Local Arts

Employers and minimum wage earners are reminded that Saskatchewan's minimum wage is going up effective December 1, 2012. The Government of Saskatchewan will increase the province's minimum wage from $9.

Treasures from the Vault Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Sept. 30 to Dec. 14, 2012. A special exhibition drawn from the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection to celebrate Yorkton arts and culture.

SaskEnergy is experiencing customer expansion not seen in a generation, thanks to continuing economic and population growth.

In the very early 1900s, the Yorkton Enterprise published lists of ranchers operating in the surrounding countryside of Yorkton, and further afield. Each ad also had a sketch of the cattle or horse brand owned by the rancher.

A group of mature Yorkton drivers got a refresher course on the safe operation of a motor vehicle last week.

Water rates are climbing for the seventh straight year in Yorkton, as City Council passed in 2013 rates at its regular meeting Monday.

Violence Awareness Week was declared Monday by Yorkton Council for the current week of Dec. 2 - Dec. 8. "This week encompasses December 6, which in 1991 was designated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

Yorkton Council took its first public look at the City's 2013 Operating Budget at its Committee-of-the-Whole meeting Monday. The budget shows net expenditures of $18,008,825.

Twelve Thirty Four Ellen Kolenick 7-out-of-10 As the weather turns colder I've been seeking longer refuge near my small box stove hunched over my work bench, a project under my nose and drowning in familiar Bob Dylan records.

It has become as much a symbol of Christmas as jingle bells and holly, sleigh rides and jolly old Saint Nick. The Yorkton Salvation Army (SA) kicked off its annual kettle fundraiser at Parkland Mall on November 30.