Yorkton This Week

The Yorkton Terriers began the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season with a home-and-home series against Weyburn, earning a split in the two games. The Terriers went into the Red Wings rink Friday and took a season-opening win by a 3-2 score.

The Sacred Heart senior football team picked up where they left off at the end of last year's regular season. They opened up the this year with a 29-7 victory over the visiting Melville Comprehensive Cobras.

Yorkton was one of 80 communities across Canada to participate in TD Tree Days.

August 2010 changed Yorkton's entertainment surroundings in a positive way with the introduction of Indestructible Entertainment and their first concert announcement of Karl Wolf.

Yorkton Regional High School hosted its first ever, Orientation Day, on September 1, 2011.

Before the advent of the combine, binder twine was a necessity for harvesting. Here Ben Kimber and Gus Gibson are seen unloading a truck load of binder twine at the implement warehouse of W.D. Dunlop on Second Avenue.

The Parkland Racing Association held their year-end finale over the weekend with car action running on both days, said Brendan Dickey, PRA president.

Visiting Gerry Hnatiuk at his farm in Goodeve was his nephew Danny Dorish of Ontario and John Bohach of Camrose, Alberta. With full swing harvest nearing as well as stormy weather on the evening of Mon., Aug.

Jason Farrell was no doubt thrilled with the way his team played over the weekend. In fact he insisted that he saw this win coming. "I kind of felt it coming," offered the head coach following his 29-0 shutout victory over the Lumsden Devils.

Dear Editor: Former Prime Minister Paul Martin's biography titled "Hell or High Water" reveals how his Catholic upbringing and lifestyle was unaffected by his willingness to compensate citizens for Catholic school abuse.