Local Arts

The RCMP has arrested a fugitive who has eluded them for almost a year. Vincent Alex Desjarlais, 49, was taken into custody May 10 outside a residence on the Fishing Lake First Nation.

It starts out as a soft hum from blocks away, steadily rising to a gutteral drone like radio static. As you get closer, it articulates into hundreds of individual, but still unidentifiable sounds.

Haley Schrader, Kaybrie Lutz and Nyla Dierker held a Hot Dog Sale at the Yorkton Coop, May 9, to help raise for the Yorkton SPCA. The girls raised $705.00 through hot dog sales and donations.

“In agreement with terms outlined in the Province’s Urban Connector program, the City of Yorkton is responsible for the remaining 25 per cent of the project cost.

A development permit which is another step toward the development of a new building to house Maple Farm Equipment in the city was unanimously green lit at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

Arrest warrants were issued for the following people at Yorkton Provincial Court March 2: Sheila Kakakaway Tiffany M McLeod Anyone with information can call Yorkton RCMP at 306-786-2400, Yorkton Provincial Court at 306-786-1400 or their local police

The monument, dedicated in 1901, was sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert of Québec. Queen Victoria born May 24, 1819, reigned from 1837 until her death in 1901.

Habitat for Humanity Yorkton was on hand at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday to give the city a brief update on its efforts.

The week of May 31 to June 6 has been declared Tourism Week in the city by Yorkton Council. The request for the designation was made by Tourism Yorkton chair Neil Thom at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

It was not the most auspicious result for MC Knoll Grade 5 students participating in a nationwide bug collection project. The local effort was part of a Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) project cataloguing Canadian insects from coast to coast.