Local Arts

Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud recently introduced amendments to The Animal Protection Act, 1999. The proposed amendments to the Act include increasing the maximum fine level for animal abuse to $25,000 for each convicted offence.

Hundreds turned out to honor Remembrance Day at the Gallagher Centre Flexihall on November 11. This year's guest address came from Major Ron Haskell (bottom), a reservist, schoolteacher, and Afghanistan veteran.

Doctors from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington announced in September that they could just as well handle certain brain surgeries by access not in the traditional way through the top of the skull but by drillin

The attention of the Saskatchewan aviation scene will be focused on Yorkton this week as the city is the host centre for the 2010 Wings of Saskatchewan Conference & Trade ShowCheryl Denesowych, one of the local event organizers said this week's confe

The Calder Rec Board would like to thank everyone who attended our Annual Fall Supper. A big thank you goes out to the ladies who helped make the cabbage rolls, perogies & the dainties. The Calder Seniors have been busy with their whist drives.

Three years ago JRDN Croucher teamed up with Grammy-nominated Kuya Productions (Akon, Ginuwine) and the writing process began for the album IAMJRDN released November 9th.

Q.E.D. is a band with a definite international feel even though it came together in Winnipeg. Ra Kural, who prefers to go by Ra, said the band, which will play Rayzer's at the Yorkton Hotel Nov.

Major Ron Haskell, the Deputy Commanding Officer of the 64th Field Battery in Yorkton made a presentation to the City of Yorkton at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

In 1885, a fort was erected at the old town site 4 kilometers north of present day Yorkton, on the banks of the Little White Sand River.

The flood July 1 in Yorkton caused excessive damage at the Yorkton Public Library which has left the facility on Broadway Street closed since.