Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton United Football Club hosted its annual banquet and awards ceremony on Saturday, Mar. 11 at the Gallagher Centre. There were approximately 230 guests, including soccer players, family members, coaches and more.

The Bredenbury Tundra Junior Hockey Club will be joining the Qu’appelle Valley Junior Hockey League in the fall for the 2017/2018 season.

Yorkton Dodge is the latest partner to join the growing list involved with the sport of disc golf in the region.

Yorkton Regional High School has recently implemented a new extra-curricular code of conduct. As far as they’re aware, they’re the first school in Saskatchewan to create one.

This season, the Yorkton Cross Country Ski Club members didn’t get on the trails until Dec. 5, when the groomers finally had enough snow to set trails on.

After the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) passed at its convention last week a resolution to lobby the federal government for relaxed self-defence laws, it did not take long for denouncement to follow.

Fences can divide us, but when something is shared in common it can overcome that barrier. That something could be a horse, and the story of Mistatim is about a wild horse that brings people together.

On March 22 1945, Canada’s first universal welfare program came into effect.

If you will forgive a bit of self-promotion, or at least a bit of promotion for this publication’s own website, I have begun a long, ambitious project to watch 100 movies - though it will likely turn into 101 or 102 before the project is complete.

There are worse things than Saskatchewan’s division between urban and rural people — something that’s been apparent in the lead-up to week’s provincial budget. What may be worse is seeing rural people are pitted against rural people.