Yorkton This Week

Halloween is only weeks away, and Blake DeJong is hoping that in that time a haunted house can be developed in the city to create a few scares and screams for people, and to raise funds for a good cause.

The Sacred Heart High School senior girls volleyball team traveled to Regina this past weekend to take part in the 16-team University of Regina Autumn Classic.

Yorkton Council has embarked upon a process to develop a Strategic Plan for the city. As part of that process Mayor James Wilson announced a Community Strategic Plan Conference to be held Oct. 28 - 30 at the Gallagher Centre.

The regular monthly Non Pot Luck Luncheon is Monday, September 20 in the Stirling Room. A note for future reference: Laketown Leaders will have community coffee on Monday and Tuesday, September 27 & 28 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

The Sacred Heart girls soccer team competed in annual Moose Jaw Summerfest over the weekend. They played five games and won three, losing only to last year's 3A provincial champs and Regina Campbell.

For an entire quarter-century, the Parkland Writers Alliance has been a continuing organization here in Yorkton.

The Royal Canadian Mint is proud to announce that investors world-wide can now buy the 2011 "Wolf" silver bullion coin; the first in a new series of Canadian Wildlife silver 9999 fine one-ounce bullion coins.

Killers (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Robert Luketic. Starring Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck. Serviceable light comedy about an unadventurous woman (Katherine Heigl) who unknowingly marries a former secret agent (Ashton Kutcher).

Woody Allen Joke Come to Life: Shirley Anderson, 71, is suing her son Ken, 46, in Vancouver, British Columbia, for parental support - even though she and his father had abandoned him when he was 15 (having one day just picked up and moved and, as in

When it comes to a community there is one thing which is unique to each one, its history.