Yorkton This Week

On September 9, 2011 at approximately 5:30 pm, RCMP attended a two-vehicle motor vehicle accident in the Melville area on Highway 9 near Yorkton approximately 5 km north of Highway 15.

Dr. Brass School in Yorkton held an event Thursday to kick off a school year dedicated to Fun, Fitness and Fabulous Fun. The morning of events included a presentation to the assembled students by Canadian Olympic athlete Kelsie Hendry.

The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) recently announced that members of the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) have voted in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement.

The 10th annual YRHS Run for Peace Cross Country Meet took place on Friday at Cherrydale Golf Course. Over 700 athletes took part in the meet. Finishes were broken down into categories.

Over the course of the next few weeks, enumerators will be going door-to-door throughout the Province for the purpose of obtaining the necessary information to prepare the Voters' List which will be used for the Provincial General Election.

IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT Aaron Pritchett Awesome Music 9-out-of-10 Aaron Pritchett might be the poster boy for how influx the big recording companies are today as they try to figure out how to make a dollar in the face of Internet downloads.

Plants and Machines - Sept. 6 to Oct. 23, 2011. The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery presents a quirky, innovative and delightful group exhibition on tour from OSAC.

I'm not a big philosopher and I don't particularly spend much time dwelling on the past when it comes to anything because I figure what's done is done; but this week's airplane crash in Russia that wiped out an entire professional hockey team as well

Warm and dry weather in many areas of the province has allowed Saskatchewan producers to combine 21 per cent of the 2011 crop as of August 29, 2011.

The province has officially launched a pilot program in Prince Albert aimed at improving the security of the homes of low-income seniors.