Yorkton This Week

On Sunday, April 22, more than 500 million people will celebrate Earth Day. This important environmental event is an attempt to mobilize the planet and remind everyone that even small gestures are essential to save our environment.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Brad Bird. Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg. The fourth entry in an obnoxious spy series turns out to be something close to the perfect action film.

Parents whose children participate in paid artistic, cultural, recreational, and developmental programs will now enjoy the same benefit as parents whose children participate in paid programs of physical activity.

Happy Easter Everyone!! Adrian and Louise McLachlan have returned from spending the winter in Seattle, Washington. Thankfully, Adrian has returned to good health again. Shirley Kirkwood has returned from a month holiday in Winnipeg.

This book published in 1995 by the Electa Press of Windsor, Ontario was translated from the Dutch by Hendrika Ruger, with a Preface By J.Th.J. Krijff, gives an account of Dutch immigrants to Western Canada.

Practices have started at the Gloria Hayden Centre for the Yorkton girls' softball team. The team is still looking for players. Practice takes place on Sunday afternoon from 3-5 p.m., on April 22.

The lack of a funding allocation in this year's provincial budget for Parkland College's proposed Trades & Technology Centre is another setback for the project, but the college says it remains committed to the idea.

The following scholarships and awards were presented at the Yorkton Music Festival Competition Hi-Lites Concert on April 1, 2012. 1. Shani Apland offers $100 - Hayley Popick (senior piano) 2.

The Yorkton United FC is getting ready to kick off the men's league season when the (Yorkton United Futbal Club)YUFC. Parkland Mall Men's League gets underway on Sunday May 28, says Mike Jakubiec of the YUFC. The season goes until Aug.

I don't wish to engage in a war of words, but do feel I should respond to Walter Farquharson; who wrote a letter to the editor a couple of weeks ago expressing sadness about my negative comments on judges.