Yorkton This Week

Water is at the core of life on this planet.

Richardson International, a major local employer, has announced it is making a $15 million investment in Saskatchewan agricultural research with a 444-acre demonstration farm just southeast of Regina.

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

It’s hard to really tell when the fundraising starts and when it stops, but it is safe to say the bulk of the Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cuts for Cancer 2016 campaign is in the bank.

Thanks to continued precipitation and warm weather, crop growth and development in most parts of the province are well ahead of normal, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

This photo taken at Québec City in 1864 shows government delegates at the second Canadian conference on the subject of Confederation — the uniting of the British North American colonies. The first meeting had been in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Yorkton Regional High School continued to punch above its weight in national robotics competition this month in Moncton, New Brunswick.

If you have been out to just about any event in Yorkton in the past month-and-a-half there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen a girl wearing a tiara and a sash. Kirsten MacDonald earned the title of Miss Teenage Saskatchewan April.

The Yorkton Crush hosted its year ending tournament June 25 at the J.C. Ball Complex diamonds. A total of 27 U12 and U16 teams from all over the region competed in the event.

Recently, Calvin Daniels and Trevor Lyons were in Bredenbury designing a new disc golf course in that community.