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Singer Karissa Hoffart and her band performed a free concert at Nickle Lake Regional Park on Saturday evening, in the last event planned for the 2022 summer season at the park. Singer Justin Labrash also played later on that evening. Hoffart noted she came to the park with her family as a young girl, and hopes to one day bring her children there as well.

The past came alive on the Glen and Suzanne Stomp farm at Griffin on Sunday afternoon, as they opened their mini-heritage village and held an old-time threshing bee. They had many displays of historical items in the village, including blacksmithing and rope-making demos, and in the field adjacent, a horse-drawn hay rack picked up stooks of wheat sheaves, and had them put through an old threshing machine powered by a belt to an antique tractor.

The Aurora Borealis, or the Northern light, were shimmering and dancing brightly on Saturday night in the skies in the Weyburn area. The Earth has been hit in recent days with a solar storm from the sun, and the phenomenon was particularly bright on Saturday, visible as soon as a person left the light pollution of their community to look to the northern skies.

This gallery shows Weyburn area residents having fun at the Young Fellows spray park, and at Nickle Lake Regional Park, on Saturday afternoon, on the last long weekend of summer.

The small-town Street Festival fun was held in Coronach on August 27.

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Horse enthusiasts of all ages took part in a variety of riding events at the Griffin Horse Show, held on Saturday and Sunday on a farm near Griffin. Events included showmanship, halter classes, western and English riding classes and a gymkhana, with prizes awarded to the top riders.

Many participants had an opportunity to enjoy Nickle Lake in a canoe or kayak, during a Weyburn Oilwoman event co-hosted with the Weyburn Canoe and Kayak Club.

A large crowd turned out for the event that opened this year's Western Canada Baseball Championships in Estevan.

The Brokenshell Parks and Rec board held the "Trossachs Times" event at the park and hall in Trossachs on Saturday, with a car show, tie-dying, face-painting, trade show and barbecue.