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‘After a week, we thought, 'Gosh, she’s gonna make it' ’: 106-year-old woman beats COVID-19
In her lifetime, Prince Albert's Rubena Wenzel has lived through world wars and now survived two pandemics, the Spanish flu in 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020. Roughly 2 1/2 weeks after her initial positive...
Dec 31, 2020 A recent photo taken of Rubena Wenzel. (Bev Smith/submitted)
Lloydminster nurses share world junior 50/50 jackpot
After a long stressful year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, a group of nurses in Lloydminster is ending 2020 on a high note. The eight women from the maternity unit are sharing $241,850 after win...
Dec 31, 2020 The eight front line health-care workers from Lloydminster that won $241,850 in a World Juniors 50/50. (Twitter/@HC_WJC
RUH COVID unit nurse thankful for vaccination
Mahala Kiss has only been nursing for about a year and a half and most of that time has been in the COVID unit at Royal University Hospital. "I was just starting to get comfortable with nursing and th...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
No active COVID-19 cases at Luther Special Care Home
Luther Special Care Home is reporting no active COVID-19 cases more than six weeks after an outbreak was declared. The long-term care home provided an update online Sunday saying all residents were co...
Dec 30, 2020 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon company fined $70K after workplace fatality
A Saskatoon company has been fined $70,000 in connection with a fatal workplace incident in October of 2019. Sommer Green Forages pleaded guilty in Outlook Provincial Court on Dec. 17 to a violation u...
Dec 30, 2020
Isolation requirement extended past New Year’s for Sask. Pen. employees
By Nigel Maxwell A public health order requiring all employees at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary to isolate when at home, and not interact with other members of the household, has been extended to Jan....
Dec 30, 2020 Located about one kilometre west of the city of Prince Albert, the Saskatchewan Penitentiary has been in operation since 1911. (paNOW staff)
Residents of St. Louis care home overwhelmed with Christmas greetings from around the world
By Teena Monteleone Pauline Doucet knew her residents needed a pick-me-up. Most of the 14 seniors in her long-term care home in St. Louis haven't seen their family in months because of the COVID-19 pa...
Dec 30, 2020 More than 3,000 cards and letters from across the world were delivered to a care home in St. Louis. (Facebook/River's Edge Villa Senior Personal Care Home)
Residential solar industry down 90 per cent one year after net metering decision
One year after SaskPower's decision to close its rooftop solar net metering program and not renew it, the residential solar industry in Saskatchewan is a shadow of its former self. In September 2019, ...
Dec 30, 2020
'A year of complete inaction:' Mercredi reflects on deadly, record-setting overdose crisis in 2020
Heading into 2020, Jason Mercredi was looking for one thing in particular. Heading into 2021, the executive director of Prairie Harm Reduction (PHR) said he's looking for that same thing yet again. "W...
Dec 29, 2020 Jason Mercredi at Saskatoon's Prairie Harm Reduction. (650 CKOM file photo)
Medavie dealing with COVID outbreak, 12 paramedics infected
COVID-19 has made its way into the staff of Medavie Health Services West in Saskatoon. The emergency medical service handles all ambulance duties within Saskatoon. Its director of public affairs, Troy...
Dec 29, 2020 According to a release from Medavie Health Services West, Saskatoon community paramedics experienced an increase in responses from 3623 in 2023, to 8032 events in 2024. (Medavie Health Services West/Facebook)
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