Local Arts

Did you know? Students who don't file a tax return may be missing out on benefits and tax credits. Important facts Whether you're a teacher or a parent, you can help the students in your life with a few wise words of advice: file a return this year.

The Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus in Yorkton will be presenting our Eighth Annual Patriotic Dinner and Social with special guest speaker, Her Honour the Honourable Vaughn Solomon Schofield, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

Two of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum's (RSM) palaeontological travelling exhibits - Scotty the T. rex's skull and Omaciw the Tylosaur are on the move again.

Carey Gleason, a technician at Terry Ortynsky's Royal Ford, has received Saskatchewan's highest safe worker award; the Work Safe Saskatchewan's Safe Worker Award for 2013. "It was really quite a shock.

Sean Burns has been a Canadian traveling minstrel for years, including a stop in the Yorkton back in 2010. Burns returns tomorrow (Thursday) with a stop at 5th Ave Cup & Saucer, again as part of an extensive tour.

A group of band students from Whitehorse were in the Yorkton area last week as part of an exchange program. The students were staying with families in the Broadview district, with students there planning on going north in a few weeks.

The project manager responsible for the huge success of Regina's Global Transportation Hub (GTH) says there are opportunities for Yorkton to be a regional hub.

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) and its 235 member-owned retail Co-ops are donating $1,000,000 over five years to help local Co-ops and the Canadian Red Cross work together to provide effective, community-based emergency response throughout Wes

Two of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum's (RSM) palaeontological travelling exhibits - Scotty the T. rex's skull and Omaciw the Tylosaur are on the move again.

This week we'll look at something just a little different, and that is a book on a game, rather than the game itself. Long time readers may recall I have written on Hive in the past.