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It was a spring, summer and fall, spent on the trail for Tyler Cottenie. Cottenie, who grew up in Yorkton, started a hike across the United States on May 2, and finished the Pacific Crest Trail on Sept. 24.

Harlan Theaker, originally from Yorkton, didn’t do much preparation before taking the plunge at the 2019 Polar Bear Swim in Delta, B.C.

A once grand farmhouse sits long-abandoned in a field just east of Theodore. The history of the forlorn structure is known to only a few today, how it once housed one of the most influential families in the earliest years of the area.

The Yorkton Terriers have dropped four-of-five games since returning from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Christmas break. All four of the losses have been against Viterra Division competition, the latest loss Tuesday in Estevan.

The Yorkton RawTec Maulers have won their first game played in 2019. The Saskatchewan AAA Midget Hockey League victory came Sunday afternoon at the Farrell Agencies Arena against the visiting Battlefords Stars.

Things are tightening up in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s Viterra Division. Yorkton remains atop the Viterra after splitting a pair of games on the weekend, having 43 points based on a 21-15-1 record.

Jackie Guy, a five-time Saskatchewan Country Music association award nominee, is about to release her third CD. “The creation of this album revolves around two of my favourite songs,” Guy explained to Yorkton This Week.

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce our next installment in OPEN Cinema program, our first for 2019! “A new year means more great films as part of our OPEN Cinema program,” said YFF Executive Director Randy Goulden.

I don’t know much about baking.

At lunchtime on Christmas Eve day, I walked up to the Great Northern Peninsula shore and added some tears to the vast, salty expanse of the North Atlantic.