Dear Editor,
Let me begin by thanking you for publishing a very fine picture on the front cover of the Yorkton This Week (01/18/17).
However, what is making me write this letter is the lack of actual vision the paper has when it comes to the community of Yorkton. As you know, there are two Ukrainian Dance clubs in our city. Both clubs exist for the preservation and furthering of the Ukrainian Dance Culture which is so ingrained in the people of our community and surrounding areas. As you know, where there are people there will always be differences in opinion and that is the simple reason why there are, in fact two clubs. Here is where your paper has made a glaring error in reporting and have overlooked in editing, a delicate point among the people of Yorkton.
You have incorrectly and erroneously labeled the outstanding celebration and performers at Malanka last Saturday (01/14/17) as members of Kalyna, when they are, in fact, members of the largest Ukrainian dance club in the City of Yorkton – the Troyanda Ukranian Dance Ensemble. This is simply not acceptable. When simple facts such as a club’s name and event that they are hosting (which, I will remind you, has been all over the City of Yorkton and the surrounding areas via posters, radio ads, social media), cannot be conveyed reliably to the public via your paper, how are we, the public, supposed to lend credence to anything that you publish on any other subject in your publication? I, as a member of the Ukrainian community am also offended that your reporter falsely wrote about the “distribution of meat at midnight”. Seriously? We are not animals. “Wheat” was, however, distributed by a girl representing St. Melania to everyone at midnight to symbolize happiness, health, love, luck, and blessings to the families present.
To make this situation ‘right’, I suggest that you issue an apology to the Troyanda Ukranian Dance Ensemble of Yorkton for this embarrassing mistake as well as republish.
Eric Sliva,
Yorkton, SK.
