Weyburn This Week, May 31, 2019

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FRIDAY, May 31, 2019

WCS teacher receives Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence

Photo 2851 — Alex Tetreault

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented Weyburn teacher Karen Kennedy-Allin with the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, at a ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday. Karen teaches Physics, Biology and Environmental Science at the Weyburn Comprehensive School, and has been teaching for over 25 years. She previously received the Canadian Association of Physicists Award of teaching excellence in 2017.

Therapeutic Animal Park set to hold grand opening The Weyburn Therapeutic Animal Park is hosting a 2019 season grand opening on Sunday, June 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be plenty of animals to interact with, such as sheep, a turkey, chickens, alpacas and ponies, along with one of the piglets that was born last year and is now all grown up. The park is located across from the Tatagwa View long-term care centre on the former Souris Valley grounds. The 306 Creamery will be selling ice cream, burgers and hot dogs, and photographer Sherry Lynn

will be there doing mini photo sessions. Both of these local businesses will be donating portions of their proceeds to the park. Other activities included in the event will be pony rides, bouncy houses, face painting and games. To prepare for the season’s grand opening, the park’s volunteer board of directors held a spring cleanup on Saturday morning. They also held a logo contest, and out of 15 entries, they have chosen Brad and Luna Istace’s design entry for their new logo. “It was a hard choice

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Cleaning up for park’s opening day

Photo 2222 — Greg Nikkel

Vincent Sheldon of the Therapeutic Animal Park board loaded up a wheelbarrow with grass and leaves while cleaning up one of the pens for animals on Saturday.

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to narrow them down as we received so many awesome logos,” said Vince Sheldon. The park is in need of some more volunteers to work their weekly schedule. They are looking to cover both morning and evening shifts of feeding the animals and doing light chores, which typically take about 30-45 minutes. If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering, contact volunteer director Rhiannon Benjamin at rbenjamin@ hotmail.ca or email at wtapark@gmail.com

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