Yorkton This Week

Despite a windy day on the water, the Yorkton Canoe-Kayak Club (YCKC) hosted its annual developmental regatta at York Lake on Sunday.

Last Friday, the Yorkton Terriers Junior A Hockey Club officially traded the Welke twins – McKenzie and Carson – to the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

Two Yorkton businesses are finalists for ABEX awards, which celebrate success across Saskatchewan. YPH Mechanical and N.L. Construction Inc. are competing in categories at the ABEX awards.

Dave Link is the new Chief Executive Officer for EMW Industrial. The Saltcoats-based company announced Link’s ascension to the position on August 9. Link will be succeeding Ewen Morrison, who has led the company since 1971.

Jordan Bonaparte is several thousand miles and five provinces removed from Yorkton, but he makes sure to keep up with the local news. The Nova Scotian keeps tabs on developments and press releases about the Mekayla Bali investigation.

I passed a small cluster of blonde fluff beside the highway one warm spring day. The sad little pile lay immediately at the end of a friend’s lane.

August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.

Monarch butterflies are a spectacular creature.

Today, Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield announced nominations will be accepted until November 1, 2017 for the next round of potential recipients for the province’s highest honour – the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Brad Wall announced his retirement from politics last week and my knee jerk reaction to it was one that was less than favourable.