Local Arts

Summer is fast approaching and youth in the province, 14 and 15 year-olds, who are interested in summer jobs, must complete Saskatchewan's Young Worker Readiness Certificate Course (YWRCC) in order to work.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Guy Ritchie. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris. Frantic action detective story that suffers from trying to do too much.

On March 7, 2009, the Sturgis RCMP were called to a residence in the small community of Usherville in relation to the suspicious death of a local 50-year-old female resident.

An error which resulted in some diagnostic imaging test results not being automatically faxed to the ordering physicians and posted to the Picture Archiving System (PACS) has been identified and corrected.

There is a new face at the Yorkton Public Library with the recent arrival of head librarian Ben Gosling. Gosling was born in Britain, but his family moved to Canada when he was only four.

Parkland College is pleased to have concluded a successful visit with a guest from a college in the East African nation of Tanzania. Hamisi Kamando with the Mineral Resources Institute (MRI) in Dodoma, Tanzania, was at Parkland College May 23-26.

The Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association, in partnership with SaskPower, and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Junior Citizen of the Year Award.

BJ Carey of St. Walburg, SK came out on top of the annual Yorkton Dodge CPCA Chuckwagon Classic at the Cornerstone Raceway with an aggregated time of 2:10.68 over the weekend.

The campaign by Yorkton residents to build a skateboard park on Brodie Avenue continues to pay off for the city.

According to The Weather Network's Summer Outlook, a warm summer is on the horizon, with normal to above normal temperatures expected across the country.