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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.

The town council of Outlook met for a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday night, October 10.

Sacred Heart High School hosted a senior girls volleyball tournament on Oct. 12 and 13. Both SHHS and YRHS were among the eight teams in the tournament, but were unable to make the playoffs.

I have been thinking about the film Eraser recently. It hasn’t been because it’s a particularly great film – it wasn’t – but instead because it seems to be a completely forgotten film. I imagine most people don’t actually remember Eraser exists.

The Sacred Heart High School Saints soccer team hosted the Yorkton Regional High School Raiders for an exhibition game on Oct. 10. The Saints were victorious, winning the game 8-3.