Local Arts

Sunrise Health Region is using a $2.4 million capital funding investment by the province to make health facilities safer and more comfortable for patients and the people who serve them.

With further job action off the table while mediation is underway between the province and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, the province's school divisions are now focused on catching up in the classroom.

It is 70 years since the official opening of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, #11 Yorkton Service Flying Training School took place June 11, 1941. The ceremony was attended by 11,000 people.

Texting MacKenzie is an Ontario band looking to broaden its horizons with a new tour west. "We've played almost every decent and not-so-decent venue in Guelph," said band spokesperson Robin Jools Wright.

True Grit (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon.

A pharmacist who grew up in Yorkton will be sworn in as premier of the Yukon this Saturday. Darrell Pasloski, 50, was elected leader of the territory's ruling Yukon Party on May 28.

The Health Foundation's Scholarship Fund began in 2002 when the foundation and TD undertook to mutually fund an education program for five years.

Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Landscape & Memory 2011 on now until June 24. This year's local and regional art exhibition features 25 of your favourite and newly discovered artists.

Yorkton Regional High School held its annual Custom Car Show & Shine on June 2. Students entered their cars, trucks, motorcycles, and Frankensteinian contraptions to be admired by judges and fellow students.

The Grade 5 and 7 students of Yorkdale Central School have been working since last fall to create a "green space" at the front of their school using grant money from the World Wildlife Fund.