Yorkton This Week

You’ve probably seen or heard that famous Native American proverb: “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

A few weeks ago KLASK was reviewed in this space, a game with a lot of similarities to air hockey with the added benefit of ease of taking the game ‘on-the-go’. BONK is something of a sister game to KLASK.

A partnership between the City of Yorkton and Parkland College is paying dividends in several ways. That was the message delivered by Gwen Machnee with Parkland College in making a presentation to the regular meeting of Yorkton Council.

Hailing from a region of Canada long-known as ‘the Breadbasket of the World’ because of the wheat grown here on the Prairies, as a farm writer I have been rather keenly aware of the importance of wheat.

There are many Canadians who do not know that the 13 American Colonies called New England States were England’s main contribution to early settlement of North America.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Conway Twitty’s death at the age of 59.

A new book for youth is on the shelves from a former Foam Lake area author. Unlimited, is the second book in the Milligan Creek series from Kevin Miller who grew up on a farm just outside of Foam Lake, SK.

I have met the enemy and they are Minions. I didn’t expect to start 2018 like this, huddled over my desk, jaw clenched in righteous anger as my furious fingers fly across the keyboard. I didn’t expect to tackle my yellow nemesis.

It is hard to believe I am a month into writing a sports column again, it is actually how I got my foot in the door as a reporter some three decades ago now, and I am just now looking at the National Hockey League.

A Century of Film is an ongoing series where Devin Wilger watches one movie from each year between 1917 and today. For the year of 1942, it’s To Be or Not To Be.