Yorkton This Week

There were two dominant sounds in the dark Melville theatre: Eminem’s yelps-disguised-as-rap and my cackling laughter. I couldn’t stop myself.

In October of 1884, 9 months after York City was renamed Yorkton by Canada’s Post Office Dept., the community held their second Agricultural Exhibition, the first had taken place in 1883.

I admit that I haven’t kept this as updated as I would have liked.

Sacred Heart High School’s football season did not go as the team had hoped. The Saints didn’t manage a win in 2018, losing their final game in Esterhazy 35-28.

The Yorkton branch of the Air Cadet League of Canada is looking for more people, both youth members and adult volunteers. “We really need to try to get more kids in the air cadets,” said Terra Heddon, who sits on the local branch committee.

Once harvest wraps up for another year, producers often spend some time reflecting on what went well, and what could have gone better over the past growing season.

On World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10) over 150 people gathered at the Medicine Shoppe to support people with mental health issues and raise money for the walk-in counselling clinic at SIGN.

So marijuana became legal in Canada last week. It likely hasn’t changed your life much. Most people (an estimated 85 per cent) have either never smoked pot or smoked only on an experimental.

Visitors feasted on a wide variety of perogies at the Bentley on Oct. 20. The event collected 100 pounds of food and over $200 for the Yorkton food bank.

Plenty of Yorktonites have already gotten into the Halloween spirit, decorating their lawns and houses with ghouls, ghosts, and other ghastly creations designed to frighten trick-or-treaters on Oct. 31.