Yorkton This Week

In an effort to take advantage of the current trend toward all things analog, a new area bank is offering customers service that harkens to another time.

Perhaps for the first time in Yorkton’s history a public event is being planned that reportedly will not feature pierogis and cabbage rolls.

The City of Yorkton has announced the intersection at Darlington Street and Dracup Avenue is closed until further notice following a standoff in which four vehicles arrived simultaneously at the four-way stop.

Given that this is the week of Valentine’s Day, it would make sense to look at a love story. How about the love of a young girl and her dog? It’s not romantic, perhaps, but it’s still a genuine connection and it can be moving in the right hands.

1969. My friends and I, along with our pastor, traipsed into a nursing home, intent on “cheering them up,” or so Pastor said. I had just joined my high school band.

Only a couple of months into the new Yorkton city council term, three new members of council (two others were absent, and two incumbents voted No) decided that council only needs to meet every three weeks, instead of the every-other-week schedule tha

It is awards season and with it, of course, comes the interminable and intolerable acceptance speeches. My intention here is not to slag on Adele.

What better time of year is there to talk about aphrodisiacs than around Valentine’s Day? Aphrodisiacs can be foods that psychologically and/or scientifically help us feel... well “in the mood” for lack of better words.

Heritage Day, proclaimed annually in February throughout the nation by The National Trust for Canada, celebrates the architectural heritage and historic places of Canada.

Saturday afternoon I ran across a tweet from CBC News that caused me a lot of alarm, initially, but then realized filtering the news was something I have also participated in from my own days working full time in the media.