Yorkton This Week

It has always fascinated me how great writing, perhaps mixed with a little of the darker side of human nature, can make a person sympathetic to completely unsympathetic characters. Tony Soprano is a racist, misogynist, murderous gangster.

Chicago is known for its great fire of 1871, but lesser known, is the great Toronto fire of 1904. Perhaps it is because Toronto’s conflagration did not have a fanciful legend of how it got started like Chicago’s Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.

It might be just what the doctor ordered for Prairies farmers this year, an early dose of spring weather.

Family marks anniversary with prayer vigil

Once again, Yorkton United Football Club players joined with players from Regina and Saskatoon to form a U13 Team Germany to compete in this year’s WCP World Cup Soccer Tournament held in Regina from March 30-April 15.

For as long as anyone familiar with the Yorkton Farmer’s Market can remember, Lorraine Sully has been a fixture. Before she became the market’s manager, Sully was a vendor. Her husband ran a commercial egg operation just south of the city.

The Western Hockey League playoffs are well underway, and Yorkton hockey is represented through a couple of teams still going for the WHL championship.

Dear Editor: Consider this: Spend over $3 million buying buses and upgrading assets for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) in 2016, and then shut it down in 2017. That’s right. The Sask.

Dear Editor: There’s growing interest in local food and farm-to-table living. But it’s important to remember that Canadian growers are putting food on tables around the world. After all, the grain elevator is not the end customer.

Dear Editor: As many ought to be aware by now, I have been working with the Why Tower Road group for some time, and this week, the Official Opposition Party, the New Democratic Party, finally granted our group a sit-down meeting to discuss some of th