Local Arts

Saskatchewan Minister of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing, D.F. (Yogi) Huyghebaert and the federal Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews signed the new Provincial Police Service Agreement on August 31, 2011 in Regina.

A 16-year-old Yorkton resident will represent Saskatchewan at a prestigious national talent competition in Ontario this winter.

Yorkton's Senior Mobility Program has a new car thanks to the Saskatchewan Government Employees Union Public Service Local 1115.

Thomas Heathfield was a well-paid banking consultant with a promising career in Maidenhead, England, but gave it up this year to move to South Africa and endure rigorous training as a "sangoma" ("witch doctor").

On September 4, 2011 at approximately 8:30 am, members of the Punnichy RCMP responded to a complaint of a fight that had occurred between two men on the Kawacatoose First Nation.

With September upon us the race for the upcoming provincial election is going to heat up.

Yorkton's Kinsmen Recycling Centre is in the last stages of relocating to a larger facility just down the road from its old one.

All the bravado, hijinks and body slams of professional wrestling are headed back to Yorkton Saturday evening at the Agripavilion. Canadian Wrestling Elite will hold the card in the city.

Student numbers equal to or slightly above last year's are among the highlights of the new school year at the local public and Catholic school divisions.

Pioneers are from left to right, Delbert Ball, of Ball Transport Co., William Bell, had been a bartender at the Balmoral Hotel and Fred Langstaff, a freighter and rancher.