Opinion

“Hey, Anth, what’s that smell in here? It’s wonderful!” A few minutes earlier the Preacher and I had entered the door of our son’s house.

People in Canada discard about 57 million plastic drinking straws every day. In my hometown of Vancouver, we toss out 2.6 million disposable cups every week. It’s a global problem.

First of all, let’s get some housekeeping out of the way: we’d love for you to join us at the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society’s Annual Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show on Wednesday, August 8, from 1:00 till 5:00 p.m. at St.

Oh how I wanted to love Steampunk Rally with all my heart. “It is the turn of the 20th Century, a renaissance of steam, steel and the mysterious power of electricity,” detailed the rulebook fluff.

Is researching your family tree a project that you have been interested in pursuing, but you are not sure where to begin? The Yorkton branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society meets on the second Tuesday of each month (except July and August) a

I’ll be upfront and confess that I did not give my column my full attention this week. Usually I’ll devote some time on the weekend to brainstorm a topic and lay out a few bullet points so I can get to work on it right away on Monday.

There may yet be some good coming out of the recent rather bad rural Saskatchewan crime statistics. One bad aspect is the rather healthy kick to the ego and the prideful notion that rural Saskatchewan is a safer place to be.

Whenever someone attacks libraries, you get an excuse to talk about why libraries are great.

Yorkton This Week’s editorial staff takes readers on an explorative journey around the Internet, searching out the best in videos, podcasts, webcomics, music and anything else that catches their collective eyes which might interest our readers.

There is much criticism of Offensive Coordinator Stephen McAdoo in Roughrider Land this week after the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Riders 34-22.