Local Arts

Have you got a passion for the stage? Do you dream of making a living as a performer? You can do that with Saskatchewan Express! Auditions for the Saskatchewan Express winter Cast will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 4 & 5 in Regina.

At the Godfrey Dean Gallery: Memory Eternal: Ukrainian Orthodox Church Interiors - July 9 to Sept. 7, 2012. Wynyard photographer Ed Stachyruk has been quietly documenting the interiors of tiny and often hidden Orthodox Catholic churches.

Shawna Jones was a city girl with no interest in horses, even admitting they scared her a little. But all that has changed over the last couple of years as Jones has become a licensed groom.

Vic Hamer hopes to bring fresh water to a village in Kenya with the help of people in the Good Spirit Lake region.

Eighty high school graduates with career aspirations in the skilled trades were each awarded $1,000 from the Saskatchewan Youth Apprenticeship (SYA) Industry Scholarship Program.

From 1882-1905, when Saskatchewan became a Province, Yorkton's address was: Provisional District of Assiniboia, North West Territories.

Statistics Canada recently released trade figures that indicate Saskatchewan's wholesale trade increased 13.2 per cent in May 2012 over May 2011, the third highest growth rate in Canada. Wholesale trade totalled $1.

There is potential for co-operation between companies in the Yorkton region and those in the Netherlands.

"WESTERN 649 has been very good to me," Joyce Babiuk said. A few years ago, the Yorkton resident won $500 for matching five of six main numbers.

A Yorkton-born artist was announced this month as the winner of a British Columbia talent contest designed to promote an environmental cause.