Local Arts

The Personal Care Homes Amendment Act received first reading in the Saskatchewan Legislature today. The intent of the legislation is to improve accountability and better inform residents and families about personal care home inspection results.

The City of Yorkton has a new Bulk Water Fill Station. The new facility offers expanded service, explained Waterworks Manager Glenda Homes.

A local First Nation corporation was honoured nationally recently.

Eden Rohatensky believes there should be more women working in the field of computer programming and the former Yorkton resident is becoming proactive in an attempt to help that happen.

Haute Couture A few still-primitive cultures inexplicably celebrate such female adornments as the stacking of metal neck rings and the inserting of saucer-size disks into pierced earlobes.

A Saskatchewan oil company was recently fined a total of $56,000 in Hudson Bay Provincial Court for failing to reclaim four well drilling sites located near Preeceville. Western Warner Oils Ltd.

The Yorkton Film Festival, in cooperation with Access Communications and the Sunrise Health Region, is pleased to announce the 2014 Access Communications High School Film Competition.

For the tenth straight month, Saskatchewan has held the lowest unemployment rate in Canada. According to October's Labour Force Survey released today by Statistics Canada, the province's unemployment rate fell by 0.7 percentage points to reach 3.

A partnership between Parkland College, Good Spirit School Division and Christ the Teacher Catholic Schools is paying big dividends for area students.

If you are a regular reader you will know that the scenes of old British generals re-enacting the battles of history on a number of movies over the years contributed to my interest in miniature gaming.