Local Arts

The 2012 Throne Speech was delivered last week by Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield.

Pink Bootie Congratulations to Josh and Natalia Edlin on the birth of a daughter, Cadence Lynn Marie, on Wed., Oct. 17. Congrats also to Great Grandma Doris and Dan Krepakevich from Yorkton and first-time Grandma Deanna (Sean) Letestu of Mortlach.

Over the past two weeks the Good Spirit School Division has been handing out its Student of Distinction Awards.

And What Were Y-o-u Doing at Age 14? Among the students featured in Popular Science's September list of young inventors was Fabian Fernandez-Han, 14, of Conroe, Texas, who invented a bicycle that, when pedaled, also desalinates seawater (via reverse

Yorkton Municipal RCMP is requesting the public's assistance in identifying a suspect involved in an assault at a Yorkton business. On September 4th, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.

Ray Sass, the current chair of Good Spirit School Division, was not re-elected in 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.

Bob Maloney is Yorkton's new Mayor-elect. Maloney, who will be sworn in at the regular meeting of Council Monday, won in what has to be termed a landslide victory polling 3590 votes or 94.

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

Scientists from the Primate Research Institute at Japan's Kyoto University reported in an August journal article that they had given helium gas to apes (gibbons), which, predictably, made their voices goofily high-pitched.

The road to Brazil is paved with robots for two area high school students. Jayden Leister, 17, and Bo Chiasson, 15, will be travelling to Sao Paulo to compete in the WorldSkills America Competition from November 11 to 19.