Local Sports

For the second time this summer, a group of local skateboard enthusiasts packed up their stuff and left Yorkton for the day in hopes of trying to inject some energy into smaller communities around Yorkton - by way of the skateboard.

Holden Knights may have been a little too anxious about a little trip that was going to take him to the eastern United States of America last month.

The Deer Park Haas-Nissan Senior Men's Open was held last Wednesday at the Deer Park Municipal Golf Course. Over 144 golfers took part in what was the last of four Opens held at the Yorkton golf course over the past week.

Seasonal preparations are now well underway as the AAA Midget hockey camp took place over the weekend at the Gallagher Centre.

Saskatchewan and Texas are probably two of the best places to be at this time of year especially if you happen to be a football nut. Saskatchewan has one professional football team and a whole bunch of other clubs operating.

Stock cars The Parkland Racing Association will be holding their monthly race date on (Sunday) Aug. 21 at the Yellowhead International Speedway. The event is sponsored by Deluxe Motorworks and Wholesale Transmission and Differential.

Larry Orth and the late Ed Stefureak will be receiving induction into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend in Battleford. Orth was born April 11, 1950, in Esterhazy, SK.

You are invited to register in a fundraising golf tournament to help send Dreambuilder and Sacred Heart High School students to attend NAAF Career Fair in Yellowknife, NWT. The format of play will be four-person teams and Texas Scramble.

It might sound like a pun to say Finland is the Valhalla of disc golf, but it's an analogy which truly fits. The population of Finland is just more than 5.

Ainsley Oliver of Dive Sask came to Yorkton for a three-day course on proper diving techniques to a small group at the Gallagher Centre swimming pool.