Yorkton This Week

Guest speaker at the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce's June luncheon was Les Anderson, purchasing manager of projects for Mosaic.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Yorkton hosted their 10th annual Show N Shine in the Walmart parking lot on Saturday. Automobiles were registered for an award ceremony voted upon by attendees and competitors.

Yorkton's Denaye Giroux was out west this past weekend, completing the opening round of the western women's Canadian National Series held in Kamloops, British Columbia. She said the weather was hot and humid and the temperature reached plus-28.

Sunrise Health Region is using a $2.4 million capital funding investment by the province to make health facilities safer and more comfortable for patients and the people who serve them.

With further job action off the table while mediation is underway between the province and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, the province's school divisions are now focused on catching up in the classroom.

Anyone paying any attention to the hockey battle that is starting to take place as of Monday night (and by the sound of it there aren't that many of us), the 2011 Stanley Cup championship is kind of starting to take some shape.

It is 70 years since the official opening of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, #11 Yorkton Service Flying Training School took place June 11, 1941. The ceremony was attended by 11,000 people.

Texting MacKenzie is an Ontario band looking to broaden its horizons with a new tour west. "We've played almost every decent and not-so-decent venue in Guelph," said band spokesperson Robin Jools Wright.

True Grit (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon.

A pharmacist who grew up in Yorkton will be sworn in as premier of the Yukon this Saturday. Darrell Pasloski, 50, was elected leader of the territory's ruling Yukon Party on May 28.