Local Arts

Another year is about to pass into history. So as is the tradition in columns like this, I took a quick peek at the 50-plus games covered here in 2015, and have gleaned the top-three for a short review.

SaskTel projects that its customers will make approximately 750,000 long distance calls this Christmas Day, December 25. That estimate includes approximately 350,000 wireline long distance calls and approximately 400,000 wireless long distance calls.

While many dream of a white Christmas, the Government of Saskatchewan would like to remind drivers to check road conditions before heading home for the holidays.

In early October, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) was contacted by Derek Lucik, Operations Manager with Inland Aggregates, about a potential fossil discovery at a work site just a few kilometres east of Saskatoon.

The Western Development Museum has always been focused on bringing Saskatchewan’s history to life. With the arrival of Big Bert, the museum is showing Saskatchewan’s ancient past.

In the life of a British Commonwealth lawyer there are few honours greater than being named Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.).

A Yorkton man has elected to be tried in provincial court on charges of sexual assault, administering a noxious substance and drug trafficking.

Going to El Salvador was a life-changing trip for Kaitlyn Kitzan, a Sacred Heart High School student who was selected to be part of the inaugural Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation Global Citizen Youth Leadership Program.

In Thom Barker’s column last week (“Vaping: the new face of addiction” Yorkton This Week, December 16, 2015) the type of cancer Christopher Hitchens died of was misidentified. Hitchens died December 15, 2011 from esophageal cancer.

In the story (“Grow-op fugitive to appear in Yorkton court” Yorkton This Week, December 16, 2015) credit for the photo of Windsor Block in Grenfell, SK was inadvertently omitted.