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Yorkton Council officially proclaimed February as Kinsmen Kindness Month following a request made by the Yorkton Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs at the regular meeting of Council Monday.

The Yorkton branch of the Royal Canadian Legion received final approvals Monday which will facilitate their move to a new home in the city.

The City of Yorkton will provide some unused right-of-way property to help facilitate a new shopping centre.

The town council of Outlook met for a regularly-scheduled meeting on Wednesday night, January 24.

City Council unveiled a first look at this year’s capital and operating budget at its regular meeting Monday. And once again Yorkton taxpayers will be looking at a hike in what they pay in property taxes.

Volunteers operating the Kamsack Power House Museum are eager to encourage residents to spend some time in February to seriously reflect on the importance of history, their heritage and the cultures that have assembled to create this community.

In part because the Kamsack area is reputed to have “the cleanest air in Canada,” the world’s largest independent organic breakfast and snack food brand has purchased 5,000 acres of farmland in the area.

The children's winter festival is scheduled to feature many events and activities all geared towards winter outdoor fun. The festival, sponsored by the Preeceville Arena Board will be held in conjunction with the Preeceville Musher Rendezvous.

Lorie Regehr, Canora Dairy Bar owner, and her husband Murray Bolton, experienced what many people would consider to be a whole new level of fear and uncertainty while in Hawaii during the missile threat on January 13.

It’s been a weighty week for a former resident now making her home in Hawaii.