Local Arts

Minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority Dustin Duncan today announced a has review of the province's water management infrastructure and its current operations.

Thousands of Canadians are affected by disaster every year. On average, Canadian Red Cross volunteers respond to a disaster every four hours. Disasters range from house fires affecting one family to floods causing hundreds to be evacuated.

The federal government last month announced the Prime Minister's Volunteer Awards, the first annual federal program to acknowledge the country's hardest-working citizens.

Canadian citizens and permanent residents moving to Saskatchewan from other provinces or territories will now be able to apply online for a Saskatchewan Health Services Card.

From the H. Jackson Collection, we have this photo of Yorkton's first ball team in 1900. The players are: The first row: Morley Chubb, Pud Ball (pitcher), Orville Thomas. Second row: Walter King, Wes Fields, Alfred Arnold, Billy Long.

The first steps have begun on a volunteer project that will put a Yorkton family into a new home by next spring.

SaskPower warns the public to be aware of a telemarketer who has been contacting customers encouraging the purchase of a product to save power.

Perhaps the greatest influence on farm commodity prices over the past quarter of a century has not been hungry people, or the impact of Mother Nature, but has been the meddling in the market of world governments.

For the past 15 years the Yorkton In Bloom Committee has promoted the Local Grounds Competition partnered between City Of Yorkton Community Development, Parks & Recreation and the Yorkton & District Hordicultural Society.

The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery presents Primal Nature, an exhibition of paintings by Jeanette Marshall.