Local Arts

Lightning fast Internet has arrived in Yorkton. Boasting download speeds of up to 100Mbps, Access Communications is excited to announce that AccessHyperSpeed 100 is now available.

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce that it is now accepting entries for the 2017 Yorkton Film Festival. 2017 marks the festival’s 70th year of celebrating the best in Canadian short film.

At some point in our lives how we view ‘games’ seems to change. We are eager at 10, 15, to drag out checkers with dad, chess with big brothers, cribbage boards with grandparents. In our later teens many explore role playing games.

The message is as simple as it is blunt. Do not be a victim; do not be a perpetrator. And do not be both.

Evergreen Motors, #12 Fourth Avenue North –(Across the lane north of the Toronto-Dominion Bank.) Circa 1960s. A garage was originally built in 1941 by E.J. Fitchner of Foam Lake. W.E. Fitchner, who was mayor from 1957 to 1968 became owner in 1966.

Boarded up for years, even during the day, the old Western Grocers (now TA Foods) warehouse on Broadway Street has a creepy kind of feel to it. Now, leading up to Halloween, it has taken on an even more sinister appeal.

The Ministry of Environment is again offering a wolf hunting season for wildlife management zones along the provincial forest fringe as a method for helping to reduce wolf-livestock conflicts.

In the article “Author charms business crowd,” Yorkton This Week, October 12, 2016, we misnamed the Canadian Western Bank. Yorkton This Week apologizes for the error.

Willowbrook Lions President, Eugene Maystrowich presented a cheque for $2,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director, of The Health Foundation, to assist with purchasing the new equipment for the ICU.

There are big changes coming for the Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton. The club is growing, and has a new space for their middle years programming.