Local Arts

The Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) approved the 2017 average employer premium rate for 48,357 employers covered by workers’ compensation. Employer premium rates have dropped from the 2016 average rate of $1.34 to $1.24, which is a 7.

Fifteen automated licence plate readers (ALPRs) are being installed in patrol vehicles starting this week to help police catch disqualified drivers. SGI announced its investment of $800,000 to fund 32 ALPRs in October.

Kim Thompson, who has her roots here in Yorkton, has just released the third book in her ‘Eldritch Manor Series’. Eldritch Manor is a retirement home for some very strange beings indeed.

The film is a unique collaboration between myself and Janine Windolph, a Cree documentary filmmaker who was born in La Ronge.

Hudson’s Bay Co. Store, Yorkton. Circa 1913. Picture this. You are a youngster around 1913, you live in a small village and this is your first visit to the big town of Yorkton. Your parents take you to the Hudson’s Bay Company store.

A Yorkton judge has reserved his decision in a marijuana and methampetamine trafficking trial. On November 25, the Court heard that during a compliance check on Michael Winter’s home in Yorkton, police found two other men in the house.

The Yorkton Paper Bag Players held their annual fall presentation at St. Gerard’s Parish in the city last week. The performance was a comedy, ‘Perfect Wedding’ by Robin Hawdon. Amber Matechuk directed the local performance .

The family of a man left paraplegic by an alleged aggravated assault in a bar last year was very visible during the first part of the trial of the accused last week.

With talk of “transformational change” comes a question of what that actually means.

Unsurprisingly, infrastructure was the hot topic at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipality meetings in Ottawa November 22 to 25 and a Yorkton city councillor was there trying to advance the city’s agenda.