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Here is a look at five events happening in and around Moose Jaw this weekend: 

Sidewalk Days, Saturday 

Take in the final day of the Kinsmen Sidewalk Days Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Main Street North. 

There are nine blocks of vendors, food trucks and live entertainment. 

Summer is here, and the Jake Epp Public Library is starting their Summer Reading Challenge for kindergarten to grade 12. 

Logan Peters, child and youth program coordinator at the Jake Epp Library, is looking forward to what the summer has in store. 

“Every time they have come into the library, and read a book, they can fill out a raffle ticket and we put it in (for) their prize of choice,” Peters says. 

After three years of painstaking restoration, the La Riviere CPR station is ready to welcome visitors to its new home in Manitou. The Pembina, Manitou Culture and Heritage Association will host a grand opening this Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with official ceremonies scheduled for 2:00 p.m.

Originally built in 1898 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the station served the La Riviere community for nearly 80 years before being moved to the Archibald Historical Museum for preservation. When the museum closed, local heritage advocates stepped in.

'More than ink on paper': Church conference preaches the Word

CHVN was on location in our Summer Cruiser as dozens of people gathered at the Holiday Inn South on Sunday morning for The Word Conference, hosted by The Stone Church Winnipeg. The event was open to everyone and offered free admission.

The gathering opened with prayer and worship, followed by a sermon, concluding with an altar call inviting participants to respond personally. Refreshments were available for attendees after the session, encouraging fellowship and discussion.

Winning a golf cart would already be a pretty nice addition to Summer but winning a 1 of 1 golf cart would be even better!

"We are raffling our custom golf cart! This past year we had this golf cart project in our Makerspace workshop. This project was largely completed by our youth and volunteers. This raffle will help cover the costs of YFC programs and projects (such as our Makerspace) so that all youth in our community can take part in YFC Altona programs completely free."

Over 50 people gathered at Immanuel Fellowship for the first night of their Young Adult and Prime Adult Conference. The conference will continue through the rest of this weekend and is free to attend with registration.

This evening, there was a time of worship and a message, and you can expect the same for the entire weekend.

From whimsical frogs with umbrellas to master-style portraits, Jane Unruh Thiesen brings a unique artistic flair to her role as Program Assistant at Winkler Arts and Culture (WAC). Having been with WAC for about a year, Unruh Thiesen helps plan events, find instructors, and bring creative programming to life for all ages.

Welcome to another Made in Manitoba. We're excited to have East Selkirk's Morgan Grace joining us just days after her appearance at the Canada Day National Evening Show in Ottawa. This is just the latest national event the 18-year-old left-handed fiddle player has been part of. She also played for King Charles III during Parliament's opening and Throne Speech at the end of May.

I had the incredible opportunity to hang out with Judah Wardrope, a local country singer from Carlyle, to talk about his music, his songwriting process, and his admiration for Bailey Zimmerman. 

He was so generous with his time that he even gave us a never-before heard acoustic set of his upcoming single 'Sundown', set to be released in about a month or so. 

Judah's current single 'If I Die Tomorrow' is spinning on Country 106.1 right now, as well as seven other radio stations in Canada and one in the United States. You can stream it now on:

An annual prayer and praise conference is back in Winnipeg this weekend. 

On Saturday, July 5, starting at 10 a.m., The Rock of Ages Ministries is hosting the Praying for Results Conference. 

"It's an inter-denominational conference where people come together as the body of Christ to pray individually. We pray for the nation. I will take specific things that by this time next year you can come back to say 'This is what I prayed for and this is what God has done,'" says Bamidele Oni, Team Lead and Director.