Yorkton This Week

The carriers would pick up their newspapers at the Leader Post office located upstairs at the back of the building on the southeast corner of Broadway Street and Third Avenue South.

Agriculture may not be as large a part of the Yorkton Summer Fair as it once was, but the Agri-pavilion was a busy place Friday and Saturday as the annual Dairy Goat Show took place.

Crops are developing rapidly in much of the province and growing conditions have been optimal in most areas, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

Recently, Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart introduced amendments to The Provincial Lands Act (PLA). The Provincial Lands Act is jointly administered by the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment.

The Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association wrapped up their 103rd Annual General Meeting in Regina recently Newly-elected SSGA President Shane Jahnke said “our members are heading out of the meeting informed, energized, and united.

People lined Broadway Street in the city Saturday to take in the always popular Summer Fair Parade hosted by the Yorkton Exhibition Association.

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

A Light Horse Show was held as part of the local summer fair.

On October 1, 2016, Saskatchewan’s minimum wage will increase from $10.50 to $10.72 per hour. This will be the eighth increase to the minimum wage since 2007. This increase will directly impact more than 23,000 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan.

A short ceremony, which attracted about 30 people, was held Sunday as wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph in Yorkton to mark the Wounded Warrior Weekend.