In the Community

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- At the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery: Landscape & Memory, June 5-24, 2016.

The first event in the 2016 Parkland Association of Disc Golf Tournament series is in the books. The Vibram Birdie Bash was held in Springside Sunday, with 23 participants entered.

( Editor’s note : Brittany Kashuba was selected by her classmates to give the valedictory address at the Preecevile School gradua-tion exercises on May 21. ) Our class, to say the least, was, and still is, a handful.

Even a month later, the Canora Junior Elementary School (CJES) students still talk about some of the characters created by the Canora Composite School (CCS) drama club, said Betty Tomilin, who shared instructor/director duties with Lisa St. Mars.

Members of the Ukrainian Heritage Museum in Canora dressed for the occasion of recognizing the International Vyshyvanka Day on May 19.

Dereck Wolkowski, who operates funeral homes in Canora and Kamsack, organized a fundraising barbecue on May 13 in Kamsack with all the money raised being donated to the Canadian Red Cross for victims of the Fort McMurray wildfires.

Ed Yasinski, Michael Spelay, Steve Hrynkiw, Florian Slogocki and Steve Gulka, the five charter members in attendance, were given the honour of cutting the 50th anniversary cake May 15 when the Father Decorby Council of the Knights of Columbus celebra

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be holding their Spring Pant and Bulb Sale, Fri., May 27, 9:30 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. at the Parkland Mall, Yorkton.

Another week has come and gone in the world of disc golf in the Parkland Association of Disc Golf region, and again it has been a busy week with many positive developments.

The Town of Preeceville’s planning committee has been busy with scheduling details for the Canada 150 celebration. The dates proposed for celebration is August 4 to 6, 2017.