Local Arts

Angeline Stankewich (left) and Bailey Lemcke starred in Schoolyard Games, a drama by John Lazurus, in the Saskatchewan Drama Association Region 4 Drama Festival at Sacred Heart High School on Friday night.

Dr. Brass Students of the Month: Grade 3 student, Amie Martin Grade 8 student, Collin Reviczky.

Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Bill Hutchinson announced the deadline for applications under the existing Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit (SFETC) program would be extended from March 31, 2012 to June 30, 2012.

Yorkton's community theatre group is just days away from its biggest week of the year. Starting Sunday, the Paper Bag Players will play host to TheatreFest 2012 and open the festival with their own production of Dream World by Fred Carmichael.

Vaughn Solomon Schofield was officially installed as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan today.

The City of Yorkton is moving forward with creation of a conceptual plan for a Broadway - King Street Recreation Corridor following a unanimous decision by Yorkton Council at its regular meeting Monday.

The Yorkton Harvest Hockey Club have announced that they are going to be in the running to host a western Canadian hockey championship in their home arena in the year 2014.

The Commercial Crime and Fraud Sections with the Regina Police Service, Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatchewan Financial Services Commission and the RCMP have joined forces to promote March as Fraud Awareness Month (www.sacp.

The Saskatchewan Party brought down its 2012 budget last week, and Yorkton MLA Greg Ottenbreit said it is a document which addresses party promises from last fall's election, and does so in a balanced fashion.

More food companies than ever are advertising that their products are 'made with whole grains' or 'multi-grain.' It seems everything you find in the grocery aisle now contains whole grains.