Local Arts

Taylor Gardner lived one of her dreams last week, competing in one of the prestige events in the Paint horse world. The show in Fort Worth is the annual AJPHA (American Junior Paint Horse Association) Youth World Show.

Caitlin Taylor is having the best summer vacation ever. The 20-year-old University of Saskatchewan student is travelling throughout Saskatchewan going to festivals, camping, boating and generally exploring the diversity of her home province.

Millions of holiday-seekers will be travelling by air this summer and for most, airport security is but a small blip on their radar. For savvy travellers, screening checkpoints are a waypoint in their journey from home to their ultimate destination.

As Habitat for Humanity builds go, 23 Dunlop Avenue was kind of unique. "Annie's House" In 2010, flooding made Brodie Avenue uninhabitable. The City of Yorkton in conjunction with the Province, bought up all the properties.

Health officials have confirmed one death in west central Saskatchewan from complications resulting from hantavirus. The deceased person was an adult male in the Heartland Health Region.

A 19-year-old Keeseekoose man who has been in custody on remand for sexual assault since March will spend an additional two-and-a-half months in jail.

Bad news turned into good news for the Yorkton Exhibition last week.

Thanks to the support of hundreds of individuals and businesses across Saskatchewan, the eighth annual Dollars for Scholars Golf Classic stands as the most successful in Parkland College's history.

The first annual Boston Pizza Day for Camp Easter Seal was launched in Yorkton last week.

In late May a man called into a Brandon, Manitoba radio station and described how he regularly saw lots of Manitoba license plates in parking lots in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.