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Maidstone 鈥� 鈥淭here鈥檚 definitely a lot more traffic. Traffic-wise, that means dollars,鈥� said Kevin Pike, partner in Maidstone鈥檚 Keranda Industrial Supply Ltd.

Maidstone 鈥� Baytex Energy Corp. has been a key player in the Maidstone oilpatch, with its Soda Lake field southwest of the community seeing active drilling during the winter season.

Washington 鈥� The Keystone XL pipeline has finally, after eight years, received the Presidential Permit required to build across the Canada-U.S. border.

Carlyle 鈥� Nalco Champion is reinvigorating its operations in Saskatchewan, with a grand opening coming up soon for a revitalized Carlyle location, and improvements in Estevan and Lloydminster.

Seeding has begun in Saskatchewan with farmers slowly making their way into the field reported Saskatchewan Agriculture. Producers in the districts around Assiniboia have been out on the fields for the past two weeks.

Saskatchewan鈥檚 big game draw opened May 1, and hunters have until midnight on Thursday, May 25 to submit their online applications.

As calving season draws to a close and pastures turn green, producers will enter the season of moving herds to pastures. One of the trendy terms in cattle handling these days is 鈥渓ow stress鈥� handling.

The Entrepreneurship 30 class at the Weyburn Comprensive will have three Junior Achievement student companies this year, which all held board meetings last week with their company mentors to start off their campaign.

As producers in Assiniboia and surrounding areas prepare to plant crops this year, they need to be aware of spreading pests and invasive weeds. Leafy spurge is marching across Canada and it鈥檚 getting closer and closer to the Assiniboia area.

The late Art Mainil, the founding president of Weyburn Inland Terminal, was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame on Saturday.