Yorkton This Week

For the first time in history, this year’s Team Saskatchewan captured a gold medal in baseball at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg. On Friday, Saskatchewan beat Manitoba 3-1 for the title.

The 2016 Census data concerning household type and language has been released. The Yorkton census agglomeration, which includes some of the area surrounding the city, has had some changes since the last census in 2011.

Ronald Edward George Fatteicher will be getting a psychiatric evaluation. The man, who is accused of driving a bulldozer into a home in Calder, Sk.

When honey bees become too crowded in their homes, the queen will take part of the colony and seek a new place to establish a home.

As a troubled young man fleeing bad habits and bad company, Timothy Treadwell travelled to Katmai National Park in Alaska. There he developed another consuming passion – the grizzly bears that inhabited the region.

Humans are an astonishing anomaly. As many species teeter on extinction, our populations grow in size and complexity.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders improved to 2-and-3 with a win over Toronto on Saturday at Mosaic Stadium.

Just a reminder, gardeners: the Gardener’s Market is now on, each Saturday from 9 a.m. till noon at the North parking lot of the Prairie Harvest Christian Life Centre (corner of Melrose and Simpson) in Yorkton.

Robust investment earnings helped Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) achieve strong results in 2016-17.

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