Yorkton This Week

Some games are not created with the hope of greatness. Some games are simply created for fun. I suspect that fun was the focus for creator Brian Niro when he came up with Front Line No Komrades.

Students, faculty, and guests at Yorkton Regional High School feasted on a full Thanksgiving meal last Friday, filling the halls as they lined up for big platefuls of food.

Here is a letter dated April 6, 1932 from the York Farmers Colonization Company Limited of Toronto, addressed to Yorkton pioneer Levi Beck who had had enough financial successes as a farmer, and as merchant to be known as the “Merchant Prince.

Music is everywhere. The Dumpsta Dragons were in Yorkton to prove it. The duo of Alcvin Ramos and Andrew Kim were at St. Mary’s and Columbia Schools on Sept. 25 as part of an OSAC tour of Saskatchewan classrooms.

It was a day for working horses, and the people that love them, as a Chore Team Challenge was held at Tail Winds Arena.

If you are a regular reader of this space, and thanks to those who are, then you know I am a believer in maintaining older genetics, whether they are within a heritage breed of livestock, or in the plants from which our current crops evolved.

When we talk about the Brick Mill in Yorkton, we have to ask why people are working so hard to save it.

When they called Danielle Mills to the podium to accept her award, she was caught off-guard. “I honestly didn’t expect it at all,” she said. “It was surreal.

Logan Green looked like the fields of Vietnam in Apocalypse Now. I closed my eyes for a moment, spinning in a circle as the powder flew around me. When I blinked, I saw a vision straight from a Hunter S. Thompson novel.

The Yorkton Atom football team brought their dominant season of play to a disappointing close last weekend, but their coach is still proud of their strong work in the last two months. Yorkton snagged a second-place position after the regular season.