Local Arts

Larry Pearen conducts the "mass band," made up of the combined Yorkton Community Concert Band and Prairie Winds Concert Band from Regina.

The Yorkton Terriers are Western Canada Cup champions, and are now headed to the Royal Bank Cup tournament starting Saturday in Vernon, B.C.

A provincial government team examining the issue of how disability is viewed in Saskatchewan and how the Province can better support the inclusion of people with disabilities held a public consultation in Yorkton May 1.

An 11-year-old Yorkton boy is leading the charge to raise awareness of and raise funds for research into two diseases that do not get a lot of public attention, probably because of the private "bathroom" nature of their symptoms.

Saskatchewan officially proclaimed May 2014 as Missing Children's Month. This year marks the 23rd annual Green Ribbon Campaign by Child Find Saskatchewan, which includes National Missing Children's Day on May 25.

If I were forced to pick a single game to play in lieu of any other, it would be crokinole.

The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses celebrated its 40th Anniversary last week in Yorkton with its Annual General Meeting at the Gallagher Centre.

Yorkton Kalyna Dance school welcomed hundreds of Ukrainian dancers from across western Canada May 1 to 4 at Anne Portnuff Theatre.

The Government of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Shortline Railway Association (SSRA) urge all motorists and pedestrians to be alert and cautious near tracks and trains.