Yorkton This Week

The Heart Truth is heart disease and stroke is the # 1 killer of women in Canada, but most don't know it. Heart disease is not a "man's disease": women are more likely than men to die of a heart attack or stroke.

Obsessions: (1) Don Aslett, 76, recently opened the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idaho, as the culmination of a lifelong devotion to tidying up.

If there is one thing which has been badly needed in Yorkton in recent years, it is additional hotel/motel rooms.

Bill Clinton was President when Chicago native Michael Flatley created and launched Lord of the Dance (www.lordofthedance.com).

From settlement days until the mid twentieth century, if you lived in the country in most of North America, children attended a one room school in their district.

Yorkton Council has unanimously supported a new banner policy at its regular meeting Monday.

It was the 2003 election campaign when it really dawned on me that the great voter-divide in Saskatchewan isn't necessarily geographically or even the much-talked-about urban-rural split. It's often based on your occupation.

A lower-than-expected population count for Yorkton in the 2011 Census of Canada is going to cost local taxpayers money.

Jason Boyda's Yorkdale Central Public School boys' basketball team have seen an awful lot of action over the past 7-10 days. It started at the Yorkton Regional High School one week ago, and then concluded at Yorkdale over the weekend.

The Rum Diary (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Bruce Robinson. Starring Johnny Depp, Michael Rispoli, Giovanni Ribisi. Funny, clever, and hopelessly muddled adaptation of an early Hunter S. Thompson novel.