Local Arts

We asked all the candidates the same 11 questions on a wide range of issues plus one specific to their party. Over the six weeks leading up to Election Day, October 19, we present their answers unedited and in their entirety.

The third bank to set up business in Yorkton in 1903 was the Bank of British North America, which was located in the Dunlop Block, corner of Broadway and Second Avenue North with G.F. Laing as Manager.

The Yorkton Exhibition Association signed in vendors from wall-to-wall in the Gallagher Centre’s Curling Rink for the Gigantic 1-Day Indoor Fall Flea Market during Saturday.

The 2015-16 season of Stars for Saskatchewan features a wide range of acts, promising something for everyone. The season kicks off with a blast from the past, as Abbamania and Night Fever bring disco back with the music of ABBA and the Bee Gees.

The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yorkton and Area held their first Soap Box Derby on Sunday, September 27. The event saw six teams compete, five from Big Brothers Big Sisters club, as well as one family team running their own custom-made car.

It takes many helping hands to complete a build: Since Habitat’s first build in 2009, we have had many amazing volunteers. They have come in groups and as individuals to help us accomplish each of the four builds currently completed in Yorkton.

Consumers are advised to be cautious when it comes to unsolicited contract work for driveways.

Connie Sakundiak has been reappointed to the Churchbridge Housing Authority Board of Directors. Other members of the board of directors are Susan Shipway, Fern Wagner, Brenda Becker and Verna Brenner. Brenner is chairperson.

Regulations to prohibit use of indoor tanning beds by youth under 18 have been completed and will take effect November 1, 2015.

The distress across the Western world in July over the big-game killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, Washington, who told Facebook and Internet visitors (w