Local Arts

Telemiracle is looking for enthusiastic performers, dancers, singers, and bands to share their talent to help us raise funds for those that require special needs equipment and access to medical attention.

This year the Rural Municipality of Wallace celebrates 100 years. We have already published a photo of the first council. This photo from the Howard Jackson Collection features the members of Council for 1927. They are J. M. Cowan Division 2; F.

For years, many traditional funerals in Taiwan - especially in rural areas or among working classes - have included pop singers and bikinied dancers, supposedly to entertain the ghosts that will protect the deceased in the afterlife.

The Ministry of Environment is offering Big Game Management licences to increase the harvest of antlerless white-tailed deer in some portions of the province. Antlerless deer are adult females or young animals born in the spring of 2011.

Kelsie Hendry competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the pole vault event. Her message came to the St. Mary's School of 250 students when she spoke about her dreams and her ambition to always strive and believe in herself.

Some students of Parkland College were affected by last week's SIAST workers strike, but the impact should be minimal if the employees do not strike again.

The City of Yorkton was bustling with two craft fairs this past week. The Yorkton Arts Council presented their annual Sunflower Fine Art Craft Market at the Gallagher Centre.

The annual Roll-a-thon for Our House was held on the weekend, again led by inline skaters Norm Sharkey and Gerry Oake.

The thrills of professional wrestling came to Yorkton Saturday as Canadian Wrestling Elite, a Winnipeg based promotion held a card at the Agripavilion in the city.

Health insurance isn't the only type of coverage you need before your next trip to the United States. Maybe you're driving to North Dakota for some weekend shopping or planning a family trip to Arizona this winter.