Local Arts

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Interest in art comes from all types of muse. In the case of Cole Denesowych the whisper to start to paint came as he convalesced. “Surgery was completed in September and I was on my lengthy road to recovery,” recalled the 23-year-old.

Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999. It is held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family.

February is Heart Month, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation is kicking off a month of fund raising in the community. Their goal, to see more people survive heart attack and stroke.

For her Advanced Placement World History class at Magnolia (Texas) West High School in December, Reagan Hardin constructed an elaborate diorama of a Middle Ages farm — which her dog ate on the night before it was due.

Alternate history is one of the staples of gaming. In the case of this week’s game the era is the American Civil War, an event rich in possibilities in and of itself.

Ashlyn George is not your average tourist.Over the past five years, George has spent 24 months total travelling the globe. She has visited more than 300 cities in 37 countries.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) and the food banks of Saskatchewan wrapped up a matching gift campaign to support the province’s vulnerable citizens and thanked people for their generosity.

Wendy Sumner makes “The Address to a Haggis” during the Yorkton and District Scottish Society’s 37th Annual Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance at the Yorkton Legion Hall January 24 in celebration of the 256th anniversary of the poet’s birth.

A Yorkton man who was found not criminally responsible for the 2011 killing of Tammy Kulaway is now being granted unsupervised outings in the community. Since Madam Justice C.L.