Local Arts

Work continues in the city to provide new entry level housing options. That was what Yorkton Council heard Monday at its Committee-of-the-Whole meeting.

Yorkton Council gave unanimous support to the second and third reading of Zoning Bylaw Amendment at its regular meeting Monday to facilitate a new apartment development in the city.

Duck Mountain Provincial Park is celebrating its 80th anniversary with more electrified campsites.

The City of Yorkton is continuing work on the Dracup Avenue Storm Water Channel and Pond and related projects, with another step about to move forward following unanimous support of Council at its regular meeting Monday.

The Industry Liaison Office (ILO) at the University of Saskatchewan has increased its successes year over year by following a simple mantra: creativity commercialized.

Regulations are being streamlined for large commercial vehicles travelling across the boundaries of the three westernmost provinces.

Police kept a close eye on the Yorkton Summer Exhibition after an eleven-year-old girl reported being abducted from the fair by a strange man on the first day of the event.

Parades are a big part of the annual Yorkton Exhibition Association Fair and as usual there were two this year. The Kiddies Day Parade was held Thursday The main parade which went down Smith Street and Broadway on Saturday morning.

Yorkton's summer children and youth program has started again at the Gloria Hayden Community Centre. The S-CAPE program (Summer Culture, Arts, and Physically Active Experiences) runs between July 4 and August 12, welcoming children ages 6 to 12.

Yorkton Council approved the City's 2011 sidewalk tender, but less work will be undertaken than initially planned. City Engineer Moshiur Rahman said tenders were issued in June for the 2011 Concrete Sidewalks Construction Program.