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The Yorkton Canoe and Kayak Club (YCKC) brought its summer season to an epic close this past weekend with its fifth annual fall dragonboat race. Four teams competed in the day-long event on Sept. 8 at York Lake.

It is often a case where society, on a general scale, looks at the youth of the day and laments the future.

The tradition of using working horse in the field continued in Rama on August 25 and 26. The Rama Performing Arts and Leisure Society (PALS) hosted its annual fall draft horse field days at the Rama Sports grounds.

The annual Memorial Ecumenical Church service in the old Mission Church two miles north of Norquay was held on August 12, and for the first time, organized by the Norquay Ministerial group.

Brandi Kashuba of Preeceville was chosen as one of ten core riders for the Prairie Women on Snowmobiles 2019 Mission. "I’m excited to be chosen as one of the 10 core riders with Prairie Women on Snowmobiles for the 2019 mission.

Gardeners from the Norquay area displayed the bounty from their gardens and yards at the annual Norquay Horticultural Society show held at the Norquay Communiplex. Twenty exhibitors brought in a total of 197 entries on August 15.

The Jaques family celebrated 100 years of their family farm on August 18. David and Mable Jaques first homesteaded in the Ypres district (west of Endeavour) in 1918. This area was settled by many returning First World War veterans.

An hour before the worship service, I find the pastor’s wife weeping in the church nursery. She’s huddled in the corner chair beside the playpen, pressed deep into it, like a wild thing cornered.

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