Yorkton This Week

Judi Leslie, beloved wife of Bryon of Yorkton passed away on April 14, 2012. She was 61 years of age. Born Judith Lesley Allen on May 9, 1950 at Langford, BC; she was a daughter of David Allen and Verna (nee Ferguson).

If you don't have any plans for tonight, don't bother making any. TSN has got your late night taken care of. Get your Dairy Queen. Get your Timmies. Get your cheesecake. Get whatever you need. There is a Game 7 in the very near future.

For over 30 years, people in Yorkton with vision loss have drawn support from their peers in a group administered by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).

Don Taylor, the Reeve of the RM of Saltcoats presented a cheque for $1,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, to help fund planning and preparations for a new regional hospital.

Dean Shyiak, owner of McDonalds Restaurants in Yorkton, announced that on Tuesday, April 24, both Yorkton McDonalds restaurants will donate $1 per sale in support of The Health Foundations' annual Airwaves for Health Radiothon.

For some, there's never a great time to revisit an unpopular idea ... or so the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce may soon find out if it pushes its idea of municipal amalgamation much further.

It would be understandable if whoever it was that made that tweet that appeared shortly after the Kings beat the Canucks last Thursday night, did it out of humour.

Parkinson's Disease support Group meeting Thurs., April 26 2 p.m. @ the Yorkton & District Nursing Home. Guest Coleen Crossman Parkinson's Nurse Educator. All Parkinson's patients &interested persons welcome.

Local archers are getting ready for a busy April and early part of May as the competition schedule starts to heat up, says Mike Jarvis of Bird Dog Archery.

Lorene (Lorraine) Grace Knoll died peacefully to be with her Heavenly Father on April 6, 2012 at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home in Kamloops, BC.