Concerned land owners to host meeting to discuss proposed area wind power project

A meeting will be held on July 31st at 7 p.m. at Cecelia's Banquet Hall for anyone interested in having further discussions concerning a proposed wind power project in the R.M.s of Weyburn and Griffin.

In late June, the Saskatchewan Indigenous Investment Finance Corporation (SIIFC) pledged up to one hundred million dollars in loan guarantees for a new renewable wind energy project to be built southeast of Weyburn. In agreement with six Indigenous and Metis partners, Enbridge Inc. has joined with SaskPower to advance the project through a power purchase agreement.  

Canada Day long weekend kicks off a full month of activities at Mainprize Regional Park

A Slo-Pitch tournament will kick off the Canada Day long weekend at Mainprize Regional Park, beginning on Friday, June 28th.

General Manager Michelle Walsh said registration for that is still open.

"We always have lots going on. We're streaming into our busiest month of the year with our grandest weekend coming up," she shared. "Our July First weekend kind of kicks off our summer events."

SaskPower: No harm in farm incident involving power transmitter

An incident was reported to SaskPower at around 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday involving a farm implement coming into contact with a power structure near Riceton, south of Regina.

SaskPower Spokesperson Scott McGregor said the machine had come into contact with one of their transmission structures.

"Thankfully that line in particular doesn't service any of our customers on the distribution side, so there were no outages felt by any of our residential customers, business customers, or anything like that," he reported.