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Teeing up for tax season

Tax season is here.If you haven't already received your T4 forms from your employer, they should be provided by the end of February. For those who receive investment income, those forms should be rece...

Feb 21, 2020 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)

Melfort Youth Evolution hosting safe spaces coffee house

The Melfort Youth Evolution has teamed up with MindBody Balance Therapies to provide a safe spaces youth coffee house this Sunday.The event will provide an open and safe platform for youth in the area...

Feb 21, 2020 (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)

Volunteer Opportunities with the SK Health Authority

The following are Volunteer Service Opportunities in Prince Albert and area for the week of February 17, 2020The Volunteer Services Department is in need of caring, compassionate and committed volunte...

Feb 21, 2020

Saskatchewan Royal Purple Celebrates its $100,000 donation

"It's been six exciting and rewarding years for our organization"says Sandi Lougheed, the chairman of the Saskatchewan Royal Purple's Charity Partnership Committee. "We started off proudly donating le...

Feb 21, 2020

Saskatchewan loses to Northern Ontario after tense extra end

Saskatchewan could've used a little less roll and a little more rock Wednesday night.The team lost 4-3 in an extra end to Northern Ontario on the last night of the round-robin at the Scotties Tourname...

Feb 21, 2020 Saskatchewan third Stefanie Lawton calls on her sweepers during a game Sunday at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. (Andrew Klaver Photography/Curling Canada)

Home based business trade show hosted by Marguerite Riel Centre on Saturday

Local residents have a chance to shop their hearts out at a trade show in Melfort this weekend.The Marguerite Riel Centre is hosting the home based business trade show Saturday, Feb. 22 from 10 a.m. t...

Feb 21, 2020 (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff)

Fundraising rolls on for Melfort Heliport project

Fundraising continues for the Melfort Heliport project at the Melfort Hospital.Back in mid-January, when the North Central Health Care Foundation (NCHCF) launched the fundraising campaign, only $132,0...

Feb 20, 2020 NCHCF Chair Peggy George (right) informs two members of the public about plans for a heliport beside Melfort Hospital during an information session Dec. 14. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

'You kind of forgive but you never forget': Questions remain decades after Henribourg woman's death

This past Valentine's Day, Jacqueline (Jackie) Lavoie would have celebrated her 58th birthday, but there were no celebrations, just lingering questions and pain for her family.Lavoie died in a car cra...

Feb 20, 2020 Jackie Lavoie was only 23 when she passed away suddenly on May 4, 1985. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)

Melfort Cooperative Daycare to host first ever family dance fundraiser

The theme is 'Prom Night' but the aim is to raise funds for the Melfort Cooperative Daycare at a family dance this weekend.According to the daycare director Taneyl Morrison, her staff wanted to try so...

Feb 20, 2020 Melfort Cooperative Daycare to host family dance this Saturday. (Facebook/Melfort Cooperative Daycare)

Open house to recognize Melfort's historic post office window replacement

The Melfort Historic Post Office will have its doors open to celebrate the recent window replacement project. The city will host the event on March 6, from 2 p.m to 4 p.m., to recognize the window rep...

Feb 20, 2020 The windows of the historic post office in Melfort were replaced in 2019. (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)