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Yorkton This Week

Terriers

The Junior 'A' Yorkton Terriers return to home ice this week with a handful of games with some new faces (See story Page A14). They were scheduled to play Kindersley last night. Tonight (Jan.

SHHS hoops

The Sacred Heart senior boys' basketball team plays this weekend in Weyburn (Friday and Saturday). They will be joined by the Regina Christian School, Balgonie, Indian Head, Estevan, Fillmore.

Organ shortage creates havoc

Britain's National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former smokers, drug addicts,

Melville takes New Year's pair from Terriers

The Yorkton Terriers and Melville Millionaires hooked up for the traditional home-and-home New Year's set, with Melville taking both.

Economic prospects looking good

Eight major economic forecasters are predicting that Saskatchewan will have the fastest growing economy in Canada in 2011. Saskatchewan's economy is expected to increase by an average of 3.7 per cent next year, well ahead of the 2.

Enthusiasts flock to bird count

The results of Yorkton's annual Christmas Bird Count are in. A total of 1,176 individual birds from 19 separate species were spotted on December 29.
A Christmas scene in Ukraine

A Christmas scene in Ukraine

Artwork compliment of NASHI, a Saskatchewan based charitable organization, rallying activists in the fight to stop human trafficking in the world. See Web site: http://www.nashi.ca/home.html.

Fundraisers move forward for Monkman family

"'She is perfect.' Those were the first words I spoke when I saw Aubrey for the first time on May 16th, 2009," wrote her Mother Janine on a Facebook page for 'Baby Aubrey'. "From her head to her ten tiny toes she was perfect...

Editorial - Need for employees growing barrier to business expansion

When you drive around Yorkton it's not that difficult to find 'Help Wanted' signs hanging in the windows of local business.
Crazy sports jargon gets mixed up with Star Trek???

Crazy sports jargon gets mixed up with Star Trek???

Logan Wilk and RJ Skinner have a lot in common with each other. Both are former Yorkton Regional High School students. Both played football there. Both continue to play football. Both are pretty solid dudes by anyone's standards.