Local Arts

Kinsmen Club of Yorkton presents 7th Annual An Evening of Comedy featuring Tim Nutt, St. Mary's Cultural Centre, Yorkton. Fri., Jan. 13. Cocktails 6:00 p.m. Supper 7:30 p.m. Show & Dance to follow.

The Yorkton Branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society wishes you a happy new year, and they're looking forward to an exciting year ahead! We would like to thank Mr. Bruce Monette, Mr.

Dustin Nehring of NL Construction presented a cheque for $1,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, to help fund the conceptual plan for a new regional hospital.

You never know what a single letter can do.

Warrior (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Gavin O'Connor. Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte. Fight movie that walks the line between a cheesy drama and a classy sports film.

From the Jackson Collection: A HOMESTEADER'S LOG HOUSE NEAR YORKTON IN 1900. This was a sketch drawn by Stanley Turner, a homesteader's son, at the age of 17 years. The Turner family homesteaded near Springside.

The Conference Board of Canada released its Autumn 2011 Provincial Outlook Executive Summary and is forecasting Saskatchewan will have the best GDP growth in Canada this year with real GDP expected to rise by 5.1 per cent.

The Government of Saskatchewan is committing to significant enhancements to the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program following through on another campaign commitment.

The provincial government introduced legislation to ensure that future provincial election campaigns do not overlap with a federal election campaign.

Saskatchewan's housing affordability broadly improved in the third quarter of 2011, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued by RBC Economics. This reverses part of the deterioration in affordability earlier in the year.