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Steve Procyshen of Parkland Printers 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.

Kyle Braeden Furness, the man who pled guilty to the June 20 murder of Jimmy Ray Wiebe, was sentenced to life in prison with a parole ineligibility period of 12 years yesterday.

If you have been doing any family tree research, you might wonder how a lot of information gets documented.

Saddam Hussein Back in the News: (1) Mohamed Bishr, an Egyptian man bearing a remarkable resemblance to the late Iraqi dictator, claimed in October that he had been briefly kidnapped after spurning an offer to portray Saddam in a porn video.

In the late evening hours of Nov. 28, RCMP in Yorkton were called to an armed robbery at a business on the 100 block of Broadway Street West in Yorkton.

Four Saskatchewan musicians are coming together for an eight community tour leading up to Christmas, and 5th Avenue Cup & Saucer in Yorkton will be one of the stops.

The Boston Pizza Yorkton Regional High School Female Student of the Month for September is Raquel Morales. Raquel is a grade 11 student who is originally from Guatemala.

Water rates in Yorkton are climbing for the seventh year in-a-row, but by the lowest rate in those years. This year the rate, which Yorkton Council unanimously approved at its regular meeting Monday, will be 2.75 per cent.

Stan Stephenson presented a cheque for $5,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, to help fund the building of a new regional hospital. Stephenson made the contribution on behalf of himself and his late wife Lena.

Yorkton Council gave third and final reading to its revised Property Standards Bylaw at the regular meeting of Council Monday.