Local Arts

Treasures from the Vault Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Sept. 30 to Dec. 14, 2012. A special exhibition drawn from the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection to celebrate Yorkton arts and culture.

It's a debate that has raged, on and off, since before Saskatchewan was a province. Now the Saskatchewan Party has decided it wants to revisit Saskatchewan's legal drinking age.

The government of Canada has given Parkland College $10,000 to help Yorkton youth find jobs.

Student education was a big part of last week's Grain Millers Harvest Showdown.

For Winnipeg musician J. Riley Hill the pursuit of music has been something he has long aspired too. "When I was kid I always used to get my friend to bring his dads tape recorder over so we could record 'albums'," he told Yorkton This Week.

According to recent polling by the Canadian Red Cross, 67 per cent of Prairie residents say they have not taken steps to prepare for the occurrence of a major disaster, like Sandy.

Yorkton's certified financial planners (CFP®) are celebrating Financial Planning Week on November 21 with a special presentation at the Yorkton Public Library.

Photo of the Confederation Life Building, Toronto, erected in 1892, where the York Farmers Colonization Company had their headquarters for several decades.

On Saturday, October 27 the University of Saskatchewan fall convocation was held at TCU Place in Saskatoon. There were 994 students who graduated from the U of S on Saturday.

Operation Christmas Child is in full swing again in Yorkton. The annual charitable effort provides shoeboxes filled with gifts of school supplies, toys, necessities and notes of encouragement to kids in the third world.