Yorkton This Week

*****UPDATE***** Shortly after 1:30 pm members of the Wadena RCMP and Yorkton General Investigation section located and arrested Monte RayNanaquatung on the Fishing lake First Nation. He was taken into custody without incident.

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

Vera Willena Fair Brewer was born July 30, 1922 at home in the Fairville District in the R.M. of Dauphin to Will and Sara (McEwen) Fair. She was raised on the family farm and attended Fairville School.

Saskatchewan's economy had manufacturing sales breaking records in May, landing the province in top spot for year-over-year growth for a second straight month. In a Statistics Canada report released today, Saskatchewan's shipments totalled $1.

Regarded as the best NHL draft of all time, the 2003 crop has no shortage of stars from the first round to the ninth round.

Local members of the RCMP detachment attended a recent Yorkton Cardinals Western Major Baseball League game at Jubilee Park to hand out positive tickets to youth.

When it comes to backyard games for the summer one which sometimes gets overlooked is croquet. It is somewhat surprising a game with the long history of croquet now seems to lag behind other new games such as washers.

Dinosaur bones were not a feature of a visit by the Saskatchewan Archeological Society's Archaeocarvan visit to the Yorkton Western Development Museum last week.

Rose Mary Hutchings (nee Jones), beloved wife of the late Herman Hutchings passed away on the morning of Saturday, July 13, 2013, at the age of 99 years, 5 days, with her granddaughter by her side.