Yorkton This Week

A new electronic case management system designed to keep track of children in care of the Ministry of Social Services is now up and running across the province.

A Yorkton-area author has hit the bookstores shelves with her first published children's book Just Joshin'.

Discounts for early payment of City property taxes will be eliminated starting in 2013. Both the school divisions and the City shared in discounts offered to taxpayers as an incentive to pay their taxes early.

The Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport announced Jeff Stock has won the "best summer job ever".

When it comes to recreation the old adage 'the times they are a changing' seems appropriate. And that phenomenon seemed to be in evidence at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

The field glasses and the bird guides were out Tuesday, May 8. Approximately thirty-five members of The Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association (YFBTA: www.yfbta.

On May 7th, 2012 in her 97th year, Mary Anderson, formerly of Phone Hill and Yorkton passed away. She was living at the Crescent Gardens care home in White Rock, BC at the time.

The final design of the new Yorkton Skateboard, Bike and Walking Park has been approved by the local design committee and accepted by Yorkton Council at its regular meeting Monday.

Education Minister Donna Harpauer has received the results of the recent math consultations with frontline educators, as well as feedback from parents and guardians.

Saskatchewan joins jurisdictions across Canada in launching Emergency Preparedness Week from May 6 to 12 under the banner 72 hours... Is your family prepared? Corrections, Public Safety and Policing Minister D.