Yorkton This Week

The grandbeans bring me broken things. Threadbare stuffies, dolls with dangling or severed limbs, shoes with separated soles, a broken lamp. I deposit the smaller items in an old blue pottery bowl that sits on a chest in the dining room.

The Yorkton Raiders are champions at last. On Satuday afternoon, the Yorkton Regional High School boys football team became the 2017 champions of the Moose Jaw High School Football League after defeating the Swift Current Colts 59-2.

Continuing with a look at some older games worth play we look at Alquerque this week. Alquerque (also known as Qirkat) is a strategy board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East.

At this time of year, when we aren’t doing yard work anymore, it’s a good time to sit back and dip into an interesting gardening book! Stop by the Library and see the wonderful selection of gardening books available.

In 2012, Prime Minister S. Harper’s government stressed the importance of the War of 1812 by commemorating the little-known Canadian history of 200 years ago.

On Saturday, October 21, 2017, several local Dubucites joined the Potashville Singles Club to celebrate all the work that has been done at the Dubuc Memorial Hall and to thank the Potashville Singles for their usage of the hall and continued support

A few weekends ago, I drove through Hell. I was riding the highway back to Yorkton. I’d just spent the day in Asessippi Park in Manitoba. Side-bar: I can’t recommend this park enough.

Acting upon a request from the Yorkton Exhibition Association and the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, Yorkton City Council has proclaimed October 30 – November 5 as Agriculture Week in Yorkton.

Harvest is essentially complete for producers in the province, with 98 per cent of the crop now in the bin, up from 94 per cent last week, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

It seems of late there are more and more people who look suspiciously at science. This week will be the first of a two-part column looking at the disconnect between the public and science.