Yorkton This Week

City Council has unanimously supported proceeding to the Public Notice process for a discretionary use application to facilitate a Planned Unit Development consisting of two, four-unit dwellings at 66 and 70 Seventh Avenue North.

In an event where the number of females overwhelmingly outnumbered that of the males, the 5th Annual Health Foundation Charity Road Race took place in Yorkton very early on a Sunday morning.

Rural and urban municipalities, towns, villages and First Nations communities claiming assistance for losses from natural disasters through the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) can receive an advance payment of 60 per cent of their total

Employers and minimum wage earners are reminded that Saskatchewan's minimum wage is going up effective September 1, 2011. The Government of Saskatchewan will increase the province's minimum wage from $9.25 to $9.

Deer Park Municipal Golf Course hosted its annual Men's and Women's Club Championship over the weekend. On the men's side, Brent Brown recaptured the title with a two-day score of 141. He shot under par both days.

The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery presents Primal Nature, an exhibition of paintings by Jeanette Marshall.

Yorkton Council unanimously supported the Headstart on a Home Policy to provide $5,000 per door to qualified homebuyers for new entry level single-family homes created through the Headstart on a Home program to be repaid from taxes on an annual basis

The "Jimmy's Law" petition that originated in Yorkton has passed 4,000 signatures province-wide and gained the backing of some powerful lobby groups.

The City of Yorkton will submit four names to receive Meritorious Service Awards from the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) this year. The SUMA Awards Banquet will be held in January of 2012 in Regina.

Yorkton Council reviewed and accepted tenders for the development of two lands projects targeted at providing lower cost lots in the city. Council had previously approved proceeding with the engineering on both the C.J.