Local Arts

After 16 hours, the final five miners trapped in the potash mine at Rocanville due to an early morning fire are home. PotashCorp reported early Tuesday morning that a cable reel located in the Rocanville mine was burning.

With the help of a number of volunteers supplying combines, trucks and time the Yorkton Terriers harvested a major fundraiser Friday. Seed to Score is a new fundraising effort in support of the local Junior Hockey Club initiated in the spring.

A bar in Horry County, S.C., named the Suck Bang Blow filed a lawsuit in May challenging the county's new ordinance prohibiting motorcyclists' "burnouts" (engine-revving with back-tire-spinning, creating smoke - and enormous noise).

Community Futures Ventures is excited to participate in the first provincial "How to Improve your Community" competition for grade 12 students in our region.

Culture Days 2012 - Western Development Museum, Yorkton. Sat., Sept. 29, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. Join us at the Yorkton WDM as we celebrate the cross-Canada Culture Days movement! On Sat., Sept. 29 from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.

World Breastfeeding Week Canada is October 1 - 7, 2012 and Sunrise Health Region has activities planned throughout the week to celebrate breastfeeding and to promote the theme of "Understanding the Past, Planning the Future".

Members of Parliament will vote today on whether to re-examine at what point a human fetus becomes a human being.

Health officials are encouraging Saskatchewan residents to protect themselves against influenza this season by getting immunized.

Nominations for the Yorkton municipal election closed last week, and two will be seeking the Mayor's chair while 10 go after six Councillor positions. For Mayor, Bob Maloney, a veteran of three terms on Council will face newcomer Richard Genaille.

There will likely be no election for Catholic school trustees on October 24. As of September 19 when nominations closed, only nine people had come forward for the 10 board positions.