Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Curling Club was the host of a women’s bonspiel, with teams competing over the two-day event. Winners were the Datema rink on the A-side, the Dietrich rink on the B-side. the Neal rink on the C-side and the Fuches rink on the D-side.

Twenty-five live cats, and two that were deceased, were removed from a home in Yorkton Thursday. Don Ferguson, executive director of Animal Protection Services of Saskatchewan confirmed the seizure Friday.

BBBPasswordDay Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Saskatchewan, in conjunction with the BBBs across Canada, is pleased to announce the third annual National Password Day, on Friday, March 15, 2019.

This past weekend the Canadian university basketball championships were held. It is likely all but the most ardent basketball fans in this country, or graduates of the universities involved, were aware of the championship tournaments.

Robbie Dombrowski will be head coach of the 2019 edition of the Western Canadian Baseball League’s Yorkton Cardinals. A 2018 graduate from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, Dombrowski was a two-time captain for the St. Norbert baseball team.

Shrove Tuesday was marked March 5, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Yorkton with a pancake supper.

On March 13, 2019, my mother would have turned a hundred. After her death at age ninety-five, I lost her voice for almost four years. It neither echoed in my ears nor whispered in the corridors of memory. That grieved me.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- Red Moon Road - a “Stars for Saskatchewan” Concert. Yorkton Regional High School, Anne Portnuff Theatre Fri., March 22, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: Welcome Home Gift Shop, 113 Smith St. E.

Having our first horticultural meeting of the year makes spring seem closer! The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. at SIGN on North Street.

Random Act of Kindness Month was being marked at Dr. Brass School in the city when Jayden Gilmer, 7, came up with the idea to buy donuts for the local RCMP detachment.