SERVING SASKATCHEWAN SINCE 1906 2nd in Saskatchewan 2019 Circulation over 6,500
VOLUME 114, NO. 28
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019
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City buys chamber office Devan C. Tasa EDITOR
MELFORT — The Melfort Chamber of Commerce’s office has a new owner: the City of Melfort. Brent Lutz, the city’s director of development and planning, said because the utility services for Spruce Haven Park are routed through the chamber office, there was value for the city in buying the building. “The removal of the building was going to require the construction of some form of utility shed to contain the service connections,” he said. Because the city would have to spend money to build the shed, it made sense to buy the building while at the same time helping a community organization, Lutz said. The price that the city brought the office for has not been made public. “They are able to get some money from their
The chamber will use the sale proceeds to retire the outstanding debt. MELFORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
building and we will able to retain a structure that will be admittedly more beautiful than what we might have put there to contain the utility services.” The office was put up for auction in August 2018, with the highest bid being $15,500. The chamber rejected the offer. In a media release, the chamber confirmed the purchase.
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SASKATCHEWAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARDS
Recorder second in province STAFF
At an event celebrating the best of Saskatchewan’s newspapers, the Recorder won second place for best all-round newspaper in
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the circulation of over 6,500 category. The awards were announced April 6. The Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association hosts its Better Newspapers Competition
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