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Assiniboia Composite High School’s Rockets football team opened its new season with its first practice on August 28. Practices will run Mondays at Bearss Field at 6 p.m., while games start in September and into October on Fridays at 4 p.m.

A relatively warm and dry week allowed many producers to continue with harvest operations, reported Saskatchewan Agriculture for the week of August 15-21.

Dozens of varieties of mouth-watering apple pies attracted huge crowds to Mossbank and District Museum’s annual Apple Pie Day at the Mossbank community hall on August 23.

The Assiniboia and District Arts Council featured a local artist for its Arts Up! exhibit at the Kay Cristo Room in the Assiniboia and District Library.

A&W locations across Canada participated in its annual campaign Burgers to Beat MS on August 24. Assiniboia’s A&W location also took part in the Multiple Sclerosis fundraiser for the first time, said Rod Rodil, A&W Assiniboia manager.

Wyatt Lightfoot came home to Assiniboia as a multiple medal winner after competing in the World Dwarf Games hosted by the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, on August 4-12.

Centennial Park was full of tiny smiling faces on August 21 for Assiniboia’s annual Kids’ Day in the Park. The event was organized by the Recreation Department.

A new Protection and Response Team (PRT) has been created to aid in the reduction of crime in rural Saskatchewan, announced Attorney General Gordon Wyant on August 22.

The Assiniboia Livestock Auction held a pre-sorted all breeds sale for calves and yearlings on August 15 and a regular cull cow and bull sale on August 16 with a total 1,129 head sold.

The Saskatchewan Party will be holding a leadership convention on January 27, 2018 to select a new leader following the announcement by Premier Brad Wall that he is stepping down as premier and leaving political life.