Yorkton This Week

The first season is in the books for the Yorkton Lady Raiders football team and by every measure it was a highly successful debut. By season’s end, 30 players had signed up.

It was another lopsided victory for the Yorkton Regional High School Raider Gridders as they trounced visiting Moose Jaw Peacock on Sept. 29.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- At Godfrey Dean Art Gallery - Sonja Pawliw: Living Garden, Sept. 9 to Nov. 17, 2018.

How to best deal with crime in rural areas is an issue which gained much more attention following an incident on a Saskatchewan farm in 2016. On Aug. 9, 2016, Colten Boushie was shot and killed on the farm of Gerald Stanley.

When the ushers in the church I attended last week counted the money in the offering plate, they found something they didn’t expect. I don’t know what, but I know they didn’t expect it. I also think they likely had a good laugh at me behind my back.

“Gather your friends and pack your bags for a trip to feudal Japan, where only the fearless will flourish.

This is not a column about snow. How could I write about snow in September? That would patently absurd. Autumn officially began last weekend. We’ve only just left summer behind.

Habitat for Humanity hosted a fundraiser BBQ last month, collecting $525.

Sacred Heart Boys soccer team challenged themselves this past weekend in Winnipeg as they traveled to play one of the top club teams in the country.

It was a dull, wet, windy, cold and dreary Saturday. It would even become a snowy Saturday. But the Sas-Kam Open Disc Golf Tournament was still held Sept. 22, after thunder and lightning had forced its postponement six-days early.