Tag Archives: Health

Surviving the game: A look at mental health supports for hockey players
The pressures that come with leading a team, or living hundreds of miles away from home, can take an emotional toll on a young man with dreams of playing in the NHL, according to a local representativ...
Feb 20, 2019

'Foul pool incident' closes Northern Lights Palace pool
A bummer for the kids out on school break.The Northern Lights Palace pool is closed due to what the city is calling a "foul pool incident which requires super chlorination."The city says in a news rel...
Feb 20, 2019

Organizer calls first Northern Yoga and Women's Wellness Retreat a success
It was a memorable long-weekend in Otter Lake for those participating in the inaugural Northern Yoga and Women's Wellness Retreat."Women coming together in an environment like that really creates a su...
Feb 20, 2019

30 Days of Something
If you read my latest book, The Try Angle – A New Slant on Life (if you haven’t, shame shame – go get it right now – I’ll wait…  ...
Feb 20, 2019

Humboldt father and husband continuing battle with leukemia
In late August of 2018, 37-year-old Jamie Ficko of Humboldt was feeling off and wasn't sure what was wrong.Numerous blood tests early on didn't indicate anything out of the blue, until Ficko noticed t...
Feb 19, 2019

P.A. set to get memorial for impaired driving victims
Mothers Against Drunk Driving's Prince Albert chapter wants the city to have a place where people can remember those who lives have been altered by impaired driving. "It's something we've been talking...
Feb 19, 2019

Hospice plans move ahead
The government of Saskatchewan is throwing financial support behind plans to build a free-standing hospice in Prince Albert. Joe Hargrave, MLA for Prince Albert Carlton, announced a commitment of $2 m...
Feb 19, 2019

More children relying on food banks to eat, according to new report
Saskatchewan has the highest proportion of children relying on food banks in the country, according to a new report from Food Banks Canada.The 2018 report found 43.5 per cent of individuals served by ...
Feb 15, 2019

'Total Relief': NCHCF finishes fundraising for digital imaging machine
The North Central Health Care Foundation has officially paid off the digital imaging machine in the Melfort Hospital.In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Foundation announced that they had fina...
Feb 15, 2019

'More than words': $16 million announced for wellness, healing and recovery centre
The wide-reaching impact the construction of a wellness, healing and recovery centre in the tri-communities will have in northern Saskatchewan was apparent at a special announcement today.Surrounded b...
Feb 14, 2019