Local Arts

Gulliver's Travels (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Rob Letterman. Starring Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Jason Segel. Really quite astonishingly bad comedy based on the classic story.

Brian, Jeannette and Ella Becker took a trip to Saskatoon, where Ella visited with her sister Agnes, and Bill Hembroff. Brian and Jeannette visited with their son, Toby and Tanya Becker and family.

A short film by Brittany Ayers has earned top honours from the Saskatchewan Watershed Association. The win gave Ayers a $1,500 scholarship.

SaskTel Minister Bill Boyd today announced that the Canadian Numbering Administrator (CAN) which assigns phone number blocks and area codes in the country has advised that Saskatchewan is running out of 306 phone number blocks and will need to add a

NORTHERN RANGE Larry Krause Indie 8.5-out-of-10 It's always interesting to interview a singer before listening to their disk. In the case of Saskatchewan singer Larry Krause that was doubly the case.

An arrest was made last week in connection with two incidents in a string of alleged abduction attempts in Yorkton. Twenty-three-year-old Yorkton resident Curtis Pawliw has been charged with solicitation and assault.

Ten young Yorkton musicians were chosen to join the South Saskatchewan Junior Honor Band in Regina early this month.

The newly-crowned Miss Teen Yorkton World will be one of nine contestants representing Saskatchewan at the Miss Teen Canada World pageant in Toronto this July.

Saskatchewan's population has hit an all-time high of 1,052,050 as of January 1, 2011 according to the latest figures released today by Statistics Canada.

Last week's Youth Speak 2011 event brought together more than 250 local young people to discuss the problems facing Yorkton as the city's youth see them.