Local Arts

Yorkton Regional High School students polished their rides for the school's 32nd Annual Car Show and Shine on May 29. After a day of admiring the event's more than 60 entries, awards were handed out.

Opponents to a 425-page bill gathered in cities across the country on Saturday, June 2. Yorkton-Melville M.P. Garry Breitkreuz was unaware that a few showed up in front of his constituency office.

The WA WA Shrine Circus was in town on May 29, performing two shows to full houses at Farrell Agencies Arena. Proceeds from the circus go to support the WA WA Shriners and their charity work.

The Colony is one of those games I had wanted to get my hands on for a while, for a few reasons actually, and it has lived up to my expectations in each. To start with the game designer, Jeph Stahl is a Canadian.

Wild Country EP Wake Owl 8-out-of-10 Summer is here (almost); the turn key cabins are being cleaned out, propane tanks are being filled, and the beer fridges and meat freezers are being restocked.

Saskatchewan residents continue to benefit from the Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program.

From May 28 until June 1, youth from Yorkton's Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division attended the 40th AMPO at Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Students got to experience canoeing, archery, firestarting and a host of outdoor skills.

New census data released shows that Saskatchewan is bucking the national trend and getting younger. As the Canadian population ages, Saskatchewan is the only province that saw its median age and percentage of seniors get lower between 2006 and 2011.

By the summer of 1882, fourteen settlers had arrived from Ontario and England. They came first in ox-driven carts by way of Brandon, to Fort Ellice near where St. Lazare, Manitoba is located today, via the Carleton Trail.

At its May 30 meeting, the Sunrise Regional Health Authority passed a narrowly balanced budget that will require stretching existing healthcare dollars further than ever. The $208.