Yorkton This Week

The youngest hockey players in the city were competing in their own annual tournament on the weekend, making friends and improving skills.

Colbie Sherring is currently in France on an exchange arranged through the Rotary Club of Yorkton. “Being an exchange student has been a sort of dream of mine for several years now,” the 18-year-old told Yorkton This Week via email.

The Yorkton RawTec Maulers season has come to an end. The Maulers were eliminated from the Saskatchewan AAA Midget League playoffs, dropping their best-of-five series with Regina three-games-to-one in the opening round.

It was Pink Day at Dr. Brass School last Wednesday. In 2007, a Grade 9 student in Cambridge, N.S. was bullied by classmates for wearing a pink shirt to school.

Five Yorkton Minor Football players and two coaches were recently in San Antonio, Texas, for action with the Saskatchewan Selects teams attending the Sixth Annual International Pigskin Classic.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- The Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Assoc. is hosting a guest speaker on March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Sterling Room, 117 Allen Ave., Saltcoats, SK.

It has been announced SGI will stop using the non-productive call rate for time spent by fire departments responding to motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) on provincial highways.

Yorkton-Melville MP Cathay Wagantall is disappointed in the federal budget.

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