Yorkton This Week

A small but enthusiastic crowd gathered to walk across Yorkton for the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser, which raises awareness of homeless issues in the area while raising money for Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth.

The Yorkton Chamber of Commerce is sounding the alarm. Canada’s economic fabric, they say, is in danger, and you should be sounding the alarm, too.

The Yorkton Public Library was the host of a Dr. Seuss day on Feb. 22. The day featured plenty of activities for kids to do, all built around that kids’ favorite, Dr. Seuss. Pictured, kids match rhyming words before they read Green Eggs and Ham.

Deb Danyluk won a $100 gift certificate from BodyPoetry in the Health, Mind and Body draw. Certificate presented by Deanna Brown of YTW.

The Yorkton RCMP are asking for anyone with information to contact them after an possible abduction attempt of a 10 year old elementary school student. The incident occurred yesterday in the Morrison Drive/Caldwell Crescent area.

The Motor Safety Association will be holding a series of informative workshops from March 6th to 21st.

A collision on Broadway St. and Gladstone Ave. had to be cleaned up at approximately 1:00 p.m. on Feb. 25.

Any city relies on their emergency services, whether it’s due to an accident or trying to help with crime.

There it sat. Plunked by the garage door as though dropped from a colossal hand. How I missed the delivery truck escaped me, but at least the driver had left my parcel. I knew what that stove-sized box held, and it excited me.

Some interviews 15 years ago about the Balmoral Hotel, the liquor manufacturing warehouse on Livingstone Street and other buildings erected by Harry Bronfman on Third Avenue South — re: possible entrances to tunnels during Prohibition years in Saskat