Yorkton This Week

As promised last week, this time around the game of the week is Wildebeest Chess. Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987.

Some of my readers have asked about my Sweet Sixty Project – putting together sixty feminine hygiene kits for use by the organization Days for Girls (www.daysforgirls.org), in honour of my sixtieth birthday.

It is easy to get stuck in a familiar routine of cheese balls and bread dips when planning, or going to, such an event. I hope this appetizer recipe can help rescue you from that beaten path.

The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the SIGN building on North Street. Our topic will be ikebana. When you and I get together, I often suggest we share a cup of tea.

Though it may be the middle of winter, the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport is already looking ahead to summertime.

Increasing acres is not the only way to increase farm profitability. At least that was the contention of speaker Kevin Hursh who spoke Monday at a seminar in Yorkton hosted by Farm Credit Canada.

Commodity markets look to have bottomed out, but don’t expect a massive price rebound anytime soon. That was the cautious message agricultural producers heard from John DePutter, founder and President of DePutter Publishing Ltd.

The Canadian Association of Farm Advisors are looking to re-establish a chapter in the parkland area, holding a meeting toward that goal last week in Yorkton.

Wheat was once the crop which made the Canadian Prairies. The region became known as the ‘Breadbasket of the World’ for a reason. Producers here grew high quality grain which was ideal for bread, and the world wanted it.

Out came the notebooks, paper and pens, while groups began gathering all over Saskatchewan to start writing books about their communities.