Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton United U14 Core Real Estate Fury boys soccer team have been snake-bitten this indoor soccer season. The team attended three tournaments this winter and although performed very well did not make an appearance in any gold medal match.

It was likely a plenty bittersweet basketball weekend for Tyler Boychuk, Stephen Hutton, Nick Hotsko, Colby Melnechenko, Kostas Karachalios, Reagan McClelland and Tanner Kardynal.

Susanne Mitchell of Kee's Tae Kwon Do in Yorkton is heading to Egypt for the World Junior Championships of Tae Kwon Do (TKD). She will be there from April 4-8. Before she gets to Egypt, she will have been to the Spanish Open.

Truckers and shippers are being advised by the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure to check its website frequently for upcoming weight restrictions, which began taking effect March 1, 2012.

Verna Boychuk couldn't believe her eyes! Even though she could see that her BLACKJACK SCRATCH 'N WIN ticket was a $21,000 winner, all she could do was stare at her ticket in disbelief. "I kept thinking 'This can't be right,'" she recalled.

Yorkton Council gave first reading to a new Building Bylaw at its regular meeting Monday.

Wilfred Raphael Maier, "Wilf", was born Oct 24, 1941 in Humboldt at St. Elizabeth's Hospital to parents Ludwig and Sophie (nee Lermer) Maier (both deceased).

Award winners from the Yorkton Terriers awards banquet. Brent Struble (second from the left) accepts the Terrier 2012 MVP award, the Guy Lamb Memorial Trophy.

The cheer squad of the Yorkton Regional High School placed third in the Saskatchewan High School Athletics Association provincial cheerleading competition over the weekend, says coach Priya Pandit.

On March 24, 2012 at approximately 6:30 am, the Canora/Sturgis RCMP and the Canora Fire Department responded to a fire which occurred at the Coastal Poultry Farm west of Canora, Saskatchewan.