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Chase the Ace is a fundraiser that has gained popularity across the country. In the case of Oxbow’s benefit, each week 20 per cent of ticket sales go to a weekly draw winner, 30 per cent to the ace jackpot, and 50 per cent to the recreation board. The weekly winner then draws from a deck of cards. If they draw the ace of spades, they will win the jackpot. If the ace of spades is not drawn before June 16th, an exciting draw will occur until the Ace is drawn. The recreation board hosts this event to raise funds for the five facilities it is responsible for in Oxbow: the community rink, th...

Sgt. Mark Barnes Retires from the Presque Isle Police Sgt. Mark Barnes of the Presque Isle Police Department retired Tuesday after 31 years of service. PIPD posted a video to their Facebook showing him signing off. You can watch the video below and post a comment. Share the footage with friends on social media. Sgt. Barnes career before Presque Isle Sgt. Barnes was a United State Army Military Police Officer when he began his career. After his time in the service, Barnes joined the Old Orchard Beach Police Force in southern Maine. He was attending college at the same time at Southern Maine Co...

SAPO – a microcosm of SS South Africa? AS a self-confessed petrol head and general addict of gismos and gadgets, I recently made an on-line purchase – or so I thought – of some small items to make my pride and joy look a little more appealing. The cost including postage from the UK was less than £10. A few hours after placing my order I received a polite email telling me that my order was cancelled and I would be refunded my money, but I could order again so long as I used a courier service. The reason, the vendor explained, was that its experience had shown that items poste...

The SA Post Office (Sapo) has joined a growing list of state-owned entities that have been declared financially insolvent by the Auditor-General because the company is loss-making, cash-strapped, and battles to honour its debt payments when they become due. Sapo has published an annual report for its financial year 2019/20, which shows that the entity’s crisis has worsened — at leadership, operational and financial levels. At a leadership level, Sapo has faced an exodus of executives, while the state-owned entity didn’t have a permanent CEO (Nomkhita Mona was recently appointed), and th...

A-G Tsakani Maluleke finds SA Post Office commercially insolvent – report By Dieketseng Maleke Share For many years, the SA Post Office (Sapo) has been struggling to get its ducks in a row. Now it has officially been found to be commercially insolvent by the Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke, according to reports by Sapo’s fellow parastatal, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). This comes after the broadcaster reported that the AG found that Sapo had incurred losses of over R1.7 billion, whilst its liabilities are in excess of its R1.5 billion-worth of assets, for...