Yorkton This Week

Mr. Nick Benko, beloved husband of Eleanor (nee Sass) of Yorkton, SK and formerly of the Willowbrook/Beaverdale district passed away at the Yorkton Regional Health Center on Sunday, February 26, 2012. He was 88 years of age.

After-school computer animation clubs - extracurricular groups founded by an industrious student or an interested teacher - have sprung up at high schools across Canada, providing participants a few hours a week in which to learn the techniques of on

Since September, a volunteer from the Rotary Club of Yorkton has visited Dr. Brass School each Wednesday to fit in some one-on-one reading time with Grade 1 and 2 kids who need a little extra help.

It is with great sadness that the family of Fred Hardybala of Regina, SK, born February 29, 1928, on the family farm in the Willowbrook area, to parents, Philip and Anna Hardybala (Hrebenyk), passed away peacefully at home on February 26, 2012.

Division winners of the Yorkton Ladies Bonspiel. The 'C' division winners. Brenda Haacke, representing the Bank of Montreal, with Susie Atkinson, Wendy Lamontagne, Mavis Lutz and Colleen Chevrier.

Significant progress has been made in the Boreal Watershed Initiative, which was established in 2011-12 to assess and maintain the ecological integrity of Saskatchewan's northern watersheds.

Dennis Elaschuk, the Reeve of the R.M. of Calder presented a cheque for $1,000 to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, to help fund the conceptual plan for a new regional hospital.

It is time again for residents to order their daffodils from the Southeast Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society. The daffodil is the Canadian Cancer Society's symbol of hope in the fight against cancer.

SGI is joining Students Against Drinking and Driving (SADD) Saskatchewan in supporting Impaired Driving Awareness Week, proclaimed by the provincial government for March 5-9, 2012 in Saskatchewan.