Yorkton This Week

"Fine words butter no parsnips." Have you ever heard that expression before? It was new to me, and when someone very dear to us delivered that line with great sincerity, it made me burst out laughing. "Fine words butter no parsnips.

Welcome to something new, a look at the wide range of discs available to disc golfers. With a new course locally, I tried out the game, and I must say I was hooked after only one round. The game is simple enough to understand.

A series currently running on the history channel entitled "America, the history of the U.S." recently aired one particularly thought-provoking episode.

The Health Foundation's Charity Road Race Learn to Run clinics have been well underway for over a month and the turnouts at each clinic seem to be getting bigger. Each Tuesday and Thursday beginning at 5:45 p.m.

Duck Mountain Provincial Park is celebrating its 80th anniversary with more electrified campsites.

The City of Yorkton is continuing work on the Dracup Avenue Storm Water Channel and Pond and related projects, with another step about to move forward following unanimous support of Council at its regular meeting Monday.

The Industry Liaison Office (ILO) at the University of Saskatchewan has increased its successes year over year by following a simple mantra: creativity commercialized.

Almost nothing at all went according to plan for Yorkton's lacrosse team when they took to the road to Moose Jaw to compete in the 2011 Provincials of Junior Lacrosse, along with five other teams.

Regulations are being streamlined for large commercial vehicles travelling across the boundaries of the three westernmost provinces.