Yorkton This Week

Congratulations to Dorothy Leppington on her 90th birthday. Dorothy is now a resident of Yorkton and District Nursing Home and is a former resident of Bredenbury. Congratulations to Bredenbury Cougars on a great game both Thursday and Saturday.

The Parkland Mall in Yorkton will play host to a young musician April 2, at 10: 00 a.m.. Kerri Senkow, who was born and raised in Regina, is on the road promoting a new CD, and fulfilling a childhood dream in the process.

On the 8th of March, 2011 the Employer of Excellence Award for Small Employer was awarded to Mano's Restaurant in recognition of their excellence in supported employment.

QUILTS! - March 6 to April 21, 2011. The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is pleased to present Connections, an exhibition of art quilts by three Edmonton area quilters.

They are once again hoping to pack the stands tonight (March 23) as the 25th Annual Student/Teacher benefit hockey game takes place at the Gallagher Centre.

Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd will be profiling the successes of Saskatchewan's dynamic oil and gas industry this week at one of the premier business and technical events on the planet for heavy oil.

Even though we all thought more snow was over with and warm weather ahead, someone still managed to enjoy the snow we received over the weekend.

The Yorkton Terriers opened the Sherwood Conference final over the weekend by blowing out the Kindersley Klippers 7-2 and 7-0 to take a 2-games-to-none lead in the best of seven series.

Yorkton's first bank, W.H. Pickering & Co., opened in 1897 at #21 Front Street. In 1899, it was taken over by the Union Bank. C.W.R. Pearson was the first manager and he continued in the employ of the Union Bank.