Local Arts

An annual international survey of mining company executives has named Saskatchewan as the most attractive jurisdiction in the world for mining investment.

At approximately 1:35 p.m. on March 24, Yorkton RCMP received a report of a threat directed towards Wal Mart in Yorkton. In a release, the RCMP confirmed that the building was evacuated and the threat was being investigated.

When Joelle Bohn, owner of Joey Children’s Apparel, decided in 2013 to create an event for children, she never imagined it would become so big so quickly. “It’s crazy to see it grow over the course of the last five years,” she said.

After Bond, James Bond, blows up an embassy in the movie Casino Royale, his boss, known only as ‘M’ laments the 21st century state of international espionage when she gets hauled across the carpet by the powers that be.

Photo: Taken in 1887 Lady Agnes Macdonald is on the right. Here are more details to last week’s story of Prime Minister J.A. Macdonald and Lady Agnes Macdonald’s trip on the Canadian Pacific Intercontinental Railway to the British Columbia coast.

A 22-year-old Ester-hazy man who has spent nearly 18 months on remand facing numerous drugs- and weapons-related charges has pleaded guilty, but won’t be sentenced for another seven months.

A former chief of the Key First Nation has again pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. Clarence Papequash, 64, was a member of the band council on February 15 when he was charged with 10 drugs- and firearms-related offences.

Recently, the province proclaimed March as Rural Women’s Month in Saskatchewan. “One quarter of farm operators in Saskatchewan are women, and rural women work in all areas of our agriculture industry,” Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said.

The International Woman’s Day event on the Keeseekoose First Nation was meant to recognize and value women in the region, and continue to work for equality.

Chamber of Commerce members had an opportunity last week to learn more about gender diversity and sexual identity sensitivity in the workplace.