Yorkton This Week

The City of Yorkton is advising all residents that, effective midnight, a Snow Route Parking ban will go into effect, so the plows can safely and effectively clear the snow from the roads.

The Yorkton Municipal RCMP and Yorkton Rural RCMP detachments are amalgamating into a single detachment effective Feb. 14.

A fourth-quarter comeback bid fell short as the Saskatchewan Rush dropped a 13-10 decision to the Georgia Swarm in a Sunday matinee in suburban Atlanta.

Two straight wins and the Yorkton Terriers were back atop the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s Viterra Division. The latest win Friday against LaRonge on Farrell Agencies Arena ice boosted the Terrier season record to 24-19-1-0 for 49 points.

I once interviewed a Canadian who had twice summited Mount Everest. “I wasn’t trying to get to the top,” Dave Rodney said, remembering the most perilous portions of the climb — crossing ladders placed as bridges over almost bottomless crevasses.

In Backlog Break, Devin Wilger goes through all the games he owns and never got around to playing. This week: Yakuza 0, from 2017. Thank god for Nugget.

We’ve chatted about this great online gardening resource before: the University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture and Bioresources- Gardening site at https://gardening.usask.ca.

Long time voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Rod Pedersen, resigned last week after serving in that capacity (and more) for the last 20 years.

Don’t let the name fool you. Combining the action of tennis, ping pong and badminton, this game is fast paced and unique. Chances are, you can probably play it.

If you take the bus in Yorkton, get ready for some big changes coming on Feb. 1. Instead of the Dial-A-Bus system, the city has moved to regular bus routes, with two buses tackling two bus routes in the city.