Yorkton This Week

A suspected carjacking in Yorkton has led to charges.

The Yorkton Canoe and Kayak Club (YCKC) brought its summer season to an epic close this past weekend with its fifth annual fall dragonboat race. Four teams competed in the day-long event on Sept. 8 at York Lake.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- Harvest Meats in Celebration of 90 years presents Yorkton’s Brick Mill Heritage Dinner on Wed., Sept. 26 at St.

It is often a case where society, on a general scale, looks at the youth of the day and laments the future.

Five provinces down. Zayell Johnston, the Yorkton man who’s walking across Canada, reached Ottawa in late-August. It was a major milestone in his journey. Johnston is using his trek to raise money for the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Part of the money which was raised through the Elias Giannoulis Memorial Hockey Tournament went to Christ the Teacher School Division (CTTSD) to help train people in the safeTALK program.

An hour before the worship service, I find the pastor’s wife weeping in the church nursery. She’s huddled in the corner chair beside the playpen, pressed deep into it, like a wild thing cornered.

I recall the day in late May when the federal Liberal government bought the Kinder-Morgan pipeline for $4.5-billion. I recall telling a number of folks that the purchase was, essentially, to ensure it never gets built.

Button Men has been around for a while now, debuting back in 1999 when the characters were actually on pin-backed buttons, which was a rather cool idea. People wore buttons during game conventions and the like.