Local Arts

Sticking with darts this week, I have to talk a bit about one of the sharpest looking sets of darts in what I would term the beginner, intermediate range, although these beauties will find fans across the skill spectrum.

For eight decades senior hockey has been an integral part of the winter life of Theodore. Hockey goes back even farther, with outdoor rinks paralleling the earliest days of the community.

Legislation enabling the government to extend degree-granting authority to post-secondary education institutions other than the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina has been proclaimed.

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.

Ray Sass, the current chair of Good Spirit School Division, was not re-elected in the October 24 election. Sass, a regional manager for SARCAN, has been a trustee with the school board for 10 years, eight of which he served as chair.

At some point or another, virtually everyone has thought about being his or her own boss. And the ideas for starting a business are virtually limitless.

Yorkton was to have its first bank in 1897, when V.H. Pickering & Co., a private company headquartered in Minnedosa, Manitoba opened a branch at #21 Front Street North. The Manager, C.W.R.

Canailles Manger du Bois 8-out-of-10 I'm having another one of those moments when I wished I had paid closer attention in French class throughout my schooling career.

Bob Maloney is Yorkton's new Mayor. Maloney, who was sworn in at a special meeting of Council Monday, won in what has to be termed a landslide victory polling 3,590 votes or 94.

Angela Shaw has her good days and her bad days. "That's MS [multiple sclerosis]," she said. Both the good days and the bad ones have gotten better for Angela since she met Toffee, her five-year-old British Great Dane service dog.