Life is slowly getting back to normal for residents of some Saskatchewan reserves affected by the recent flooding.
Eighty people on the Cowessess First Nation have been dealing with a prolonged power outage.
Emergency Social Services has been providing meals to those residents at a central location — but spokesperson Deanna Wysoskey says that will come to an end now that electricity has been restored.
“We had been supporting 80 people from the Cowessess First Nation who were living in their homes, but needed to take their meals at the school because they had no electricity. So ESS was providing them with groceries — and meals were being cooked for those residents by a caterer and provided at the school. But the electricity is back on as of last night, so that support has ended.”
At last word, flooding was keeping 20 residents of the Sakimay First Nation, 25 people at James Smith and 21 residents of the Ochapowace reserve out of their homes.
There are still nine First Nations in the province under a local state of emergency.