Local Arts

Like many others at this time of year, the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure is reflecting on the challenges and successes of another year gone.

Pulp crime novels are a genre I have to say I have certain affection for. I like the grittiness. I like the tales of crime, or the seedier side of things. So when I came across the Hard Case Crime series I was drawn in rather quickly.

Wadena RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Vincent Alex Desjarlais. Efforts to locate Vincent Desjarlais have not been successful and we are asking the public and the media for their assistance in locating him.

Some people are inspirational by their very presence. Such a person was Donna Moore.

1. Terriers win it all (tie) Yorkton burst with community pride in May when the Yorkton Terriers captured the Royal Bank Cup as Junior ‘A’ champions.

For Yorkton MLA Greg Ottenbreit joining the provincial cabinet as Minister Responsible for Rural and Remote Health was certainly the highlight of 2014. Ottenbreit said as an MLA he always had a voice for constituents.

For Yorkton-Melville member of Parliament Garry Breitkreuz, the theme of 2014 was change. This year, the seven-term MP announced his retirement.

Looking back at 2014 Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney said the highlight was pretty easy to pick. “Turning the sod on the Parkland College building,” he said in his year-end interview with Yorkton This Week.

This past August, the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced the Canada-Saskatchewan Job Fund Agreement as a way to invest in initiatives responding to labour market needs.

When the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1999, many citizens of Yorkton, like the rest of the world, sat anxiously before their television sets waiting for the “Millennium Bug” to strike.