Local Arts

The second annual Gutsy Walk took place recently at the Brodie-Winchester pathway near the skate park. The Gutsy Walk is a fundraising effort across Canada to continue research programs that will eventually put an end to Crohn’s Disease and Colitis.

There are 90 years of artists at the Landscape and Memory local artists show, with both artists as young as seven and as old as 96.

A Farm Safety Day was held last Tuesday with 212 Grade 6 students attending from the Good Spirit School Division and Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division. Schools included; Columbia, Dr. Brass, M.C. Knoll, Springside, St. Alphonse, St.

The Yorkton Film Festival is announcing the continuation of its Spotlight on the News screening series for 2016. “This film series deals with stories that have been present in the media, whether that’s local, provincial, national or international.

A 39-year-old Yorkton man will serve three-and-a-half years in prison for sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

Yorkton will mark Brain Injury Awareness Month in June.

Michael Winter will remain in jail pending two trials scheduled for later this summer. The 50-year-old Yorkton man was convicted in January for marijuana trafficking and sentenced to time-served on remand and six months probation.

Recently, Health Minister Dustin Duncan introduced The Patient Choice Medical Imaging Act, which will give Saskatchewan residents the option to privately pay for a CT scan. This follows the launch of private-pay MRI services in February 2016.

As a diplomat hoping to strengthen ties between Ukraine and Ukrainian communities in Canada, it makes a lot of sense that Andriy Shevchenko would wind up in Yorkton at some point.

When one thinks of Laurie Renton a few words come to mind. Holistic; adventurous; friendly; inspirational; helpful; kind; entrepreneur; innovator. Her hometown certainly aren’t the only people who view her as an innovated entrepreneur.