Yorkton This Week

Tabatha. Butterfly Bean. Water baby. Newly baptized Christian. As a grandmother with a passion to see her grandchildren following Jesus, that last one thrills me.

Every once in a while you lay your hands on a game not exactly expecting too much from it, and it simply blows your socks off. Pairs, by designers James Ernest and Paul Peterson, is just such a game.

Isn’t this a wonderful time of year? So many delightful, delicious foods to enjoy from the garden or garden pots.

MLA Greg Ottenbreit and the Sasktachewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) traded barbs this past week, spurred on by a new billboard in Yorkton. SGEU recently installed a billboard sign in Yorkton.

If you like you country spiced with rock and energy then you'd best mark Saturday, Aug. 25 on your calendar. That is the day Blackjack Billy hits the stage at the Painted Hand Casino.

The sound of horsepower could be heard across Yorkton on Aug. 17 and 18 during the Thunder in the Parkland Truck and Tractor Pulls.

The face of farming could see some rather dramatic changes in the years just ahead as new rules, regulations and realities begin to be imposed from above and felt at the farm level.

Station buildings completed — many structures in the course of erection — This was the opening statement of the Yorkton Column in the Manitoba Daily Free Press of Winnipeg November 12, 1890: The station buildings including tank, etc.

Yorkton Fire Protective Services and the Salvation Army Food Bank worked together with the Extinguish Hunger campaign, an effort to put food back on the shelves at the food bank in Yorkton.

Ah, to be a fan of the Saskatchewan Roughriders where understanding the thought processes of the current head coach is like wandering through the Minotaur’s maze without the aid of Ariadne’s ball of string.