Yorkton This Week

Summertime is almost here, and perhaps you are planning for visits with relatives.

The disc golf community headed to Bredenbury for the Yorkton Auction Centre Open Sunday. After a couple of rainy days leading up to the event left organizers thinking they might get wet Sunday, the sun was out and away they went in fine conditions.

Members of the Yorkton Navy League and Yorkton Army Cadets cleaned and placed flags on veteran’s graves at Yorkton Memorial Gardens May 31.

Ready for takeoff. Parents and kids enjoyed hamburgers, drinks, and airplanes in a hangar at the Yorkton Regional Airport on Jun. 2. The BBQ raised $1000 for the Circle o’ Friends summer camp, which helps children affected by cancer.

By 2002, drivers in London, England, were spending as much as half their commuting time stalled in traffic, contributing to much of the city centre’s dangerous particulate pollution.

George Plews was one of the founders of Yorkton’s Habitat for Humanity branch, as well as being an integral part of Habitat in Selkirk, MB before moving here.

Wunderkind dancers tore up the Anne Portnuff Theatre stage last weekend for appreciative audiences. Dance Innovations hosted their annual weekend production on Jun. 2-3.

Aesthetics are a huge part of what makes an abstract strategy game stand out for me. There is no better way to start in terms of great aesthetics than to make the game of wood. Call me old school but wooden games simply look better to me.

The City of Yorkton is going to invest the lion’s share of its 2017 surplus in a pair of soccer pitches.

Members of the Yorkton Canoe Kayak Club Racing Team competed in Regina this past weekend at the Season Opener Regatta. Saskatoon, Regina, Yorkton, and Calgary athletes had fun racing as they kicked off their competitive season.