SwiftCurrent

Last Saturday, April 5, it was wooden hot rods and races for the Swift Current Group Two Scouts. 

The Beaver Buggy, Cub Car and Scout Rally was a fun-filled event at the Swift Current Mall, where local Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts, race their handmade wooden cars and trucks, weave them through obstacle courses, and see which can run in the straightest line. 

As spring approaches, the true conditions of certain roads begin to reveal themselves. Now the time has come for the public to highlight those highways, streets, and grids that are far from ideal condition.

Nominating and voting for CAA's Worst Roads campaign runs until April 29. It's meant to empower road users to voice safety concerns for themselves and others on the roads.

Residents of a southwest town are being advised of much-needed street sweeping beginning early this week. 

The Town of Gull Lake plans to begin street sweeping on Monday, April 14, working from west to east through the town.

Street sweeping in the downtown area will be completed first, with workers heading out in the early morning.

Community members are asked to remove their vehicles from the streets if possible. 

For more information, contact the Town of Gull Lake. 

This weekend I have a stay in Regina with my oldest daughter for a dance competition. We're here for 3 nights, so that means hotel stays. And Friday evening prompted the article: what is hotel etiquette?

There are lots of tournaments/competitions in the Queen City this weekend. So the hotels are busy. But, it would be reasonable to assume if I'm renting a room in a hotel, I would have respect for the other individuals staying/paying for rooms as well. Apparently that isn't a shared sentiment.

The Town of Outlook and the RM of Rudy are partnering in order to build a new joint use Fire Hall.

This Fire Hall will serve as the new home for the Outlook-Rudy Fire and Rescue, which serves not only the Town and the RM, but also the communities of Broderick and Glenside.

Kevin Trew, CAO for the Town of Outlook, explains that originally, before the Outlook Fire Hall joined up with the RM and the surrounding communities, they were already planning to build a new Fire Hall.

The Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) has launched an investigation into a collision involving an RCMP vehicle that left a 16-year-old boy seriously injured on the Kawacatoose First Nation.

The incident occurred on the night of April 8. Around 10:02 p.m., Punnichy RCMP responded to multiple calls reporting a disturbance involving firearms at a residence on the First Nation. Two officers, each driving a marked RCMP cruiser with emergency equipment activated, were en route to the scene when the collision occurred.

The Saskatchewan RCMP are warning people in the province with a list of 11 currently wanted individuals, some of whom may be in the southeast.

They released that list earlier today as a way to remind people of what to do if they see a wanted individual.

From the March list, three of those individuals were arrested by the RCMP over the month.

The names on the list that may be present in the southeast include:

John Alfonso ANASARIAS

Swift Current is home to a rich forgotten history, including a horse plant and slaughterhouse that went by several different names over the decade and a half that it operated out of the City. 

The Swift Current Co-operative Horse Packing Plant, later known as Alsask Processors Limited, processed some of Saskatchewans last semi-wild horses.

We spoke with Dr. Joel Bruneau, professor of economics at the University of Saskatchewan, about how the tariff ups and downs are affecting the world, the country, and the province. Bruneau said Trump doesn’t understand what he’s doing, but he’s reassured by the calm rhetoric coming from both potential Prime Ministers during their campaigns. 

A report from the province indicates the government of Saskatchewan has awarded nearly 90 per cent of all procurements to Saskatchewan companies over the past five years. 

SaskBuilds and Procurement Minister David Marit noted that the number even goes up when Saskatchewan companies bid.

"When Saskatchewan companies bid on that procurement that goes up to 95 per cent," said the Wood River MLA.

He added that 99 per cent of procurements went to Canadian companies, with less than one per cent awarded to US companies.