Yorkton This Week

A Yorkton judge has refused bail to a Melville man accused of numerous arson and firearms related charges.

Today, SGI enters the world of Jason Bourne. Okay, that might be overselling it just a tad, but the provincial insurer is taking a step into biometric authentication.

Sunrise Health Region is now offering echocardiography services at Yorkton Regional Health Centre. Echocardiography uses ultrasound technology to create images of the heart.

Let us dispense with the notion that rural Saskatchewan people are generally racists towards First Nations people. Right now, this seems to an all-too-common perception that is neither true nor helpful when it comes to finding solutions.

Two athletes from Yorkton represented Saskatchewan at the Canadian National Track and Field Championships this summer. Dami Ogunbiyi, a student at Sacred Heart HIgh School, represented Yorkton in the midget age group.

Recently, we were reminded we live in a dangerous world. Aaron Driver, a suspected ISIS sympathizer was taken down by police at his home in Strathroy, Ontario.

Disabled persons facing a potential claw-back of supplemental social assistance benefits will have a reprieve.

On Sunday, August 21, the Yorkton Health Foundation’s tenth annual Charity Road Race and Community Walk took place out of the Yorkton Regional High School parking lot. The total amount raised this year was $34, 735.

The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday. --- Yorkton Crossing Retirement Community is hosting a Dementia Support Group Meeting 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Wed., Aug. 31. --- Church Garage Sale and ACW Bake Sale (bake sale - Fri. only) Fri.

“I always had to travel to get that quality of camp, and now I want to bring that quality to Yorkton.” — Derek Serdachny Derek Serdachny spent a lot of his childhood playing hockey in Yorkton.