Yorkton This Week

The Core Real Estate Atom AA Terriers capped off a very successful 2016/17 season as league champions on Mar. 25 in front of supportive fans at Farrell Agencies Arena.

The town of Bredenbury has launched its own junior hockey club. The Bredenbury Tundra held its spring camp last weekend as they prepare for their inaugural season in the Qu’Appelle Valley Junior Hockey League – a junior ‘C’ league in Saskatchewan.

Layne Hull is no stranger to success on the football field. From Willowbrook, he was part of the first generation of kids to play in the Yorkton Minor Football program.

More than 100 people came out to celebrate the Yorkton RawTec Maulers on Saturday, Mar. 25 at the Gallagher Centre.

The Yorkton Midget AA Kinsmen Terriers are the 2017 South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League Midget champions. The Kinsmen Terriers beat the Estevan Apex AA Bruins in the league final.

The federal Liberal government’s handling of the marijuana legalization file is a travesty. Last week, we finally got a hard date, July 1, 2018.

Arrest warrants were issued for the following people at Yorkton Provincial Court March 27, 2017: Alfred David Kaysaywaysemat Anyone with information can call Yorkton RCMP at 306-786-2400, Yorkton Provincial Court at 306-786-1400 or their local police

Post-secondary education was also on the long list of losers in last week’s provincial budget.

Yorkton’s school divisions will see significantly less money thanks to the 2017/2018 provincial budget. The Good Spirit School Division will see a funding decrease of 3.15 per cent, or $2,275,872, for a total budget of $69,966,168.

While Yorkton was grappling with a provincial budget that will strip $2.3 million from the city’s bottom line, the federal budget released the same day, March 22, has kind of slipped under the radar locally.