Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Regional High School Cross Country Team held their Awards Dinner this past week and handed out their three annual awards. Jessie Horsman (pictured on the left), received the Coaches Award.

The Yorkton Wildlife Federation held its annual horn measuring night on Dec. 6, with hunters from the area bringing their best horns from various different animals to the Yorkton Gun Club to see who had the most impressive set of horns.

The third novel in the Milligan Creek Series, which is set in a fictionalized version of Foam Lake, SK. has been released.

Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition, and kids at the Yorkton Public Library had an opportunity to build some of their own, though they used a graham cracker base for their own edible homes.

With a federal election anticipated in 2019 the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is already putting their suggestions before the federal parties, and Yorkton Councillor Randy Goulden was part of the effort recently.

Yorkton Councillor Randy Goulden has recently returned from a working visit to Jordan.

The Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton had a new fundraiser this year, offering people a chance to make ‘Whoville’ trees made famous by the story of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’.

A Christmas baking sale was held recently at St. Mary’s Cultural Centre in the city. While bake sales are popular at this time of year this sale went a bit further with perogies, cabbage rolls and borscht also on sale.

Twenty years ago, the first skiers hit the slopes at Asessippi Ski Area and Resort in Manitoba. To celebrate the big anniversary, the resort is making some big changes and planning big celebrations for the anniversary year.

As has been the norm in recent years water and sewer rates will rise in Yorkton in 2019. The rate proposed at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council, and ultimately passed unanimously, was an increase of 3.