Yorkton This Week

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) is celebrating National Indigenous History Month throughout the month of June including a celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the First Nations Gallery.

Wesley Fyck, Hazel Minchuk and Arthur Martinuk have been appointed to the Calder Housing Authority Board of Directors. Other members of the board of directors are Barbara Albert and Marie Dawe. Fyck is the newly appointed chairperson.

On a normal school day, the Yorkton Regional High School parking lot is filled to the brim with cars. On Walk and Roll Day (Jun. 6), the goal is to empty out that lot and get students to the school using foot-power.

SGI CANADA has partnered with the Canadian Red Cross in Saskatchewan to provide both financial and volunteer support to help people impacted by disasters in the province.

The Government of Saskatchewan has announced who won the permit lottery for cannabis sales in Saskatchewan.

A Regional Transportation Study was given a first public look at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

Visioning is never an easy process for a city. In Yorkton there have been dreams of the population hitting 20,000, even 25,000, going back literally decades. It just hasn’t happened.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- Special Olympics Yorkton will be holding our 1st Bocce Tournament on June 10. In order to make this event a success we are looking for a number of volunteers.

“Thou shall not steal,” God commanded. But he gave us all free choice, and ever since Cain stole his brother Abel’s life in the Garden of Eden, some have chosen theft.