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Yorkton Council has unanimously approved a project which will ultimately make creative use backwash wastewater from the City's new water treatment plant. The contract was approved at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council June 29. R.J.

Canada Day weekend celebrations were in full swing at the Saltcoats District Regional Park for the 123rd consecutive year. The event has had a strong sports emphasis since it's emergence in 1888.

Congratulations to St. Paul's Students on a successful year. Our Year-end Mass and Academic Awards were held on Friday, June 24. Our many thanks to Father Ray, of St. Mary's Church for leading us in prayer.

The $100,000 Grand Prize winners of the 2011 Health Foundation Cash Lottery were mother and daughter Alice and Diane Hood of Yorkton. Alice Hood heard the news on June 24 and accepted the cheque last week. "I just couldn't believe it.

This photo from the John Miller Collection features John Miller (left) and Pete Petersen, Agricultural Representative. It was taken at the Yorkton Exhibition in July 1974.

The Yorkton Exhibition Summer Fair is happening this week from Wednesday to Saturday.

The Yorkton Airport Authority has set out the work to be carried out this year under the Community Airport Partnership.

Yorkton Council has unanimously approved acceptance of a tendered contract for the City's 2011 Asphalt Paving Program. The tender closed on June 17, 2011. There was one bid from Fedorowich Construction Ltd.

The contributions of Harry Bronfman to the history of Yorkton is being marked by naming a park after the man.

On the last day of June, Yorkton's Dr. Ivan E. Daunt stepped down from the Broadway Street clinic where he has practiced for the last 45 years.