Local Arts

People lined Broadway Street in the city Saturday to take in the always popular Summer Fair Parade hosted by the Yorkton Exhibition Association.

On October 1, 2016, Saskatchewan’s minimum wage will increase from $10.50 to $10.72 per hour. This will be the eighth increase to the minimum wage since 2007. This increase will directly impact more than 23,000 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan.

A short ceremony, which attracted about 30 people, was held Sunday as wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph in Yorkton to mark the Wounded Warrior Weekend.

Sri Chinmoy, a popular Indian meditation teacher who is credited to a large degree with bringing eastern spirituality to western traditions had a vision that peace was actually an achievable goal for humanity.

Participants in the City’s summer S-Cape program play tag in the gym at Gloria Hayden Community Centre July 8.

The mother of a Yorkton teenager who has been missing for three months made an emotional plea Friday in the hope of soliciting information about her daughter’s whereabouts.

Nine communities have been selected to receive funding for community beautification project through Community Futures Ventures. Community Futures Ventures has received overwhelming interest in its Community Beautification Works Project initiative.

A cheque for $855.00 was donated from the Yorkton Kidney walk held June 12. The donation was made by Audrey Parisloff Volunteer Coordinator for the walk to Ross Fisher Yorkton Health Foundation for the Yorkton Dialysis Unit. In addition, $590.

Each month a male and a female student is selected as the SHHS Saint of the Month. Saint of the Month students are nominated by staff and students of SHHS.

Yorkton’s tourism director wants residents to get out and enjoy their own city on foot along with tourists. Randy Goulden has planned several tours that showcase some of the city’s best amenities.