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A Harvest Star Christmas Harvest Star Collective 7.5-out-of-10 What an exciting time of year! With the end of the world looming, and Christmas just around the world, the festive spirit is definitely in the air.

It's great to be busy, unless it can be avoided. Police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians were kept on their toes last week as weather made Yorkton roads hazardous.

The fragrance of steaming Christmas pudding is an indelible memory of the season for most of us, something worthy of mention by Dickens in his famed book the Christmas Carol.

Thom Barker will be live-tweeting from Court of Queen's Bench in the case of Melvin Dale Koroluk who is accused of luring and abducting an 11-year-old girl from the Yorkton Exhibition in July 2011. Follow @yorktonthisweek on Twitter.

Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Kevin Doherty recently announced that the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) has launched a dynamic new website, www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/.

Following a devastating fire November 27, York-Sask Dry Cleaners will re-opened in a temporary location on Monday.

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Following a devastating fire November 27, York-Sask Dry Cleaners will re-open in a temporary location December 10.

Fire department says slow down

Just over a week after fire shut the doors of Yorkton's only dry cleaning shop, the owners are still waiting on an insurance settlement. "Everything is in limbo," said Loreen Poier, co-owner with husband Doug of York-Sask Dry Cleaners.