Yorkton This Week

Officials from the Ministry of Education have joined with library leaders to announce funding for the Saskatchewan Multitype Digitization Initiative.

The City of Yorkton is moving forward to enter into an agreement with a private developer which will see the City acquire land for a storm water channel and holding pond.

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.

Saskatchewan people have a new and innovative way to let their families and friends know they want to be an organ donor.

The City of Yorkton's Tax Policy will remain basically the same as a year ago following a decision by City Council at its Committee-of-the-Whole meeting Monday.

Last fall residents of Milne Bay in the city appeared before Yorkton Council to voice a concern with the speed of vehicles on the street and noting they were willing to fund the installation of temporary speed bumps to slow drivers.

Under the Income Tax Act, you may lower the amount of income tax payable as permitted under the law by making investments in certain arrangements, such as in RRSPs or TFSAs.

The Yorkton Regional High School will be hosting a senior badminton playoff tonight in their gym. Both high school seniors will be playing. Game times are 4 p.m.

A knowledgeable gardening friend told me the other day that she would soon be planting some sweet peas in a bare patch of earth that had appeared in her garden. It seems so early, but sweet peas like cooler temperatures. Sweet peas.

Grizzly bears are a lot like people. They eat both plants and animals, just like us. They need a place to live and room to move. They mate and have families, just as humans do.