Local Arts

On November 26, 1966, joy came to Saskatchewan, as the Roughriders won their first Grey Cup in the team’s history. The Roughies, as they were referred to at the time, triumphed over Ottawa’s own, inferior Rough Riders 29-14.

St. Paul’s School principal Quinn Haider unscrewed the top of a long silver tube. He pulled out crinkled sheets of paper covered with drawings and writings. Haider pointed to an article from Yorkton This Week written 25 years ago.

Holodomor means death by starvation, and in Ukraine in the early 1930s, it was an attempt by the USSR to get rid of Ukrainian farmers by seizing all of their food to sell.

The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is doing something fun for the whole family this Christmas season. The newest exhibit at the gallery is a display of Lego creations built by Kelly Litzenberger.

What’s going on under Yorkton? The sewer system has been built and re-built multiple times over the years, and time is not an ally to infrastructure at the best of times.

Scams are everywhere, from a suspicious phone call or an online offer that seems excessively generous.

Partners in Settlement and Integration began under SaskAbilities as a way to help immigrants overcome barriers as they joined our community.

The Yorkton Municipal RCMP will continue to receive a grant for community policing. The city will receive $330,000 to fund three police officers in the city through the program, part of a province-wide initiative to combat crime in the province.

The Yorkton RawTec Maulers hosted their third annual Paint the Rink Pink fundraiser game on Saturday, November 18. The event raised $3,407.90 to the Canadian Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research.

The Parkland College, Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division and Good Spirit School Division were partners in Career Explorations 2017, which saw 2,000 students from across the two school divisions assemble in the Gallagher Centre FlexiHall to s