Local Arts

Family Literacy Day is a National Awareness Day to increase early childhood literacy by creating literacy nurturing environments within the home. ABC Life Literacy Canada has spearheaded this initiative since 1999.

In retail advertising, they call it a loss leader. Something you market at money-losing price to get people into the store where you have a chance to sell them bigger ticket, higher profit margin items.

As you flip through your vehicle’s owner manual, you’re likely to notice that it has two different service interval schedules – one for “normal” driving and one for “severe” driving.

The ambitious Laketown Players at Saltcoats are working now on their ninth annual dinner theatre production. Having in the past produced such plays as The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon & The Kite (both plays by W.

A passerby shooting video in November outside the Lucky River Chinese restaurant in San Francisco caught an employee banging large slabs of frozen meat on the sidewalk — which was an attempt, said the manager, to defrost them.

Each month a male and a female student is selected as the SHHS Saint of the Month. Saint of the Month students are nominated by staff and students of SHHS.

TD Bank Financial Group and The Health Foundation announced the recipients of the Fall Education Awards for 2014. Applications are considered twice each year and awards are given each spring and fall.

There’s still time to have your say about the future of Saskatchewan’s liquor retail system.

The Yorkton Film Festival kicked off a new series of public screenings last week with Ebola War: The Nurses of Gulu. The idea behind the series is “Spotlight on the News.

A Yorkton youth addictions counsellor is the 2014 co-recipient of the Angus Campbell Award for Excellence in the Field of Addictions. Will Woods has been a youth addictions counsellor in Yorkton for 31 years.