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Swift Current residents, local property owners, and more will soon be able to take advantage of the City of Swift Current's free Yard Waste Program.

The Yard Waste Program opens back up next Wednesday, April 16, weather permitting, and runs until November 4. 

The City of Swift Current Recycle Depot will be open 7 days a week, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, in addition to 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the weekend. 

Southwest residents and families can enjoy Easter at Gull Lake's Elks Hall with an egg hunt, pancake breakfast, and more.

Gull Lake EMS and the Ranch House Meat Company will host the spring event on Sunday, April 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 

Leanne Marin, primary care paramedic with the Gull Lake Ambulance Service, noted that everyone is welcome to stop by to take part in the family-friendly fun.

"It's an opportunity to get together, have some visiting and fellowship with people you might not normally see," she said. 

The 2025 Swift Current Music Festival is taking place this week from April 6th through to the 10th at Zion Mennonite Church. 

The annual festival brings the southwest together through music featuring performances from vocalists, pianists. cellists and more. 

Sophie Regier is no stranger to competing at the festival and provides details on her entries this year. 

"So, I am entered in a bunch of musical theatre, I think I am doing five solos and then one duo and then I am also doing voice, I did piano, and I will do a leader as well which is a German art song."

Maria Rose Lewans is becoming a fixture in local elections.

The former candidate for municipal and provincial elections is running in her third federal election.

"I care about my community," Lewans said. "Saskatchewan is one big community and it's hard not to notice how much people are struggling... people aren't being fulfilled by life. It's hard to notice that and just to sit by and not do anything.

A strong performance for the Swift Current Judo Club at provincials.

They finished 3rd out of 13 clubs at the event, which was won by the Moose Jaw Koseikan Club.

Swift Current athletes Karlee Rempel, Levi Elder, and Talon Moen all had two gold medals at provincials.

Nora Thiessen, Rachel Elder, and Jack Boecheck also won single gold medals.

Kadence Rempel brought home three silver medals, while Lieke Conradie, Blake Rempel, and Eliot Perrault had two. 

Rachel Elder, Jack Bochek, and Chase Twaites won single silver medals.

A coyote sighting this afternoon in Swift Current.

An e-mail to Fairview School parents warned of a coyote sighting in the afternoon at the school playground and near the S3 Arenas.

There was also a post online about a coyote sighting on Burke Crescent at 12:30 PM. 

Parents are advised to remind their children to not approach any animal they don't know.

Another member of the 5A provincial champion Swift Current Comprehensive High School Ardens volleyball team is going to play U Sports next season.

The temperatures shooting up this week gave us our first taste of warm-weather thunderstorms for the season.

"We did have some thunderstorms develop last night into the overnight period," said Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Danielle Dejardins. "We did have a couple of reports of dime-sized hail."

She noted those reports came from the Eston area.

We could see more activity tongiht.

Police are still investigating a Highway 4 crash on Monday afternoon near Leinan, SK.

RCMP received a report of just after 3:45 PM of a semi-trailer truck and SUV colliding.

The driver of the SUV reported non-life-threatening injuries to police, while the driver of the semi did not report any injuries.

Russell Neal Gillanders passed away surrounded by loved ones at the Swift Current Hospital on April 2, 2025.