Local Arts

An arrest has been made and charges have been laid in connection to two armed robberies held in the city this winter.

Godfrey Dean Art Gallery - Motion Captured, Motion Denied, November 7 to December 21. This touring exhibition features contrasting works by Zane Wilcox and Jody Barber-Green, two rising young stars in the Saskatchewan ceramics community.

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.