Yorkton This Week

The front and back yards of Yorkton and the surrounding area are being uncovered after months under the snow and now it’s time to clean up and get them back in order.

A Ukrainian style pioneer house in the R.M. of Sliding Hills, owned by Wasyl Chabun. We received a history of this house from David Chabun of Canora, Sask.

National Immunization Awareness Week is April 23-30, 2016. The theme for National Immunization Awareness Week (NIAW) is “Go for the Gold”, encouraging all to be a champion for immunization.

A former Yorkton RCMP officer and hockey coach has been committed to trial for sexual assault involving three young boys in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A new pawn store has been approved as a discretionary use along Broadway Street.

The building which was formerly the Painted Hand Casino and before that a Co-op grocery store on Third Avenue in the city is being revitalized.

The Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association Conference Saturday in Saltcoats featured a number of displays dedicated to nature and natural products, as well as time to simply discuss a common passion for birding.

Dragonflies and damselflies are fascinating insects and Dave Halstead an instructor of Natural Resource Technology with SIAST was eager to tell their story at the Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association Conference Saturday in Saltcoats.

Sunrise Health Region Public Health and 601 Outreach Yorkton will be participating in spring clean up of discarded syringes April 25 and May 2. Individuals use syringes for many different purposes.

A 22-year-old Churchbridge man will spend an additional 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.