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Spirit of Christmas still alive as hundreds of Canadians give the gift of giving

The most wonderful time in a not-so-wonderful year has arrived and Canadians from coast to coast aren't letting the pandemic put a damper on their Christmas spirit. Many have found creative ways to ce...

Dec 25, 2020

Additional Christmas mass times at Melfort Catholic Church to abide by COVID-19 restrictions

The Roman Catholic Church in Melfort has added mass times for the holiday season in an effort to accommodate attendees. Needless to say things will be very different in line with COVID-19 protocols.Ou...

Dec 24, 2020

Hope and the Future: NCHCF takes positives from 2020, looking for more normalcy in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories.Even outside of the curren...

Dec 24, 2020

Royal LePage Hodgins Realty in Melfort makes generous community donations ahead of Christmas

Royal LePage Hodgins Realty got into the giving spirit leading up to Christmas.The Real Estate company in Melfort provided over $4000 to charities and organizations in the area in their 12 days of Chr...

Dec 24, 2020

Province records 159 new COVID-19 cases, five deaths

Five people diagnosed with COVID-19 have died in the province, marking a total of 130 deaths in Saskatchewan to date. Over half of those deaths have occurred this month.Two deaths in the 70-79 age gro...

Dec 23, 2020

Melfort Salvation Army getting close to kettle campaign goal, Christmas hampers distributed

The community has once again come through to make Christmas brighter for others in the community.After nearly two months of collecting toys and donations, the Melfort Salvation Army has distributed Ch...

Dec 23, 2020

Melfort Arts Council continuing rebuild in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories.The Melfort Arts Council w...

Dec 23, 2020

Hope and the Future: Progress in Northern health

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget, but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories.While the COVID-19 pandem...

Dec 23, 2020

Survivor calls on Trudeau to release St. Anne's residential-school abuse documents

OTTAWA - Residential school survivor Evelyn Korkmaz is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to release thousands of documents that detail the sexual and physical abuse of thousands of Indigenous c...

Dec 23, 2020

P.A. church group to contest big COVID fine

A Prince Albert church will contest in court the large fine it received from government authorities in October for violating public health orders and provincial COVID-19 guidelines. The Alberta lawyer...

Dec 22, 2020