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Fast-Food Culture Shock: Since December, the White Castle restaurant in Lafayette, Ind., has provided diners with a stylish experience that includes table service and a wine selection to go with its iconic "slider" hamburgers.

On its 14th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released new data on gas taxes with several major findings. Highlights include: That the average two-car family will pay approximately $1,225 in gas taxes every year.

The Logan Green Water Reuse Pond is being developed with a goal of being a fish pond.

1. 1985 - Bruno Gerussi was the star of Canada's longest running weekly dramatic series, The Beachcombers. The program ran from 1972 - 1990. 2. 1982 - Sandie Rinaldo is a journalist and anchor for CTV television news. 3.

Saskatchewan exporters had a good month in March according to a report released by Statistics Canada today. Merchandise exports in the province totalled $2.73 billion in March, up by 12.9 per cent from March 2011.

Hundreds of Saskatchewan sport hunters and anglers are having their say on the province's hunting and angling regulations and, as a result, the Saskatchewan Government is extending the survey deadline from May 9 to May 23.

The Sunrise Health Region/Yorkton Tribal Council Skin2Skin Collaborative kicked off its first awareness project on May 8 with the unveiling of the winners of a recent photo contest.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released chief and council pay data for the Makwa Sahgiehcan First Nation after a band member indicated they were denied such information from the band office.

Saskatchewan provincial parks and recreation sites are once again gearing up for a busy camping season, opening on Thursday, May 17. Visitors to parks will notice numerous upgrades and improvements and some changes to the camping program.

Yorkton had become a judicial centre in 1896. The picture is of Yorkton's first Court House built in 1903 on North Front Street, now Livingstone Street.