Yorkton This Week

While many games draw players in with fancy packaging, detailed game pieces and in-depth rules which take up multiple pages, there is still something to be said for the simplistic approach.

You are invited! Please join us for the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society’s annual “Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show” on Wednesday, August 10 from 1:00 p.m. till 5:00 p.m. at St. Gerard’s Parish Complex.

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.

At one point in High Grass Circus (dir. Tony Ianzelo, Torben Schioler) a juggler remarks that he’s a mediocre juggler, but an excellent showman, so that’s why he has the act.

The 61st Threshermen’s Show and Senior’s Festival was on this past weekend at the Western Development Museum.

75 Year Anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan No. 11 Service Flying Training School, Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Welcome to Week CCXVI of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

The Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission (SaskCanola) is now accepting nominations to fill four positions on the Board of Directors starting in January 2017.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto met in Ottawa with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and announced that Mexico will fully re-open to Canadian beef effective October 1, 2016.

Good progress was made with haying this past week. Livestock producers have 50 per cent of the hay crop baled or put into silage and another 20 per cent cut and ready for baling, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.