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Crokicurl rink coming to Swift Current soon December 10, 2020 A crokicurl rink is being built at Riverdene Park in Swift Current this winter. STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER Swift Current residents will soon have a new outdoor recreation opportunity available for the winter months. The City of Swift Current is currently constructing a crokicurl rink in Riverdene Park where the hybrid of crokinole and curling will be available. “It’s exciting. I think it will be well used. Curling is pretty pop...

Protest to support India farmers held in Swift Current December 10, 2020 A group of approximately 30 people participated in a peaceful protest in downtown Swift Current on Sunday afternoon in support of farmers in India. A boisterous protest was held in Swift Current’s downtown on Sunday afternoon when 30 people gathered in solitary with farmers in India who are objecting to a series of government changes to agriculture which hinder their livelihoods. There were large scale peaceful protests ...

An 18-year-old girl died in a tragic river tubing incident. smith was thrown from her tube and swept underwater by a swift current on the river in idaho. she just graduated high school and was an instructor at a local dance studio. a bitter sweetened to a long career of community service. a retiring police sergeant working his last shift with his three sons, theyre all officers with the greenwich, connecticut police department. he had been on the job in more than 30 years and is calling it a car...

River, people stranded on the small island after agents heard cries from the river at 2:30 in the morning, they became overwhelmed by high-water levels and swift current, 7 of them were children. >> we saw death close, we thought we were going to drown. >> since february 4th, agents rescued 5 people from rio grande river, four people have died crossing since october, the eagle pass that pulls body from water. >> when theres body recovery inside the river and we cannot clearly see the body, we wi...

River rescues. on thursday 17 central american migrants were in the river in three different incidents. helicopter search team found a group of eight people stranded on a small island after calls from the river at 2:30 am. later that same day two of the groups became overwhelmed by high weather levels and a swift current. of 17 rescued, seven of them were children. >> yes, we are conscious. i will try again if i have time and i cant try right now. it could be sometime during the rest of my life....

Pulled from the river in three separate incidents. people were overwhelmed by the high water levels and swift current and of the 17 people that were rescued, seven of them were children. over the last two weeks, border patrol agents rescued 35 people from the rio grande river in this sector alone. since october, four people have died trying to cross. often its the eagle pass fire department that has to pull bodies from the water. some migrants are trying to bypass the fence and the facility here...

Lumberton, north carolina. hi, jonathan. >> hi, leland. right no were overlooking a culvert. as you can see, theres water and debris and trash swirling around the drain across mlk. as far as mlk, the thoroughfare going through downtown lumberton, the waters receded enough so that the traffic is allowed to move through slowly in both directions. the other side of the culvert, water is bubbling through here and threatening homes downstream and a very swift current. local officials say that these c...

Metaphor, somebody was telling me earlier, a different meteorologist, usually a hurricane as a boxing metaphor works the head, theyre big shots, hey makers. this storm is working the body, soaking the earth. working that water table already. making it vulnerable. so when the winds do come, and the storm surge does come, its working to great effect. theyre worried thats whats going to make it devastating. >> and life threatening. 75% of fatalities in these tropical systems are water, surge is qui...

Of the tube suck water out of the cave, part of the pumping operation that made this rescue possible in the first place. where its too steep, pictures show the boys hoisted through the air, a pulley system attached to a hanging structure. below, rushing water makes for a swift current under foot, illuminated by rescue headlamps. its all incredibly dangerous. flooded passageways the definition of peril, heartbreakingly illustrated with the death of a former navy thai s.e.a.l. he died after bringi...

Next to the severe storms just as we start this weekend. a state of emergency just declared in kentucky as we came on the air tonight. water rescues in louisville, the ohio river still rising tonight. and heavy snow causing a massive pileup on i-70. this from denver, that snow headed east. abcs alex perez from indiana tonight. >> reporter: tonight, floodwaters washing roads away, inundating entire neighborhoods. the heartland flood emergency, now growing. this as kentucky and parts of indiana al...