Yorkton This Week

Bus routes in Yorkton were affected by a collision between a truck and two students. On Monday, June 18 at approximately 8 a.m., Yorkton Municipal RCMP responded to a motor vehicle collision involving two pedestrians.

In Tag , Jeremy Renner is an enigma, on multiple levels. In the plot, he’s the elusive white rabbit, the Moby Dick to Ed Helms’ Captain Ahab, the driving force of the movie.

Gearheads, car fanatics, and casual visitors talked shop and studied vehicles at a car show over the weekend. The afternoon event, held at Yorkton Hyundai on Jun. 16, was full of snacks, drinks, and classic cars.

Parents and kids enjoyed the warm weather and good times at the Family Fun Day event outside the Parkland Mall on Jun. 16. Children decorated their faces with paint, bounced down slides, and even rode in a hot air balloon.

The Preacher and I spoke at one of our former churches a while back. The platform seemed lower and wider, but the church had changed little in two decades. It took a long time to get to my seat—too many friends lined the aisles.

If you are thinking about adding some fruit trees or shrubs to your garden or yard, do some homework and visit the University of Saskatchewan site at www.fruit.usask.

You have to appreciate a board game that comes in a small box with rules so simple they are printed on the inside of the box top. That is one of the reasons to like Partido by designer Nick Ryan. Partido is a tile laying game with a simple objective.

Jenny Mckay knows how vital the KidsFirst program can be for families. In the early 2000s, she moved to Yorkton with her family to partake in the then-new program. 15 years later, she’s the community outreach education worker for KidsFirst Yorkton.

Zayell Johnston has slept in fields, next to rivers, and under mountains. He’s marched through sunny weather and stormy days. He’s clocked thousands of steps into the Fitbit on his wrist.

One can imagine the earliest settlers, those who dreamt of a piece of land they could call their own on which to farm and raise a family, arriving on the Canadian Prairies and thinking there was so much grassland it would never all be farmed.