Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Music Festival 2018 Competition ended on a high note on Mar. 25. The month-long celebration of music concluded with the Hi-Lights concert at St. Andrew’s United Church.

At the risk of encouraging the Paper Bag Players and their recruitment efforts, it turns out my family has actors in it.

Oh, cruel defeat, I have felt your bitter kiss/And I faced it with a smile. [Note: The preceding sentence should be read with a King Lear-esque delivery for maximum melodrama].

Reconciliation in Action was the Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers’ (SASW) effort to promote reconciliation in the region.

Student: Does a good beginning and a good ending make a good speech? Professor: If they are close enough together. Laketown Leaders welcome card players Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Regular Monday coffee is 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

The Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) boys basketball team walked away from a massive provincial tournament with one win and two losses, bringing their solid season to a close.

Every Easter, the Preacher pulls out our guitar, sits down, clears his throat and sings. It’s one of our family’s favourite traditions. “The gates and doors were barred, all the windows fastened down.

Research to tackle global food security received a major boost in the province today, as the Government of Saskatchewan announced $800,000 in funding for state-of-the-art equipment in a new Roots of Food Security research facility at the University o

Provincial Secretary Nadine Wilson has received the Advisory Committee on Francophone Affairs’ latest report on the implementation of the Government of Saskatchewan’s French-Language Services Policy.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was on March 21, and one of the events in the region to celebrate and help the community deal with racism on our own doorstep was a screening of the film “Cognitive Justice,” produced