Yorkton This Week

The Sacred Heart senior team head out on the road for their first road game of the season. They are scheduled to take on Foam Lake on Oct. 13. Both Sacred Heart and Foam Lake's club are undefeated heading into the game.

Yorkton residents were out on the weekend for what might have been the final warm days of the fall. For many, it was a good opportunity to take a walk outside or to finish up the last of the yardwork.

In many parts of Canada, especially rural areas, firearm ownership is relatively high. Firearms can be used for hunting, sport or for protection from wildlife.

So often these days we seem to expect government to do everything for us. That expectation includes at the municipal level, where we often look to City Hall to spearhead most projects in a community, and to also offer up the funding as well.

Habitat for Humanity volunteers were in action on the weekend building a home for the city's second Habitat family. Construction supervisor Merv Catchuk anticipates a late January finish for the home on Elizabeth Avenue.

This hunting season the Ministry of Environment and the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Centre will be conducting targeted Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing in both east central and south western Saskatchewan.

About 30 people in Yorkton attended an October 4 Sisters in Spirit Vigil to honor the lives of missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada.

Born and raised in Yorkton, Maria-Leena Clarke has been hired by Canada Basketball. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Clarke has returned from 15 years in Europe to become the Director of Marketing and Partnerships with Canada Basketball.

There were Boxing Day-style lineups last Tuesday at the Yorkton Co-op but they had nothing to do with the latest sales available.

Conceptual planning for new health facilities in Canora and Yorkton is progressing on schedule, reports the Sunrise Health Region.