Yorkton This Week

It’s well known that the City of Yorkton wants more people to recycle. As reported last week in these very pages, they’re running a survey to increase engagement and participation in the curbside recycling program.

Recently the Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton took a group of 38 youth to Patrick Park Disc Golf Course in the city for some instruction on how to play the sport, provided by volunteer members of the Parkland Association of Disc Golf.

The Boys and Girls Club spends all summer putting programming on for kids, and subsidizing those programs so that kids from all families can enjoy activities for the summer.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society’s “Fruit Flower and Vegetable Show” last week; we were so happy you spent the afternoon with us! The show is the culmination of the year’s best, and we are very happy t

It is most certainly a trying year if you are a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays. That said, the wreck that the team currently is, was something wise baseball fans could see coming before the first pitch was thrown on the current season.

For Kent Latimer and his son Ethan it was a trip they will long remember. The father and son duo travelled to Ireland earlier this summer to participate in JamboRí 2018, Scouting Ireland’s national jamboree. From July 25 to Aug.

With the hot weather last week, it was an excellent time to do some haying operations on area farms, like this individual was doing Saturday near Gorlitz.

In this space it has often been suggested one of the biggest challenges for farmers in terms of making a profit is maneuvering through the varied roadblocks created in the marketplace by government.

It is summer and that means people are busy, and often forget that others need the support of the local food bank all year round.

It’s not easy to see an owl in real life. The nocturnal hunters live deep in the shadows of forests and prairies.