WestCentral

The senior baseball season is officially over.

The West Central region features four local leagues, and the champions were as follows:

• Oyen Eagles (Fertile Valley Baseball League)
• Beechy Breakers (Coteau Hills Baseball League)
• Macklin Lakers (Battle River Baseball League)
• North Battleford Beavers (North Saskatchewan River Baseball League)

Those results mean hockey season is around the corner, and with it, the return of the Klipper Report.

Just in time for summer adventures, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has unveiled an interactive map highlighting lesser-known Canadian parks that offer stunning natural beauty and fewer crowds.

Among Saskatchewan’s featured hidden gems are Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Canada’s first interprovincial park, known for its towering mixed forests, rare orchids, and Dark Sky preserve with an observatory. Echo Valley Provincial Park in the Qu’Appelle Valley offers sandy beaches, boating, hiking trails, and family-friendly activities just an hour from Regina.

The federal government is investing over $4.2 million in Saskatchewan to strengthen the province’s agriculture industry through innovation, manufacturing, and value-added production, Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) announced Tuesday.

Hon. Eleanor Olszewski, Minister responsible for PrairiesCan, said the investments will support advanced crop and livestock breeding programs, expand local grain bin manufacturing, enhance food processing capacity, and promote value-added agriculture initiatives.

There's a growing push for Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal government to step up and help support Western Canadian producers that are being impacted by the increased tariffs on canola.

Harvest is underway for some producers around West Central according to the latest crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture.

While the overall number still has not progressed past 0 per cent for West Central, the report did note six per cent of lentils, and five per cent peas, spring wheat, barley, and canola as harvested, but for the most part crops still need more time. 

A U.S based company is hoping to see more flax grown in the prairies.

Grain Millers, a Minnesota based company, is expanding its operations in Western Canada. 

The company operates an oat processing facility at Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and has been leasing a small flax processing facility in Saskatoon.

President and CEO Todd Stohlmeyer says with the lease wrapping up and the interest they've seen in flax they decided to build their own facility at Delisle, Saskatchewan
about 43 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon.

Hockey Saskatchewan announced an update to their Board of Directors back on Monday, and an Eston resident was put into a leading role.

Edward Watson is the new Chair of the Board. He will work with Sarah MacNaught as Vice-Chair, and newly elected members Chris Morrison and Dale Measner, joining existing directors Ryan Hoffman, Trevor Norum, Carla Odnokon, Kayla Shaw, and Jeremy Trask.

The only outgoing member was Norquay's Nicole Korpusik, completing her time on the Board as Hockey Saskatchewan thanked her for the time served.

With files from Shawn Mullin

A 6th place finish for Kyle's AJ De Necker and Team Saskatchewan in Rugby Sevens at the Canada Summer Games in Newfoundland.

Saskatchewan lost 35-12 in the 5th place game to Nova Scotia last night. They finished the tournament with two wins in seven matches.

It's a nightmare Stephanie Fehr keeps waiting to wake up from.

The Swift Current resident is in Texas with her husband, Danny, who remains unconscious after sustaining a rattlesnake bite and cardiac arrest late last month.

"It's like watching the strongest man that you know fall," Fehr said. "It's incomprehensible right now. None of this has made sense to us. I feel like we're in the Twilight Zone, and this didn't actually happen, and we're gonna wake up one day, but unfortunately, that's not the case.