Yorkton This Week

Dozens of students drenched their peers during the epic Yorkdale School Royal Water Fight on May 31. Kids bombarded each other with various water weapons.

Rhythm ‘n Ribs returns to Yorkton for its second year July 27-29. “We had a really good event last year,” said Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, adding some 15,000 people attended the event.

A proposed amendment to Yorkton’s Zoning Bylaw regarding regulations to allow shipping containers has itself been amendment, which saw the document again tabled at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

Seeing young animals such as fawns, ducklings, rabbits or songbirds can be exciting, but there are reasons to leave them alone, even if they appear helpless or lost.

Parkland College held its annual graduation ceremony recently at the Yorkton Regional High School’s Anne Portnuff Theatre.

Attending the Yorkton Film Festival is like walking blindfolded down a grocery aisle and opening random cans on the shelves.

Thanks to another week of relatively good conditions, 91 per cent of the crop is now in the ground. This is up from 70 per cent last week and remains well ahead of the five-year (2013-2017) seeding average of 81 per cent for this time of year.

Linda Quinton and Donna Zastrizny have been reappointed to the Theodore Housing Authority Board of Directors. Other members of the board of directors are Linda Clarke, Ethel Onslow and Margaret Lewis. Lewis is chairperson.

Residents will be getting a small reprieve on their parking while a portion of Broadway Street undergoes its makeover this summer. “Repaving of Broadway Street is estimated to begin on Jun. 11, weather permitting.

On May 30, 2018, shortly before 1:30 a.m., Yorkton Rural RCMP responded to a complaint of a break and enter and robbery at a residence in the community of Rhein, Saskatchewan.