Yorkton This Week

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The Government of Saskatchewan is reminding residents to take precautions against mosquito bites, as the risk of West Nile virus increases in Saskatchewan.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of features on the 12 head coaches in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League presented by the league.

Brad Cameron, Sturgis Composite School principal, was recognized for his volunteerism and dedication to the school and community during a special school assembly on June 14.

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The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will visit Canada from July 1 to 3, 2019. The two leaders will meet in Toronto on July 2, 2019, during the Ukraine Reform Conference.

If you are interested in a mini-gardening-vacation, you might want to be part of the Saskatchewan Horticultural Association (SHA) gardening tour, July 14 – 16.

Don Pfeifer is among the most recent inductees into the Volleyball Canada Hall of Fame.

Going a little bit off on a tangent this week, it seemed appropriate to spend this week’s column on a great event three members of our highly informal Meeple Guild attended recently.

Over the past week to 10 days, at least in the Yorkton region we have received what my grandfather would have termed a million dollar rain. For grain producers conditions coming out of spring seeding were generally on the dry side of things.