Local Arts

Wunderkind dancers tore up the Anne Portnuff Theatre stage last weekend for appreciative audiences. Dance Innovations hosted their annual weekend production on Jun. 2-3.

The City of Yorkton is going to invest the lion’s share of its 2017 surplus in a pair of soccer pitches.

Visitors and residents enjoyed hot dogs at an indoors BBQ at Yorkton Crossing on Jun. 1. The event raised over $350, which will goes toward the Walk for Alzheimer’s on Jun. 7.

Dozens of students drenched their peers during the epic Yorkdale School Royal Water Fight on May 31. Kids bombarded each other with various water weapons.

Rhythm ‘n Ribs returns to Yorkton for its second year July 27-29. “We had a really good event last year,” said Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, adding some 15,000 people attended the event.

Seeing young animals such as fawns, ducklings, rabbits or songbirds can be exciting, but there are reasons to leave them alone, even if they appear helpless or lost.

Parkland College held its annual graduation ceremony recently at the Yorkton Regional High School’s Anne Portnuff Theatre.

Linda Quinton and Donna Zastrizny have been reappointed to the Theodore Housing Authority Board of Directors. Other members of the board of directors are Linda Clarke, Ethel Onslow and Margaret Lewis. Lewis is chairperson.

Residents will be getting a small reprieve on their parking while a portion of Broadway Street undergoes its makeover this summer. “Repaving of Broadway Street is estimated to begin on Jun. 11, weather permitting.

On May 30, 2018, shortly before 1:30 a.m., Yorkton Rural RCMP responded to a complaint of a break and enter and robbery at a residence in the community of Rhein, Saskatchewan.