Yorkton This Week

Yorkton Girl Guide leader Carrie Morrison awoke Monday morning to find thieves had entered her fenced-in backyard during the night and made off with bags full of bottles collected by Girl Guides in the city Sunday.

James Francis DePape passed away suddenly but peacefully at home on April 29, 2013. Jim was born in Russell, MB on December 9, 1945 to Frank and Mary (Buchberger) DePape. Jim was the youngest of five children.

Not a single Yorkton bantam AA Terrier was selected in the 2013 Western Hockey League bantam draft on May 2, but Saskatchewan was still well represented. The Land of the Living Skies had 37 players chosen in the 22-team draft.

Ernst Bernhard Schleicher was born September 30, 1948 in Neunberg vorm Wald, Germany and grew up in post-war Germany with his brothers and sisters. Friends and family knew him better as Ben'.

Dear Editor: In the last provincial budget the Sask. Party government played up an announcement that it was going to increase agricultural research investments thanks to the Growing Forward 2 agreement.

Fish have died at Lake of the Prairies this spring, but Manitoba government officials are not expecting it to significantly impact lake populations moving forward.

Yorkton Minor Football is going above and beyond to give special needs students the opportunity to feel as though they are truly a part of the team.

In this day and age when so much of the Saskatchewan economy is being driven by the private sector, it's easy to forget the value of the province's Crown corporations.

Rev. Joseph Denischuk, C.Ss.R. With two confreres at his bedside and a smile on his face, Fr. Joseph Denischuk, CSsR, fell asleep in the Lord on May 1, 2013 at St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Saskatoon, SK at the age of 92.

A 19-year-old Yorkton man will spend the next four months in jail for theft and breaching a probation order not to consume or possess alcohol. Chaz Umperville pleaded guilty May 6 to two counts of theft and two counts of breach.