Yorkton This Week

There’s very little we can do about the trade problems at the international level that are so critical to us.

Sonja Pawliw wishes she could find more room in her house. At the moment, her home is stuffed with paintings, mosaics, and other projects. She’s filled every square inch with art.

Ron Thompson’s latest book is a two-fold homecoming. Narratively, it tells the story of returning to your original community and confronting the past. For Thompson, writing the novel was a chance to reflect on and celebrate his home province.

Once, as a young man, I asked my mom to explain the 1970s. Having lived through them, I reasoned that she would have some sort of explanation for the thick carpet, the strange colours like harvest gold and avocado, the generally off-putting design.

Despite a cool and damp week in much of the province, producers took advantage of breaks in the weather to make considerable harvest progress this week, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), are partnering to research management strategies which influence where cattle and bison graze.

Farmers have generally tended to be responsible in terms of caring for the land they farm.

Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) hosted its annual senior boys’ volleyball tournament last weekend, attracting players from across Saskatchewan for two days of high-energy, kinetic court action.

Generally, this is a space I devout to being an armchair sports fan. While this is very much a local community newspaper, when it comes to sports, fans take a much broader approach to what is considered community.

Casual and passionate car fans filled the Yorkton Crossing parking lot on Sept. 9 to admire a small collection of vintage vehicles.