Yorkton This Week

Greg and Leone Ottenbreit were all smiles when Yorkton Hyundai dealer principal Ron Kaban presented a cheque for Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cuts for Cancer on July 19. Kaban’s team raised over $15,000 for the organization.

The Yorkton E&S Yankees are continuing their winning streak in the SESBL playoffs. The team finished off their playoff series against the Grandview Lakers in Grandview on Jul. 17.

The Yorkton United Football Club U19 Boys travelled to North Battleford over the Canada Day long weekend to compete in the SSA 11 A side Provincial Championships. The team was led by coach Robert Okeny and assistant coach and manager Glen Gelowitz.

Yorkton SaskAbilities held a BBQ last Thursday to mark SARCAN’s 30th anniversary. The event offered hot dogs, hamburgers, and mini doughnuts.

Cars, drivers, and bystanders got mud coats at Theodore’s 2018 Super Swamper event on July 21. Participants plowed through a soggy trench during the mud fling competition while the audience enjoyed the spectacle along with drinks and snacks.

Michelle Brass brought her province-wide discussion on the Aboriginal community’s history with the Canadian legal system to Yorkton last Thursday, hoping to raise awareness on the subject.

Saskatchewan is taking steps to ensure that access to physician services continues to be a high priority, particularly in rural and remote communities.

Photo taken 1947. Yorkton’s first grist mill was built by Yorkton’s founders, the York Farmers’ Colonization Company of Toronto in 1884 on the east bank of the Little White Sand River. (Name changed to “Yorkton Creek” in 2000.

With only six days left in the 2018 season for the Yorkton Cardinals sit last in the Western Mayor Baseball League East Division with a 10-30 record, 21-games back of front-running Weyburn.

It is sometimes easy to think that living in Canada somehow insulates us from the terror of mass shootings. Of course that is not the case, as was brought into focus for us all again as a gunman struck in the Greektown area of Toronto Sunday.