Yorkton This Week

The Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association, in partnership with SaskPower, and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Junior Citizen of the Year Award.

Surrounded by his loving family, Fred passed away peacefully on Sunday June 3, 2012 in the ICU unit of the Regina General Hospital at the age of 79.

The Yorkton Bulldogs dropped a game in Prince Albert on Sunday afternoon, falling 20-5 to the Predators. They return home this weekend. The South East Senior Baseball League had three games played over the weekend.

BJ Carey of St. Walburg, SK came out on top of the annual Yorkton Dodge CPCA Chuckwagon Classic at the Cornerstone Raceway with an aggregated time of 2:10.68 over the weekend.

Deepest sympathy to the family and friends of late Gladys Wiley who passed away on May 19. Gladys was a resident at the Bentley Retirement Home in Yorkton at the time of her passing. She was a former resident of Bredenbury.

The campaign by Yorkton residents to build a skateboard park on Brodie Avenue continues to pay off for the city.

According to The Weather Network's Summer Outlook, a warm summer is on the horizon, with normal to above normal temperatures expected across the country.

The Becoming Clubhouse has been a recent development by the Yorkton Mental Health Drop-In Centre, a program offering a range of programming for the community.

I would hate to be a reporter assigned to covering the 2012 Stanley Cup final. I would rather do a story on what Terrell Owens ate for breakfast the morning of Super Bowl XXXIX when his Eagles took on the Patriots.

Saskatchewan residents have until July 5 to nominate individuals for the province's highest honour, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.