Local Arts

Yorkton This Week has had a change in the publisher’s chair. Jim Ambrose recently announced his retirement as V.P. of Operations Prairie Newspaper Group with Glacier Media Inc., a position which encompassed publisher of Yorkton This Week.

In Yorkton Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday, closing arguments were presented in the case of Gregor Gmerek, who is accused of fraud, forgery and uttering a forged document during his time as an employee at Prairie Livestock in Moosomin.

A Yorkton man has been sentenced in a 2017 home invasion. Cole Cadotte, one of three men charged, was the only one to plead guilty in the case. On Dec. 2, the RCMP were called to the Carousel Apartments in Yorkton.

Kids sit in the makeshift waiting room at the Yorkton Nursery School Co-operative (YNSC), reading editions of Chickadee magazine and clutching onto their furry friends.

Naturalist and activist, Trevor Herriot also has a growing list of books to his name.

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) held their annual convention this past week. Randy Trost, Reeve for the RM of Orkney, was in attendance, and says it was a valuable experience for him and the councillors in the RM.

On Friday, Mar. 16, there was a full house at the Land Titles building in the city to view the local debut of the documentary film Myth.

Residential schools and the ‘60s Scoop are two things that have caused a wound among First Nations people in Canada.

Ask lawyer Mark Persick to talk about the laws surrounding marijuana next year and his presentation might be very different. Five years from now, it will be different still. Canada is heading into the unknown with the legalization of marijuana.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority and the RCMP are warning people of the potential of fentanyl or carfentanil in the area. Fentanyl is a prescribed painkiller that is often added to illicit drugs without people’s knowledge.