Yorkton This Week

Francis William Bull is sitting in the car beside the steam engine. F.W. Bull set out from Toronto in the spring of 1883. He detrained at Whitewood where there was only a C.P.R. station and a tent store.

Tarrington Wyonzek grew up playing hockey in Yorkton. He played all the way up to the midget division, but it was then when he realized that playing might not be the best option for him.

The numbers don’t lie when it comes to one of Saskatchewan’s most important statistics. They clearly confirm our worst suspicions that job creation has severely lagged behind in rural Saskatchewan compared with the major cities.

The SHHS Saints football team continued their winning streak at home last Thursday, when they faced the Foam Lake Panthers. The game’s final score was 46-16.

Saskatchewan’s minimum wage will increase to $10.72 an hour. The change will take effect on October 1, 2016.

The Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton has added a major addition which will mean added room for programming as the space is developed.

This is probably more of a legal diary this week than a crime diary, but it does pertain to a case currently before the courts. A B.C.

Two Yorkton-area youths have been charged with first-degree murder in the sudden death of Lawrence Skoretz. Skoretz (67) was found unresponsive on Wellington Park Road near Gladstone Avenue September 13 very early in the morning.

The Yorkton community is reeling over the deaths of two area young people and serious injury to another following a head-on collision September 24. The crash occurred just after 3 p.m.