Local Arts

After two years of running a highly successful basketball fundraiser, Mark Schendel, MC Knoll School's boys basketball coach, is thinking even bigger.

Yorkton Council approved the purchase of a new bus for its fleet at the regular meeting Monday. Gord Shaw, Director of Planning and Engineering noted, "2012 has not been very kind to our transit vehicles.

Post-breast cancer treatment just became much easier for Yorkton area patients. A common condition in breast cancer survivors is lymphedema.

Yorkton Council passed a new Snowmobile Bylaw giving it both second and third readings at its regular meeting Monday. "The Snowmobile Bylaw for the City of Yorkton was originally passed Sept 18, 1995 with amendments to the schedule over the years.

Employers and minimum wage earners are reminded that Saskatchewan's minimum wage is going up effective December 1, 2012. The Government of Saskatchewan will increase the province's minimum wage from $9.

Treasures from the Vault Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Sept. 30 to Dec. 14, 2012. A special exhibition drawn from the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection to celebrate Yorkton arts and culture.

SaskEnergy is experiencing customer expansion not seen in a generation, thanks to continuing economic and population growth.

In the very early 1900s, the Yorkton Enterprise published lists of ranchers operating in the surrounding countryside of Yorkton, and further afield. Each ad also had a sketch of the cattle or horse brand owned by the rancher.

A group of mature Yorkton drivers got a refresher course on the safe operation of a motor vehicle last week.

Water rates are climbing for the seventh straight year in Yorkton, as City Council passed in 2013 rates at its regular meeting Monday.