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Yorkton's certified financial planners (CFP®) are celebrating Financial Planning Week on November 21 with a special presentation at the Yorkton Public Library.

Photo of the Confederation Life Building, Toronto, erected in 1892, where the York Farmers Colonization Company had their headquarters for several decades.

On Saturday, October 27 the University of Saskatchewan fall convocation was held at TCU Place in Saskatoon. There were 994 students who graduated from the U of S on Saturday.

Operation Christmas Child is in full swing again in Yorkton. The annual charitable effort provides shoeboxes filled with gifts of school supplies, toys, necessities and notes of encouragement to kids in the third world.

Social media offers the ability to immediately connect with other people - and that has both good and bad implications.

The Cab Clothing Yorkton Regional High School Male Athlete of the Month for September is Bo Loster. Bo is a Grade 10 student with an academic average of 80%.

In a review of Health Services provided to the Board of Directors of the Sunrise Health Region, Roberta Wiwcharuk, vice president of Health Services said they are working on the concept of 'Learn Where You Live'.

For the third year running, Good Spirit School Division (GSSD) and Parkland Regional College (PRC) will turn the Gallagher Centre into eastern Saskatchewan's biggest career expo on Wednesday, November 14.

What does Remembrance Day mean to you personally? It gives us an opportunity to recognize and thank the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that people around the world enjoy the many freedoms we have today.

Legislation enabling the government to extend degree-granting authority to post-secondary education institutions other than the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina has been proclaimed.