Local Arts

For a third year, the RCMP, in partnership with Fire Protective Services, the City of Yorkton, SGI and Canadian Tire celebrated Bicycle Safety Week with some fun and learning in local elementary schools.

“I know there are lots of good films at the festival, but I just never seem to get there.” That’s what we hear when we are out and about.

The Government of Saskatchewan’s spring forest renewal projects are underway, with approximately 2.2 million new trees – two trees per Saskatchewan resident – to be planted in Saskatchewan’s northern forest.

The Special Olympics in Yorkton are rebuilding, with plans for new sports to get athletes with intellectual disabilities actively participating in athletics.

St. Paul’s School hosted their school Oratory (May 1) and school Science Fair (May 4), and our students also raised money to buy goats for families overseas.

We are thinking ahead of all the lives we can make a difference in and encourage you to do so as well. May is Leave A Legacy Month so this is a great time to let you know about the bursaries we offer and our hopes for the future in our community.

An unarmed man, suspected of no crime, who three years ago was shot 16 times by police while lying in his bed, told a Seattle Times reporter in March that he bears no ill will for the cops who shot him.

Yorkton’s local theater group, Paper Bag Players, recently returned from Theatre Saskatchewan’s TheatreFest 2015 hosted by Melfort, Saskatchewan from April 19th to 25th.

The Silver Manticore is one of a ‘new breed’ of pulp hero. I say new breed, because they are recent character creations, in this case by author P.J. Lozito, as opposed to those heroes with decade old history, such as the Black Bat or Green Lama.

As the local unit of the Army, Navy and Airforce Veterans (ANAVETS) starts liquidating its assets today, police confirmed there is a criminal investigation proceeding. “There will be charges, it’s just a matter of when and who,” said Const.