Yorkton This Week

Almost three hundred people gathered at the Conexus Arts Centre on April 28th to celebrate 25 years of excellence in writing and publishing at the Saskatchewan Book Awards.

The 96th Annual State Council Meeting of the Knights of Columbus of Saskatchewan, held in Yorkton on April 20-22, 2018, was a call for Knights to hold fast to the Catholic principles around which the Order was founded 136 years ago.

Recently, Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison introduced Bill 125, The Saskatchewan Value-Added Agriculture Incentive, for first reading in the Saskatchewan Legislature.

The WDM Yorkton has opened a travelling exhibit which tells the story of one of the region’s primary agricultural crops. Canola: A Story of Canadian Innovation, is a new travelling exhibit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

If one thing is clear looking toward the future, how farmers farm is going to change as we move forward. That may sound like a statement of the obvious since more things we do evolve over time, and farming is no different.

There are now two Saskatchewan Party MLAs in the legislature especially awaiting the federal election in 2019.

It had to be near heaven last Wednesday if you were a sports fan in Toronto, and frankly Canada, given the situation. The Toronto Maple Leafs, one of only two Canadian teams to make the National Hockey League playoffs, were in a game seven in Boston.

I am preparing myself for a spike in gas prices. This is because there is a cycle. Cars get progressively larger, more powerful and, crucially, less fuel efficient.

Sheila Hryniuk’s recent visit to her alma mater resulted in a fresh piece of hardware for her trophy case.

Yorkton Council marked UNESCO World Poetry Day at its most recent meeting. Through the League of Canadian Poets municipalities were asked to recognize the day and National Poetry Month on April by spotlighting local poets.