Yorkton This Week

Just over 100 nominations have been received for the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce Celebrate Success Business Awards. Amie Zamonsky, Chair of the Celebrate Success Committee is pleased with the number of nominations.

As the first month of 2012 comes to an end, the positive economic news rolled in as job numbers and wholesale trade hit monthly records. Saskatchewan led the nation in growth in wholesale trade, retail sales and non-residential construction.

Two weekends ago, (Jan. 13-15), the Yorkton United Bulldogs Under-12 boys soccer team travelled to the Annual Regina Soccer Association tournament in Regina.

Valletta Dora Miskolczi passed away in the Wallace House at the Yorkton & District Nursing Home in Yorkton, SK. She had resided there since September of 2011. She was 90 years of age.

The ongoing pipeline debates have become mired in conspiracy theories, distractions, and misinformation.

A regional development commission in Michigan, purchasing equipment for 13 counties in May using homeland security grants, bought 13 machines that make snow cones, at a total cost of $11,700 (after rejecting one county's request for a popcorn machine

Our unseasonably warm weather has escaped... Winter finally hit... coffee row on Jan. 17 was very cold outside but the 14 brave coffee drinkers inside enjoyed a very warm and hospitable time together in spite of the abrupt change of climate.

The Ministry of Environment has contracted with a Saskatchewan nursery to grow and store 2.5 million tree seedlings, all destined for planting projects in the Provincial Forest.

Mavis Bender (nee Colenutt) March 13, 1937 - January 25, 2012 aged 74 years, was born in Caron, SK.

A Yorkton gynecologist is facing charges from the province's College of Physicians and Surgeons over allegations of unprofessional conduct. Dr. Mohammed N.