Southwest Waste Management would like residents of Shaunavon and area to know that they have begun a second controlled burn at the Regional Landfill.

Marla Mellor is the Manager at the Regional Landfill. She says, "We do a controlled burn every year, sometimes twice a year, just to make sure that we get our trees and our clean wood burnt up before it gets too warm in the summer time so that we don't start a fire, grass fires, and things like that."

This second controlled burn began this morning, February 20th and will burn for twenty four hours until nine a.m. tomorrow, Tuesday February 21st and follows an initial burn that cook place just over a week ago.

Mellor adds that the fire will smolder at least until Friday and possibly longer.