Yorkton This Week

Gourmet food. French-accented waiters. Alabaster columns, domed glass ceilings, and ghosts of nobility and dignitaries.

Phone Hill School, an historic building and familiar landmark along Highway 52 between Yorkton and Willowbrook, burned to the ground last week.

The Sacred Heart junior girls basketball team headed off to Weyburn recently to play in a 12-team tournament, said coach Brian Chisholm.

There was at least one local finish in each of the 16 categories at the 27th Annual Autumn Summit Cross Country Run. It was held at the Saltcoats Regional Park late in September.

Ramp construction on highway 1 near White city and Balgonie has begun.

Digging a well by hand on the Miller farm at Orcadia, near Yorkton Saskatchewan. Circa 1915. Emmanuel Miller is seen going down the well. The person on the left is unknown.

Anyone that reads my reviews of CDs or boardgames will already know I am proudly supportive of Canadian efforts. It's no different in terms of golf discs too.

Green Lantern (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Martin Campbell. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard The weakest and most soulless comic book adaptation in recent memory.

The Sacred Heart senior football team put up over 180 all purpose yards which led to their third win in three tries during Saskatchewan High Schools Athletics Association action last Thursday.