Local Arts

Crime and police services are certainly issues for rural Saskatchewan.

Yorkton and the surrounding communities sit on Treaty 4 land, but the relationship between the people on the land has not always been healthy and there are now wounds that need to be healed.

A collection of volunteers stood along a pathway in Logan Green. They were armed with small bottles. A group of runners rushed past them. The volunteers tossed their bottles at the runners, coating them in powdery colours.

Habitat for Humanity hosted a fundraiser BBQ last month, collecting $525.

The annual fall plant and bulb sale hosted by the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society was held at the Parkland Mall in the city Friday.

Winston Wuttunee, a storyteller and entertainer from the Red Pheasant First Nation, and recipient of 2013 Indspire Award for Culture, Heritage and Spirituality, gave a presentation Sept. 11, at the Yorkton Public Library.

Instructor Mike Reavie shows Rylan Bernauer how to rescue a choking baby at St. Paul’s School on Sept. 22. The Canadian Red Cross hosted a babysitting course for youths age 11-15 last Saturday.

Unseasonal snow might have deterred some Yorktonites from venturing outdoors last weekend, but not these burger vendors. Volunteers hosted a BBQ outside Value Village on Sept. 22, raising $270 for Saskatchewan Pride events in Yorkton.

The Yorkton Family Resource Centre and fourth year nursing students from Parkland College put on a free blood pressure clinic.

M.C. Knoll School in the city is 20 years old. And to celebrate the milestone the staff at the school “came up with the idea of 20-for-20 – 20 acts of kindness for the community of Yorkton,” said principal, Jason Trost.