Yorkton This Week

This year new students to the University of Saskatchewan are encouraged to join a Learning Community in the first term (September - December) of their first year.

The annual general meeting of SEER (the Saskatchewan East Enterprise Region) will be held at Yorkton's Painted Hand Casino on Tuesday, June 7.

The four-year-old swim class students, our grandaughter among them, perched on the edge of the swimming pool and gazed down at their instructor in the water. From the sidelines, I could imagine the conversation by what happened next.

Yorkton Council is going to face some interesting decisions moving forward in terms of where and when to spend money on capital projects.

The Canadian Federation of University Women will hold their final meeting of the year on Thurs., June 2, 2011 at the Parkland Greenhouse at 6:00 p.m. Marlene Chatterson, Regional Director will be attending. For more info call Elsie @783-4862.

On May 22, 2011 at 3:45 am, members from the Punnichy RCMP Detachment and Cupar EMS were called to the scene of a collision between a single motor vehicle and a pedestrian on the Gordon First Nation.

The Saskatchewan Racing League was hoping to get two full days of racing in over the May 2-4 long weekend, but according to weather conditions, they barely got one in. By about 9 a.m.

The Yorkton Knights of Columbus, Father Delare Council recently donated $1,000 to assist funding the conceptual plan for a new Regional Hospital.

Saskatchewan's new photo identification card made its red carpet debut when the International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) gave it the award for Best Government Identification Card.