Yorkton This Week

It wasn't that bad a day for the Yorkton Canoe and Kayak Club as they hosted their 2010 Yorkton Developmental Regatta, at York Lake, on Aug. 14 featuring sprint canoe and kayak paddlers with a year or less of training under their belts.

The Deer Park Golf Course will be hosting yet another tournament when the United Way Charity Mixed golf tournament. It will take place on Sept. 10. Anyone is welcome to enter and can do so by email or fax to the Yorkton and District United Way Ltd.

Saskatchewan residents have until October 18 to nominate individuals for the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal. The Volunteer Medal recognizes individuals who have provided outstanding volunteer service or exceptional community involvement.

As problems go for Premier Brad Wall's government, consider this one only partially of its own making. For years, Wall's NDP predecessors _ Roy Romanow and Lorne Calvert _ also battled to keep the wages of strong unions in check.

Twenty-six students of Yorkton's Dance Innovations studio and their families recently returned from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to take in the dance culture of New York City.

For a night of country rock, The Spot in Yorkton is the place to be tomorrow evening (Aug. 19) as the Edmonton band Whiskey Face hits the stage.

The province has strengthened legislation that dedicates on-road fuel tax revenue to highway construction and operation.

The Gulf of Mexico disaster is just the latest in a long history of "accidents".

Which vegetables come to mind when you think of leafy greens? You may think of spinach and lettuce right away, but what about rapini and arugula? Although we may group these vegetables together as "leafy greens", they actually come from several diffe