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CTV News
a day ago
- Sport
- CTV News
Echo Lake Plywood Regatta and Waterfest returns for 3rd straight year
The Plywood Regatta and Waterfest took place at Echo Lake on Saturday. (Damian Smith / CTV News) For the third year in a row, the Plywood Regatta and Waterfest took place at Echo Lake on Saturday. 'What's really important about the Plywood Regatta is it's about team spirit. It's about businesses or organizations coming together to support a single cause,' said John Maczko, the director of operations with Amphibious Response Support Unit One (ARSU1). The message behind the event is not only for team building, but safety in water sports in all representations. Money raised from many different companies attending is donated to ARSU1, who monitor four lakes in the Fort Qu'Appelle area. 'Unfortunately, every year we do respond to a number of incidents in our case, in particular, because we are what is known as the boots on the ground team,' Maczko said. 'We try to capture safety situations in their infancy before they become more critical or before they become known.' ARSU1 does not only look to prioritize the physical side of safety, but the drinks that can be a detriment to those out on the water. With alcohol being a big component in water sport accidents, they're trying to promote beer without the toxin. Maczko was also the lead of creating the challenges for the teams and had to come up with a higher quantity with a growing event. In the first year of the regatta, four teams participated. There were nine last year, and this year saw 14. Organizers say that 25 teams would be the maximum, due to capacity requirements.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Regina man dead after serious crash on Highway 10
An RCMP cruiser can be seen in this file photo. A man is dead after a serious collision on Highway 10 between Fort Qu'Appelle and Regina late Monday night. On June 30, around 11:30 p.m., RCMP officers from the White Butte and Fort Qu'Appelle detachments responded to a two-vehicle crash on Highway 10 — located about 34 kilometres southwest of Fort Qu'Appelle. According to RCMP, a semi truck travelling towards Regina hauling hay collided with a pickup truck travelling northeast. The driver and lone occupant of the truck, a 45-year-old man from the Regina area, died at the scene. The driver of the semi did not report any injuries to police. Highway 10 was blocked for several hours through the night while investigators were at the scene. It has since reopened. In addition to police, EMS and fire services from Fort Qu'Appelle responded to the scene — as did STARS. The Saskatchewan RCMP continues to investigate the crash with the help of a collision reconstructionist.
CTV News
19-05-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Saskatchewan's oldest road race celebrates 100 years in Fort Qu'Appelle
The Fort Qu'Appelle Lions Echo Lake Road Race was held on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Sierra D'Souza Butts/CTV News)
CBC
12-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Fort Qu'Appelle craft store helps Saulteaux designer get his creative groove back
With more First Nations, Inuit and Métis people wanting to showcase their cultures through fashion, local arts and crafts stores are playing an important role, sometimes even directly supporting artists. Manager Richard Desnomie's mom Marla opened Becky's Place in Fort Qu'Appelle, Sask., about 75 kilometres northeast of Regina, in 2018. Her goal was to provide a place to go for beadwork, ribbon skirt and powwow dance regalia supplies that was Indigenous-owned and local, rather than going to the city or ordering online. "They're proud to be Indigenous and they want to show it off in fashion," said Desnomie, who is from Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Desnomie took the store over in 2024, when his mom died suddenly from cancer. He said his mom was worried in the first year of opening if the store was going to make it, but today they can't seem to keep up with orders and materials coming in for customers. "People come to us because they feel more comfortable," said Desnomie. Aspiring Saulteaux designer Garth Asham, from Pasqua First Nation, works at the store. He went to school for fashion design in Vancouver and had some of his designs on the runway at London Fashion Week in 2019. When the pandemic hit, it put a damper on his creativity. "It took my inspiration and motivation away; I stopped designing," said Asham. He decided to return home in 2021 and get back in his creative groove by being around his culture and community. He decided to apply at Becky's Place. "They really push me to be creative, whether it's something that can be displayed at a future collection or sold here at the store," said Asham. Asham's older sister Emily Cyr, who is the front store manager, said now Garth gets the opportunity to pull out the sewing machine and make skirts while he is at the store, where she and the store manager encourage him to create. "It's opened the door for him a lot," said Cyr. "He gets to figure out what he wants to make right away once it's in his mind." Asham likes to work with gowns for weddings, proms and gala events. He says when he was younger he would create little rag dolls to give as gifts to people and then challenged himself to make dresses for the dolls of his little nieces. "That's where my fixation on gowns came from," said Asham. Asham loves to work with any medium he can get his hands on, like silk charmeuse, beads, or paints to add designs. "I like to have meaning behind each of my dresses, like bees for save the bees, MMIW for missing and murdered Indigenous women," he said. Cyr learned the skill of sewing from her brother. "There is a difference in his fashion and mine — I like making ribbon skirts and ribbon, and he likes to work with dresses," said Cyr. Together they teach youth sewing skills and how to make ribbon skirts in the evenings at the store.
CBC
12-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Bear tranquilized near downtown Regina
A bear has been tranquilized after it was spotted near downtown Regina Monday morning. The cinnamon-coloured black bear was in a tree at Victoria Avenue and Montreal Street, near Thomson Community School. Police officers, firefighters and conservation officers were at the scene. After the bear was tranquilized, it was loaded into a truck and will be transported to the Fort Qu'Appelle area later today, CBC News was told at the scene.
