Yorkton This Week

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.

In-season crop scouting may not feel as rewarding as planting or harvesting a crop, but it’s just as important. And the earlier you start scouting fields for crop progress, the better.

One thing I’ve held an interest in for years is the preservation of bloodlines, and plant lines in agriculture. That is why I respect the efforts of groups such as Rare Breeds Canada (rarebreedscanada.org).

The second annual Gutsy Walk took place recently at the Brodie-Winchester pathway near the skate park. The Gutsy Walk is a fundraising effort across Canada to continue research programs that will eventually put an end to Crohn’s Disease and Colitis.

There are 90 years of artists at the Landscape and Memory local artists show, with both artists as young as seven and as old as 96.

A Farm Safety Day was held last Tuesday with 212 Grade 6 students attending from the Good Spirit School Division and Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division. Schools included; Columbia, Dr. Brass, M.C. Knoll, Springside, St. Alphonse, St.

The Yorkton United Storm Under 10 Boys team travelled to Saskatoon to take part in the Harder Avalon Classic Soccer tournament June 3-to-5. The Storm’s first game was against a team from Swift Current Friday night.

The Yorkton Film Festival is announcing the continuation of its Spotlight on the News screening series for 2016. “This film series deals with stories that have been present in the media, whether that’s local, provincial, national or international.

The Yorkton United U18/16 Girls soccer participated in the Regina QCT Challenge Cup June 10-12. The first game of the round robin was against Swift Current Untied U16 with Yorkton winning 4-1.

A 39-year-old Yorkton man will serve three-and-a-half years in prison for sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.