Yorkton This Week

Yorkton Council has passed both its 2011 Operating and Capital Budgets at its regular meeting Monday.The Operating Budget is set at $20,319,000, while the Capital Budget for projects is $13,378,760.

After a beautiful Baptismal service at the United Church to welcome Pacey Elizabeth Barber, daughter of Sara & Jay Barber, of Swiftcurrent, SK (grand daughter of Kent and Sandy Ritchie) to the church.

On the weekend of Nov. 5-7 the Yorkton United F.C. U14 traveled to Saskatoon for their first tournament of the indoor soccer season at the Lakewood Kick Start Soccer tournament.

Do you ever listen to Stuart McLean on "The Vinyl Café"? If you do, you know how his wonderful, wonderful stories can move you to out-loud laughter, or heart-wrenching tears of sadness.

Yorkton Council moved to pass both its operational budgets (see related story this issue) at its regular meeting Monday.

We saw what happened when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico for three months.

Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud recently introduced amendments to The Animal Protection Act, 1999. The proposed amendments to the Act include increasing the maximum fine level for animal abuse to $25,000 for each convicted offence.

Hundreds turned out to honor Remembrance Day at the Gallagher Centre Flexihall on November 11. This year's guest address came from Major Ron Haskell (bottom), a reservist, schoolteacher, and Afghanistan veteran.

Doctors from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington announced in September that they could just as well handle certain brain surgeries by access not in the traditional way through the top of the skull but by drillin

The Yorkton Terriers had another huge week, notching three wins in three games.