Yorkton This Week

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The Sturgis sports grounds were alive with action when eager fans took to the grounds for the Sports and Rodeo weekend on June 22 and 23. The weekend kicked off with a pancake breakfast at the Sturgis READ Club.

The resignation of Mayor Rakochy and the resignation and retirement of the senior public works operator were among the items of concern to town council at its regular meeting on June 18.

A Kamsack artist has five pieces of her work included in the Landscape and Memory exhibit at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton this month. The exhibit includes 175 pieces, said Kelly Litzenberger, the Gallery manager.

The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation and Tree Canada joined forces to plant 20,000 trees on the weekend on Wildlife property about 10 kilometres north of Veregin.

Edwin Freitag of Alameda and his brother Hubert of Carlyle, were both inducted into the Canadian Western Agribition Hall of Fame on April 10. 2019.

You can add another lopsided loss to the ledger for the 2019 edition of the Yorkton Cardinals. The Western Canadian Baseball League team was in Swift Current this evening (Tuesday) there the host 57s handed the Cardinals a 9-0 defeat.

No evidence of zebra mussels detected in the past year of diligent monitoring

General Manager of Painted Hand Casino Charles Ryder presented a cheque to Ben Sipple for Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth Inc. The Painted Hand Casino donated $700 to YTHY.

If you like the music of Bon Jovi then you’ll want to be at the Yorkton Exhibition Friday.