Dylan Fiessel

The bright lights, the meticulously maintained grassy green field with perfect white marking lines, the crack of pads and the cheer from fans; it’s hard not to enjoy football. With the excitement of the CFL regular season almost underway, children might look up to these players and feel inspired to join the sport themselves. Well thankfully, Weyburn Minor Football have opened registration for the 2025 season. Tiarra Schneider, program administrator with Weyburn Minor Football, says the excitement for the upcoming season is growing.  

Saskatchewan has always been a province that prides itself on its agriculture sector. From the sprawling green pastures that cattle graze on to the endless yellow of blooming canola, agriculture makes up a vast majority of our way of living.  

Most fundraisers look fairly similar nowadays. No matter how you raise the money, if it’s for a good cause, people can always rally behind it. Although from 50/50’s to raffles and giveaways, it can seem kind of repetitive or for lack of a better word, ‘boring’.  

The Athletic Club noticed this as well and launched a new type of fundraiser called Move to Make a Difference. Combining the feel-good feeling of a fundraiser with the feel-good feeling of a great workout; they’re hoping they can raise funds for a good cause and raise your heartrate while they're at it.  

The 116th annual Weyburn Fair Days are only a month away as the Weyburn Agricultural Society gets ready for a week of fun over at the Weyburn Exhibition Grounds. One of the many fan-favourite events that are taking place that week is their Rumble in the Ring. On Thursday, July 3rd, engines will roar as there’s everything from quad pulls, lawnmower races, and their demolition derby. 

With warm weather and sunshine in Weyburn and the ice out of Crescent Point Place, not too much goes on for the Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings. They’re looking to change that and keep the spirit of sport going with their first ever Pickleball tournament happening tomorrow.  

Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports around, thanks to its accessibility for all ages and minimal equipment requirements. Ryder Burns, sales and marketing director for the Red Wings, comments on the reasoning behind the brand-new tournament. 

Coming up this Sunday, the Weyburn Legion Branch #47 is hosting their Decoration Day at the Hillcrest and Green Acres Cemetery. Every year, volunteers throughout Canada visit the local cemeteries to place Canadian flags and decorate the grave sites of those who served. 

As the month of June fast approaches and the sun keeps shining, many more events pop up throughout southeast Saskatchewan for people to enjoy and take part in. However, if you’re looking for an event away from the sun, the Brokenshell Multiple 4-H Club is hosting a Puzzle Challenge raising funds for their poultry project. Roxy Kravanya with the 4-H Club explains the challenge. 

Roughly 50 kilometers west of Weyburn along Highway 13 and just before Highway 6 is the small town of Khedive. In the middle of Khedive stands a massive, beautiful brick building which was once the Khedive Public School. However, since the school's closure back in 1976, it has stood mainly dormant.  

116 years is a long time for anything. Over a century long, it dates all the way back to 1909. It spans back to before the two World Wars, before the roaring 20’s and the Great Depression. In fact, Saskatchewan was still just a newly formed province, joining the country of Canada only four years prior. That’s just how long the Weyburn Fair Days have been in operation.  

We took our final delivery of the seeding season out to Elizabeth Walkeden and her family with our Great Plains Ford Seed N Feed! They were able to enjoy a delicious Boston Pizza lunch in great spirits beside having seeding halted with the rain!  

The Walkeden family farms out near Tribune and have made great progress with seeding before being stopped, with Elizabeth saying, “Well, we've been stopped for a week now, but we were getting close to done, maybe two or three days left. So, we were getting close.”