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Incumbent trustee for the Chinook School Board, Tim Ramage, was re-elected to serve his sixth term on the school board. 

Ramage has sat on the Chinook School Board since its inception and is looking forward to continuing to do what he enjoys and ensuring a better learning experience for students. 

"I'm just excited to be back on the school board and represent our kids and youth, I want to do the best I can to make sure they have a great learning environment," he said. 

Swift Current's Ron Caswell secured one of three seats on the Chinook School Board, with the other two spots going to incumbent trustees.

The former power engineer is hoping to focus on addressing issues with class complexity and give the parents of students a voice.

"I'm quite happy with the result, I'm very much looking forward to hitting the ground running and seeing what we can accomplish in the next four years," the newly elected trustee said. 

Nasser Zanidean is the new mayor of Gull Lake.

He beat Dennis Kirk 212 to 144 votes in yesterday's municipal election.

A four-term councillor, Zanidean will now move to the big chair.

He is joined on council by Terry Stevenson, Tyson Migneault, Karen Turton, Neal Boutin, Brandon Wessner and Steve Haithwaite. 

359 people voted in the election and Stevenson led the pack with 304 votes. 

Town council in Shaunavon will be filled with new faces as a result of Wednesday's municipal election.

Local business owner Cal Vance beat Drew Grainger in a close race to become mayor, with Vance receiving 375 votes to Grainger's 309.

Vance will be joined at the council table by six new councillors.

It was a winning Wednesday yesterday for Patsy and Jennifer our latest Ticket Takeoff winners. 

Patsy was our lucky winner of tickets to see children's entertainer Blippi and his "Join the band tour" coming to Co-op Place on November 17th and Jennifer won tickets to see Barka by Girovago coming to the Esplanade on November 20th. 

Along with tickets to the shows both Patsy and Jennifer also received a one-night stay at the Medicine Hat Lodge. 

It was a busy morning on Country 94.1 yesterday as Chris Martens gave two lucky qualifiers the chance to win some cold hard cash. 

First up was Dustin who chose to gamble his $94 on one of our bulls and that proved to be profitable for him as he won himself a fantastic prize from one of our sponsors CMX and walked away with a fantastic set of grilling gloves and seasoning kit including bbq sauce and rubs. 

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

Swift Current is sending two experienced trustees and a new face to the Chinook School Division Board.

Tim Ramage and Dianne Hahn return to the board with 1252 votes and 1181 votes respectively.

Ramage has been on the school board since 2005, while this is Hahn's third term. 

Ron Caswell edged out incumbent Ken Duncalfe 1151 to 1113.

William Reil finished 5th with 407 votes.

Swift Current, SK – Luke Mistelbacher (Steinbach, MB) capped off a four-point night with the overtime winner with 24 seconds left to cap off the Broncos 5th straight win and sweep of their home-at-home series with the Moose Jaw Warriors Wednesday night 5-4.