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The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held in the Division Board Room on Monday, June 8. Present were: G. Draper; C. Russell; N. Chaske; B. Cochrane; L. Irwin; C. Lowes; R. Masson; D. Jamieson; M. Walker; B.

Cromer area land owner Carlyle Jorgensen took Tundra Oil & Gas Partnership to task at a Surface Rights Board hearing in an attempt to be compensated for costs incurred for working around oil equipment on his land.

“It’s a win-win. We raise money and we help out the environment,” says Barry O’Grady, treasurer for the Virden Lions Club.

The Visitor Centre located near Kirkella on the TransCanada Highway will open this season after all.

Residents of rural Manitoba sometimes feel their issues are lost on the rest of the province. So, it was a pleasant surprise to Rick Plaisier, Reeve of the R.M. of Sifton, to speak with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Although dike work has been completed both east and west around Oak Lake Provincial Park, in the R.M. of Sifton, the dam still needs to be reconstructed, explains Reeve of Sifton Rick Plaisier.

Between last year and this spring, some 8,000 visitors travelled to Westwood Ranch Garden Centre, says Mark Humphries, proprietor of the family operated business. “ People are sticking with us and coming back,” he says, despite the roads.

Good fences make good neighbours, as the saying goes. But in the R.M. of Wallace-Woodworth, water troubles don’t stop at fencelines.

The regular meeting of the Council of the Rural Municipality of Sifton was held in the council chambers in Oak Lake at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

A teen lost her best friend when Saskatchewan figure skater Zoe Lesy, lost her life in the icy Assiniboine River this past March. Now, Shayanne Bear is creating an ongoing memorial to her friend and fellow skater - a tribute that will bless others.