Local Arts

Yorkton Council cleared the way Monday to help facilitate development of a new seniors housing facility in the city.

Increased Internet speeds have arrived in Yorkton and Melville. Access Communications is excited to announce that AccessHyperSpeed 20 is available now in these two communities.

Since September, over one hundred people, ages children to seniors, from Yorkton, Canora, Melville, Springside, Ebenezer and many surrounding areas, have been volunteering (an estimated 500-plus hours) and preparing to perform The Promise.

This past weekend the Yorkton cross-country ski club opened its Deer Park Clubhouse doors to the public in hopes of luring in some new members during its second annual cross-country skiing clinic.

When a game notes it has elements of chess to it, I am generally interested. It's not that I am a great chess player. Far from it. The sad fact is I rarely get to play chess.

The Balmoral Hotel and next door, the Bronfman liquor manufacturing building. The Balmoral Hotel, although destroyed by fire in 1985, will always have a prominent place in Yorkton's history. It is a hotel with a "past" that refuses to be forgotten.

Yorkton snowboarders may be enjoying a new snowboard park as early as February 17. The project, several years in the planning, is the brainchild of Brennan Wiens, owner of Cab Clothing.

Whether or not Wiarton Willie sees his shadow this February, most Canadians are still in for a couple more months of wintery weather. Winter is the worst season for residential fires in Canada, according to Fire Prevention Canada.

Yorkton Public Library and Saskatchewan Writers' Guild - Susan Harris, Author of "Little Copper Pennies" at Yorkton Public Library on Feb. 11 in the Rotary Room at 1 p.m. Event is open to the public.

The family farm may not be dead, but it is surely on life support. Today's farms are technological marvels from the equipment to the inputs to the techniques.