Yorkton This Week

Agriculture may soon be forced to change how it goes about growing crops as a key tool for years may be forced out of the ‘farm toolbox’.

A charming thief in a charming place.

When Evan and Lisa Johnson of Yorkton were given the news that one of their twins, Mercer, was going to be born with a congenital heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, they did everything they could to prepare themselves.

Snowarama has done many things for children with disabilities in the province since it launched over 40 years ago, raising money for Easter Seals through the annual snowmobile ride.

With the demolition of the former Taylor Field in Regina – now better known as a big pile of rubble in Regina – I can’t help but think about how we decide what structures to keep, and what we discard.

Yorktonites will be able to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial with music this weekend. The Anne Portnuff Theatre at Yorkton Regional High School will be hosting a fall concert on Nov. 4.

I hope your Halloween was a fruitful one (or a candy-ful one).

This week in 1958, work was continuing to rescue men in a mining disaster in the third Springhill Mining Disaster. The disaster was caused by a “bump,” an underground earthquake in the mine. That lead to the collapse of the Cumberland No.2 colliery.

Last weekend, CrossFit competitors from all over Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario gathered in Yorkton for the third annual Highway 9 Throwdown at CrossFit Function.

The Yorkton Regional High School Raider boys’ soccer team competed in the SHSAA 3A provincial tournament hosted by Balgonie this past weekend.