Yorkton This Week

Canada’s food and beverage exports have nearly doubled over the past decade and the sector continues to stand out from the rest of the country’s manufacturing industry, according to J.P.

Saskatchewan farmers are slowly making their way into the field. Adverse weather has delayed spring field work, such as applying herbicide, harrowing and seeding, in some areas. Many fields remain wet.

More children the result of job creation, mayor says

A new report by real estate giant RE/MAX may be cause for some guarded optimism. The 2017 Spring Market Trends Report notes that regionally the housing market has been slightly soft recently.

The Parkland Expos midget AAA baseball team of the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League had their home opening games last weekend. The Expos hosted four games at the Jubilee Baseball Park on Saturday and Sunday.

The rivalry between Yorkton and Melville is no more – in female hockey at least. The Melville Minor Hockey Association and Yorkton Minor Hockey have joined forces and have announced the Parkland Female Hockey Program.

The WHL announced their awards for the 2016/2017 season last week. The winner of the Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy (D-man of the year) was awarded to Ochapowace First Nation’s Ethan Bear of the Seattle Thunderbirds.

So I am back for a slightly modified run of Fishing the Parkland Shores.

The Canadian Senate released a children’s book, named The Wise Owls, about how great and important the senate is. Below is an imagined sequel to it. Young Percy Bird had never visited the nest of one of the wise owls.

In Saskatchewan, at least theoretically, persons accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty. You wouldn’t know it if you looked at Saskatchewan prisons, however.