Local Arts

Zellers County Fair, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, opened in 1968 in the West Broadway Mall at #454 Broadway Street West. In 1978, the business became a subsidiary of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Author Britton has her roots in Yorkton Terre Britton has a new book. And this time the Yorkton-born author has turned her attention to children’s books with the release Jammie Cats Count! The Magical Forest.

Residents of the R.M. of Orkney had an opportunity to air concerns to their council as a whole at a ratepayers meeting March 1 at Gallagher Centre. Following presentations by two guest speakers, Reeve Randy Trost gave a brief overview of 2016 R.M.

Telemiracle 41 broke the five million mark over the weekend of March 4 and 5, raising a total of $5,000,274. The Yorkton Kinsmen and Kinettes were one of the groups to help push that total higher raising a total of $30,888.61.

Every year in Yorkton approximately 40 people report sexual assaults, but only about 27 of those are accepted by police as legitimate. The other 13 are dismissed as “unfounded.

The ballet is coming to Yorkton. Ballet Jörgen is bringing Bouffonia to the city as part of the Yorkton Arts Council’s Stars for Saskatchewan series. It will be in town on March 11 at the Anne Portnuff Theatre.

March 8 is a very important date in Canadian history. It is the day in 1867 that the British Parliament gave final reading to the British North America Act (BNA Act), which created Canada.

The four-year nursing program now being offered in Yorkton now has a new clinical lab area to enhance the program.

The second-degree murder trial of a 34-year-old Cote First Nation man concluded at Court of Queen’s Bench in Yorkton last week.

Nearly a year-and-a-half after Trent Senger suddenly resigned as principal of Sacred Heart High School under questionable circumstances and amid rumours of misconduct, the Saskatchewan Professional Teachers Regulatory Board is taking disciplinary act