Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Orioles presented the Yorkton Cardinals and Melville Millionaires of the Western Major Baseball League with cheques for $500 at Saturday’s game in Yorkton between the two teams.

Golfers can still reserve their spots in Parkland College’s upcoming Dollars for Scholars Golf Classic. The 11th annual scholarship fundraising event takes place Friday, June 24 at Deer Park Golf Course in Yorkton.

We will all feel the pain in this coming year of transformational change. Maybe that’s not much comfort.

Yorkton will mark Brain Injury Awareness Month in June.

Michael Winter will remain in jail pending two trials scheduled for later this summer. The 50-year-old Yorkton man was convicted in January for marijuana trafficking and sentenced to time-served on remand and six months probation.

Recently, Health Minister Dustin Duncan introduced The Patient Choice Medical Imaging Act, which will give Saskatchewan residents the option to privately pay for a CT scan. This follows the launch of private-pay MRI services in February 2016.

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

The Canadian Cancer Society was granted an extension to the City’s Noise Bylaw for its upcoming Relay for Life. “We are requesting an extension of the Noise Bylaw as our event runs from 7:00 p.m. Friday, June 17 to 7:00 a.m.

As a diplomat hoping to strengthen ties between Ukraine and Ukrainian communities in Canada, it makes a lot of sense that Andriy Shevchenko would wind up in Yorkton at some point.

The City of Yorkton is beginning the process of readying for this fall’s municipal elections. General Municipal Elections are legislated to occur every four years, with the next one to be held on Wednesday, October 26, 2016.