Yorkton This Week

So regular readers will be aware the last three weeks I’ve featured print’n play games. In general PnP games are a favourite genre because they are low cost, many are just access to a computer and printer.

Student representatives from across Parkland College met Tuesday in Kamsack for the College’s first ever Student Advisory Leadership Conference (SALC).

The 16th annual Painted Hand Casino Pow Wow took place in the Farrell Agencies arena at the Gallagher Centre over the course of the weekend. Vendors, dancers and drum groups from across North America gathered in celebration.

The fourth annual Pizza Farm was planted last week with the help of some 180 students from schools across the local region.

It is to the point almost every day on the calendar has been assigned a ‘designation’ by somebody.

Seeding of the 2016 crop is almost complete. Ninety four per cent of the crop is now seeded, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

A Yorkton Provincial Court judge has rescheduled the trial in a two-and-a-half year old animal abuse case.

In celebration of Dad, we are welcoming families of all ages to join us for “Daddy and I” Coffee and Pie on Sunday, June 12 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

John Maluga of Yorkton was headend brakeman on this freight. It was the first diesel-driven freight that passed through Yorkton on Feb. 17, 1954. A Wynyard crew was operating this train. It had left Winnipeg at 12 midnight, arriving here at 3:10 p.m.

The Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan has passed two major milestones as it prepares to enter full operations: clearance from Health Canada to begin supplying radioisotopes to Royal University Hospital and t