Yorkton This Week

The photo features men and equipment working a derailment scene somewhere between a Manitoba site and Yorkton. It appears to have occurred at a bridge over a river or creek. This railway company operated in Manitoba between 1881 and 1900.

A few years ago, a small group of parents of Yorkton United FC soccer players began to talk about the possibility of an indoor turf facility here in our city.

It was another lopsided win for the Yorkton Regional High School Raider Gridders. The Gridders were in Moose Jaw on the weekend to face Vanier High School, where they trumped the host team 54-0.

It came down to the wire but the Yorkton Junior Raiders football team came away with a one-point victory on the weekend. The Raiders were in Regina at Leibel Field taking on the Balgonie Griffins.

It should be the time of great excitement for a baseball fan in Canada, but, this year sadly less so than we would have hoped for.

Right now, if I look in my personal inbox, I will find at least one advertising suggesting I go shopping for some women’s clothing.

The annual fall plant and bulb sale hosted by the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society was held at the Parkland Mall in the city Friday.

Winston Wuttunee, a storyteller and entertainer from the Red Pheasant First Nation, and recipient of 2013 Indspire Award for Culture, Heritage and Spirituality, gave a presentation Sept. 11, at the Yorkton Public Library.

Instructor Mike Reavie shows Rylan Bernauer how to rescue a choking baby at St. Paul’s School on Sept. 22. The Canadian Red Cross hosted a babysitting course for youths age 11-15 last Saturday.

Did you find some exciting new plants at the plant sale? Thank you to everyone who supported the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society Annual Fall Plant and Bulb sale last week, and special thanks to members of the Society who donated plants, he