Yorkton This Week

Thumbing through one of our gardening books, I saw a brief article about ground cherries. Are you familiar with this interesting little plant? My Mom, the intrepid gardener, was always eager to try a new plant.

The Yorkton Taekwondo Association and Kee's Taekwondo are hosting their 13th Annual Prairie Wildfire Invitational Tournament on Oct. 22. Over 40 schools from North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Manitoba have been extended invitations.

Saskatchewan's population has hit a new all-time high of 1,057,884 people following the largest quarterly population jump ever recorded since Statistics Canada starting keeping quarterly population estimates.

The Sacred Heart boys' soccer team combined for a total of 20 goals during three matches played between Friday afternoon and Saturday. Sacred Heart opened the tournament with a 6-nil victory over Weyburn. Game two put them up against Luther College.

The Sacred Heart senior girls volleyball team traveled to Regina recently to take part in the MegaVolley Tournament.

As Yorkton becomes increasingly a destination for international immigrants, questions of how to make the city more accommodating to the influx of newcomers grow more important.

Neverest and Alyssa Reid have joined forces for a MuchMusic presented Canadian Tour this fall.

Annual greenhouse gases have been reduced in new government buildings in an amount equal to taking 600 cars off the road each year, and water conservation projects will result in a reduction of 78 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water annually.

The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan showed off the region's new Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to media at an event last Thursday.

The board of the Yorkton Film Festival kicked off celebrations for the festival's 65th anniversary during Culture Days events at the Godfrey Dean on Saturday. "We're very, very excited.