Yorkton This Week

The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Wednesday, April 19. at 7:00 p.m. at SIGN on North Street.

At approximately 1:35 p.m. on March 24, Yorkton RCMP received a report of a threat directed towards Wal Mart in Yorkton. In a release, the RCMP confirmed that the building was evacuated and the threat was being investigated.

Saskatchewan’s new Provincial Lands Act, 2016 and its associated regulations have been proclaimed and are now in effect.

When Joelle Bohn, owner of Joey Children’s Apparel, decided in 2013 to create an event for children, she never imagined it would become so big so quickly. “It’s crazy to see it grow over the course of the last five years,” she said.

‘King Wheat’ has been deposed by ‘Queen Canola’ on the Canadian Prairies in terms of being the big-acres crop, and of course in gross dollars generated.

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lawrence MacAulay and Farm Credit Canada (FCC) announced a new loan for young entrepreneurs in the agriculture retail, manufacturing and food processing sectors.

After Bond, James Bond, blows up an embassy in the movie Casino Royale, his boss, known only as ‘M’ laments the 21st century state of international espionage when she gets hauled across the carpet by the powers that be.

“This major investment enables our talented scientists and engineers to work in partnership with industry and government to find innovative solutions for improving human and environmental health.

Photo: Taken in 1887 Lady Agnes Macdonald is on the right. Here are more details to last week’s story of Prime Minister J.A. Macdonald and Lady Agnes Macdonald’s trip on the Canadian Pacific Intercontinental Railway to the British Columbia coast.

There have been a lot of questions about trade since the U.S. election. The new President promised to take the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and he did just that with his first Executive Order.