Local News

A Kamsack woman’s granddaughter was named the Technologist of the Year by the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Association.

A number of organizations in the area shared in the approximately $1.6 million granted to more than 700 groups and organizations in the province licensed to conduct charitable gaming by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA).

A comedy which transports the plot of the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac to a present day television station where Cyrano is the station manager, is the production being staged by the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute senior drama club.

Students at the Norquay School received certificates on March 1 for their Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day contest entries in the categories of coloured posters, black-and-white posters, poems and essays.

Despite an unusually mild winter and lack of an abundance of snow in many parts of Saskatchewan, the Duck Mountain Loppet was dealt a “winning hand” by Mother Nature with enough snow and acceptable temperatures.

The new CT scanner for the Yorkton Regional Health Centre has been ordered and is expected to arrive in late March. In preparation of the new scanner arrival, the current CT scanner is being removed from YRHC starting on March 7.

Verbal and physical abuse in City-owned facilities and properties are not to be tolerated. And Monday Yorkton Council unanimously supported the creation of a new Prevention of Verbal and Physical Abuse in Recreation Facilities and Properties Policy.

Yorkton Council unanimously agreed to a few subtle revisions to the City’s Saskatchewan Lotteries Community Grant Program Policy. The Saskatchewan Lotteries Community Grant Program is a partnership among Sask Sport Inc., Sask Culture Inc.

The City of Yorkton has repealed its Dutch Elm Disease Control Policy as being redundant with other another bylaw.

The Trans Canada Trail system in the city is being expanded.