Yorkton This Week

We really ought to demand more from our role models. During the recent Olympics, I was disgusted when Michael Phelps showed up on the pool deck for the first time. As soon as I saw the circular bruises all over his torso, I was crestfallen.

View from the Cheap Seats is an extension of the newsroom, which is frequently a site of heated debate on topics ranging from the extremely serious to the utterly ridiculous.

It seems hard to believe, but the first meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. at SIGN on North Street.

The Summer Olympics have of course taken centre stage the last couple of weeks. So for something a little different, I have to comment a little on the potential of board games to be medal sports one day.

There is a rich rural heritage to the Canadian Prairies, one that I worry will increasingly be lost and forgotten.

Two local rescue organizations conducted a first of its kind event August 16. The urban rescue training exercise was a collaboration of Parkland Search and Rescue (PSAR) and St. John Ambulance Medical First Responder Team.

Three teachers at Yorkdale Central School had an idea they wanted to organize a new group dedicated to helping. So several months ago Christa Schmelinsky, Karen Ward and Elora Wiest created ‘Yorkton Teachers Give Back’.

Like hundreds of university students Laura Weinbender is heading back to classes. However, in Weinbender’s case it will require a transatlantic flight.

This postcard was sent around 1914 by C.Davies to a Miss M. Bunis C/O Mrs. William Davies of Beaverdale, Saskatchewan. The sender talks about the curling bonspiel and how busy it is at the hotel.

Saskatchewan producers have three per cent of the 2016 crop in the bin, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report. Seven per cent of the provincial crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut.