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Despite Yorkton hockey fans not having National Hockey League games to watch up until last Saturday, the Yorkton Terriers' attendance barely improved from last year throughout their first half of the season.

Francis Bazin and Shane Varjassy competed in the National Taekwondo Championships held in Vancouver on January 9-13. The Championships, which were a double-elimination format, included both the senior and junior championships.

The Yorkton Bantam AA Terriers made it four straight games without a loss on Saturday, January 19 against the Humboldt Broncos, running away with a commanding 7-2 win.

There was no shortage of people taking Lance Armstrong's confession on Oprah of using physical enhancing drugs personal. Hollywood actor Mathew McConaughey told several media outlets that he is 'mad at Lance Armstrong.

Yorkton native Tanner LeSann didn't expect to stay in Swift Current longer than three days when he received an invite to the Broncos' training camp. "When I left for Swift Current I remember telling my friends I'd be back that week," says LeSann.

With the National Hockey League recently ending their lockout, several players with connections to Yorkton will be getting back to their seasonal jobs.

The Yorkton Terriers are celebrating their 40th anniversary in Junior Hockey.

Hearing the Toronto Maple Leafs fired Brian Burke shortly after the National Hockey League lockout ended was shocking to say the least. As Burke described the news, "it was like getting hit in the head by a two-by-four.

The senior boys' YRHS basketball team didn't go to their tournament in Moose Jaw this past weekend because of poor weather conditions. The senior girls' YRHS basketball team played two games in Kamsack over the weekend.

The Yorkton Harvest proved they can compete with the best of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League last week, winning three in a row.