Yorkton This Week

The Terriers have the makings of greatness this year, but despite a 3-2 win Friday night against La Ronge, Yorkton needs to close the gap. Really. It isn’t the first time this has happened, either.

There were bears everywhere after the Terriers scored their first goal Friday night. The Annual Teddy Bear toss collected all the bears tossed on the ice for the Salvation Army, which will be given to a child at Christmas.

The Norquay Co-op Home Centre was recently recognized for retail excellence in the Home Improvement industry in Canada.

On our gardening bulletin board: just in time for winter reading! Curl up on a chilly winter’s evening with a wonderful collection of “The Prairie Garden” books, from 1977 to 2018 (only missing 1984).

New report from water scientists

As blue-green algae proliferates around the world, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher cautions that current municipal drinking water monitoring that focuses on a single toxin associated with the cyanobacteria blooms is likely to miss the

Well fellow Roughrider fans our team not only broke Cinderella’s glass slipper on Sunday, they jumped up and down on it until it was little more than glass dust.

A warehouse located on Smith St. is in the process of being torn down. That warehouse was most recently in the news in June 2018, when it caught fire .

The Yorkton Business Improvement District is gaining new leadership. Starting in 2020, Donna Brothwell will be taking the reigns as executive director from Phil de Vos, who is retiring from the role.

The Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train #41 is leaving Bredenbury, Saskatchewan on June 1, 1960. The train had originated in Winnipeg and was on its way to its last destination, Edmonton.