Yorkton This Week

York Lake Golf and Country Club has decided to make this winter’s $5,000 crowdfunding campaign unique and strategic.

Laura Budd is a rural LGBTQ+ pioneer. Born Brice Budd on a farm near Kelliher, SK, where she still lives, Laura spent four decades denying her true self.

A man accused of a crime spree that resulted in 66 charges in Yorkton and Regina has pleaded guilty to 19 charges and will be sentenced February 3. Sheldon Estey appeared before Yorkton Judge Ross Green November 18.

While I wouldn’t quite call myself an electric vehicle skeptic, I have been a bit of a realist about the vehicles.

If you are up at 6 or 7 a.m. on the 24th, a glance out an east-facing window will give you a nice view of the waning crescent Moon about 5 degrees above Jupiter, or on the 25th, 5 degrees below.

It could have ended very badly. Last week in Regina a woman left her sleeping baby in her running vehicle to run into a store. It is disturbing that anybody could succumb to such a bad idea, but I do understand the impulse.

The Yorkton RawTec Maulers of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA hockey league had two games on home ice this past weekend against the Moose Jaw Generals.

The Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League went on a three-game road trip this past weekend.

Powerlifting is a type of weightlifting that focuses on lifting a heavy amount of weight once, rather than a high rep count of lower weight. The sport contains three types of lifts: squats, deadlifts and bench press.