Yorkton This Week

Home just isn't the same anymore. And for some very good reasons. We're living with - and growing comfortable in - the ambience of industry, the Preacher and I. People sawing and hammering, mudding and sanding, painting and varnishing.

A debating team of two for the past four years representing the Yorkton Regional High School, grade twelve 17 year-olds Madison Bomboir and Brandyn Rodgerson said the activity is hard work which pays off.

A hit-and-run collision in downtown Yorkton on Friday night sent two teenaged girls to hospital.

The only thing better than one is two. That's what the Saints of Sacred Heart got at the East Central Districts junior girls' volleyball tournament this past weekend. For the second year in a row, the Saints were perfect at this tournament.

The Sacred Heart senior girls' volleyball team competed in a 13-team tournament in Weyburn this past weekend. The Lady Saints began the tournament defeating Meadow Lake in two straight 25-17 and 25-16.

Codie Prevost, a former GX94 Talent Search competitor, is now a country music recording artist.Monday, Prevost, who grew up at Archerwill, will be at 5th Avenue Cup & Saucer performing in support of the album.

Congratulations to Stacey and Cory Exner of Herbert, Sask, on the birth of their second child, a son Grady Chase. He was born on September 10, 2010 at the Cypress Regional Hospital, in Swift Current. Grady weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces.

Yorkton Council gave a bylaw which opens the way for a private developer to purchase a piece of land along Highway 9 and Broadway Street adjacent to the Parkland Mall.

Blake Berglund makes a return visit to 5th Avenue Cup & Saucer in Yorkton Monday, Nov. 8.For the country singer now based in B.C., playing Yorkton is really returning to his home turf.

Inter-national leadership based on sound science can lead to great results. For proof, we need only "look up, look way up," as one of my colleagues at CBC used to say. The ozone layer is no longer shrinking.