Yorkton This Week

Many homes in Yorkton are decked out in holiday decorations leading up to Christmas.

Cornerstone Credit Union has donated $10,000 to help put new lab equipment in The Yorkton Regional Hospital Friday Doug Jones, CEO of Cornerstone Credit Union, presented the donation to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation.

It was an evening of winter activities at the Gallagher Centre Sunday.

The Canadian Wheat New Crop Missions 2018 are well underway. These are missions organized and coordinated through three organizations: Cereals Canada, Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) and the Canadian Grain Commission.

Research studies always seem to be interesting in what they unearth, and also leave you wondering exactly how the data was collected. Survey data is generally accumulated off the responses of people to a series of questions.

Dear Editor: I am a relatively new citizen to Yorkton but when I heard the Mayor’s comments on the radio regarding complaints about the snow plows covering the sidewalks with snow from the roads, I felt I had to respond to his very weak explanation.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has come out as being is favour of carbon pricing as one element in the fight against climate change.

You don’t volunteer for recognition, but when it comes it is appreciated. That was the response of Bruce Thurston and Mya Desmarais who were announced last week as the inaugural recipients of the City of Yorkton’s Citizen Recognition Awards.

Dear Editor: The United Nations and many American and Canadian governments at all levels are increasing or proposing what they call ‘carbon taxes.’ But they are not really taxing carbon, which is, of course, a solid.

When you break down who has gotten what from federal equalization since it came into existence in 1957, you come up with some interesting things.