Yorkton This Week

Frieda Laura Nygren. Surrounded by her family Frieda passed away peacefully June 25, 2012 at Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, BC. Frieda was born February 15, 1920 near Orcadia, SK, to Rudolph and Edith (Jonat) Eichhorst.

"We still can't make up our minds whether it was a plow wind or a tornado," says Siegert Wenning, sitting in the kitchen that overlooks his ruined farmyard. "I said I can't see how it makes a difference anyway-it's all gone.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is reminding Canadians that Canada's Members of Parliament will celebrate another big financial win June 30, with the quarterly deposit of another $23 million taxpayer dollars into the Parliamentary pension pla

Annie Wasylyshen of Yorkton, SK and formerly of Gorlitz, SK, passed away peacefully at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre on June 24, 2012, at the age of 96 years.

Parkland College students stand to benefit from the most successful Dollars for Scholars Golf Classic in the college's history.

The CFL season just started over the weekend and guess what happened over at the Yorkton Co-op? For about an hour or so, seven of us waiting up top in the meeting room, waiting for a certain Roughrider to show up.

With the summer months come fun in the sun, but the warm weather can also spell trouble.

Mobile Crisis Services will assume responsibility for calls to the Farm Stress Line starting July 4, 2012.

On Monday, July 2 at approximately 1:00 pm, an 80-year-old female was walking home from the Parkland Mall when she was approached by a male in the parking lot. He grabbed her purse.