SwiftCurrent

Garry Paul Marklinger
1946 – 2025

Garry Marklinger, late of Swift Current and formerly of Estevan, passed away with family by his side on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at the Regina General Hospital, Regina, SK at the age of 79 years.
Garry is survived by his two children, Wendy and Steve (Tanya Schiestel); grandchildren, Jenny Scott Young, Kohl Marklinger; siblings: Mary Jane Marklinger-Ryckman (partner Frank Young), Linda (Jim) Choquette, and Wayne (Nancy) Marklinger; brother-in-law Les Geisel; Uncle “Bud” Richard Marklinger, as well as many family and friends.

Harvest is well underway across the province, and while cold weather may still be a little way off, now is the time to start planning for fall soil testing, which is a key step in setting up next season’s success.

Traffic is being restricted to a single lane from Highway Four to Hodgeville. 

Crews are currently working on Highway 363, with a pilot vehicle guiding travellers around the work. 

Motorists will need to slow down and be prepared to stop. 

This work is expected to be completed by 5 p.m. Updates can be tracked on the Highway Hotline. 

We are giving you a chance to take to the field and potentially kick your way to $25,000 with our Big Kick contest. 

Head on over to the contest page now and enter for your chance to be one of five lucky qualifiers that will take to the field at half-time of the September 19 Shaunavon Shadows game and earn a chance to kick a field goal from an undisclosed location to potentially win $25,000

Things were a little crammed at Tail Light Tuesday.

The Living Sky Casino was refurbishing most of their western parking lot, forcing the weekly car show to share their space with regular casino goers. 

It didn't stop the Rogue Cruisers from turning up in force for their Tuesday night hangout, with close to 80 vehicles coming and going throughout the evening. 

Dustin Vipond, co-founding member of the Rogue Cruisers, was blown away that even in such cramped conditions, there was still room for new additions to their retinue. 

Update - September 11, 9:11 a.m.: 

The Highway Hotline has been updated to reflect that this work will be ongoing until September 25, 2025. 

Original Story : September 10, 7:11 a.m.:

A paving project on the Trans-Canada Highway is ending today, if everything goes according to plan. 

For eight days, drivers have had to experience anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes of delays as crews have been micro-resurfacing the westbound lanes near Maple Creek and Piapot. 

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Raymond Carignan on Saturday, September 6, 2025.

A celebration of life for Raymond will be announced at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Swift Current SPCA in Raymond’s memory.

Arrangements entrusted to Parkside Memorial Funeral Home. Ryan Cappelle and Hayden Cappelle.

For further information or to sign the family book of condolence, visit  http://www.parksidefuneralhome.com

The Swift Current/Moose Jaw region continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in Canada.

The region's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate sat at 2.4% in August.

It's another massive drop from 5.4% in August 2024.

That unemployment rate is 1.1% lower than any other community in the country.

There were 53,200 employed in Swift Current/Moose Jaw last month. 

That's of 1200 jobs year-over-year.

The local labour force shrank from 55,100 in August 2024 to 54,500 last month.

A free event geared towards southwest entrepreneurs and small business owners will be hosted by Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan (WESK) this week at a business in downtown Swift Current.

The Rural WESK Connect event is open to everyone, not only women, and is set to take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday evening at Farmer's Daughter Homestead. 

A handful of southwest residents have been notified of a planned power outage set to take place near the Town of Shaunavon.

According to SaskPower, rural customers located southeast of Shaunavon can expect to experience the outage from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10.

Folks interested in updates on planned and unplanned outages around the province can visit the outage map on SaskPower's website.