Local Arts

"The Yorkton Film Festival will not be the same without her." Ruth Shaw died just last week. It wasn't that her death was unexpected.

SGI and law enforcement agencies are continuing to crack down on cell phone use with another traffic blitz yesterday and today.

Saskatchewan Provincial Parks had another record year in 2013, breaking the 2012 visitation record by 3.3 per cent. Saskatchewan provincial parks had an estimated 3.7 million visits. This is a 21.6 per cent increase in visitation since 2007.

It was a special night Sunday for brothers Tarrington and Tarrum Wyonzek as they teamed up as linesmen for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League game between Yorkton and Flin Flon at the Farrell Agencies Arena.

The Personal Care Homes Amendment Act received first reading in the Saskatchewan Legislature today. The intent of the legislation is to improve accountability and better inform residents and families about personal care home inspection results.

The City of Yorkton has a new Bulk Water Fill Station. The new facility offers expanded service, explained Waterworks Manager Glenda Homes.

A local First Nation corporation was honoured nationally recently.

Eden Rohatensky believes there should be more women working in the field of computer programming and the former Yorkton resident is becoming proactive in an attempt to help that happen.

Haute Couture A few still-primitive cultures inexplicably celebrate such female adornments as the stacking of metal neck rings and the inserting of saucer-size disks into pierced earlobes.

A Saskatchewan oil company was recently fined a total of $56,000 in Hudson Bay Provincial Court for failing to reclaim four well drilling sites located near Preeceville. Western Warner Oils Ltd.