Yorkton This Week

Edna Marie Sommerfeldt went home to her Saviour on Sunday, March 12, 2017 with her family by her side. She was 88 years of age.

With a municipal tax increase of 9.46 per cent approved earlier at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council, the focus changed to look at tax policy and mill rates.

A Key First Nation band councillor is headed for jail for trafficking prescription drugs.

A former Yorkton RCMP jail guard has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for trafficking drugs and breach of trust.

The clock said near midnight, and the speedometer read 100 km/hr. Snow fell lightly, giving just enough sheen in our headlight stream to slightly decrease visibility.

Scene 8 of Monty Pythons’ Life of Brian features a group called the Peoples’ Front of Judea (not the Judean People’s Front... ‘splitters’) plotting at the coliseum. Stan, one of the members, reveals he wants to be a woman and to be called Loretta.

Hope you can join us at the next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society, Wednesday, April 19, at 7:00 p.m. at SIGN on North Street.

There is often some interesting backgrounds among those who create games, which for a player can add some extra interest when contemplating a new game.

The photo features Henri Rudolph Roosmale Nepveu — the man standing beside the horse, on his horse ranch near Yorkton in 1889.

The 150th anniversary of Canada is a time to reflect on the country’s history, but it’s also a time to look forward into the next 150 years.