Yorkton This Week

Most children ask for a pet at some point in their lives - very often a puppy, and very often at Christmas. They plead with Mom and Dad for a puppy and promise they'll feed him and walk him and take care of him.

A Christmas school concert in about 1945-46. A school concert was always a big event at that time. My mother sewed me a new dress for the show.

Cassandra Nerbas and her family received an early Christmas present Saturday as President's Choice Children's Charity and the Yorkton Real Canadian Superstore presented them with $12,500 towards the purchase of a van with a wheelchair lift.

Senior boys volleyball: Graham Campbell (Rookie of the Year), Ryan Teneycke (Most Improved Player), Tyler Boychuk (MVP), Jason Blommaert (The Alex Robichaud Memorial award).

The Yorkton Terriers earned five points in three Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League games this past week. The Terriers record now sits at 15-13-0-1 for 36 points, good enough to climb into third place in the Sherwood Conference.

If ever a system needed some updating it is the one whereby urban municipalities are able to annex land from surrounding rural municipalities in order to facilitate community growth.

A small piece of Saskatchewan will soon become part of Canada's most famous sailing ship. As part of the restoration of the Bluenose II, a piece of Saskatchewan birch will be incorporated into a special dining table for the ship's mess hall.

The Calder Yalenka Dancers will be going out Ukrainian Chirstmas Caroling in January 2012. So if you wish for them to come and sing for you, please call Alexander at 306-742-4737 or Michelle at 306-742-2023.

Snowmobile drag races are coming to Yorkton in January thanks to a partnership between the Painted Hand Casino (PHC) and the Yorkton Exhibition Association (YEA).

Kyle Braeden Furness, the Yorkton man who pled guilty to the June 20 murder of Jimmy Ray Wiebe, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years last week.