Yorkton This Week

New census data released shows that Saskatchewan is bucking the national trend and getting younger. As the Canadian population ages, Saskatchewan is the only province that saw its median age and percentage of seniors get lower between 2006 and 2011.

By the summer of 1882, fourteen settlers had arrived from Ontario and England. They came first in ox-driven carts by way of Brandon, to Fort Ellice near where St. Lazare, Manitoba is located today, via the Carleton Trail.

Dear Editor: Alliance Grain Traders (AGT) recently announced that its plans to build a pasta processing plant in Regina in 2012 is officially on hold at least until next year.

Iona Isabel (McConnell) Munro - Feb. 11, 1921 - May 28, 2012. The death of Mrs. Iona Isabel Munro aged 91 years, formerly of Yorkton and Lanigan occurred at the Lucky Lake Primary Care Home on Monday May 28, 2012.

At its May 30 meeting, the Sunrise Regional Health Authority passed a narrowly balanced budget that will require stretching existing healthcare dollars further than ever. The $208.

Kidney disease (Alport Syndrome) has been a part of my life for many years, affecting four generations of loved ones. My immediate family has been burdened with this disease for years.

It was a warm and windy day when the Yorkton United FC U14 Core Real Estate Fury hit the field at Sacred Heart High School this past Sunday to take on the UCT Lightning from Regina.

Alick Brooke and Guy Bourassa passed through Yorkton on horseback last week on an early leg of their journey across Canada.

Planning for the 2012-13 season is well under way for Yorkton Minor Hockey (YMH), and they find themselves with one vacant AA coaching position. YMH has been working to fill the Midget AA vacancy, but to date, it has not found one.

Saskatchewan was the only province in Canada to show across-the-board improvement in housing affordability in the first quarter of 2012, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report, issued today by RBC Economics Research.