Yorkton This Week

For all that you are and for all that we have become, we are eternally grateful to you, our dear Wife, Mother, Baba, and Great Baba (Baba II). On September 30 our lives forever changed with the sudden passing of a remarkable woman.

The turkey's in the soup and the soup's in the fridge. The stuffing got eaten and the eaters got stuffed. Happily so. Guiltily so, if what they're stuffed with includes a rich dessert. According to the calendar, Canadian Thanksgiving is over.

This National School Safety Week, from October 17 to 23, the Canada Safety Council recognizes that schools are communities of children.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Kelly Friesen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

A 2013 Dutch elm disease (DED) survey conducted by the Ministry of Environment and participating communities shows the elm tree-killing fungus remains established in its traditional area - southeast Saskatchewan - but has not spread to any new areas

It is disturbing to learn about a 17-year-old youth in our city being so foolhardy as to be driving 105 kilometres an hour in a school zone.

While there is a penchant to focus on the bad news from the recent health minister's report on the status of nursing homes in Saskatchewan, rural residents can take some solace in the report's good news.

Time was, in North America, you couldn't turn sideways without running into a boy scout. At its height in the mid-1960s, the venerable organization boasted approximately 350,000 members in Canada.

Yorkton Council proclaimed Veteran's Week for Nov. 5-11. The request had come from the Royal Canadian Legion, General Alexander Ross Branch #77 in Yorkton, when Poppy Chair Peter Wyatt appeared before the regular meeting of Council Monday.

Saskatchewan's population has surpassed the 1.1 million mark for the first time ever after growing by more than 100,000 people since 2007.