Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- New Horizons Friday Night Dance - New Horizons Senior Centre, 78 First Ave. N., Yorkton. Great night of dancing. All ages are welcome. Time: 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Music by: Fri.

From April 1 to August 31 every year, it is illegal to prune elm trees in Saskatchewan. The ban coincides with the time of year when the elm bark beetles that spread Dutch elm disease (DED) are most active.

In his presentation at the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce’s first Business Summit, Evan Ortynsky said something interesting. The only way for a business to survive in a community like Yorkton is to have repeat customers.

Harry Bronfman had enlarged the hotel in 1912 to twice the size of the original.

You’ve likely read this in this space before, but it sure bears repeating right now: As a commodity trading province like ours is often at the mercy of world politics.

A few weeks back I reviewed Barbarossa, a deck builder based on the Second World War battles between the Russians and Germans. El Alamein is essentially the sister game to Barbarossa. Historically the battles of El Alamein were pivotal ones.

CN Rail crews came upon a disturbing site on Mar. 18. At the side of a bridge outside of Runnymede, they discovered 11 dead dogs, discarded at the side of the tracks. Rail supervisor Alex Husak was one of the people who discovered the dogs.

The Yorkton Business Summit is a new event hosted by the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, designed to help the businesses in the region network and face challenges they might encounter in the region.

Local residents will again have an opportunity to dispose of certain accumulated winter garbage free of charge.

Some will want to hope it was merely an April Fool’s joke, but the federal carbon tax which came into effect in Saskatchewan April 1, is most certainly real.