Local Arts

Yorkton This Week and the News Review have both won awards in the SWNA Better Newspaper Competition. Yorkton This Week took second in Best Overall Newspaper, circulation 2,000 to 3,499.

Families and community organizations together with RMHC-SK are kicking off the 2nd Annual Red Shoe Walk in your community to celebrate 31 years of assisting Saskatchewan families in critical times of medical need.

Kidney disease (Alport Syndrome) has been a part of Audrey Parisloff’s life for many years, affecting four generations of loved ones. The immediate family has been burdened with this disease for years.

A former Yorkton provincial election candidate has been charged with fraud. Chad Blenkin, who ran in the 2011 provincial election on the NDP ticket, had a first court appearance May 2 in Yorkton Provincial Court on four charges.

Another suspect associated with a rural crime spree between August and November 2015 has pleaded out.

RBC recognizes that the arts are the heart and soul of our communities …. — Gillian Potter, RBC Yorkton branch manager A lot of the time, talent just isn’t quite enough.

John Ridsdel, a former mining company executive and journalist who grew up in Yorkton, is being remembered and grieved this week after a Filipino terror group made good on a grisly threat Monday.

“They are a nasty nuisance [but] bed bugs do not transmit disease. They are not considered a health hazard.” — Sharon Tropin, Director of Communications, Sunrise Health Region Bed bugs have popped up to bite the Yorkton Regional Health Centre.

The Yorkton Chamber of Commerce has named Yorkton Plumbing and Heating (YPH) and The Rock 98.5 its Large and Small Businesses of the year.