Yorkton This Week

The Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship was held in Duncan, BC from Aug. 6-9. Yorkton golfer Kade Johnson was one of the golfers competing at the national event. Johnson, who won the Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur on July 19, tied for 56th place.

Two Yorktonites helped launch Canada to the top of the hockey heap over the weekend, snagging the prestigious 2018 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup.

A Yorkton man has been charged following an incident where a man launched fireworks at a protest camp. According to the Regina Police Service, at 2 a.m. on Aug.

Fans of bull riding will want to be at this year’s Grain Millers Harvest Showdown as the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Canada’s Touring Pro Division (TPD) will be making its inaugural stop in Yorkton.

If Nicole Roy gets stuck on the wrong side of the tracks at the wrong time of day, she could literally lose gallons of her business. It’s a risky situation that’s forced her to find a better storage space for her products.

Photo: Colleen and her father Sydney Large. On the left, her brother Harley, a dentist in Yorkton for many years, starting in the 1950s. It was about 1936 when I was six years old.

Residents of Yorkton and Area have some decisions to make in regards to just what they want in the city in terms of entertainment in the years ahead.

The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society’s ‘Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show’ was held last Wednesday, (Aug. 8). The event was an opportunity for local area gardeners to show the best flowers and vegetables from their gardens.

You can’t get much more fresh than straight out of the garden, and the Yorkton Gardeners’ Market exists to get local produce from the city’s gardeners to its hungry residents. Pictured, Glen Tymiak sells some produce at the market.