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THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2024
Arts and crafts galore at Gifted summer art market
The sidewalk loop in Jubilee Park will be packed with 42 stalls featuring a wide variety of art, crafts, food and activities for the Gifted summer art market on Saturday, July 13. The outdoor market will open at 10 a.m., and will feature many local artists and craftspersons, facepainting, a scavenger hunt and food vendors until 4 p.m. “We have painters, crocheters, potters, watercolourists, fibre artists and more, along with face painting, kids crafting, and a scavenger hunt. The Weyburn Fire Brigade will be grilling up some burgers, and for dessert there is a wealth of options from cotton candy, to candy apples to straight up candy,” said Regan Lanning, curator for the Weyburn Arts Council. The food vendors will include the Weyburn Fire Brigade, the Weyburn Humane Society, Weyburn Therapeutic Animal Park, Meok Ja bubble tea, Stranger Danger Candy, and Little Loaf Dog. Children’s activities can be found at Facetastic
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Faces, the Weyburn Public Library, SaskPower, Collabartive Studios and the Weyburn Arts Council booth. Lanning is excited for this year’s event, and commented, “We have more community involvement that ever, more artists than ever, including jewelry, sewing, quilting, clothing, macramé, lapidary, painted rocks and handcrafted soaps to name just a few.” The Arts Council booth will be located right off the 13th Street parking lot, with booths extending in both directions from that point, and they will also have information, as will the SaskPower booth, and the Crocus 80 Theatre booth. The booths start on the loop from the Douglas Road parking lot and go in a clockwise direction around almost to the central rock circle, and the path to the Credit Union Spark Centre. The art market is an annual project of the Weyburn Arts Council, Weyburn Art Gallery and the City of Weyburn.
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Children had fun trying to move or stand up in these round balls in the water, at a new attraction for the Weyburn Fair called “Wobbly Balls”. They were kept busy, along with knocker balls beside them, which were provided by the Weyburn Ag Society.
Souris-Moose Mountain MP Robert Kitchen ‘greatly honoured’ to serve riding By Greg Nikkel, SaskToday.ca Dr. Robert Kitchen, MP for Souris-Moose Mountain for the last 10 years, said on Monday he will not be running in the federal election in 2025. “It has been a great honour and privilege to serve the people of southeast Saskatchewan as their Member of Parliament, and to represent them in Ottawa for the last decade,” said Kitchen. “I look forward to continuing on in my role as MP
until the next federal election in 2025, and would like to thank the constituents of Souris-Moose Mountain who have shown me incredible support for the past 10 years,” he added in a brief statement. While he had stated last year that he would be running again, Kitchen said he has had some health issues come up, and the commitment and dedication he has to being an MP has had an impact on himself and his wife. “It’s not an easy job. There’s a lot of time and
commitments,” he said, adding while there have been some health issues, everything is fine right now. “How long do you keep putting it off from doing other things?” he asked. “I’ve been greatly honoured by the constituents of Souris-Moose Mountain, who elected me in for three terms, the last one with the highest percentage.” Kitchen noted also that he’s not done yet, as he committed to continue serving this riding up until
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“In the role I’ve been in, I’ve been able to speak on behalf of everybody in the riding. It’s such a diverse riding, with so many elements, whether it’s oil and gas, farming, coal, potash, or small businesses in so many communities,” he said. “They are all so beneficial to this area. Whoever the person is who becomes the next MP has to have a good understanding of the riding, and I hope they understand the whole riding.” He added he hopes the next candidate for the Con-
servatives will be someone who lives in the riding and isn’t parachuted in, as both the Liberals and NDP have tried to do in past elections. In the meantime, Kitchen said he will continue to serve the riding until the next election, and noted his belief has been it’s important to learn something new every day. “I’ve had that benefit, and I plan to continue to do that. My job is not done until whenever the date of the next election is called,” he said.
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