Yorkton This Week

Ever since he can remember, the Preacher wanted a motor-scooter. Something about the wind in his hair and no passengers, I think. Perhaps it was his shoulders, stooped by other people's burdens, or an obscene increase in gas costs.

Yorkton's other Cardinals played a pair of games at home for the first time this season on Sunday afternoon. Just about everything to do with this team is brand new. The coaches. More than half the players.

Over 100 people came out on the first day of the Parkland Racing Association (PRA) stock car race season. New PRA president Dustin Heddon had a good day, his first day on his new job.

Residents of Yorkton were invited to share their opinions on how to improve education and employment prospects for Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people at a consultation session here on May 29.

Mrs. Shirley Fandrey beloved wife of Grant Fandrey of Yorkton passed away on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at the Pasqua Hospital in Regina. Shirley Fandrey was born in Sudbury ON of Alex and Helen (nee Diak) Lungull.

The Yorkton Cardinals had a season opening win in the Western Major Baseball League, but have lost their last three going back to Saturday. The win came on the road Friday at Pirie Field in Melville.

In terms of quality discs Millennium products take a back seat to no one in the business. Names such as Orion and Polaris are discs players have come to trust on the course.

Yorkton Regional High School students polished their rides for the school's 32nd Annual Car Show and Shine on May 29. After a day of admiring the event's more than 60 entries, awards were handed out.

Opponents to a 425-page bill gathered in cities across the country on Saturday, June 2. Yorkton-Melville M.P. Garry Breitkreuz was unaware that a few showed up in front of his constituency office.

Darius Haberstock and Grey McKen spent the May long weekend in Saskatoon as part of the Rider Bowl. The Roughrider Bowl is an intensive 2 1/2 day camp to support the development of Saskatchewan's top returning high school football players.