Local Arts

Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan (FCAA) wants to remind consumers that borrowing money from a payday loan lender is costly.

Yorkton’s first annual Coldest Night of the Year started strong, with $10,000 raised for Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth. Peg Beaton says that the YTHY has to thank the community for their support at the event.

So gamers, at least some of us, my little cabal in any case, can have something of a twisted sense of humour. So this week’s game grabbed our attention when it launched on Kickstarter last year in a hurry.

The Royal Canadian Legion Alexander Ross Branch 77 has received an award.

Yorkton Plumbing & Heating came on board with Habitat for Humanity in 2011/12 with the Elizabeth Project. At that time Merv had connected with Justin Yawney, CEO of Yorkton Plumbing and Heating to ask if he and his company would like to get involved.

In January, the upscale Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana introduced stylish hijabs and abayas aimed at Muslim women unafraid to call attention to themselves as they exercise their obliged modesty.

On March 1, Premier Brad Wall joined Husky Energy President and Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh and local dignitaries at an event celebrating the opening of the Edam East heavy oil thermal project, located near the Village of Edam.

A Yorkton man currently awaiting trial for an aggravated assault that left another man paralyzed was back in court March 8 for breaching conditions of his original release.

A 37-year-old Yorkton woman has received a conditional discharge with 12 months probation related to an assault at a local nightclub last fall. Kendra Potzus pleaded guilty to one count of common assault on Monday in provincial court.

In the early 1970s it became mandatory for manufacturers to install seat belts in all cars. During the next two decades, provinces made wearing them mandatory as well. Saskatchewan was one of the first on July 1, 1977.