Local Arts

Habitat for Humanity volunteers were in action on the weekend building a home for the city's second Habitat family. Construction supervisor Merv Catchuk anticipates a late January finish for the home on Elizabeth Avenue.

This hunting season the Ministry of Environment and the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Centre will be conducting targeted Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing in both east central and south western Saskatchewan.

About 30 people in Yorkton attended an October 4 Sisters in Spirit Vigil to honor the lives of missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada.

Conceptual planning for new health facilities in Canora and Yorkton is progressing on schedule, reports the Sunrise Health Region.

Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud has proclaimed the week of October 9-15 as Veterinary Technician Week in Saskatchewan. "Veterinary technicians play an important role in the success of Saskatchewan's livestock sector," Bjornerud said.

We present again the photo of the Adams farm at Tonkin, taken on October 2, 1914.

The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) encourages social workers and all Canadians to next week (October 2-8, 2011) champion Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) in our communities and places of work.

Milligan Bio-Tech Inc. is in the process of completing an expansion to its Foam Lake biodiesel plant that will make the company the largest biodiesel producer in western Canada.

Another week of warm weather has Saskatchewan producers well ahead of the five-year harvest progress average. As of September 26, ninety-one per cent of the 2011 crop has been combined, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report.

Alleys - Margaret Phillips, Sept. 6 to Oct. 28, 2011. To create these images of the urban landscape in Yorkton, Margaret focused her lens on the alleyways and hidden moments of charm and colour behind the scenes in the city.