Yorkton This Week

With a focus on Heart and Stroke Month, the Yorkton Film Festival is looking at the life giving organ as a part of their OPEN Cinema series.

There is a link between two of the men nominated for Academy Awards this year. Denis Villeneuve, nominated for Best Director for Arrival, and Theodore Ushev, nominated for Best Animated Short for Blind Vaysha, have received Golden Sheaf awards.

On this day, in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. after the death of her father, King George VI, on February 6.

After weighing out her options, local track and field star Kelsey Haczkewicz has decided on becoming a University of Regina Cougar this fall.

February has been designated Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month and the provincial government is once again pleased to be a partner in this significant cultural initiative.

RRSPs: know your limits What is an RRSP? A registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) allows savings for retirement to grow tax free in a special plan registered with the Canadian government.

Crowds gathered at different parts of highway 49 on the way into Preeceville on Saturday. Some of those crowds were standing along the road bundled in their snow gear for the -15 degree day.

Gordon Barnhart of Saltcoats is the newest president of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA). When delegates at this year’s convention met in Saskatoon this week one of the first orders of business was to elect a new president.

Catherine Joyce "Cathy" Genaille passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at the Pasqua Hospital in Regina, SK. She was 44 years of age. Cathy was born on May 1, 1972 in Norquay, SK. She attended school in Norquay until the age of 14.

Hilda Emma Platz Repsch was born on March 15, 1919 at Gull Lake, SK, the daughter of Daniel and Julianna (Bringer) Platz. They were a family of ten girls and one boy. In 1936 she met Robert Repsch and they were married on May 15, 1938.