Local Arts

Reconciliation in Action was the Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers’ (SASW) effort to promote reconciliation in the region.

Provincial Secretary Nadine Wilson has received the Advisory Committee on Francophone Affairs’ latest report on the implementation of the Government of Saskatchewan’s French-Language Services Policy.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was on March 21, and one of the events in the region to celebrate and help the community deal with racism on our own doorstep was a screening of the film “Cognitive Justice,” produced

The props have been put away. The sets have been struck. The curtains have been drawn. Another dramafest has come to a close. The Region Four Drama Festival was held in Yorkton Mar. 22-24.

While Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and Patsy Cline are no longer with us, their music remains immortal, emanating from stereos across the nation to this day. On Apr.

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce the nominees for 2018 Golden Sheaf Awards in our main and accompanying categories.

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.