Yorkton This Week

The First Nations people are calling for Brad Wall to remove Greg Ottenbreit as a member and candidate of the Saskatchewan Party for what the FSIN has termed racially insensitive comments made during the Oct. 19, Yorkton All Candidates Forum.

At its October meeting, the Board of Education of the Good Spirit School Division approved its Five Year Proposed Construction Plan for submittal to the Ministry of Education.

For an election that didn't look like it would provide much for rural Saskatchewan, there have been a surprising amount of goodies.

The Sacred Heart junior girls volleyball team continued to work towards improving for the upcoming district championships of high school volleyball.

Perry Enns' team has been on the road a lot lately and this past weekend was their first time playing in familiar territory. The Sacred Heart senior girls' volleyball team hosted an eight-team tournament, including Melville and the YRHS.

Racism and discrimination are not words you expect to suddenly become the centre of a provincial election in Saskatchewan in the year 2011, and yet here in the Yorkton constituency they have become just that.

The Association of Saskatchewan Realtors is encouraging the province's next government to implement tax incentives aimed at increasing investment in rental property.

If the Yorkton Harvest can take any consolation from back-to-back losses they endured over the weekend, it's that they won't have to worry about facing a super-hot goalie again this season, unless it happens to be in a playoff game.

Dear Editor: A recent CBC news article illustrates some disturbing views, held by the Yorkton Saskatchewan Party politician, on First Nations people. The negative reader comments that follow the article are just as alarming.