Yorkton This Week

If you are a regular reader you will know I am a rather big fan of Daredevil Discs, one of two Canadian manufacturers of golf discs. Daredevil has a strong line-up of discs and their current drivers and putters have been discussed here previously.

With a 4-3 win over the visiting Tisdale Trojans, the Harvest added their third win of the season one week ago tonight (Oct. 26).

The City of Yorkton will move to close portions of two streets and additional laneways to make way for the Brodie Avenue Storm Water Pond.

In 2007 and 2008, a virus wiped out millions of salmon on fish farms in Chile, slamming the country's aquaculture industry with $2 billion in losses, farm and processing-plant closures, and layoffs of 2,000 workers.

It's been called a "crisis." The rate of new HIV infections in Saskatchewan is now almost three times the national average. For the past several years, the number of people contracting the virus has neared 200-about 40 percent of them women.

The Yorkton Regional High School Gr. 9 girls volleyball team took home gold in the District Championships this weekend in Churchbridge. They went through the round robin undefeated with wins against Churchbridge, Esterhazy, and Preeceville.

On Sunday, October 23, Tim Oehler (instructor/owner of Sil Foo Kung Fu in Melville, SK) completed the Haidong Gumdo Black Belt program. He was successful in the exam and is the second student in Yorkton to do it.

Steven Ritchie & daughters spent the weekend with their parents Kent & Sandy Ritchie. They joined the rest of the family and friends to celebrate Kent's retirement from the railroad. Congratulations and happy retirement from the community.

The leader's debate boiled down to a one-on-one showdown between NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter and Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall. Really, though, the real showdown was a few days earlier when the respective parties released their platform.

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.