schwartz, Executive Director of the Swift Current United Way, explained that since...
Swift Current ratepayers are facing a 2.9 per cent tax increase for 2019 after Swift Current City Council approved their 2019 budget at their December 17 meeting.
The 2.9 per cent increase translates to a $49 per year tax increase, or $4.07 per month. The 2019 budget is forecasting $63,497,980 in total revenue compared to the 2018 forecast of $61,875,268.
Swift...
The Swift Current Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association has won top prize in the iA Financial Group’s second annual Canada-wide philanthropic contest.
In a surprise unveiling on Tuesday afternoon, iA Financial Group presented the grand prize cheque for $125,000 to a group of shocked CMHA staff and members.
“That’s incredible,” Jacqui Williams, Executive Director of CMHA Swift Current said...
A full three weeks after last being seen, the Swift Current Municipal RCMP Detachment has expanded their efforts in their missing persons investigation into the whereabouts of Colton Koop.
The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team conducted an additional search of the Swift Current Creek yesterday and today, and RCMP are again asking for the public’s assistance in learning anything about Koop’s...
Members of the Swift Current Comprehensive High School Fine Arts Department are putting the final rehearsal touches on their roles this week before they raise the curtain on a five performance run of The Sound of Music on December 5.
The full cast, pit orchestra, and crew held their first dress rehearsal on November 25, as they complete their final...
2019 will get off to a humorous start when writer, comedian, podcaster and film director Kevin Smith appears at the Living Sky Casino on January 19.
Players Club Presale Tickets go on sale Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., with general ticket sales launching at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 7.
Smith has written and directed numerous films, including Clerks, Chasing Amy,...