Local Arts

Drinking and boating accounts for approximately 40% of boating-related fatalities on Canadian waterways.

Summer is a good time for a walk. And that is exactly what staff of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, Yorkton Business Improvement District, and members of Yorkton Council did last week.

Several projects to improve Yorkton's streets, water, sewer and storm systems will soon be underway in the City. This means a number of road closures and detours throughout the summer and fall to enable these necessary upgrades to our infrastructure.

Kamsack RCMP are seeking the public's assistance tracking down a 26-year-old Kamsack man who has breached curfew, a condition of a conditional sentence he is serving for resisting arrest.

Permanent repairs are nearing completion just weeks after severe flooding damaged a number of bridges in southeastern Saskatchewan.

The City of Yorkton has promoted one of its own to the city manager position vacated by Dave Putz on July 18. Lonnie Kaal, a 20-year city hall veteran in the finance portfolio, takes over as the City's top bureaucrat August 4.

August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week. There is scientific evidence that shows that breast milk is the best food for babies during the early period of their lives.

Family Justice Services offers the Parenting After Separation and Divorce Program. These public information sessions are intended to help people who are considering or may be in the separation/divorce process. Sessions will be held in Yorkton Sat.

Marking Japan's latest unfathomable social trend, two paperback photo books - both consisting only of portraits of the rear ends of hamsters - have experienced surprising and still-growing printing runs.

Recently the province announced more than $2 million for the development of a new, 68 full-service site campground at Greenwater Lake Provincial Park.