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More community involvement good at festival

More community involvement good at festival

The Yorkton Film Festival has been a part of the city's cultural fabric for going on seven decades. And as the longest-running film festival in North America it has a well-deserved reputation in the film industry across Canada.
Sow more seeds than you will need

Sow more seeds than you will need

Hasn't it been a busy month? We went from a heavy snowfall warning on April 30 to working out in our yards and having our plant sale on May 24! Thank you to everyone who helped to make the plant sale such a success: all our wonderful gardening custom
The difference between faith and optimism

The difference between faith and optimism

Hope caves in, sometimes. Something goes amiss; sends us plunging.
Conservatives should demand accountability

Conservatives should demand accountability

At some point, you have to feel for the true-to-their-heart Conservatives who've endured much during this recent Senate debacle.
EDITORIAL CARTOON

EDITORIAL CARTOON

U.N. food plan will be a tough sell in west

U.N. food plan will be a tough sell in west

Would you eat a stink bug? What about a dung beetle? I have to admit, as adventurous as I am about food, I think I might have to be on the verge of starvation before I could buy in to a new report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture O
Trying to learn new tricks from book

Trying to learn new tricks from book

Welcome to Week LIV of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.
Wall must do more on carbon capture

Wall must do more on carbon capture

There is no question that Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was where he should have been in the final days of the spring legislative sitting ... even if that place was nowhere near the legislature or even in the country.
EDITORIAL - Working on waste management

EDITORIAL - Working on waste management

When it comes to garbage there is public sentiment to reduce flows to landfills. That said, our collective lifestyle seems to run counter to any desire to reduce the amount of garbage which amasses in any household these days.
Why I won't keep my mouth shut

Why I won't keep my mouth shut

Following my latest column on Health Canada licensing homeopathic vaccine alternatives ("Just say no to nosodes," Yorkton This Week, May 1, 2013), I was once again asked why I take such an activist stance against alternative medicine and other forms
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