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Members of the committee which brought the Veregin Hall back to life are in fundraiser mode on a year-round basis.

Sports and community spirit are inseparable entities when referring to the Sas family who run a family-owned business from a location on Main Street where it has been growing and evolving for 40 years.

The October trade show played host to 40 vendors at the Preeceville Community Hall on October 6. The Preeceville Nursery School sponsored the event. Andrea Coder was the 50/50 raffle winner.

In the world of board games everybody seems to love a stout dwarf. Yes there might be a few liking haughty elves, but really, dwarfs are just better. So when a game such as Dwar7s Fall comes along it is immediately one worth a look.

The days are definitely shorter, and if your garden clean-up is done, our garden season for this year is done! But you know gardeners! We’re always thinking ahead to next year, and it won’t be long till we start getting the 2019 seed catalogues.

Terry Dennis, Canora-Pelly MLA, has announced that the government of Saskatchewan will be funding a paving project in Canora under the Town Urban Highway Connector Program. Dennis confirmed that the provincial contribution will be $820,000.

There is an old adage about history often repeating itself, and that might just be the case when it comes to farm shelterbelts. As long as there have been farms, farmers have always had a sort of love-hate relationship with trees.

This ad in the Yorkton This Week newspaper of June 23, 1982 gives us a history of telephone service in Yorkton over a period of 79 years — 1903 to 1982. 1903 — First time that Yorkton subscribers are able to use a telephone.

During a conversation the other day, the Canadian Football League came up and a couple of fellow sports fans questioned the level of quarterbacking talent currently in the league.

When you are on stage next to some of the biggest names in the business, you can feel like a ghost. Denis Dufresne and Aaron Young, the duo that makes up Ghostboy, chose their name because of how they felt being adjacent to the spotlight.