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Green Is The Colour In Nipawin ( 7/29/2010 )
A big weekend in Nipawin.
And it all starts today with Riderville Day.
The community is one of five vying to win the title of Riderville, and everyone's encouraged to wear green and white.
A community barbecue downtown will kick off the events at 11:30.
Nipawin is also holding a homecoming starting today with the Panhandler Health Charity Golf Tournament...Rider colours are also encouraged.
Registration for homecoming is at 9 tomorrow morning at the Evergreen Centre, with most events being held there during the weekend.
Homecomings were also held in 1980, 1995, 2000, and 2005....visit nipawin.com for more details on this year's event.
Vittala Sentenced ( 7/29/2010 )
A former Saskatoon doctor has been sentenced to a year in jail and two years probation.
Krishna Vittala was found guilty of sexually assaulting two female patients last month, but the sentencing was delayed because he is in the latter stages of prostate cancer and had been hospitalized.
Vittala was convicted of three counts of sexual assault.
The women testified they were groped by the former physician and Vittala admitted to hugging one patient...but he insisted it was to calm her, adding he called her to apologize for causing a misunderstanding.
Nuclear Report ( 7/29/2010 )
The author of a report on nuclear power says supporters have exaggerated the prospect of Saskatchewan exporting electricity from a nuclear facility.
The report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says building a nuclear power plant would be too expensive because of the construction costs.
It also says Saskatchewan would have to compete with lower cost hydro-electricity from B-C, Manitoba, Washington and Oregon.
Ontario-based Bruce Power had proposed building a large-scale nuclear plant in Saskatchewan, but the province said last December that it didn't support nuclear power at this time.
Local Crimes ( 7/29/2010 )
RCMP are investigating several crimes in the Melfort area.
On either Thursday night or Friday morning, a motor home was vandalized in a grass are in the 200 block of 4th Avenue South.
On July 18th, a 22 Rifle was stolen from the inside of a red pickup truck parked in a farm yard south of Silver Park.
And between June 28th and July 18th, a farm house west of Melfort was broken into, but nothing was stolen.
Call Crimestoppers or Melfort RCMP if you saw anything suspicious.
Census Concerns ( 7/29/2010 )
Concerns from Saskatchewan School Boards.
President of the Saskatchewan School Board Sandi Urban-Hall says the Federal Governement's desicion to eliminate the long-form census survey causes several problems for school boards.
She says without proper data, getting students the specific programs and services they need is put at risk.
She hopes the Federal Government will ensure that there is appropriate data for school boards and other agencies to use.
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