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When Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney looks back on 2015, the highlight was quick to pick out; the opening of Parkland College’s new Trades and Technology Centre.

This is the last New Year before the next provincial election, and Yorkton MLA and Minister for Rural and Remote Health Greg Ottenbreit says that defined what the government had set out to do in 2015.

Cathay Wagantall started 2015 as the Conservative nominee for Yorkton-Melville and ended it as the Member of Parliament. “I certainly was hopeful of that and worked hard to that end, she said.

On the reverse side of the picture there is a notation: Log and plaster house built in 1903, near Rhein -Judy Hilderman. The photo is featured in a publication put together by Staff and Pupils of Simpson School entitled YORKTON 1905-1955.

The last time Fort Livingstone School had a review, it lost its senior grades. In January of this year Good Spirit School Division announced it was discontinuing Grades 9 – 12 and those students would be bussed to nearby Norquay.

Saskatchewan continues to have one of the strongest population growth rates in all of Canada.

The final round of the SnoRiders West magazine Sledtown Showdown competition has begun and Yorkton is still standing. Voting is now open pitting Yorkton against Houston B.C. for the title of Sledtown 2016.

Archive photos by Calvin Daniels and Thom Barker

Yorkton-based recording artist K-Anthony wants to inspire people with his music. His latest single, Tomorrow You May Not, was released recently, with a new video currently viewable online.

Though it feels as though winter has barely arrived, the Saskatchewan provincial park system is already gearing up for the 2016 season with the launch of the seasonal camping program. “We set a new record in 2015, with nearly 3.