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With purchase secured, work begins as Ituna residents take over historic theatre
The work is just beginning for a handful of people in Ituna who banded together and bought the community's historic theatre. Peter Overduin is the campaign lead for a group of local residents who work...
Dec 10, 2025 Peter Overduin stands in front of the historic Ituna Theatre. Overduin is leading a group of community members who purchased the building after seeing it on the auction block. (Peter Overduin/Submitted)
Ituna Theatre in 'safe hands' with local buyers, says former owner
The legacy of the historic Ituna Theatre will live on, according to the former owner. Ajmal Usman, who has owned the theatre for the past four years, said he sold the business to a group of local resi...
Dec 02, 2025 “I reduced the price for them because they were motivated,” said former owner Ajmal Usman. “They were willing to save the theatre.” (Peter Overduin/Submitted)
Ituna residents hope to buy and transform historic theatre
When Peter Overduin heard Ituna's historic movie theatre was going on the auction block, he saw an opportunity to return the movie magic and more to the small town. "I don't want to see this go," he s...
Nov 28, 2025 Peter Overduin stands in front of the historic Ituna Theatre, in the window is a sign that reads "For Sale by Auction." (Peter Overduin/submitted)
'Hub of the community:' New Ituna arena shines as pride and joy of the town
The culmination of a decade-long journey was celebrated in the town of Ituna on Jan 12, with the opening of its new hockey arena on Jan. 12. David Renkas, vice president of the Ituna Community Arena C...
Jan 19, 2025 Fundraising efforts for the new Ituna Community Arena began in 2015. (David Renkas/Submitted)
Picking up the pieces: SpaceX comes to get space junk from Ituna farm
Pulling up in a U-Haul -- not a Cybertruck -- two employees loaded up the fraying carbon fibre pieces from a SpaceX spacecraft that fell from the sky. The two declined to answer the media's questions ...
Jun 11, 2024 Barry Sawchuk, second to the right, stands with other people who have found junk in their fields near Ituna. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
'We had a real good inkling': Farmer finds space junk in field near Ituna
A Saskatchewan farmer is experiencing a situation that happens once in a blue moon. Barry Sawchuk farms near Ituna, northeast of Regina, along with his three sons. Near the end of April, Sawchuk and h...
May 15, 2024 Barry Sawchuk found the burnt-up space junk while checking his fields. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Ituna Hotel destroyed in overnight blaze
A blaze destroyed the Ituna Hotel on Thursday evening. Like many small-town hotels, the Ituna Hotel was known as the heart of the community. Adrienne Ivey, a rancher who has lived close to town for mo...
Dec 11, 2020 The Ituna Hotel burns to the ground (submitted)
Million-dollar birthday for Ituna man
An Ituna man recently received a life-changing birthday gift from his sister-in-law, according to a release from Saskatchewan Lotteries. She bought him a $1 MILLION ROYALE ZING scratch lottery ticket ...
Jun 23, 2020
House fire in Goodeve claims man's life
One man is dead after a house fire Monday in Goodeve. According to the RCMP, officers from the Melville and Ituna detachments and members of the Melville Fire Department responded to a report of a fir...
Apr 07, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. woman still insists on hosting Christmas at age 107
Christmas at Baba's house has been a tradition for decades. In 1991 Aimy Thiessen told her soon-to-be-husband they had to go to Baba's in Ituna for Christmas because she was 79 and it could be her las...
Dec 25, 2019 Katie Suwala is 107 years old and still hosting Christmas at her home in Ituna, Saskatchewan (Submitted)
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