Yorkton This Week

Each month a male and a female student is selected as the SHHS Saint of the Month. Saint of the Month students are nominated by staff and students of SHHS.

Last week I reviewed a Print and Play game as a great option for boardgame lovers with a crafty side to get into some fine games, such as Ragnarok: Aesir and Jotunn.

We're at that awkward season now, aren't we: past winter, but with enough snow around that it doesn't quite feel like spring yet. Everything looks dusty and dirty and tired after a long, hard winter.

Jim Talbot celebrated his birthday a day early by buying coffee and tarts for eighteen people at coffee row on Sat., April 2.

He was pretty quiet all night long but with 7.6 seconds left in regulation time, he made more noise then most kids do during regular class time.

Effective July 1, 2011, Saskatchewan Apprentices will receive an increase in the allowance they receive when living away from home to attend technical training.

Facepainting was part of the Easter festivities at the Parkland Mall on Saturday.

The Willowbrook Lions Club recently donated $1,000 to assist the purchase of new Operating Room equipment and Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) pain medication pumps.

This past February, Mr. Wayne Clark, Yorkton Regional High School senior science teacher, escorted seven scientifically-minded students to the Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron) in Saskatoon.

Students in Yorkton last week took part in a nationwide program designed to increase young Canadians' understanding of their democracy.