Yorkton This Week

The 2012 Operating Budget for the City was presented, and passed at the regular meeting of City Council Monday. "The budget before you doesn't have a tax increase associated with it," Lonnie Kaal, Director of Finance with the City told Council.

The Williston TaeKwonDo and Judo Academy was represented at the 13th Annual Prairie Wildfire TaeKwonDo (TKD) Challenge recently at the Gallagher Centre.

Yorkton Council unanimously passed the City's Animal Control Bylaw with a number of amendments. The Animal Control Bylaw has been reviewed with the Bylaw Control Officers, and through the Protective Services Committee.

The Sacred Heart Saints senior boys' volleyball team competed at the Hepburn Hawks tournament on Oct. 21-22. The tournament consisted of six teams: Hepburn, Clavet, Sacred Heart, Vonda, Borden and Perdue, said SHHS coach Curtis Moen.

The Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) Raider senior boys volleyball team has their eyes set on a strong finish at the southern regional playdowns later this month.

On Thursday, September 29 almost 100 participants came together to start a movement of change, by moving their hips.

Bernd Christmas, Canada's first Mi'kmaw lawyer and a highly respected advisor to business and government, spoke directly on the subject that many attendees came to hear about at last week's TransACTIONs conference: economic growth on First Nations re

You know how you feel when you hear the first lawnmower in the spring? It's like the herald that a new season has arrived. I felt that way the other day when I heard a garden tiller going somewhere in the neighborhood.

This is Week IV, the final week of questions. QUESTION: There is a huge municipal infrastructure deficit, with sidewalk, pavement and sewer and water replacement in Yorkton on a 50-to-100-year cycle.