Turn east off of Highway 47 and, about half an hour from Estevan, you'll find the town of Lampman. Home to 735 people, Lampman hosts numerous events over the summer that mean, in a normal year, people from all around the southeast end up spending time there. 

"Right now due to COVID and the slowing down of everything we didn't have a whole bunch going on this year," said town administrative assistant Greg Wallin. "We've got our sports weekend, which is always the biggest event we have in Lampman was cancelled. We were able to open our swimming pool. There's different restrictions that we have but we do have our swimming pool opened."

Despite the cancelation of several cornerstone events like the sports weekend, the people of Lampman have found other ways to keep busy. The campground is busier than ever, and recently their golf course got new turf greens to replace the old sand ones. 

Like any town, this is also the time of year when Lampman does construction. If you saw Lampman in the headlines at all the last few years, it may have been due to the flooding the town suffered in 2018 and 2019. Fortunately, they've put some new systems in place to help make sure that doesn't happen again. 

"We did have a new lagoon built," Wallin said. "One thing that we have done is our old lagoon we tied into one part of the streets that floods badly in the main street. So we'll be able to pump that out of the old lift station into the old lagoon, we've got a permit to now pump groundwater out that way. That's going to help, and last year we also did a sway out to the north side of town, that takes a lot of water."

Lampman didn't get any flooding this year to really test the new system, so for now it hasn't had to be used. When disaster does strike in Lampman, flooding or otherwise, the town relies on its volunteers to take care of people until help can arrive from a larger centre if needed. 

"We have a volunteer ambulance, we have a volunteer fire and rescue," said Wallin. "As a matter of fact, just this year between the RM of Browning, the town of Lampman, and a partnership with the RM of Benson, we bought a new fire rescue truck."

Lampman was founded in 1910 but did not grow large enough to reach the status of town until 1963.