Yorkton This Week

It is a rare Monday that I sit at the keyboard unsure of what to type in terms of sports.

The A. J. Pick Outfit is threshing at the Al Michael farm at Waldron in October of 1911. They threshed the full harvest season with only 7 men — an engineer, fireman, separator man and 4 stook teams.

Saskatchewan Crime Watch Advisory

Saskatchewan Crime Watch Advisory

The Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society’s annual dinner was about the past and the future at the same time. The society is raising money for the next steps for the mill, to make it not only an artifact, but a major part of the city.

The SMAAAHL hockey season did not begin how the Yorkton Secon Maulers would have hoped. The home opener saw the team meet the Tisdale Trojans at the Farrell Agencies Arena. The Tisdale squad was the dominant one.

Together with patients, crew and community allies, STARS welcomed to Saskatchewan its first new Airbus H145 helicopter today.

I hate my phone. I didn’t always hate my phone, I actually quite liked its predecessor, a Motorola Moto X Play. It was partially made of rubber so it was durable – it was dropped from great heights many times without a problem.

The Ministry of Environment – in partnership with the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) – is encouraging hunters to submit the heads of all deer, moose, elk and caribou harvested this hunting season for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing.

One might wonder what the Saskatchewan Party’s first general election 20 years ago this month has to with today’s federal election.