Local Arts

A camp for keyboardists held in Yorkton last week was a first. While the Northern Lights Canadian National Conservatory of Music has been around for 14 years, holding a camp annually, until this year the event was always held in Ontario.

The annual restriction on pruning elm trees in Saskatchewan ends August 31. Starting September 1, homeowners are encouraged to prune their elms to help keep them healthy.

Revised labour force numbers released today by Statistics Canada show employment growth in Saskatchewan is even stronger than first reported last week. There are 8,700 more people working in Saskatchewan than a year ago.

By the opening of the 2015 camping season, approximately $850,000 will be invested in a new campground development and upgrades to the sewage lagoon at Buffalo Pound Provincial Park.

The Saskatchewan Green Party recently sent out a press release where it was suggested the party had learned of an allegation the Sunrise Health Region had "allegedly aggregated the distribution of prescription drugs through one pharmacy in Yorkton.

The Government of Saskatchewan has renewed an agreement that assists recent immigrants in earning the necessary credentials to work and live in the province. The Immigrant Access Fund of Saskatchewan, Inc.

Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) reports that the estimated insured damage caused by heavy rains and high winds across southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba in late June and July was just over $60 million, according to Property Claim Services (PCS).

Friday the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation remembered Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920 by unveiling more than 100 plaques on the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act, 1914.

Enric Girona recently donated his prototype pet commode to the town of El Vendrell, Spain, hoping to spark worldwide interest.

With a choir the more voices the merrier. And that includes the Yorkton Community Choir which is preparing to enter its fourth season in September under the direction of conductor Laureen Jemieff.