Yorkton This Week

It’s astounding that television has gone completely downhill in two decades. I remember watching quality cartoons and I remember watching scary, late night shows that actually made me think.

Bruce Thurston, General Manager of the Yorkton Co-op announced that the Yorkton Co-op will return as the Presenting Sponsor of The Health Foundation’s annual Charity Road Race. The Presenting Sponsorship requires a $5,000 donation.

Thank you to everyone who donated plants to, helped set up, worked at, or purchased plants at the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society Spring Plant Sale last week! It’s always a great sale with many lovely plants to add to your garden collectio

Cooks in the kitchen of the Auxiliary Hospital at the Yorkton Airport. On the left, Martha Mehling (née Robertus) and assistant, Mabel Levans. Martha was interviewed in year 2000 at Queen Elizabeth Court, Yorkton, Sask.

Great strides were made this past week, as 81 per cent of the crop is now seeded, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report.

The Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) welcomes the announcement that the Government of Canada will pursue a one year extension of certain provisions enacted in 2014 by the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act.

There are pockets of concern over the concept of genetically modified crops. There are those concerned about how the impact of herbicides and insecticides used on crops and antibiotics and hormones used in livestock may impact human health.

Golden Sheaf Winners Best of Festival — Sex Spirit Strength, Mohawk Princess Pictures Founder’s Award — The Complete Works Ruth Shaw Best of Saskatchewan Award — Motus, Play Creative Research — Holodomor: Voices of Survivors, Black Sea Media Director

More alleged victims have come forward to accuse a former Yorkton gynecologist of sexual assault. Dr.

When the high schoolers have been mentored, the films screened, the industry delegates schmoozed, the lobster eaten and the shotguns shot, it all comes down to a brief moment in the spotlight late in the evening on Saturday, the crowning of the top p