Yorkton This Week

The countdown to bus extinction has begun (in the Prairies, at least). Greyhound Canada will be closing its passenger bus and freight services in Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan (British Columbia will maintain a lone Vancouver-to-Seattle route).

Today’s itinerary stretches between our son’s place in B.C.’s Kootenay region and my father’s nursing home in Abbotsford. Highway #95, the two-lane highway connecting Invermere and Golden, B.C. has become one of my favourite sections of that route.

On July 6 at 10:07 a.m., investigators from the RCMP Major Crime Unit arrested the driver of the semi-trailer unit, Jaskirat Sidhu (DOB: 1988-10-31), a 29-year-old male from Calgary, Alberta. Mr.

Chariot and Chuckwagon races have long been a staple fare at the Yorkton Exhibition.

There is a new trend in tourism across several countries that is known as “ecotourism”— nature-based tourism. A site is chosen for the events that took place years ago, and may well not comprise any buildings whatsoever.

As I walked across the Yorkton landfill, I felt as though I’d been transported onto the surface of Mars.

Canadian Raptor Conservancy is one of the largest captive breeding projects in the world. The Port Diver, ON. based organization has more than 200 captive-bred birds at its facility, and regularly breeds over 15 different species each year.

For the second year in a row a Langenburg-based rock band won the Yorkton’s Got Talent finals at the summer fair.

Just a reminder: the Yorkton In Bloom competition is coming up! If you’re interested to enter your yard or garden in one of a variety of categories, please remember that the deadline to enter is Jul. 7, and judging will be on Jul. 10 – 12.

The light horse ring at the Yorkton summer fair was a classroom of sorts for Natasha Quigley. Quigley was shadowing show judge Tammy Hayward as part of a process to become a carded judge through the Saskatchewan Horse Federation (SHF).