Yorkton This Week

There are only a few weeks until the Bredenbury Tundra Junior C fall training camp begins.

This week in 1977, roads went metric. The speed limit signs across the province made the switch from miles per hour to kilometers per hour.

What: SMA President and Vice-President’s Tour When: Wednesday, Sept. 6: 5 p.m. meeting start (interviews before meeting) Where: Yorkton Regional Health Centre (tentative) Dr.

With initial expectations of four or five candidates, the race to replace Premier Brad Wall is a little more crowded then anticipated.

Thursday, Sept.7 at noon the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce will hold its next Business Lunch at the Painted Hand Casino. Guest Speaker Sarah Tkachuk of KPMG will be explaining how the proposed tax changes may impact every small business in the country.

The warm temperatures in Saskatchewan have pushed the province’s peak power use to a new high yesterday, at 4:26 p.m.

Yorkton Regional High School is turning 50 this year and it will be spending a weekend celebrating its past and present.

35 organizations from across the country have come together to form the Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness — a unified voice to oppose the federal government’s tax proposals that would dramatically change the way incorporated small businesses

The Yorkton Terriers made some trades throughout the summer that brought in a few new faces to this season’s roster.

Gage Bush, one of Yorkton’s most decorated young athletes, is heading off to compete at another power lifting competition this weekend. He’ll be competing at the 2017 CPU Western Powerlifting & Bench Press Championships in Winnipeg on Sept. 10.