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Five competitive members of the Yorkton Canoe Kayak Club, as well as two coaches, travelled to Regina this past weekend to take part in the annual Canada Day Regatta held at Wascana Lake.

Rain again played havoc with the Yorkton Cardinals Western Major Baseball League schedule last week.

It was a much closer affair than their last two meetings, which Yorkton won by scores of 19-2 and 8-0, but the Yorkton R.

It's been a woeful season thus far for the Yorkton Bantam 'AAA' Cardinals, who were 2-12 heading into this weekend's tilt with the 9-9 Regina White Sox.

The SESBL regular season came to a premature end due to the torrential rain and horrible weather that has plagued Southeast Saskatchewan and Southwest Manitoba in recent weeks.

The Yorkton Exhibition had many things going for it this year. It had rides, live music, beer gardens, greasy but tasty food, etc.

Fourteen Yorkton Storm Swim Club members took part in the Long Course "A" Provincial swim meet recently. The meet took place in Swift Current.

It came as no surprise to anyone in the province of Saskatchewan that the Saskatchewan Roughriders would run over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the first game of the regular season for the defending Grey Cup champions. We were all expecting it.

The Cardinals were supposed to host Weyburn in a doubleheader last Wednesday (June 25).

Madison Neufeld is not your typical 13-year-old girl. Instead of beginning to chase boys, she's chasing something else. Something bigger. Something more important. She's chasing an Olympic dream.