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Kiefer Hill wanted by White Butte RCMP

Kiefer Hill wanted by White Butte RCMP

July 21, 2019 9:06 am

Kiefer Samuel Hill is wanted by the White Butte RCMP. Hill is 28 Years Old, 5'9" and 180lbs His last known address is Welwyn, Saskatchewan. He is known to frequent the R...

Kiefer Hill wanted by White Butte RCMP

Kiefer Hill wanted by White Butte RCMP

July 21, 2019 8:57 am

Kiefer Samuel Hill is wanted by the White Butte RCMP. Hill is 28 Years Old, 5'9" and 180lbs His last known address is Welwyn, Saskatchewan. He is known to frequent the R...

Canada versus Philippines for Fireworks Competition

Canada versus Philippines for Fireworks Competition

July 19, 2019 4:40 pm

Organizers are counting down the days until the 2019 Living Skies Come Alive Fireworks Competition August 3 and 4 at Moosomin Lake. Every August long weekend, the skies co...

Moose Mountain Pro Rodeo July 20 and 21

Moose Mountain Pro Rodeo July 20 and 21

July 18, 2019 4:56 pm

Kennedy, Sask. may be a community of just over 200 people, but come time for the Moose Mountain Pro Rodeo, this little community goes all out to host the thousands of people w...

Public Mischief charges after false bomb threat report

Public Mischief charges after false bomb threat report

July 18, 2019 4:43 pm

A Winnipeg man has been charged with public mischief after a police report was filed claiming someone had threatened to bomb a pipeline in southern Manitoba. On October 19,...

Scam targeting Moosomin area

Scam targeting Moosomin area

July 17, 2019 2:28 pm

Someone calling themselves "Canadian Police Services" is calling asking for donations on behalf of the Moosomin RCMP. Moosomin RCMP say they ARE NOT asking for donations a...

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Weekly Photo Gallery

It’s summer fair season on the Prairies. The Fairmede Fair, Elkhorn Ag Fair, and Moosomin Homecraft and Horticultural Society are three of the local fairs that take place in the Moosomin area. This young competitor gets ready for the cattle show at the Elkhorn Ag Fair held July 12-13.

A grand opening hose-cutting was held for the new water treatment plant at Moosomin Regional Park on Saturday, July 13.

Kids have fun with the bouncers and kids games held during the day at the Tantallon Rink’s 50th anniversary celebration on July 13.

Around 200 ping pong balls were dropped in the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce Ball Drop the Saturday of the Moosomin rodeo weekend.

The weather was beautiful on the Friday night, making for a big crowd that filled the stands at the 2019 Moosomin Rodeo.

Welwyn Regional Park becomes a very busy place when the annual week of swimming lessons take place at Welwyn Lake. There were 60 kids taking swimming lessons this year and the park was full of families camping.

The grand opening of the Borderland Co-op Aquaplex was held on Canada Day. There was free swimming and a barbecue, and kids got to use some of the new features at the pool, like the rock climbing wall and giant inflatable waterslide.

he Fleming Jets fastball team took on the New Zealand ISA Under 19 team in a game on Thursday, July 4 at Green Acres Ball Park in Fleming where the New Zealand team performed the "Haka"

Redvers held all kinds of events for Canada Day including a parade, children’s fireman rodeo, dunk tank, slo-pitch, pancake breakfast, supper, cake and fireworks

Hazy Days was held in Esterhazy on June 21 & 22, 2019

MacLeod Elementary school students bid farewell to elementary school on Wednesday, June 26. They will be attending McNaughton High School in the fall. Photo by Lana McCormac.

Rocanville Community Days was held Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22, and as part of the Friday night celebrations there were pow wow dancers from Ochapowace.

The Moosomin and District Seniors gathered for a group photo before making $85,000 in donations in June 2019.

Pipestone Villas in Moosomin held a fire drill on Monday, June 17 and the Moosomin Fire Department used their new aerial platform truck to perform a practice rescue from the top floor of the building.

The grand opening of the new Pipestone Hills Golf Club clubhouse was held on Saturday, June 15. Above the board members and staff hold the ribbon while Moosomin Mayor Larry Tomlinson cuts the ribbon to officially open the clubhouse.

Moosomin now has a mini golf course! Thanks to Kim Setrum, a local real estate agent with Royal Lepage, a new nine-hole mini golf course has been opened at the Tim Hortons Outdoor Eventplex at Bradley Park in Moosomin.

Melinda’s Family Hair Care and Styles on Main were offering buzz cuts for charity on Thursday with their Swing in for a Buzz fundraiser, offering buzz cuts for a donation to the Kinability wheelchair swing. Tim Reykdal gets his head buzzed by Donna Stanhope with Styles on Main.

Members of the Moosomin Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate rescue techniques at the Fire Department’s Open House on Saturday, June 8.

The Moosomin Legion held a free hot-dog barbecue on Thursday in honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Work on Nutrien Rocanville’s tailings management area got underway in the spring of 2019, and will be ongoing for about a year.

Cst Jonathan Berkshire of the Moosomin RCMP serves up a coffee at the Moosomin Tim Hortons during Camp Day 2019.

Grade 4 students at MacLeod Elementary School learned how to plant a garden with the assistance of Sharpe’s Crop Services on Tuesday, May 26.

Borderland Co-op and RBC Moosomin held a fundraising barbecue for the Moosomin Food Share on Wednesday, May 29 at the grocery store in Moosomin.

Elize Steyn submitted this photo as part of the World-Spectator’s 2019 spring seeding contest.

Energy East advocate Sinclair Harrison spoke to members of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, May 22 when they were in Moosomin for a Moosomin Energy Tour.

The first Rocanville Museum Market of the season was held on Saturday, May 18.

Colin MacPherson took this photo in May 2019 of a rainbow arching over a gravel road with farm fields on each side . The photo was taken about 11 km west of Highway 8 on grid #709 (the Kipling road).

Megan McMullen’s Kindergarten class from MacLeod Elementary School took a farm field trip sponsored by Sharpe’s Crop Services on Thursday, May 16. The field trip was held at New Generation Farms and hosted by farmer Chris Mannle.

Volunteers were busy seeding a crop for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank at the Harvest of Hope site north of Moosomin during the middle of May 2019.

The Creative Visions Choir and Moosomin Community Band presented their spring concert at Bethel United Church in Moosomin on Tuesday, May 14. Photo by Kim Poole.

Work continues on the historic McNaughton Building on Carleton Street on Moosomin. At the beginning of May, Rudy Leroy with Leroy Masonry installed the chimney on the building. Now that the chimney has been installed, the process of putting on the cedar shakes can begin.